ConferenceProstate Cancer Prostatic Dis · November 1, 2025
BACKGROUND: DAROL is an ongoing study of real-world safety and effectiveness of darolutamide in patients with nonmetastatic castration-resistant prostate cancer (nmCRPC). SUBJECTS/METHODS: This prespecified interim analysis included 550 patients with nmCRP ...
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Journal ArticleNat Commun · October 14, 2025
Fragmentomics based analysis of cell-free DNA (cfDNA) has recently emerged as a method to infer epigenetic and transcriptional data. Many of these reports analyze whole genome sequencing (WGS) which is not readily available clinically. Targeted exon panels ...
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Journal ArticleProstate Cancer Prostatic Dis · October 11, 2025
BACKGROUND: Oligometastatic hormone-sensitive prostate cancer (omHSPC) represents a favorable and potentially curable disease state in which metastasis-directed therapy (MDT) improves outcomes. The combination of MDT and systemic treatment is the next fron ...
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Journal ArticleClin Cancer Res · October 9, 2025
PURPOSE: Low-density lipoprotein receptor-related protein 1b (LRP1b) is a cell surface receptor, commonly altered in many cancers and associated with improved responses, progression free survival (PFS) and overall survival (OS) with immune checkpoint inhib ...
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Journal ArticleProstate Cancer Prostatic Dis · October 4, 2025
BACKGROUND: Despite advancements in treatment, metastatic prostate cancer remains a lethal disease. As prostate cancer becomes resistant to standard of care treatments like androgen receptor pathway inhibitors (ARPIs) and chemotherapy, cell surface tumor a ...
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Journal ArticleProstate Cancer Prostatic Dis · September 2025
BACKGROUND/OBJECTIVES: Unfortunately, not all metastatic castration resistant prostate cancer (mCRPC) patients receive available life-prolonging systemic therapies, emphasizing the need to optimize mCRPC treatment selections. Better guidelines are necessar ...
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Journal ArticleProstate Cancer Prostatic Dis · September 2025
BACKGROUND/OBJECTIVES: Unfortunately, not all metastatic castration-resistant prostate cancer (mCRPC) patients receive available life-prolonging systemic therapies, emphasizing the need to optimize mCRPC treatment selections. Better guidelines are necessar ...
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Journal ArticleProstate Cancer Prostatic Dis · September 2025
BACKGROUND: Novel therapies for metastatic castration-resistant prostate cancer (mCRPC) have improved patient outcomes. However, there is uncertainty on the optimal selection of therapeutic agents for subsequent lines of therapy. METHODS: We conducted a co ...
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Journal ArticleEur Urol · August 6, 2025
BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVE: Although validated prognostic models exist for men with metastatic castration-resistant prostate cancer (mCRPC), current tools do not incorporate genomic biomarkers such as circulating tumor DNA (ctDNA) aneuploidy or pathogenic ge ...
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Journal ArticleEur Urol Oncol · August 2025
BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVE: Up to 5% of patients with metastatic castration-resistant prostate cancer (mCRPC) harbour loss-of-function alterations in mismatch repair genes (dMMR) resulting in microsatellite instability (MSI-H). Data on the efficacy of immune ...
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Journal ArticleFuture Oncol · August 2025
AIMS: To compare the efficacy of enzalutamide + androgen-deprivation therapy (ADT) versus darolutamide + ADT for treatment of patients with metastatic hormone-sensitive prostate cancer (mHSPC) using a matching-adjusted indirect comparison (MAIC). PATIENTS ...
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Journal ArticleBMJ Case Rep · July 10, 2025
This case describes a man in his 70s with a 12-year history of bullous pemphigoid (BP) and recurrent prostate cancer, both diagnosed in the same year. Initially managed with active surveillance, his prostate cancer progressed, requiring hormonal therapy, s ...
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Journal ArticleFuture Oncol · June 29, 2025
GOAL: To present data from published clinical trials of treatment of patients with prostate cancer with enzalutamide described in plain language and in a dashboard format available at: https://clinical-trials.dimensions.ai/enzalutamide-clinical-review/. RA ...
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Journal ArticleProstate Cancer Prostatic Dis · June 2025
BACKGROUND: CALGB 90401 (Alliance) was a phase III trial of 1050 patients with metastatic castration-resistant prostate cancer (mCRPC) comparing docetaxel, prednisone, bevacizumab (DP+B) versus DP alone. While this trial did not show an improvement in over ...
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Journal ArticleProstate Cancer Prostatic Dis · June 2025
Combined androgen deprivation therapy (ADT) and radiotherapy (RT) improves outcomes for intermediate and high-risk prostate cancer. Treatment intensification with abiraterone acetate/prednisone (AAP) provides additional benefit for high-risk disease. We pr ...
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Journal ArticleProstate Cancer Prostatic Dis · June 2025
BACKGROUND: AR gene alterations can develop in response to pressure of testosterone suppression and androgen receptor targeting agents (ARTA). Despite this, the relevance of these gene alterations in the context of ARTA treatment and clinical outcomes rema ...
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Journal ArticleProstate Cancer Prostatic Dis · June 2025
BACKGROUND: Aberrant Wnt signaling has been implicated in prostate cancer tumorigenesis and metastasis in preclinical models but the impact of genetic alterations in Wnt signaling genes in men with advanced prostate cancer is unknown. METHODS: We utilized ...
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Journal ArticleJCO Oncol Pract · June 2025
Indications for and implications of germline genetic testing (GGT) in patients with prostate cancer have expanded over the past decade, particularly related to precision therapies and management. GGT has become the standard of care for many cancers such as ...
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Journal ArticleAdv Sci (Weinh) · June 2025
Metastatic cancer, the primary cause of cancer mortality, frequently exhibits heightened dependence on certain transcription factors (TFs), which serve as master regulators of oncogenic signaling yet are often untargetable by small molecules. Selective Cel ...
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Journal ArticleEur Urol Oncol · May 13, 2025
BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVE: In the phase 3 KEYNOTE-921 study, the combination of pembrolizumab with docetaxel did not improve efficacy outcomes significantly in patients with chemotherapy-naive metastatic castration-resistant prostate cancer (mCRPC) after ne ...
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Journal ArticleJ Clin Oncol · May 10, 2025
PURPOSE: The standard of care for metastatic castration-resistant prostate cancer (mCRPC) after second-generation androgen receptor pathway inhibitor (ARPI) therapy is still docetaxel. The randomized, double-blind, phase III KEYNOTE-921 trial (Clinicaltria ...
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Journal ArticleCancer Discov · May 2, 2025
The development of treatment resistance remains universal for patients with metastatic prostate cancer, driven by AR alterations and lineage state transitions. Identifying the evolution of lineage transitions in treatment resistance has been limited by the ...
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Journal ArticleUrology · May 2025
OBJECTIVE: To advocate for universal germline genetic testing (UGGT) in prostate cancer and provide practical recommendations for its implementation. METHODS: Although guidelines for germline genetic testing in prostate cancer have progressed, usage remain ...
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Journal ArticleJAMA Netw Open · May 1, 2025
IMPORTANCE: In men with metastatic hormone-sensitive prostate cancer (mHSPC), prostate-specific antigen (PSA) decline after treatment has been associated with improved survival. However, the data on PSA decline are limited in men with mHSPC after treatment ...
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Journal ArticleTarget Oncol · May 2025
Treatment strategies to improve outcomes in patients with metastatic castration-resistant prostate cancer (mCRPC) are evolving. Of particular interest are therapies that target DNA damage responses in tumor cells by inhibiting poly(ADP-ribose) polymerase ( ...
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Journal ArticleJ Clin Oncol · April 16, 2025
PURPOSE: Long-term androgen deprivation therapy (ADT) improves survival in men with high-risk localized prostate cancer (PCa) receiving radiotherapy (RT). Predictive biomarkers are needed to guide ADT duration. METHODS: A multimodal artificial intelligence ...
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Journal ArticleEur Urol Oncol · April 2025
BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVE: Androgen deprivation therapy (ADT) with salvage radiation therapy (RT) improves survival for patients with prostate-specific antigen (PSA) recurrence after radical prostatectomy (RP) for prostate cancer (PC), but many patients suf ...
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Journal ArticleEur Urol Oncol · April 2025
BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVE: In PROpel (NCT03732820), olaparib + abiraterone resulted in a statistically significant radiographic progression-free survival (rPFS) benefit and numerically prolonged overall survival (OS) versus placebo + abiraterone in first-li ...
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Journal ArticleCancer Discov · April 1, 2025
Treatment resistance remains a universal driver of lethal metastatic prostate cancer, associated with acquired genomic alterations and lineage transitions. Using a novel high-purity CTC isolation approach for CTC transcriptional profiling, we identified fo ...
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Journal ArticleUrol Pract · March 2025
INTRODUCTION: No consensus exists on performance standards for evaluation of generative artificial intelligence (AI) to generate medical responses. The purpose of this study was the assessment of Chat Generative Pre-trained Transformer (ChatGPT) to address ...
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ConferenceJournal of Clinical Oncology · February 10, 2025
246Background:
Serum androgen levels are prognostic in mCRPC and genetic variation in androgen metabolism may drive these eff ...
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ConferenceJournal of Clinical Oncology · February 10, 2025
230Background:
DHEA, testosterone (T) and androstenedione (AD) are adrenal androgens that can drive CRPC.
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ConferenceJournal of Clinical Oncology · February 10, 2025
TPS279Background:
PARP inhibitors (PARPi) in combination with androgen receptor pathway inhibitors (ARPIs) are approved for t ...
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ConferenceJournal of Clinical Oncology · February 10, 2025
219Background:
PROpel (NCT03732820) met its primary endpoint showing statistically significant investigator-assessed (INV) ra ...
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Journal ArticleEur Urol · February 2025
BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVE: Innovations have improved outcomes in advanced prostate cancer (PC). Nonetheless, we continue to lack high-level evidence on a variety of topics that greatly impact daily practice. The 2024 Advanced Prostate Cancer Consensus Confe ...
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Journal ArticleNPJ Precis Oncol · January 29, 2025
Black men suffer disproportionately from prostate cancer (PCa) compared to men of other races and ethnicities. Comparing the molecular landscape of PCa among Black and White patients has the potential to identify targets for development of new precision me ...
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Journal ArticleJCI Insight · January 7, 2025
Since multiple front-line immune checkpoint inhibitor-based (ICI-based) combinations are approved for metastatic renal cell carcinoma, biomarkers predicting for ICI responses are needed past clinical prognostication scores and transcriptome gene expression ...
