The investigational drug Abiraterone, designed for the treatment of men with advanced prostate cancer who have failed chemotherapy has not yet been approved by the FDA. Because of the extraordinarily positive results that were obtained on the phase III trials (which were stopped early because of these fantastic results) the pharmaceutical manufacturer of the drug [...]
Results from a recent clinical trial indicate that denosumab delayed the spread of prostate cancer metastases bones, however it did not prolong the lives of men. […]
GTx, Inc. this weekend presented results of the Capesaris™ (GTx-758) proof of concept pharmacokinetic-pharmacodynamic (PK/PD) clinical trial treating men with advanced prostate cancer, at the Annual Meeting of the Society of Urologic Oncology. Capesaris is a novel oral selective estrogen receptor alpha agonist which GTx is developing for first line treatment of advanced prostate cancer. [...]
Bavarian Nordic A/S today announced that they have received a letter of concurrence from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) on a Special Protocol Assessment (SPA) for a Phase 3 study required for product registration for its product candidate, PROSTVAC®, for the treatment of men with asymptomatic or minimally symptomatic metastatic castration-resistant prostate cancer [...]
This study is currently recruiting participants. Thanks to a heads up from Jan Manarite of PCRI, I have just learned about a trial of Abiraterone Acetate that is currently recruiting participants. In this trial everyone will get abiraterone, nobody will receive a placebo. NO PLACEBO This is a study to collect information on adverse events [...]