The changing landscape in the treatment of metastatic castration-resistant prostate cancer

The past few years have brought increasing advances in the therapeutic management of metastatic castration-resistant prostate cancer with the approval of several agents, including vaccine therapy with sipuleucel-T, second-line chemotherapy with cabazitaxel, the bone-targeted pharmaceutical denosumab...

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Main Author: El Amm, Joelle (author)
Other Authors: Aragon-Ching, Jeanny B. (author)
Format: article
Published: 2012
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/10725/6239
http://dx.doi.org/ 10.1177/ 1758834012458137
http://libraries.lau.edu.lb/research/laur/terms-of-use/articles.php
http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/1758834012458137
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Summary:The past few years have brought increasing advances in the therapeutic management of metastatic castration-resistant prostate cancer with the approval of several agents, including vaccine therapy with sipuleucel-T, second-line chemotherapy with cabazitaxel, the bone-targeted pharmaceutical denosumab, and the novel antiandrogen therapy abiraterone acetate. There are ongoing developments with other agents in the pipeline such as MDV3100 and alpharadin that have shown promising results. This review describes the clinical trials that brought about the drug approvals of various agents and offers some insights regarding a rational approach to optimal treatment sequencing for these drugs since national guidelines are currently lacking.