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Journal ArticleAnn Oncol · January 2025
BACKGROUND: Metastatic castration-resistant prostate cancer (mCRPC) that progresses on androgen receptor pathway inhibitors (ARPIs) may continue to be driven by AR signaling. BMS-986365 is an orally administered ligand-directed degrader targeting the AR vi ...
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Journal ArticleFuture Oncol · January 2025
WHAT IS THIS SUMMARY ABOUT?: This summary includes information from the ARCHES and ENZAMET follow-up studies. Both studies looked at enzalutamide treatment for people with metastatic hormone-sensitive prostate cancer (known as mHSPC). In ARCHES, researcher ...
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Journal ArticleCancer · January 1, 2025
Current US clinical practice guidelines for advanced prostate cancer management contain recommendations based on high-level evidence from randomized controlled trials; however, these guidelines do not address the nuanced clinical questions that are unanswe ...
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Journal ArticleNat Commun · December 11, 2024
Circulating tumor DNA (ctDNA) in plasma cell free DNA (cfDNA) of cancer patients is associated with poor prognosis, but is challenging to detect from low plasma volumes. In metastatic castration-resistant prostate cancer (mCRPC), ctDNA assays are needed to ...
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Journal ArticleCommun Med (Lond) · December 2, 2024
BACKGROUND: Breast and prostate tumors are known to be less responsive to immune checkpoint inhibitors (ICIs). Tissue-based tumor mutation burden (tTMB) has emerged as a predictive biomarker of response to ICIs, including in these "cold tumors". In clinica ...
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Journal ArticleEur Urol Oncol · December 2024
BACKGROUND: The PROpel study (NCT03732820) demonstrated a statistically significant progression-free survival benefit with olaparib plus abiraterone versus placebo plus abiraterone in the first-line metastatic castration-resistant prostate cancer (mCRPC) s ...
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Journal ArticleEur Urol Oncol · December 2024
BACKGROUND: Metastasis-directed therapy (MDT) is increasingly being used in oligometastatic castration-sensitive prostate cancer (omCSPC). However, it is currently unclear how to optimally integrate MDT with the standard of care of systemic hormonal therap ...
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Journal ArticleEur Urol Focus · December 2024
BACKGROUND: Defining optimal therapeutic sequencing strategies in prostate cancer (PC) is challenging and may be assisted by artificial intelligence (AI)-based tools for an analysis of the medical literature. OBJECTIVE: To demonstrate that INSIDE PC can he ...
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Journal ArticleEur Urol · December 2024
BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVE: The prognostic value of declining prostate-specific antigen (PSA) levels is under investigation in patients with prostate-specific membrane antigen (PSMA)-positive metastatic castration-resistant prostate cancer (mCRPC) receiving ...
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ConferenceClinical Cancer Research · November 13, 2024
AbstractIntroduction: Androgen receptor pathway inhibitors (ARPIs) have been shown to improve survival for men with metastatic prostate cancer, however, the use of 2nd line ARPIs has limited efficacy. There ...
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Journal ArticleJ Exp Med · November 4, 2024
Acquisition of prostate cancer stem cells (PCSCs) manifested during androgen ablation therapy (ABT) contributes to castration-resistant prostate cancer (CRPC). However, little is known about the specific metabolites critically orchestrating this process. H ...
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Journal ArticleClin Cancer Res · November 1, 2024
PURPOSE: Mutations in hematopoietic progenitor cells accumulate with age leading to clonal expansion, termed clonal hematopoiesis (CH). CH in the general population is associated with hematopoietic neoplasms and reduced overall survival (OS), predominantly ...
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Other · October 18, 2024
<p>Stronger IFN-β responses to TLR1/2 stimulation associates with longer survival after sip-T therapy. <b>A,</b> HRs ± 95% CIs from a Cox proportional hazards model comparing induction of each cytokine (fold mock control) after TL ...
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Other · October 18, 2024
<p>IFN-β induction after TLR1/2 stimulation associates with PBMC ELISpot responses to Fluzone, PHA, and CEFT (cytomegalovirus, EBV, Fluzone, and Tetanus peptide pool). <b>A,</b> ELISpot SFU after each indicated stimulant (<i> ...
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Other · October 18, 2024
<p>Study design and <i>in vitro</i> responsiveness of PBMCs from patients with mCRPC to PRR agonist prior to sip-T treatment. <b>A,</b> Banked pretreatment PBMCs from the PRIME sip-T discovery cohort (<i>n</i& ...
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Other · October 18, 2024
<p>TLR1/2 responses associate with post–sip-T survival independent of race and TLR1/2 SNP status. <b>A–C,</b> Survival stratified by race in the merged PRIME and KCI cohorts (<b>A</b>), PRIME cohort alone (<b>B&l ...
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Other · October 18, 2024
<div>Abstract<p>Mounting evidence links systemic innate immunity with cancer immune surveillance. In advanced metastatic castration-resistant prostate cancer (mCRPC), Black patients have been found to have increased inflammatory markers ...
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Other · October 18, 2024
<p>Black race and TLR1-602I SNP associate with stronger responses to TLR1/2 stimulation. <b>A,</b> Supernatant cytokine release separated by Black (<i>n</i> = 15) vs. White (<i>n</i> = 91) for each stimulat ...
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Journal ArticleClin Genitourin Cancer · October 2024
INTRODUCTION: Lurbinectedin is FDA approved for treatment of metastatic small cell lung cancer (SCLC) following progression on or after platinum-based chemotherapy. Prostatic small cell or neuroendocrine carcinoma (SC/NEPC) behaves like SCLC; however, no s ...
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Journal ArticleCancer Res Commun · October 1, 2024
UNLABELLED: Mounting evidence links systemic innate immunity with cancer immune surveillance. In advanced metastatic castration-resistant prostate cancer (mCRPC), Black patients have been found to have increased inflammatory markers and longer survival aft ...
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Journal ArticleEur Urol · September 2024
BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVE: Biochemical recurrence (BCR) after primary definitive treatment for prostate cancer (PCa) is a heterogeneous disease state. While BCR is associated with worse oncologic outcomes, risk factors that impact outcomes can vary signific ...
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Journal ArticleEur Urol Oncol · August 2024
BACKGROUND: In ARCHES, treatment intensification of androgen deprivation therapy (ADT) with enzalutamide versus placebo improved clinical outcomes in metastatic hormone-sensitive prostate cancer (mHSPC). Understanding the benefits and tolerability of enzal ...
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Journal ArticleCell reports. Medicine · August 2024
HSD3B1 encodes 3β-hydroxysteroid dehydrogenase-1, which converts adrenal dehydroepiandrosterone to 5α-dihydrotestosterone and is inherited in adrenal-permissive (AP) or adrenal-restrictive forms. The AP allele is linked to castration resistance, mainly in ...
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Journal ArticleJCO Precis Oncol · August 2024
PURPOSE: Outcomes data for DNA-damaging therapeutics for men with prostate cancer (PC) and non-BRCA1/2 homologous recombination repair (HRR) mutations are limited. We evaluated outcomes by HRR alteration in men with PC treated with poly(ADP-ribose)polymera ...
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Journal ArticleRadiology · August 2024
Background Lutetium 177 [177Lu]Lu-PSMA-617 (177Lu-PSMA-617) is a prostate-specific membrane antigen (PSMA)-targeted radioligand therapy for metastatic castration-resistant prostate cancer (mCRPC). Quantitative PSMA PET/CT analysis could provide information ...
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Journal ArticleEnviron Sci Technol · June 18, 2024
Microplastics are routinely ingested and inhaled by humans and other organisms. Despite the frequency of plastic exposure, little is known about its health consequences. Of particular concern are plastic additives─chemical compounds that are intentionally ...
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Journal ArticleEur Urol · April 2024
BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVE: [177Lu]Lu-PSMA-617 (177Lu-PSMA-617) plus the standard of care (SoC) significantly improved overall survival and radiographic progression-free survival versus SoC alone in patients with prostate-specific membrane antigen (PSMA)-pos ...
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Journal ArticleJCO Precis Oncol · April 2024
PURPOSE: There are limited data available on the real-world patterns of molecular testing in men with advanced prostate cancer. We thus sought to evaluate next-generation sequencing (NGS) testing in the United States, focused on single versus serial NGS te ...
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Journal ArticleJU Open Plus · April 2024
BACKGROUND: Management strategies for metastatic castration-resistant prostate cancer (mCRPC) have rapidly shifted in recent years. As novel imaging and therapeutic approaches have made their way to the clinic, providers are encountering increasingly chall ...
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Journal ArticleJU Open Plus · April 2024
PURPOSE: Castration-sensitive prostate cancer (CSPC) is a complex and heterogeneous condition encompassing a range of clinical presentations. As new approaches have expanded management options, clinicians are left with myriad questions and controversies re ...
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Journal ArticleClin Cancer Res · March 15, 2024
PURPOSE: HOXB13 is an androgen receptor (AR) coregulator specifically expressed in cells of prostatic lineage. We sought to associate circulating tumor cell (CTC) HOXB13 expression with outcomes in men with mCRPC treated with abiraterone or enzalutamide. E ...
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Other · March 15, 2024
<p>Association of CTC HOXB13 expression with overall survival, univariate and multivariate analysis including adjustment for JHU CTC AR-V7 status</p> ...
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Other · March 15, 2024
<p>Association of CTC HOXB13 expression with overall survival, univariate and multivariate analysis including adjustment for JHU CTC AR-V7 status</p> ...
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Other · March 15, 2024
<div>AbstractPurpose:<p>HOXB13 is an androgen receptor (AR) coregulator specifically expressed in cells of prostatic lineage. We sought to associate circulating tumor cell (CTC) HOXB13 expression with outcomes in men with mCRPC treated ...
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Other · March 15, 2024
<div>AbstractPurpose:<p>HOXB13 is an androgen receptor (AR) coregulator specifically expressed in cells of prostatic lineage. We sought to associate circulating tumor cell (CTC) HOXB13 expression with outcomes in men with mCRPC treated ...
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Journal ArticleBMJ Case Rep · February 23, 2024
We present the case of a patient with heavily pretreated metastatic castration-resistant prostate cancer (mCRPC) who received lutetium Lu-177 vipivotide tetraxetan (also known as 177Lu-PSMA-617) due to progressive disease despite chemotherapy, hormonal the ...
