For our European readers who have not yet started, but are getting ready to start hormone deprivation therapy (ADT), there is a new clinical trial you should consider. This trial is evaluating MDV3100 monotherapy as the first hormonal treatment of patients with prostate cancer. Enrolled men would not have had any previous hormonal therapies for [...]
ABIRATERONE EXPANDED ACCESS Trial Site Contact Info – 3/25/11 for men with advanced prostate cancer (800) 457-6399 M-F, 9am –5pm, EST TRIAL link: http://www.clinicaltrials.gov/ct2/show/NCT01217697?term=abiraterone&recr=Open&rank=6 Basic Criteria: 1. testosterone less than 50 2. metastatic prostate cancer 3. no brain metastasis 4. failed chemo 5. no more than 2 different types of previous chemo […]
A new Phase 2 clinical trial of tesetaxel in men with castrate resistant advanced prostate cancer will be conducted through the Prostate Cancer Clinical Trials Consortium (PCCTC). Tesetaxel, an oral taxane which is in clinical development, will be evaluated for its use as both first- and second-line chemotherapy. […]
Posted on the Prostate Problems Mailing list about two months ago was a notice from Dr. Richard Lam about a clinical trial in which his office, Prostate Oncology Specialists, will participate. What I found particularly interesting in this trial is that it was evaluating a potential new drug, abiraterone acetate, which could be used after [...]
