Abiraterone, a pill that blocks androgen synthesis throughout the body, lengthened survival in men with metastatic prostate cancer that had progressed after docetaxel, proving that the disease remains hormone-driven even when castration-resistant.
Phase 3 placebo-controlled trial of 1,195 men with metastatic castration-resistant prostate cancer previously treated with docetaxel randomised 2:1 to abiraterone plus prednisone or placebo plus prednisone.
Median overall survival was 14.8 versus 10.9 months (hazard ratio 0.65), with improvements in PSA response, radiographic progression and pain; mineralocorticoid excess (fluid retention, hypokalaemia, hypertension) was the characteristic toxicity.
Abiraterone became a standard treatment for metastatic castration-resistant prostate cancer and, after later trials, for hormone-sensitive and high-risk localised disease.
One of the most cited trial reports Europe PMC returns for Abiraterone acetate in Prostate cancer, so it is a natural first reading for anyone weighing the idea it is linked from. The record was linked automatically by title and abstract; read the abstract above and the paper itself before relying on any figure.
An oral drug that works after chemotherapy has failed, in a disease where the previous option was more chemotherapy. Together with abiraterone it moved castration-resistant prostate cancer from a chemotherapy disease to a hormonal one, and set up the sequencing questions the field is still arguing about.
The proof, in people, that castration-resistant prostate cancer is usually still androgen-driven. It renamed the disease (hormone-refractory became castration-resistant) and it opened the line of drugs that now dominate treatment at every stage from first diagnosis of metastatic disease onwards.
Shares Phase 1 trial of abiraterone acetate confirms that castration-resistant prostate cancer commonly remains hormone driven, Prostate cancer roadmap: from Huggins and the discovery that a cancer can depend on a hormone, through the PSA epidemic and what it cost, the androgen receptor drugs, the DNA repair subset and PSMA, to a 2032 registry watch, New England Journal of Medicine, Prostate cancer.
Shares Abiraterone in metastatic prostate cancer without previous chemotherapy, AFFIRM: increased survival with enzalutamide in prostate cancer after chemotherapy, Prostate cancer roadmap: from Huggins and the discovery that a cancer can depend on a hormone, through the PSA epidemic and what it cost, the androgen receptor drugs, the DNA repair subset and PSMA, to a 2032 registry watch, Metastatic castration-resistant prostate cancer.
Shares Prostate cancer roadmap: from Huggins and the discovery that a cancer can depend on a hormone, through the PSA epidemic and what it cost, the androgen receptor drugs, the DNA repair subset and PSMA, to a 2032 registry watch, Metastatic castration-resistant prostate cancer, New England Journal of Medicine.
Shares Prostate cancer roadmap: from Huggins and the discovery that a cancer can depend on a hormone, through the PSA epidemic and what it cost, the androgen receptor drugs, the DNA repair subset and PSMA, to a 2032 registry watch, New England Journal of Medicine, Prostate cancer.
Shares Prostate cancer roadmap: from Huggins and the discovery that a cancer can depend on a hormone, through the PSA epidemic and what it cost, the androgen receptor drugs, the DNA repair subset and PSMA, to a 2032 registry watch, New England Journal of Medicine.
Shares Phase 1 trial of abiraterone acetate confirms that castration-resistant prostate cancer commonly remains hormone driven, AFFIRM: increased survival with enzalutamide in prostate cancer after chemotherapy, Prostate cancer roadmap: from Huggins and the discovery that a cancer can depend on a hormone, through the PSA epidemic and what it cost, the androgen receptor drugs, the DNA repair subset and PSMA, to a 2032 registry watch, Metastatic castration-resistant prostate cancer.
Shares Prostate cancer roadmap: from Huggins and the discovery that a cancer can depend on a hormone, through the PSA epidemic and what it cost, the androgen receptor drugs, the DNA repair subset and PSMA, to a 2032 registry watch, New England Journal of Medicine.
Shares Prostate cancer roadmap: from Huggins and the discovery that a cancer can depend on a hormone, through the PSA epidemic and what it cost, the androgen receptor drugs, the DNA repair subset and PSMA, to a 2032 registry watch, Metastatic castration-resistant prostate cancer, New England Journal of Medicine, Prostate cancer.
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