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Journal ArticleProstate · February 2024
BACKGROUND: Recently approved treatments and updates to genetic testing recommendations for prostate cancer have created a need for correlated analyses of patient outcomes data via germline genetic mutation status. Genetic registries address these gaps by ...
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Journal ArticleInvest New Drugs · February 2024
C-X-C motif chemokine receptor 2 (CXCR2) has a role in tumor progression, lineage plasticity, and reduction of immune checkpoint inhibitor efficacy. Preclinical evidence suggests potential benefit of CXCR2 inhibition in multiple solid tumors. In this phase ...
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ConferenceJournal of Clinical Oncology · February 1, 2024
452 Background: Metastatic RCC has a poor prognosis. Despite improvement in treatment outcomes with ICB and targeted therapy, many patients fail to respond to first line therapy and durable responses remain elusive. The tryptopha ...
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ConferenceJournal of Clinical Oncology · February 1, 2024
199 Background: The detection of genomic alterations in cancer is critical for identifying clinically actionable alterations for treatment decisions. Tumor samples historically have been required, but obtaining tissue for molecul ...
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ConferenceJournal of Clinical Oncology · February 1, 2024
164 Background: Lurbinectedin (L) is a novel inhibitor of oncogenic transcription that was granted accelerated approval by the Food and Drug Administration in June 2020 for the treatment of metastatic small cell lung cancer (SCLC ...
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ConferenceJournal of Clinical Oncology · February 1, 2024
165 Background: PROpel (NCT03732820) met its primary endpoint and showed a significant investigator-assessed radiographic progression-free survival (rPFS) benefit with O + A vs P + A in first-line mCRPC (hazard ratio [HR] 0.66, 9 ...
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ConferenceJournal of Clinical Oncology · February 1, 2024
225 Background: Inactivating mutations in the SPOP gene, encoding speckled-type poxvirus and zinc-finger protein, are common among men with localized and metastatic prostate cancer, occurring at a frequency of 6-15%. Previous stu ...
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ConferenceJournal of Clinical Oncology · February 1, 2024
TPS247 Background: Metastatic castrate resistant prostate cancer (mCRPC) is an advanced and lethal form of prostate cancer. Prostate-specific membrane antigen (PSMA)-targeted theranostic agents, 68Ga-PSMA-11 ...
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ConferenceJournal of Clinical Oncology · February 1, 2024
118 Background: Treatment intensification (TI) for men with advanced prostate cancer consistently demonstrates improvements in overall survival (OS) when compared to androgen deprivation therapy (ADT) alone. However, TI increases ...
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ConferenceJournal of Clinical Oncology · February 1, 2024
134 Background: Androgen receptor (AR) signaling is the principal driver of PC at all stages. CC-94676 (BMS-986365) is a heterobifunctional, first-in-class, orally bioavailable AR LDD designed to induce rapid, sustained, and high ...
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Journal ArticleCancer Discov · January 12, 2024
UNLABELLED: Xaluritamig (AMG 509) is a six-transmembrane epithelial antigen of the prostate 1 (STEAP1)-targeted T-cell engager designed to facilitate lysis of STEAP1-expressing cancer cells, such as those in advanced prostate cancer. This first-in-human st ...
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Journal ArticleClin Genitourin Cancer · December 2023
INTRODUCTION: Biomarkers are needed to identify patients with metastatic renal cell carcinoma (mRCC) most likely to benefit from immune checkpoint inhibitors. We examined associations between radiographically assessed body composition (BC) variables and bo ...
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ConferenceEur Urol Oncol · October 27, 2023
PROpel (NCT03732820) was a positive phase 3 trial that demonstrated a clinically significant improvement in radiographic progression-free survival with olaparib plus abiraterone versus placebo plus abiraterone in first-line metastatic castration-resistant ...
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Journal ArticleLancet Oncol · October 2023
BACKGROUND: PROpel met its primary endpoint showing statistically significant improvement in radiographic progression-free survival with olaparib plus abiraterone versus placebo plus abiraterone in patients with first-line metastatic castration-resistant p ...
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Journal ArticleJAMA Netw Open · September 5, 2023
IMPORTANCE: Black men have higher incidence and mortality from prostate cancer. Whether precision oncology disparities affect Black men with metastatic castration-resistant prostate cancer (mCRPC) is unknown. OBJECTIVE: To compare precision medicine data a ...
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Journal ArticleAnn Oncol · September 2023
BACKGROUND: The isolation of cell-free DNA (cfDNA) from the bloodstream can be used to detect and analyze somatic alterations in circulating tumor DNA (ctDNA), and multiple cfDNA-targeted sequencing panels are now commercially available for Food and Drug A ...
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Journal ArticleRes Sq · August 10, 2023
BACKGROUND: AR gene alterations can develop in response to pressure of testosterone suppression and androgen receptor targeting agents (ARTA). Despite this, the relevance of these gene alterations in the context of ARTA treatment and clinical outcomes rema ...
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Journal ArticleEur Urol · August 2023
BACKGROUND: Few phase 3 studies have evaluated optimal systemic treatment strategies for patients with oligometastatic hormone-sensitive prostate cancer (HSPC), who may be at risk of undertreatment. OBJECTIVE: To evaluate outcomes for patients with oligome ...
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Journal ArticleJCO Precis Oncol · August 2023
PURPOSE: Men with rising prostate-specific antigen (PSA) after radical prostatectomy (RP) may progress despite radiation and androgen-deprivation therapy (ADT). Tissue-based transcriptomic signatures can identify who may benefit from a more aggressive syst ...
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Journal ArticleNEJM Evid · August 2023
BACKGROUND: Androgen deprivation therapy (ADT) with radiotherapy can benefit patients with localized prostate cancer. However, ADT can negatively impact quality of life, and there remain no validated predictive models to guide its use. METHODS: We used dig ...
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Journal ArticleWorld J Mens Health · July 2023
PURPOSE: Prostate cancer (PCa) screening can lead to potential over-diagnosis/over-treatment of indolent cancers. There is a need to optimize practices to better risk-stratify patients. We examined initial longitudinal outcomes of mid-life men with an elev ...
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Journal ArticleJ Clin Oncol · June 20, 2023
PURPOSE: Enzalutamide and abiraterone both target androgen receptor signaling but via different mechanisms. The mechanism of action of one drug may counteract the resistance pathways of the other. We sought to determine whether the addition of abiraterone ...
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Journal ArticleJ Clin Oncol · May 20, 2023
PURPOSE: We have previously developed and externally validated a prognostic model of overall survival (OS) in men with metastatic, castration-resistant prostate cancer (mCRPC) treated with docetaxel. We sought to externally validate this model in a broader ...
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Journal ArticleClin Cancer Res · May 15, 2023
PURPOSE: In men with metastatic castration-resistant prostate cancer (mCRPC), prostate-specific membrane antigen (PSMA)-targeted radioligand therapy has drastically improved clinical outcomes. A liquid biopsy characterizing PSMA expression could be useful ...
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Journal ArticleJ Clin Invest · May 15, 2023
Inactivation of the RB1 tumor suppressor gene is common in several types of therapy-resistant cancers, including metastatic castration-resistant prostate cancer, and predicts poor clinical outcomes. Effective therapeutic strategies against RB1-deficient ca ...
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Other · May 15, 2023
<div>AbstractPurpose:<p>In men with metastatic castration-resistant prostate cancer (mCRPC), prostate-specific membrane antigen (PSMA)-targeted radioligand therapy has drastically improved clinical outcomes. A liquid biopsy characterizi ...
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Other · May 15, 2023
<p>A. Overall Survival outcomes and B. Progression Free Survival outcomes utilizing multivariate analysis for PSMA positive CTCs, adjusting on prior treatment, risk score, CTC enumeration, comparting 3 CTC + groups with the reference group be ...
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Other · May 15, 2023
<p>CTC biomarker group incidence by PSMA optimal cutoff (AR-v7, chromosomal instability (CIN), and neuroendocrine (NE) at baseline (N=97) and progression (N=57).</p> ...
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Other · May 15, 2023
<p>Percent PSMA expression positivity (PSMA+CTC x 100/ Traditional CTC) across PSMA+ Neuroendocrine Phenotype (NE) - and PSMA+ NE+ baseline (A) and progression (B) samples.</p> ...
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Other · May 15, 2023
<p>Kaplan Meier plots depict the association between PSMA+ CTC enumeration and OS and PFS. The associations of PSMA+ CTC enumeration with overall survival (OS) and progression-free survival (PFS) were explored using the proportional hazard mo ...
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Other · May 15, 2023
<p>PSMA protein expression distribution from men with mCRPC at a single cell CTC level before (baseline, N= 97) and after (progression, N= 57) abiraterone or enzalutamide therapy.</p> ...
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Other · May 15, 2023
<p>The prevalence of PSMA and Cell Search CTC positivity (≥5) at baseline and progression, as well as the observed median and optimal cutoffs for PSMA CTC.</p> ...
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Other · May 15, 2023
<p>Comparison of CTC enumeration and PSMA+ CTC expression in 57 baseline and paired progression samples from the PROPHECY study. All the CTC parameters (mean, median, and range) were represent in CTC/mL.</p> ...
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Other · May 15, 2023
<p>Kaplan Meier plots depict the association between PSMA+ CTC enumeration and OS and PFS. The associations of PSMA+ CTC enumeration with overall survival (OS) and progression-free survival (PFS) were explored using the proportional hazard mo ...
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Other · May 15, 2023
<p>Comparison of CTC enumeration and PSMA+ CTC expression in 57 baseline and paired progression samples from the PROPHECY study. All the CTC parameters (mean, median, and range) were represent in CTC/mL.</p> ...
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Other · May 15, 2023
<p>Waterfall plots depicting A) the proportion of men achieving a 50% or greater PSA decline from baseline, confirmed with a subsequent value (confirmed PSA50) and B) best overall objective radiographic responses among response evaluable subj ...
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Other · May 15, 2023
<p>The prevalence of PSMA and Cell Search CTC positivity (≥5) at baseline and progression, as well as the observed median and optimal cutoffs for PSMA CTC.</p> ...
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Other · May 15, 2023
<p>Waterfall plots depicting A) the proportion of men achieving a 50% or greater PSA decline from baseline, confirmed with a subsequent value (confirmed PSA50) and B) best overall objective radiographic responses among response evaluable subj ...
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Other · May 15, 2023
<p>PSMA protein expression distribution from men with mCRPC at a single cell CTC level before (baseline, N= 97) and after (progression, N= 57) abiraterone or enzalutamide therapy.</p> ...
