Posted on June 30, 2020 by Sitemaster
Perhaps unsurprisingly, it appears to be true that “AR gain” (see below) does indeed lower overall survival (OS) and progression-free survival (PFS) rates among men with castration-resistant prostate cancer (mCRPC). … READ MORE …
Filed under: Living with Prostate Cancer, Management, Treatment | Tagged: androgen, AR, ARSI, castration-resistant, CRPC, gain, inhibitor, receptor, signaling | 3 Comments »
Posted on May 20, 2020 by Sitemaster
Following last week’s approval of rucaparib (Rubraca), the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has now, also, approved the PARP inhibitor olaparib (Lynparza) for the treatment of men with with deleterious or suspected deleterious germline or somatic homologous recombination repair (HRR) gene-mutated metastatic castration-resistant prostate cancer (mCRPC) who have progressed following prior treatment with enzalutamide or abiraterone. … READ MORE …
Filed under: Drugs in development, Living with Prostate Cancer, Management, Treatment | Tagged: castration-resistant, inhibitor, Lynparza, mCRPC, metastatic, olaparib, PARP | 1 Comment »
Posted on May 16, 2020 by Sitemaster
Yesterday evening the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approved rucaparib (Rubraca) for the treatment of men with BRCA1/2-mutant, metastatic, castration-resistant prostate cancer (mCRPC) who have also already been treated with androgen receptor-directed therapy and taxane-based chemotherapy. … READ MORE …
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Posted on April 29, 2020 by Sitemaster
Alas … once again we hear that the combination of androgen receptor blockade (with enzalutamide/Xtandi) + a checkpoint inhibitor (the PD-L1 inhibitor atezolizumab/Tecentriq) has had no clinically meaningful impact on the overall survival (OS) of men with metastatic, castration-resistant prostate cancer (mCRPC) compared to enzalutamide alone. … READ MORE …
Filed under: Drugs in development, Living with Prostate Cancer, Management, Treatment | Tagged: atezolizumab, castration-resistant, checkpoint, enzalutamide, inhibitor, mCRPC, metastatic | Leave a comment »
Posted on March 29, 2019 by Sitemaster
Unfortunately we don’t always hear about some interesting clinical trials as early as we would like to. The following is a case in point. … READ MORE …
Filed under: Uncategorized | Tagged: abiraterone, castration-resistant, first line, inhibitor, mCRPC, metastatic, olaparib, PARP | 4 Comments »
Posted on March 1, 2019 by Sitemaster
Back in December 2017, Pfizer started a trial to explore whether the PARP inhibitor talazoparib (Talzenna) could be used in combination with enzalutamide (Xtandi) to effectively treat men with what are known as MSI-H or dMMR subtypes of metastatic castration-resistant prostate cancer (mCRPC). … READ MORE …
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Posted on December 19, 2018 by Sitemaster
A paper in the journal Oncotarget has suggested that patients who have progressed on treatment with enzalutamide (Xtandi) may be good candidates for treatment with one of the checkpoint inhibitors like pembrolizumab (Keytruda), nivolumab (Opdivo), or even ipilimumab (Yervoy). … READ MORE …
Filed under: Drugs in development, Living with Prostate Cancer, Management, Treatment | Tagged: castration-resistant, checkpoiny, CRPC, enzalutamide, inhibitor, resistant | Leave a comment »
Posted on October 22, 2018 by Sitemaster
A poster presented at the ESMO meeting in Munich has just reported data from an unplanned, preliminary analysis of data from the first 85 patients (out of a scheduled total of 150 patients) enrolled in the TRITON 2 trial of the PARP inhibitor rucaparib (Rubraca) … READ MORE …
Filed under: Drugs in development, Living with Prostate Cancer, Management, Treatment | Tagged: inhibitor, PARP, Rubraca, rucaparib, trial, TRITON 2 | 2 Comments »
Posted on August 8, 2017 by Sitemaster
Immune checkpoint inhibitors include drugs like ipilimumab (Yervoy), pembrolizumab (Keytruda), nivolumab (Opdivo), and others that can have dramatic effects on the survival of some groups of patients with advanced forms of some cancers. … READ MORE …
Filed under: Drugs in development, Living with Prostate Cancer, Management, Treatment | Tagged: antibody, checkpoint, immune, inhibitor, outcome, test, trial | 4 Comments »
Posted on May 18, 2017 by Sitemaster
There are now two, ongoing, Phase III trials of PARP inhibitors in the treatment of eligible patients with metastatic, castration-resistant prostate cancer (mCRPC). … READ MORE …
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Posted on March 7, 2017 by Sitemaster
A second PARP inhibitor has recently been approved by the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for the treatment of patients with BRCA1/2 mutations and advanced ovarian cancer who have already received two types of chemotherapy. … READ MORE …
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Posted on July 14, 2016 by Sitemaster
New immunotherapeutic drugs known as PD-1 inhibitors (drugs like nivolumab/Optivo and pembrolizumab/Keytruda) have shown some remarkable effects in the treatment of advanced forms of cancer like melanoma and some forms of lung cancer. … READ MORE …
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Posted on June 13, 2016 by Sitemaster
Another important set of data that came out of the ASCO session that your sitemaster was unable to attend were the data presented by Dr. Maha Hussain on the use of the PARP inhibitor veliparib. …
Filed under: Drugs in development, Living with Prostate Cancer, Management, Treatment | Tagged: castration-resistant, inhibitor, mCRPC, metastatic, PARP, veliparib | 2 Comments »
Posted on April 6, 2016 by Sitemaster
Johnson & Johnson has just acquired the rights to develop and sell a drug called niraparib for the treatment of prostate cancer everywhere in the world except Japan. The developer, Waltham, MA-based Tesaro, has retained the rights to niraparib in Japan. … READ MORE …
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Posted on October 28, 2015 by Sitemaster
A paper in the New England Journal of Medicine now provides detailed information about the activity of the PARP inhibitor olaparib in the treatment of carefully selected patients with metastatic, castration-resistant prostate cancer (mCRPC). … READ MORE …
Filed under: Drugs in development, Living with Prostate Cancer, Management, Treatment | Tagged: castration-resistant, inhibitor, Lynparza, mCRPC, metastatic, olaparib, PARP | 3 Comments »