Posted on June 20, 2021 by Sitemaster
Back in 1989, the SWOG 8494 trial first showed that adding an antiandrogen (flutamide) to bilateral medical orchiectomy with an LHRH agonist (leuprolide acetate) extended median overall survival (OS) by 7 months in newly diagnosed men with metastatic, hormone-sensitive prostate cancer (mHSPC). … READ MORE …
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Posted on June 3, 2021 by Sitemaster
Earlier today, Novartis issued a media release giving the major results of the Phase III VISION trial, which compared the effectiveness of 177Lu-PSMA-617+ best standard of care (SOC), as selected by individual investigators, to SOC alone in the treatment of men with PSMA-positive men with metastatic, castration-resistant prostate cancer (mCRPC). … READ MORE …
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Posted on May 31, 2021 by Sitemaster
The so-called PEACE-1 trial is an ongoing Phase III trial among men diagnosed with de novo metastatic castration-sensitive prostate cancer (mCSPC). … READ MORE …
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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 …
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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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Posted on October 27, 2020 by Sitemaster
New data on this topic — from a Phase II/III clinical trial — have just been presented at the virtual annual meeting of the American Society for Radiation Oncology (ASTRO). Basically, the data from this study by Sahgal et al. indicated that 24 Gy (in two 12 Gy doses) of stereotactic body radiation therapy (SBRT) was more effective in the elimination of spinal pain in patients with metastatic cancer as compared to 20 Gy (in five 4 Gy doses) of conventional, external beam radiation therapy (EBRT).
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Filed under: Living with Prostate Cancer, Management, Treatment | Tagged: bone, EBRT, metastatic, pain, radiation, SBRT, spine | 3 Comments »
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 …
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Posted on September 21, 2020 by Sitemaster
Roche/Genentech’s investigational drug ipatasertib has demonstrated a small but statistically significant benefit in the treatment of men with metastatic, castration-resistant prostate cancer (mCRPC) who had tumors exhibiting loss of the phosphatase and tensin (PTEN) homolog: a 2-month improvement in median radiographic progression-free survival (rPFS). … READ MORE …
Filed under: Living with Prostate Cancer, Management, Treatment | Tagged: castration-resistant, ipatasertib, IPATential150, loss, metastatic, PTEN | 7 Comments »
Posted on August 26, 2020 by Sitemaster
Earlier today we reported on a recent publication based on data from the CaPSURE registry database, which stated that, among men enrolled in that database, men died sooner from their prostate cancer after they progressed to having metastatic disease over time (median survival, 2.4 years from onset of metastasis) than died from their prostate cancer if they were initially diagnosed with metastatic disease (median survival, 5.3 years). … READ MORE …
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Posted on August 26, 2020 by Sitemaster
Some readers are probably going to find this very hard to believe, but … according to a newly published study, men initially diagnosed with metastatic prostate cancer are actually less likely to die from their cancer than men who are initially diagnosed with non-metastatic disease but who progress to having metastatic disease over time. … READ MORE …
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Posted on August 23, 2020 by Sitemaster
Two clinical trials have now confirmed the abscopal or bystander effect in prostate cancer. These effects occur when cancer cells that are not directly treated are nonetheless killed. … READ MORE …
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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 …
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Posted on June 26, 2020 by Sitemaster
The American Urological Association (AUA), together with the American Society for Radiation Oncology (ASTRO) and the Society for Urologic Oncology (SUO), has just issued a new set of guidelines for the management of advanced prostate cancer (see here). … READ MORE …
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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 …
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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 …
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