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Other · May 15, 2023
<p>A. Overall Survival outcomes and B. Progression Free Survival outcomes utilizing multivariate analysis for PSMA positive CTCs, adjusting on prior treatment, risk score, CTC enumeration, comparting 3 CTC + groups with the reference group be ...
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Other · May 15, 2023
<p>CTC biomarker group incidence by PSMA optimal cutoff (AR-v7, chromosomal instability (CIN), and neuroendocrine (NE) at baseline (N=97) and progression (N=57).</p> ...
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Other · May 15, 2023
<div>AbstractPurpose:<p>In men with metastatic castration-resistant prostate cancer (mCRPC), prostate-specific membrane antigen (PSMA)-targeted radioligand therapy has drastically improved clinical outcomes. A liquid biopsy characterizi ...
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Other · May 15, 2023
<p>Percent PSMA expression positivity (PSMA+CTC x 100/ Traditional CTC) across PSMA+ Neuroendocrine Phenotype (NE) - and PSMA+ NE+ baseline (A) and progression (B) samples.</p> ...
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Journal ArticleJ Pathol · May 2023
Neuroendocrine (NE) cells comprise ~1% of epithelial cells in benign prostate and prostatic adenocarcinoma (PCa). However, they become enriched in hormonally treated and castration-resistant PCa (CRPC). In addition, close to 20% of hormonally treated tumor ...
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Journal ArticleEuropean journal of cancer (Oxford, England : 1990) · May 2023
BackgroundInnovations in imaging and molecular characterisation together with novel treatment options have improved outcomes in advanced prostate cancer. However, we still lack high-level evidence in many areas relevant to making management decisi ...
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Journal ArticleRes Sq · April 21, 2023
BACKGROUND: Androgen deprivation therapy (ADT) with radiotherapy can benefit patients with localized prostate cancer. However, ADT can negatively impact quality of life and there remain no validated predictive models to guide its use. METHODS: Digital path ...
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Other · April 12, 2023
<p>Comparison of CTC enumeration and PSMA+ CTC expression in 57 baseline and paired progression samples from the PROPHECY study. All the CTC parameters (mean, median, and range) were represent in CTC/mL.</p> ...
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Other · April 12, 2023
<p>Waterfall plots depicting A) the proportion of men achieving a 50% or greater PSA decline from baseline, confirmed with a subsequent value (confirmed PSA50) and B) best overall objective radiographic responses among response evaluable subj ...
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Other · April 12, 2023
<p>PSMA protein expression distribution from men with mCRPC at a single cell CTC level before (baseline, N= 97) and after (progression, N= 57) abiraterone or enzalutamide therapy.</p> ...
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Other · April 12, 2023
<p>Kaplan Meier plots depict the association between PSMA+ CTC enumeration and OS and PFS. The associations of PSMA+ CTC enumeration with overall survival (OS) and progression-free survival (PFS) were explored using the proportional hazard mo ...
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Other · April 12, 2023
<p>Kaplan Meier plots depict the association between PSMA+ CTC enumeration and OS and PFS. The associations of PSMA+ CTC enumeration with overall survival (OS) and progression-free survival (PFS) were explored using the proportional hazard mo ...
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Other · April 12, 2023
<p>Percent PSMA expression positivity (PSMA+CTC x 100/ Traditional CTC) across PSMA+ Neuroendocrine Phenotype (NE) - and PSMA+ NE+ baseline (A) and progression (B) samples.</p> ...
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Other · April 12, 2023
<div>AbstractPurpose:<p>In men with metastatic castration-resistant prostate cancer (mCRPC), prostate-specific membrane antigen (PSMA)-targeted radioligand therapy has drastically improved clinical outcomes. A liquid biopsy characterizi ...
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Other · April 12, 2023
<p>CTC biomarker group incidence by PSMA optimal cutoff (AR-v7, chromosomal instability (CIN), and neuroendocrine (NE) at baseline (N=97) and progression (N=57).</p> ...
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Other · April 12, 2023
<p>The prevalence of PSMA and Cell Search CTC positivity (≥5) at baseline and progression, as well as the observed median and optimal cutoffs for PSMA CTC.</p> ...
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Other · April 12, 2023
<p>CTC biomarker group incidence by PSMA optimal cutoff (AR-v7, chromosomal instability (CIN), and neuroendocrine (NE) at baseline (N=97) and progression (N=57).</p> ...
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Other · April 12, 2023
<p>A. Overall Survival outcomes and B. Progression Free Survival outcomes utilizing multivariate analysis for PSMA positive CTCs, adjusting on prior treatment, risk score, CTC enumeration, comparting 3 CTC + groups with the reference group be ...
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Other · April 12, 2023
<p>Waterfall plots depicting A) the proportion of men achieving a 50% or greater PSA decline from baseline, confirmed with a subsequent value (confirmed PSA50) and B) best overall objective radiographic responses among response evaluable subj ...
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Other · April 12, 2023
<p>Comparison of CTC enumeration and PSMA+ CTC expression in 57 baseline and paired progression samples from the PROPHECY study. All the CTC parameters (mean, median, and range) were represent in CTC/mL.</p> ...
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Other · April 12, 2023
<p>The prevalence of PSMA and Cell Search CTC positivity (≥5) at baseline and progression, as well as the observed median and optimal cutoffs for PSMA CTC.</p> ...
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Other · April 12, 2023
<p>PSMA protein expression distribution from men with mCRPC at a single cell CTC level before (baseline, N= 97) and after (progression, N= 57) abiraterone or enzalutamide therapy.</p> ...
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Other · April 12, 2023
<p>Percent PSMA expression positivity (PSMA+CTC x 100/ Traditional CTC) across PSMA+ Neuroendocrine Phenotype (NE) - and PSMA+ NE+ baseline (A) and progression (B) samples.</p> ...
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Other · April 12, 2023
<p>A. Overall Survival outcomes and B. Progression Free Survival outcomes utilizing multivariate analysis for PSMA positive CTCs, adjusting on prior treatment, risk score, CTC enumeration, comparting 3 CTC + groups with the reference group be ...
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Other · April 4, 2023
<p>CTC biomarker group incidence by PSMA optimal cutoff (AR-v7, chromosomal instability (CIN), and neuroendocrine (NE) at baseline (N=97) and progression (N=57).</p> ...
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Other · April 4, 2023
<p>Kaplan Meier plots depict the association between PSMA+ CTC enumeration and OS and PFS. The associations of PSMA+ CTC enumeration with overall survival (OS) and progression-free survival (PFS) were explored using the proportional hazard mo ...
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Other · April 4, 2023
<p>Comparison of CTC enumeration and PSMA+ CTC expression in 57 baseline and paired progression samples from the PROPHECY study. All the CTC parameters (mean, median, and range) were represent in CTC/mL.</p> ...
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Other · April 4, 2023
<p>PSMA protein expression distribution from men with mCRPC at a single cell CTC level before (baseline, N= 97) and after (progression, N= 57) abiraterone or enzalutamide therapy.</p> ...
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Other · April 4, 2023
<p>Kaplan Meier plots depict the association between PSMA+ CTC enumeration and OS and PFS. The associations of PSMA+ CTC enumeration with overall survival (OS) and progression-free survival (PFS) were explored using the proportional hazard mo ...
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Other · April 4, 2023
<p>A. Overall Survival outcomes and B. Progression Free Survival outcomes utilizing multivariate analysis for PSMA positive CTCs, adjusting on prior treatment, risk score, CTC enumeration, comparting 3 CTC + groups with the reference group be ...
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Other · April 4, 2023
<p>Percent PSMA expression positivity (PSMA+CTC x 100/Traditional CTC) across PSMA+ Neuroendocrine Phenotype (NE) - and PSMA+ NE+ baseline (A) and progression (B) samples.</p> ...
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Other · April 4, 2023
<p>PSMA protein expression distribution from men with mCRPC at a single cell CTC level before (baseline, N= 97) and after (progression, N= 57) abiraterone or enzalutamide therapy.</p> ...
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Other · April 4, 2023
<p>Waterfall plots depicting A) the proportion of men achieving a 50% or greater PSA decline from baseline, confirmed with a subsequent value (confirmed PSA50) and B) best overall objective radiographic responses among response evaluable subj ...
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Other · April 4, 2023
<p>CTC biomarker group incidence by PSMA optimal cutoff (AR-v7, chromosomal instability (CIN), and neuroendocrine (NE) at baseline (N=97) and progression (N=57).</p> ...
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Other · April 4, 2023
<p>Waterfall plots depicting A) the proportion of men achieving a 50% or greater PSA decline from baseline, confirmed with a subsequent value (confirmed PSA50) and B) best overall objective radiographic responses among response evaluable subj ...
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Other · April 4, 2023
<p>The prevalence of PSMA and Cell Search CTC positivity (≥5) at baseline and progression, as well as the observed median and optimal cutoffs for PSMA CTC.</p> ...
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Other · April 4, 2023
<p>Comparison of CTC enumeration and PSMA+ CTC expression in 57 baseline and paired progression samples from the PROPHECY study. All the CTC parameters (mean, median, and range) were represent in CTC/mL.</p> ...
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Other · April 4, 2023
<p>Percent PSMA expression positivity (PSMA+CTC x 100/Traditional CTC) across PSMA+ Neuroendocrine Phenotype (NE) - and PSMA+ NE+ baseline (A) and progression (B) samples.</p> ...
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Other · April 4, 2023
<p>The prevalence of PSMA and Cell Search CTC positivity (≥5) at baseline and progression, as well as the observed median and optimal cutoffs for PSMA CTC.</p> ...
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Other · April 4, 2023
<div>AbstractPurpose:<p>In men with metastatic castration-resistant prostate cancer (mCRPC), prostate-specific membrane antigen (PSMA)-targeted radioligand therapy has drastically improved clinical outcomes. A liquid biopsy characterizi ...
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Other · April 4, 2023
<p>A. Overall Survival outcomes and B. Progression Free Survival outcomes utilizing multivariate analysis for PSMA positive CTCs, adjusting on prior treatment, risk score, CTC enumeration, comparting 3 CTC + groups with the reference group be ...
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Other · April 3, 2023
<div>Abstract<p>Men with circulating tumor cell (CTC) AR-V7–positive metastatic castration-resistant prostate cancer (mCRPC) have worse outcomes when treated with enzalutamide/abiraterone. However, most men lack CTC AR-V7 detection, and ...
