Posted on March 23, 2021 by Sitemaster
According to a media release, issued earlier today by Novartis, the company has provided preliminary data about the results of the international, multi-center, Phase III, randomized, VISION trial, which has been evaluating the efficacy and safety of lutetium-177 PSMA-617, a targeted radioligand therapy, in treatment of men with progressive, PSMA-positive, metastatic, castration-resistant prostate cancer (mCRPC) … READ MORE …
Filed under: Drugs in development, Living with Prostate Cancer, Management, Treatment | Tagged: castration-resistant, lutetium-177, mCRPC, metastatic, PSMA, PSMA-617 | 3 Comments »
Posted on February 15, 2021 by Sitemaster
We saw recently (see this link) that of chemotherapeutic and hormonal medicines for treatment of metastatic castration-resistant prostate cancer (mCRPC), Jevtana (cabazitaxel) is the preferred third-line treatment after Taxotere (docetaxel) and Zytiga (abiraterone acetate) or Xtandi (enzalutamide). … READ MORE …
Filed under: Drugs in development, Living with Prostate Cancer, Management, Treatment | Tagged: cabazitaxel, Jevtana, Lu-177-PSMA-617, mCRPC | 3 Comments »
Posted on October 27, 2020 by Sitemaster
We hear that an investigational drug called onvansertib — a so-called polo-like kinase 1 (PLK1) inhibitor — may have benefit in the treatment of men with metastatic, castration-resistant prostate cancer (mCRPC) who are showing early signs of progression on treatment with abiraterone acetate (Zytiga) + prednisone.
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Filed under: Drugs in development, Living with Prostate Cancer, Management, Treatment | Tagged: abiraterone, castration-resistant, mCRPC, metastatic, onvansertib, Treatment, trial | 1 Comment »
Posted on October 15, 2020 by Sitemaster
So there are new, interesting data regarding the treatment of men with metastatic, castration-resistant prostate cancer (mCRPC) with sipuleucel-T (Provenge) as well as either or both of abiraterone acetate (Zytiga) and enzalutamide (Xtandi) — known generically as androgen-receptor signaling pathway inhibitors or ASPIs. … READ MORE …
Filed under: Living with Prostate Cancer, Management, Treatment | Tagged: castration-resistant, mCRPC, metastatic, Provenge, sipuleucel-T, survival | 2 Comments »
Posted on August 14, 2020 by Sitemaster
A company called Zenith Epigenetics has recently reported data from a Phase I/II clinical trial of a drug known as ZEN003604 or ZEN-3694 in the treatment of men with metastatic, castration-resistant prostate cancer (mCRPC) who have progressed on treatment with either abiraterone + prednisone or enzlautamide (Xtandi). … READ MORE …
Filed under: Drugs in development, Living with Prostate Cancer | Tagged: castration-resistant, enzautamide, mCRPC, metastatic, ZEN-3694 | 3 Comments »
Posted on August 7, 2020 by Sitemaster
A report this week in Urologic Oncology has confirmed the importance of PSA doubling times in understanding risk for prostate cancer progression among men with non-metastatic, castration-resistant prostate cancer (nmCRPC). … READ MORE …
Filed under: Uncategorized | Tagged: castration-resistant, doubling, mCRPC, metastasis, nmCRPC, non-metastatic, PSA, survival | 1 Comment »
Posted on June 19, 2020 by Sitemaster
According to a media release issued by Roche earlier this morning, the company’s investigational drug known as ipatasertib met one but not both of the two primary endpoints in a randomized, double-blind Phase III trial known as the IPATential150 trial. … READ MORE …
Filed under: Drugs in development, Living with Prostate Cancer, Management, Treatment | Tagged: castration-resistant, ipatasertib, IPATential150, mCRPC, metastatic, PTEN, Roche, trial | Leave a comment »
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 …
Filed under: Drugs in development, Living with Prostate Cancer, Management, Treatment | Tagged: approval, castration-resistant, FDA, inhibitor, mCRPC, metastatic, PARP, Rubraca, rucaparib | 1 Comment »
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 …
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Posted on April 27, 2020 by Sitemaster
According to a media release issued by AstraZeneca and Merck on Friday evening, olaparib (Lynparza) has shown “a statistically significant and clinically meaningful improvement in … overall survival (OS)” in men with metastatic, castration-resistant prostate cancer (mCRPC) and BRCA1/2 or ATM gene mutations (homologous repair gene mutations or HRRm). … READ MORE …
Filed under: Drugs in development, Management, Treatment | Tagged: gene, Lynparza, mCRPC, mutation, olaparib, Profound, repair | 11 Comments »
Posted on February 7, 2020 by Sitemaster
So your sitemaster has been looking through the full report from the APCCC meeting held in Basel last year — as he promised he would. … READ MORE …
Filed under: Drugs in development, Living with Prostate Cancer, Management, Treatment | Tagged: advanced, castration-resistant, consensus, hormone-naive, hormone-sensitive, mCRPC, metastatic, mHSPC, nmCRPC, nmHSPC, non-metastatic | 2 Comments »
Posted on October 1, 2019 by Sitemaster
From a report presented by Hussain yesterday at the annual meeting of the European Society for Medical Oncology (ESMO) we gained detailed insight into the results of the PROfound trial of olaparib (Lynparza), which had been said to be positive last August. … READ MORE …
Filed under: Drugs in development, Living with Prostate Cancer, Management, Treatment | Tagged: castration-resistant, gene, Lynparza, mCRPC, metastatic, mutation, olaparib | 3 Comments »
Posted on September 19, 2019 by Sitemaster
A newly published article in Lancet Oncology has suggested that “taxane–platinum combinations have a clinically beneficial role in advanced prostate cancer”. … READ MORE …
Filed under: Living with Prostate Cancer, Management, Treatment | Tagged: cabazitaxel, carboplatin, castration-resistant, mCRPC, metastatic | 2 Comments »
Posted on August 7, 2019 by Sitemaster
According to a media release issued jointly yesterday by AstraZeneca and Merck, treatment with the PARP inhibitor olaparib (Lynparza) has demonstrated “positive results from the Phase III PROfound trial … in [a subset of] men with metastatic castration-resistant prostate cancer (mCRPC).” … READ MORE …
Filed under: Drugs in development, Living with Prostate Cancer, Management, Treatment | Tagged: ATM, BRCA1/2, castration-resistant, mCRPC, metastatic, olaparib, PARP | 2 Comments »