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Other · April 3, 2023
<p>Comprehensive copy number alterations analysis in CTC DNA. The heat map represents the copy number alterations of sixty genes in (A) 45 baseline and (B) 28 progression CTCs DNA samples at individual patient-level. Genomic copy gain is pres ...
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Other · April 3, 2023
<p>Visualization of reference vs. alternate alleles in baseline vs. progression CTCs DNA. All the COSMIC validated mutations uniquely detected in baseline and paired progression CTCs DNA was visualized in the IGV genome browser with sequence ...
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Other · April 3, 2023
<p>Top somatic COSMIC variations were compared between 11 baselines and matched post-treatment CTC-DNA of mCRPC patients. Matched WBC DNA has been used as a reference control for somatic mutation. All the somatic mutations detected in CTCs DN ...
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Other · April 3, 2023
<p>Comprehensive copy number alterations analysis in CTC DNA. The heat map represents the copy number alterations of sixty genes in (A) 45 baseline and (B) 28 progression CTCs DNA samples at individual patient-level. Genomic copy gain is pres ...
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Other · April 3, 2023
<p>The table representing the top somatic mutations validated in the COSMIC database were compared between baseline sensitive (N=5) and resistant CTC-DNA (N=5).</p> ...
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Other · April 3, 2023
<p>Copy number alterations validations in independent publically available clinical datasets. (A) and (B) illustrating the top CTCs DNA genomic alterations were independently validated in 1115 patients from 1154 metastatic prostate cancer bio ...
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Other · April 3, 2023
<p>Visualization of reference vs. alternate alleles in baseline vs. progression CTCs DNA. All the COSMIC validated mutations uniquely detected in baseline and paired progression CTCs DNA was visualized in the IGV genome browser with sequence ...
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Other · April 3, 2023
<p>Top pathways enriched at baseline (N=45) and progression (N=28) during ingenuity pathway analysis (IPA, Qiagen). Selection criteria; top genes altered in >=40% of the cases.</p> ...
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Other · April 3, 2023
<p>Comparing copy number alterations in CTCs DNA over time. A heat map shows the copy number alterations of sixty genes in 25 paired baseline and progression CTCs DNA, longitudinally at individual patient-level. Genomic copy gain is presented ...
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Other · April 3, 2023
<p>The table representing the copy number and mutation data together for all 11 baseline and paired progression CTCs DNA samples.</p> ...
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Other · April 3, 2023
<p>Copy number alterations validations in independent publically available clinical datasets. (A) and (B) illustrating the top CTCs DNA genomic alterations were independently validated in 1115 patients from 1154 metastatic prostate cancer bio ...
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Other · April 3, 2023
<p>Comparing copy number alterations in CTCs DNA over time. A heat map shows the copy number alterations of sixty genes in 25 paired baseline and progression CTCs DNA, longitudinally at individual patient-level. Genomic copy gain is presented ...
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Other · April 3, 2023
<p>Visualization of reference vs. alternate alleles in sensitive vs. resistant CTCs DNA. All the COSMIC validated mutations uniquely detected in sensitive and resistant CTCs DNA was visualized in the IGV genome browser with sequence read dept ...
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Other · April 3, 2023
<p>The table representing the top somatic mutations validated in the COSMIC database were compared between baseline sensitive (N=5) and resistant CTC-DNA (N=5).</p> ...
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Other · April 3, 2023
<p>The table representing the copy number and mutation data together for all 11 baseline and paired progression CTCs DNA samples.</p> ...
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Other · April 3, 2023
<p>Visualization of reference vs. alternate alleles in sensitive vs. resistant CTCs DNA. All the COSMIC validated mutations uniquely detected in sensitive and resistant CTCs DNA was visualized in the IGV genome browser with sequence read dept ...
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Other · April 3, 2023
<p>Top somatic COSMIC variations were compared between 11 baselines and matched post-treatment CTC-DNA of mCRPC patients. Matched WBC DNA has been used as a reference control for somatic mutation. All the somatic mutations detected in CTCs DN ...
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Other · April 3, 2023
<p>Genomic-wide CNAs analysis in CTCs in the radium-223 trial. Top genomic gain (A) and loss (B) detected in the PROPHECY trial were independently validated in the radium-223 trial CTCs DNA (N=14 patients) study. Before radium-223 treatment, ...
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Other · April 3, 2023
<p>Top pathways enriched at baseline (N=45) and progression (N=28) during ingenuity pathway analysis (IPA, Qiagen). Selection criteria; top genes altered in >=40% of the cases.</p> ...
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Other · April 3, 2023
<p>Genomic-wide CNAs analysis in CTCs in the radium-223 trial. Top genomic gain (A) and loss (B) detected in the PROPHECY trial were independently validated in the radium-223 trial CTCs DNA (N=14 patients) study. Before radium-223 treatment, ...
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Other · April 3, 2023
<div>Abstract<p>Men with circulating tumor cell (CTC) AR-V7–positive metastatic castration-resistant prostate cancer (mCRPC) have worse outcomes when treated with enzalutamide/abiraterone. However, most men lack CTC AR-V7 detection, and ...
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Other · March 31, 2023
<p>Waterfall plots depicting A) the proportion of men achieving a 50% or greater PSA decline from baseline, confirmed with a subsequent value (confirmed PSA50) and B) best overall objective radiographic responses among response evaluable subj ...
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Other · March 31, 2023
<p>Kaplan Meier plots depict the association between PSMA+ CTC enumeration and OS and PFS. The associations of PSMA+ CTC enumeration with overall survival (OS) and progression-free survival (PFS) were explored using the proportional hazard mo ...
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Other · March 31, 2023
<p>Waterfall plots depicting A) the proportion of men achieving a 50% or greater PSA decline from baseline, confirmed with a subsequent value (confirmed PSA50) and B) best overall objective radiographic responses among response evaluable subj ...
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Other · March 31, 2023
<p>Kaplan Meier plots depict the association between PSMA+ CTC enumeration and OS and PFS. The associations of PSMA+ CTC enumeration with overall survival (OS) and progression-free survival (PFS) were explored using the proportional hazard mo ...
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Other · March 31, 2023
<p>Percent PSMA expression positivity (PSMA+CTC x 100/Traditional CTC) across PSMA+ Neuroendocrine Phenotype (NE) - and PSMA+ NE+ baseline (A) and progression (B) samples.</p> ...
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Other · March 31, 2023
<div>AbstractPurpose:<p>While the detection of AR-V7 in circulating tumor cells (CTC) is associated with resistance to abiraterone or enzalutamide in men with metastatic castration-resistant prostate cancer (mCRPC), it only accounts for ...
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Other · March 31, 2023
<p>Percent PSMA expression positivity (PSMA+CTC x 100/Traditional CTC) across PSMA+ Neuroendocrine Phenotype (NE) - and PSMA+ NE+ baseline (A) and progression (B) samples.</p> ...
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Other · March 31, 2023
<p>PSMA protein expression distribution from men with mCRPC at a single cell CTC level before (baseline, N= 97) and after (progression, N= 57) abiraterone or enzalutamide therapy.</p> ...
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Other · March 31, 2023
<p>PSMA protein expression distribution from men with mCRPC at a single cell CTC level before (baseline, N= 97) and after (progression, N= 57) abiraterone or enzalutamide therapy.</p> ...
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Other · March 31, 2023
<div>AbstractPurpose:<p>In men with metastatic castration-resistant prostate cancer (mCRPC), prostate-specific membrane antigen (PSMA)-targeted radioligand therapy has drastically improved clinical outcomes. A liquid biopsy characterizi ...
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Other · March 31, 2023
<div>AbstractPurpose:<p>While the detection of AR-V7 in circulating tumor cells (CTC) is associated with resistance to abiraterone or enzalutamide in men with metastatic castration-resistant prostate cancer (mCRPC), it only accounts for ...
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Other · March 31, 2023
<p>CTC biomarker group incidence by PSMA optimal cutoff (AR-v7, chromosomal instability (CIN), and neuroendocrine (NE) at baseline (N=97) and progression (N=57).</p> ...
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Other · March 31, 2023
<p>The prevalence of PSMA and Cell Search CTC positivity (≥5) at baseline and progression, as well as the observed median and optimal cutoffs for PSMA CTC.</p> ...
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Other · March 31, 2023
<p>A. Overall Survival outcomes and B. Progression Free Survival outcomes utilizing multivariate analysis for PSMA positive CTCs, adjusting on prior treatment, risk score, CTC enumeration, comparting 3 CTC + groups with the reference group be ...
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Other · March 31, 2023
<p>Comparison of CTC enumeration and PSMA+ CTC expression in 57 baseline and paired progression samples from the PROPHECY study. All the CTC parameters (mean, median, and range) were represent in CTC/mL.</p> ...
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Other · March 31, 2023
<p>CTC biomarker group incidence by PSMA optimal cutoff (AR-v7, chromosomal instability (CIN), and neuroendocrine (NE) at baseline (N=97) and progression (N=57).</p> ...
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Other · March 31, 2023
<p>The prevalence of PSMA and Cell Search CTC positivity (≥5) at baseline and progression, as well as the observed median and optimal cutoffs for PSMA CTC.</p> ...
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Other · March 31, 2023
<p>Comparison of CTC enumeration and PSMA+ CTC expression in 57 baseline and paired progression samples from the PROPHECY study. All the CTC parameters (mean, median, and range) were represent in CTC/mL.</p> ...
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Other · March 31, 2023
<p>A. Overall Survival outcomes and B. Progression Free Survival outcomes utilizing multivariate analysis for PSMA positive CTCs, adjusting on prior treatment, risk score, CTC enumeration, comparting 3 CTC + groups with the reference group be ...
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Other · March 31, 2023
<p>Supplementary Figure 4A. Kaplan-Meier PFS curves by treatment and dichotomized angiokines groups for following angiokines: TGFb-R3, HGF, TSP-2, OPN, IL-6, SDF-1, Ang-2, ICAM-1, TGF-b2, TIMP-1, BMP-9, PDGF-BB, VCAM-1, PDGF-AA, VEGF-D, TGF-b ...
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Other · March 31, 2023
<p>Supplementary Figure 4A. Kaplan-Meier PFS curves by treatment and dichotomized angiokines groups for following angiokines: TGFb-R3, HGF, TSP-2, OPN, IL-6, SDF-1, Ang-2, ICAM-1, TGF-b2, TIMP-1, BMP-9, PDGF-BB, VCAM-1, PDGF-AA, VEGF-D, TGF-b ...
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Other · March 31, 2023
<p>Supplementary Figure 4B Kaplan-Meier OS curves by treatment and dichotomized angiokines groups for following angiokines: TGFb-R3, HGF, TSP-2, OPN, IL-6, SDF-1, Ang-2, ICAM-1, TGF-b2, TIMP-1, BMP-9, PDGF-BB, VCAM-1, PDGF-AA, VEGF-D, TGF-b1, ...
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Other · March 31, 2023
<p>Supplementary Figure 4B Kaplan-Meier OS curves by treatment and dichotomized angiokines groups for following angiokines: TGFb-R3, HGF, TSP-2, OPN, IL-6, SDF-1, Ang-2, ICAM-1, TGF-b2, TIMP-1, BMP-9, PDGF-BB, VCAM-1, PDGF-AA, VEGF-D, TGF-b1, ...
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Other · March 31, 2023
<div>AbstractPurpose:<p>Biomarkers are needed in patients with non–clear cell renal cell carcinomas (NC-RCC) to inform treatment selection but also to identify novel therapeutic targets. We thus sought to profile circulating angiokines ...
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Other · March 31, 2023
<div>AbstractPurpose:<p>Biomarkers are needed in patients with non–clear cell renal cell carcinomas (NC-RCC) to inform treatment selection but also to identify novel therapeutic targets. We thus sought to profile circulating angiokines ...
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Journal ArticleProstate Cancer Prostatic Dis · March 2023
BACKGROUND: Evolving data suggest that men with high-risk localized prostate cancer may benefit from more potent androgen receptor inhibition in the context of curative intent radiotherapy. Recently updated American Society for Clinical Oncology (ASCO) evi ...
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Journal ArticleEur Urol · March 2023
BACKGROUND: Innovations in imaging and molecular characterisation and the evolution of new therapies have improved outcomes in advanced prostate cancer. Nonetheless, we continue to lack high-level evidence on a variety of clinical topics that greatly impac ...
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Journal ArticleNPJ Precis Oncol · February 24, 2023
An understanding of the molecular features associated with prostate cancer progression (PCa) and resistance to hormonal therapy is crucial for the identification of new targets that can be utilized to treat advanced disease and prolong patient survival. Th ...
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Journal ArticleOncologist · February 8, 2023
Prostate cancer is the most common cancer among men and the second leading cause of cancer-related death. For patients who develop metastatic disease, tissue-based and circulating-tumor-based molecular and genomic biomarkers have emerged as a means of impr ...
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Journal ArticleBMJ Case Rep · January 30, 2023
A man in his 50s with metastatic hormone-sensitive prostate cancer, receiving androgen deprivation therapy and abiraterone acetate/prednisone, presented with an uncontrollable 'Irish brogue' accent despite no Irish background, consistent with foreign accen ...
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Journal ArticleFuture Oncol · January 27, 2023
Current treatment for patients with metastatic hormone-sensitive prostate cancer (mHSPC) delays disease progression and improves survival, but resistance is inevitable. Additional therapies that prolong survival are needed. Androgen deprivation therapy (AD ...
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Journal ArticleOncologist · January 18, 2023
OBJECTIVE: The majority of tumor sequencing currently performed on cancer patients does not include a matched normal control, and in cases where germline testing is performed, it is usually run independently of tumor testing. The rates of concordance betwe ...
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Journal ArticleBMJ Case Rep · January 18, 2023
We present the case of a patient with germline CHEK2-mutated metastatic castration-resistant prostate cancer (mCRPC) who responded to bipolar androgen therapy (BAT) combined with pembrolizumab after progressing through multiple lines of therapy. The patien ...
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Journal ArticleComput Struct Biotechnol J · 2023
Advanced prostate cancer patients initially respond to hormone therapy, be it in the form of androgen deprivation therapy or second-generation hormone therapies, such as abiraterone acetate or enzalutamide. However, most men with prostate cancer eventually ...
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Journal ArticleFront Mol Biosci · 2023
Despite substantial improvements in the treatment landscape of prostate cancer, the evolution of hormone therapy-resistant and metastatic prostate cancer remains a major cause of cancer-related death globally. The mainstay of treatment for advanced prostat ...
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Journal ArticleUrol Clin North Am · November 2022
Despite newer therapies for castrate-resistant prostate cancer (CRPC), many patients do not experience a treatment response, and most eventually experience secondary resistance. Various androgen-receptor-related and alternative mechanisms of resistance in ...
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Journal ArticleJ Clin Invest · November 1, 2022
BackgroundNeuroendocrine prostate cancer (NEPC) is an aggressive subtype, the presence of which changes the prognosis and management of metastatic prostate cancer.MethodsWe performed analytical validation of a Circulating Tumor Cell (CTC) multiplex RNA qPC ...
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Journal ArticleBMJ Case Rep · October 5, 2022
Despite advances and introduction of new therapies in the last decade, metastatic castration-resistant prostate cancer (mCRPC) has a poor prognosis. The development of androgen axis-targeted therapies such as abiraterone acetate, enzalutamide and darolutam ...
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Journal ArticleBiosens Bioelectron · October 1, 2022
Despite its high potential, PD-L1 expressed by tumors has not been successfully utilized as a biomarker for estimating treatment responses to immunotherapy. Circulating tumor cells (CTCs) and tumor-derived exosomes that express PD-L1 can potentially be use ...
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Journal ArticleClin Cancer Res · September 15, 2022
PURPOSE: A phase Ib study (1604) was conducted to evaluate the safety and efficacy of GS-5829, an oral bromodomain and extraterminal inhibitor, alone and in combination with enzalutamide in metastatic castration-resistant prostate cancer (mCRPC). A phase I ...
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ConferenceProstate Cancer Prostatic Dis · September 2022
BACKGROUND: Prostate cancer is a clinically and molecularly heterogeneous disease, with highest incidence and mortality among men of African ancestry. To date, prostate cancer patient-derived xenograft (PCPDX) models to study this disease have been difficu ...
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Journal ArticleProstate Cancer Prostatic Dis · September 2022
PURPOSE: Prostate cancer is a heterogeneous disease with variable clinical outcomes. Despite numerous recent approvals of novel therapies, castration-resistant prostate cancer remains lethal. A "real-world" clinical-genomic database is urgently needed to e ...
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Journal ArticleProstate · September 2022
BACKGROUND: Enzalutamide plus androgen deprivation therapy (ADT) improved radiographic progression-free survival versus ADT alone in patients with metastatic hormone-sensitive prostate cancer (mHSPC) in ARCHES (NCT02677896). While health-related quality of ...
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Journal ArticleNEJM Evid · September 2022
BACKGROUND: Preclinical studies and results of a phase 2 trial of abiraterone and olaparib suggest a combined antitumor effect when the poly(adenosine diphosphate[ADP]-ribose) polymerase inhibitor olaparib is combined with next-generation hormonal agent ab ...
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Journal ArticleCancers · August 2022
A lower baseline neutrophil-to-eosinophil ratio (NER) has been associated with improved responses to immune checkpoint inhibitors (ICI)-treated metastatic renal cell carcinoma (mRCC). This study investigated the decrease in NER at week 6 after ipilimumab/n ...
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Journal ArticleJ Immunother Cancer · August 2022
BACKGROUND: CheckMate 9KD (NCT03338790) is a non-randomized, multicohort, phase 2 trial of nivolumab plus other anticancer treatments for metastatic castration-resistant prostate cancer (mCRPC). We report results from cohorts A1 and A2 of CheckMate 9KD, sp ...
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Journal ArticleEur Urol · July 2022
Patients with advanced prostate cancer (APC) may be at greater risk for severe illness, hospitalisation, or death from coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) due to male gender, older age, potential immunosuppressive treatments, or comorbidities. Thus, the op ...
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Journal ArticleEur Urol · July 2022
BACKGROUND: Innovations in treatments, imaging, and molecular characterisation in advanced prostate cancer have improved outcomes, but various areas of management still lack high-level evidence to inform clinical practice. The 2021 Advanced Prostate Cancer ...
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Journal ArticleEur J Cancer · July 2022
BACKGROUND: The associations of metformin and statins with overall survival (OS) and prostate specific antigen response rate (PSA-RR) in trials in metastatic castration-resistant prostate cancer remain unclear. OBJECTIVE: To determine whether metformin or ...
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Journal ArticleEur J Cancer · July 2022
BACKGROUND: Statins and metformin are commonly prescribed for patients, including those with prostate cancer. Preclinical and epidemiologic studies of each agent have suggested anti-cancer properties. METHODS: Patient data from three randomised, double-bli ...
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Journal ArticleNat Commun · June 10, 2022
We conducted a phase IIa, multi-centre, open label, single arm study (RADICAL; NCT01791985) of AZD4547 (a potent and selective inhibitor of Fibroblast Growth Factor Receptor (FGFR)-1, 2 and 3 receptor tyrosine kinases) administered with anastrozole or letr ...
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Journal ArticleJ Clin Oncol · May 20, 2022
Clinical trials frequently include multiple end points that mature at different times. The initial report, typically based on the primary end point, may be published when key planned co-primary or secondary analyses are not yet available. Clinical Trial Up ...
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Journal ArticleProstate · May 2022
BACKGROUND: In preclinical models of prostate cancer (PC), disulfiram (DSF) reduced tumor growth only when co-administered with copper (Cu), and Cu uptake in tumors is partially regulated by androgen-receptor signaling. However, prior trials of DSF in PC u ...
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Journal ArticleProstate Cancer Prostatic Dis · April 2022
BACKGROUND: Men with progressive neuroendocrine or aggressive-variant metastatic prostate cancer (NEPC/AVPC) have a poor prognosis and limited treatment options, and immunotherapy has not been tested in such patients. METHODS: We conducted an open label si ...
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Journal ArticleClin Adv Hematol Oncol · April 2022
Although prostate cancer is the type of cancer most commonly survived by men in the United States, it remains the second most common cause of death from cancer, largely owing to metastatic disease. Patients with metastatic castration-resistant prostate can ...
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Journal ArticleClin Cancer Res · March 1, 2022
PURPOSE: The clinical impact of concurrent corticosteroid use (CCU) on enzalutamide-treated patients with metastatic castration-resistant prostate cancer (mCRPC) is unknown. We investigated the association of CCU with overall survival (OS), radiographic pr ...
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Journal ArticleProstate Cancer Prostatic Dis · March 2022
BACKGROUND: Androgen deprivation therapy (ADT) and androgen receptor signaling inhibitors (ARSI) are associated with deleterious physical effects, which exercise may mitigate; however, exercise has never been studied in patients initiating treatment with A ...
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ConferenceJournal of Clinical Oncology · February 20, 2022
223 Background: The current standard of care for men with intermediate- and high-risk localized prostate cancer treated with radiotherapy (RT) is the addition of androgen deprivation therapy (ADT). Presently, there are no validat ...
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ConferenceJournal of Clinical Oncology · February 20, 2022
115 Background: In ARCHES (NCT02677896), ENZA + ADT improved radiographic progression-free survival, OS, and other key secondary endpoints vs placebo (PBO) + ADT for pts with mHSPC (also known as metastatic castration-sensitive p ...
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ConferenceJournal of Clinical Oncology · February 20, 2022
138 Background: AR alterations such as ligand binding domain mutations and amplification evolve under the selective pressure of testosterone suppression and AR targeted agents (ARTA) such as abiraterone or enzalutamide, but their ...
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ConferenceJournal of Clinical Oncology · February 20, 2022
85 Background: In the VISION trial, targeted radioligand therapy with 177Lu-PSMA-617 significantly prolonged radiographic progression free survival (rPFS) and overall survival when added to standard of care ( ...
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ConferenceJournal of Clinical Oncology · February 20, 2022
129 Background: Pathogenic HRR gene mutations may confer sensitivity to PARP inhibitors (PARPi) and/or platinum chemotherapy (chemo). While pts harboring mutations in BRCA1/2 appear to benefit from these DNA damaging therapeutics ...
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ConferenceJournal of Clinical Oncology · February 20, 2022
11 Background: Preclinical studies have shown combined anti-tumor effect through interactions between poly(adenosine diphosphate–ribose) polymerase and androgen receptor signaling pathways. A Phase II trial (NCT01972217) in pts w ...
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ConferenceJournal of Clinical Oncology · February 20, 2022
139 Background: Androgen receptor signaling inhibitors (ARSi) are a mainstay for patients with metastatic castration-resistant prostate cancer (mCRPC). However, patient response is heterogeneous and the molecular underpinnings of ...
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ConferenceJournal of Clinical Oncology · February 20, 2022
TPS191 Background: Recent updates to genetic testing recommendations and approved treatment options for prostate cancer (PCa) patients (pts) have clarified the need for comprehensive genetic registries. Germline DNA damage repair ...
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Journal ArticleProstate Cancer Prostatic Dis · February 2022
BACKGROUND: While enzalutamide plus androgen deprivation therapy (ADT) significantly reduces the risk of radiographic progression-free survival (rPFS) and improves overall survival in metastatic hormone-sensitive prostate cancer (mHSPC), the efficacy in cl ...
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Journal ArticleProstate Cancer Prostatic Dis · February 2022
BACKGROUND: Fatigue is a multifactorial symptom commonly reported by patients with prostate cancer as a result of disease and treatment. This study assesses the impact enzalutamide has on patient-reported fatigue ("fatigue") by using patient-reported outco ...
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Journal ArticleProstate Cancer Prostatic Dis · February 2022
BACKGROUND: In the phase 2, randomized, double-blind STRIVE trial, enzalutamide significantly reduced the risk of prostate cancer progression or death versus bicalutamide in patients with metastatic castration-resistant prostate cancer (mCRPC) and nonmetas ...
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Journal ArticleEur J Cancer · January 2022
BACKGROUND: Docetaxel has immunostimulatory effects that may promote an immunoresponsive prostate tumour microenvironment, providing a rationale for combination with nivolumab (programmed death-1 inhibitor) for metastatic castration-resistant prostate canc ...
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Journal ArticleStem cell investigation · January 2022
BackgroundThere is an unmet need for developing faithful animal models for preclinical evaluation of immunotherapy. The current approach to generate preclinical models for immunotherapy evaluation has been to transplant CD34+ cells from ...
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Journal ArticleEur Urol Oncol · December 2021
BACKGROUND: Salvage external beam radiotherapy (RT) with androgen deprivation therapy (ADT) improves survival over RT in men with prostate cancer (PC) and rising prostate-specific antigen (PSA) levels after radical prostatectomy (RP). OBJECTIVE: To investi ...
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Journal ArticleEur Urol Open Sci · December 2021
BACKGROUND: Phase 2 trial endpoints that can be utilized in high-risk biochemical recurrence (BCR) after prostatectomy as a way of more rapidly identifying treatments for phase 3 trials are urgently needed. The efficacy of abiraterone acetate plus predniso ...
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Journal ArticleCancers (Basel) · November 23, 2021
This review examines the impact of treatment with enzalutamide on health-related quality of life (HRQoL) in prostate cancer patients across the disease continuum based on pivotal clinical trials. We assessed the effect of enzalutamide on pain, symptom burd ...
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Journal ArticleBiomarker research · November 2021
BackgroundThe identification of biomarkers to select patients with metastatic renal cell carcinoma (mRCC) most likely to respond to combination immunotherapy (IO) is needed. We sought to investigate an association of the baseline neutrophil-to-eos ...
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Journal ArticleJAMA Netw Open · November 1, 2021
IMPORTANCE: Androgen deprivation therapy (ADT) has been theorized to decrease the severity of SARS-CoV-2 infection in patients with prostate cancer owing to a potential decrease in the tissue-based expression of the SARS-CoV-2 coreceptor transmembrane prot ...
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ConferenceInternational journal of radiation oncology, biology, physics · November 2021
Purpose/objective(s)Androgen deprivation therapy (ADT) and radiotherapy (RT) are synergistic, and the combination results in improved survival outcomes for aggressive prostate cancers. However, long-term ADT carries substantial burden of toxicity ...
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Journal ArticleKidney Cancer J · October 2021
Biomarkers are needed in patients with non-clear cell renal cell carcinomas (NC-RCC), particularly papillary renal cell carcinoma, in order to inform on initial treatment selection and identify potentially novel targets for therapy. We enrolled 108 patient ...
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Journal ArticleJ Clin Oncol · September 10, 2021
PURPOSE: Nearly all men with prostate cancer treated with androgen receptor (AR) signaling inhibitors (ARSIs) develop resistance via diverse mechanisms including constitutive activation of the AR pathway, driven by AR genomic structural alterations, expres ...
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Journal ArticleProstate Cancer Prostatic Dis · September 2021
PURPOSE: Molecular profiling of cancer is increasingly common as part of routine care in oncology, and germline and somatic profiling may provide insights and actionable targets for men with metastatic prostate cancer. However, all reported cases are of de ...
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Journal ArticleClin Cancer Res · September 1, 2021
PURPOSE: Men with metastatic castration-resistant prostate cancer (mCRPC) have limited treatment options after progressing on hormonal therapy and chemotherapy. Here, we evaluate the safety and efficacy of atezolizumab (anti-PD-L1) + radium-223 dichloride ...
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Journal ArticleCancer · August 2021
BackgroundRetrospective analyses of randomized trials suggest that Black men with metastatic castration-resistant prostate cancer (mCRPC) have longer survival than White men. The authors conducted a prospective study of abiraterone acetate plus pr ...
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Journal ArticleEur Urol Oncol · August 2021
BACKGROUND: No standard of care exists for patients with high-risk biochemical recurrence (BCR) after prostatectomy. OBJECTIVE: To evaluate whether addition of docetaxel to androgen deprivation therapy (ADT) improved progression-free survival (PFS) in high ...
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Journal ArticleClin Cancer Res · July 15, 2021
PURPOSE: While the detection of AR-V7 in circulating tumor cells (CTC) is associated with resistance to abiraterone or enzalutamide in men with metastatic castration-resistant prostate cancer (mCRPC), it only accounts for a minority of this resistance. Neu ...
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Journal ArticleInt J Urol · July 2021
OBJECTIVE: To evaluate the efficacy and safety of enzalutamide plus androgen deprivation therapy in Japanese men with metastatic hormone-sensitive prostate cancer. METHODS: A post-hoc analysis of the Japanese subgroup in the phase III, randomized, multinat ...
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Journal ArticleClin Cancer Res · June 15, 2021
PURPOSE: Biomarkers are needed in patients with non-clear cell renal cell carcinomas (NC-RCC) to inform treatment selection but also to identify novel therapeutic targets. We thus sought to profile circulating angiokines in the context of a randomized trea ...
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ConferenceMol Cancer Res · June 2021
Men with circulating tumor cell (CTC) AR-V7-positive metastatic castration-resistant prostate cancer (mCRPC) have worse outcomes when treated with enzalutamide/abiraterone. However, most men lack CTC AR-V7 detection, and additional predictive biomarkers ar ...
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Journal ArticleClin Cancer Res · June 1, 2021
Liquid biopsy is a promising clinical tool that can provide critical information for prognostication and which may inform treatment decisions in men with metastatic castration-resistant prostate cancer. Here we discuss the Foundation Medicine plasma cell-f ...
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Journal ArticleEur J Cancer · June 2021
PURPOSE: To evaluate the prognostic significance of circulating tumour cell (CTC) number determined on the Epic Sciences platform in men with metastatic castration-resistant prostate cancer (mCRPC) treated with an androgen receptor signalling inhibitor (AR ...
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ConferenceJournal of Clinical Oncology · May 20, 2021
TPS5085 Background: Prostate cancer is the second leading cause of cancer-related death among men in the U.S., largely due to metastatic disease that progresses despite hormonal therapy (tx). The role for androgen receptor (AR) s ...
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ConferenceJournal of Clinical Oncology · May 20, 2021
4563 Background: Previous reports have shown that the baseline neutrophil-to-lymphocyte ratio (NLR) is associated with prognosis in patients with mRCC. However, NLR has not been shown to reliably predict for response to IO. Retro ...
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ConferenceJournal of Clinical Oncology · May 20, 2021
5071 Background: In ARCHES (NCT02677896), ENZA + ADT reduced the risk of radiographic progression and improved secondary clinical outcomes in patients with metastatic hormone-sensitive prostate cancer (mHSPC) with variable patter ...
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ConferenceJ Urol · May 2021
PURPOSE: Enzalutamide plus androgen deprivation therapy has previously been shown to improve clinical outcomes in men with metastatic hormone-sensitive prostate cancer (ARCHES; NCT02677896). Here, we assessed if and how the pattern of metastatic spread imp ...
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Journal ArticleInt J Radiat Oncol Biol Phys · April 1, 2021
PURPOSE: Long-term androgen-deprivation therapy (ADT) is the standard of care in combination with radiation therapy (RT) in high-risk prostate cancer (PC), despite substantial toxicity from the resulting hypogonadism. We hypothesized that a combination of ...
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Journal ArticleCancer Med · April 2021
INTRODUCTION: Two separate antiangiogenic tyrosine kinase inhibitors (TKIs) and immunotherapy (IO) combinations are FDA-approved as front-line treatment for metastatic renal cell carcinoma (mRCC). Little is known about off-protocol and post-front-line expe ...
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Journal ArticleClin Cancer Res · March 15, 2021
PURPOSE: To investigate whether radium-223 increases peripheral immune responses to sipuleucel-T in men with bone-predominant, minimally symptomatic metastatic castration-resistant prostate cancer (mCRPC). PATIENTS AND METHODS: A total of 32 patients were ...
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Journal ArticleJ Immunother Cancer · March 2021
BACKGROUND: Low-density lipoprotein receptor-related protein 1b (encoded by LRP1B) is a putative tumor suppressor, and preliminary evidence suggests LRP1B-mutated cancers may have improved outcomes with immune checkpoint inhibitors (ICI). METHODS: We condu ...
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ConferenceJournal of Clinical Oncology · February 20, 2021
90 Background: ADT with salvage RT improves survival for men with PSA recurrence after RP. Current standard duration of ADT for high risk PSA recurrence is up to 2 years with RT; therefore shortening but intensifying systemic the ...
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ConferenceJournal of Clinical Oncology · February 20, 2021
154 Background: CALGB 90401 was a phase III trial of 1050 pts with mCRPC comparing DP+B versus DP alone. While this trial did not show an improvement in OS in the overall population, there were improved PSA response, objective re ...
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ConferenceJournal of Clinical Oncology · February 20, 2021
300 Background: Sunitinib (SUN) is a vascular endothelial growth factor (VEGF) tyrosine kinase inhibitor (TKI) approved for treatment of advanced RCC and high risk RCC after nephrectomy. Evidence suggests that a 2 week (wk) on, 1 ...
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ConferenceJournal of Clinical Oncology · February 20, 2021
157 Background: We evaluated the prognostic significance of circulating tumor cell (CTC) number as determined on the Epic Sciences platform in men with metastatic castration resistant prostate cancer (mCRPC) treated with an andro ...
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ConferenceJournal of Clinical Oncology · February 20, 2021
89 Background: Men with metastatic neuroendocrine/small cell and aggressive variant prostate cancer (NEPC/AVPC) have poor outcomes despite platinum and taxane chemotherapy. These tumors share common features with small cell lung ...
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ConferenceJournal of Clinical Oncology · February 20, 2021
39 Background: The presence of progressing cancer, male sex and advanced age have been shown to increase the severity of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19). Given that the androgen regulated gene TMPRSS2 has been implicated in S ...
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ConferenceJournal of Clinical Oncology · February 20, 2021
12 Background: CheckMate 9KD (NCT03338790) is a phase 2 trial of nivolumab (NIVO; anti-PD-1) in combination with rucaparib, docetaxel (DOCE), or enzalutamide for patients with metastatic castration-resistant prostate cancer (mCRP ...
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ConferenceJournal of Clinical Oncology · February 20, 2021
TPS183 Background: Six transmembrane epithelial antigen of the prostate 1 (STEAP1) is a cell surface antigen that is highly expressed in prostate cancer. AMG 509 is a potent bispecific XmAb 2+1 immune therapy designed to direct T ...
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Journal ArticleBiomark Res · February 18, 2021
BACKGROUND: A subset of men with metastatic prostate cancer (mPC) responds to immune checkpoint inhibitors, and there is an unmet need to predict those most likely to benefit. We characterized circulating tumor cells (CTCs) for expression of immune checkpo ...
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Journal ArticleJ Natl Compr Canc Netw · February 2, 2021
The NCCN Guidelines for Prostate Cancer address staging and risk assessment after a prostate cancer diagnosis and include management options for localized, regional, and metastatic disease. Recommendations for disease monitoring and treatment of recurrent ...
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ConferenceJ Gen Intern Med · January 2021
BACKGROUND: Implementation methods of risk-stratified cancer screening guidance throughout a health care system remains understudied. OBJECTIVE: Conduct a preliminary analysis of the implementation of a risk-stratified prostate cancer screening algorithm i ...
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Journal ArticleComput Struct Biotechnol J · 2021
Epithelial-mesenchymal plasticity plays a critical role in many solid tumor types as a mediator of metastatic dissemination and treatment resistance. In addition, there is also a growing appreciation that the epithelial/mesenchymal status of a tumor plays ...
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Journal ArticleClin Genitourin Cancer · December 2020
BACKGROUND: Immune checkpoint inhibitors are now standard of care for many patients with metastatic renal cell carcinoma (mRCC) and metastatic urothelial carcinoma (mUC). Given real-world limitations in programmed death-ligand 1 (PD-L1) testing, concordanc ...
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Journal ArticleJ Hematol Oncol · October 28, 2020
Metastatic castration-resistant prostate cancer (mCRPC) remains a terminal diagnosis with an aggressive disease course despite currently approved therapeutics. The recent successful development of poly ADP-ribose polymerase (PARP) inhibitors for patients w ...
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Journal ArticleEur Urol · October 2020
BACKGROUND: In the ARCHES study in metastatic hormone-sensitive prostate cancer (mHSPC), enzalutamide plus androgen deprivation therapy (ADT) improved radiographic progression-free survival (rPFS) versus ADT alone. OBJECTIVE: To evaluate patient-reported o ...
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Journal ArticleProstate Cancer Prostatic Dis · September 2020
BACKGROUND: Approximately 10-30% of men with mCRPC will test positive for AR-V7 using one of two analytically and clinically validated circulating tumor cell (CTC)-based assays. These men have poor outcomes with approved AR-targeting therapies but may reta ...
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Journal ArticleProstate Cancer Prostatic Dis · September 2020
BACKGROUND: The androgen receptor (AR) is a key prostate cancer drug target. Suppression of AR signaling mediated by the full-length AR (AR-FL) is the therapeutic goal of all existing AR-directed therapies. AR-targeting agents impart therapeutic benefit, b ...
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Journal ArticleProstate Cancer Prostatic Dis · September 2020
PURPOSE: African Americans experience greater prostate cancer risk and mortality than do Caucasians. An analysis of pooled phase III data suggested differences in overall survival (OS) between African American and Caucasian men receiving sipuleucel-T. We e ...
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Journal ArticleEuropean urology · September 2020
BackgroundIn the PREVAIL study, enzalutamide significantly improved clinical outcomes versus placebo in patients with chemotherapy-naïve metastatic castration-resistant prostate cancer (mCRPC).ObjectiveTo evaluate long-term benefits and r ...
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Journal ArticleBiosens Bioelectron · August 15, 2020
Sensitive detection of circulating tumor cells (CTCs) from patients' peripheral blood facilitates on-demand monitoring of tumor progression. However, clinically significant capture of renal cell carcinoma CTCs (RCC-CTCs) remains elusive due to their hetero ...
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Journal ArticleClin Cancer Res · June 15, 2020
PURPOSE: Both weight loss and low-carbohydrate diets (LCD) without weight loss prolong survival in prostate cancer models. Few human trials have tested weight loss or LCD on prostate cancer. EXPERIMENTAL DESIGN: We conducted a multi-site randomized 6-month ...
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ConferenceCancer Epidemiology, Biomarkers & Prevention · June 1, 2020
AbstractBackground: Prostate cancer (PCa) is a clinically and molecularly heterogeneous disease, with differences in incidence and mortality among and between racial groups, which grade and stage only partia ...
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ConferenceCancer Epidemiology, Biomarkers & Prevention · June 1, 2020
AbstractBACKGROUND: Prostate cancer risk and mortality are higher in AAs versus CAUs. Post-hoc analyses of pooled Phase 3 data (n = 737) suggested substantial OS benefit for AA men receiving sipuleucel-T (n= ...
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Journal ArticleJ Clin Oncol · May 1, 2020
PURPOSE: This guideline provides recommendations for available tissue-based prostate cancer biomarkers geared toward patient selection for active surveillance, identification of clinically significant disease, choice of postprostatectomy adjuvant versus sa ...
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Journal ArticleGenes Chromosomes Cancer · April 2020
Circulating tumor cell (CTC) and cell-free (cf) DNA-based genomic alterations are increasingly being used for clinical decision-making in oncology. However, the concordance and discordance between paired CTC and cfDNA genomic profiles remain largely unknow ...
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Journal ArticleUrol Oncol · March 2020
BACKGROUND: Activation of the PI3K-Akt-mTOR signaling pathway is common in advanced castration resistant prostate cancer (CRPC), typically through PTEN loss. Preclinical studies suggest that Akt-driven CaP cells are genetically susceptible to mammalian tar ...
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Journal ArticleJAMA Oncol · February 1, 2020
IMPORTANCE: For men with metastatic castration-resistant prostate cancer (mCRPC) whose condition is responding to enzalutamide, new unconfirmed bone lesions detected at posttreatment scinitigraphy may reflect an osteoblastic reaction that represents healin ...
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Journal ArticleCancer J · 2020
PURPOSE: In recent years, the treatment options for metastatic hormone-sensitive prostate cancer (mHSPC) have expanded significantly. In addition to androgen deprivation therapy, the systemic treatments now include docetaxel, abiraterone, enzalutamide, and ...
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ConferenceJCO Precis Oncol · 2020
PURPOSE: Translational studies have shown that CDK12 mutations may delineate an immunoresponsive subgroup of prostate cancer, characterized by high neo-antigen burden. Given that these mutations may define a clinically distinct subgroup, we sought to descr ...
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Journal ArticleJCO Precis Oncol · 2020
PURPOSE: Androgen receptor splice variant 7 (AR-V7) detection in circulating tumor cells (CTCs) is associated with a low probability of response and short progression-free (PFS) and overall survival (OS) in men with metastatic castration-resistant prostate ...
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Chapter · January 1, 2020
In the United States alone prostate cancer is responsible for nearly 70 days each day. The vast majority of these deaths are due to metastatic spread of therapy-resistant disease. Metastasis and therapy resistance are mediated by phenotypic plasticity in w ...
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Journal ArticleSci Transl Med · December 4, 2019
Hormonal therapy targeting androgen receptor (AR) is initially effective to treat prostate cancer (PCa), but it eventually fails. It has been hypothesized that cellular heterogeneity of PCa, consisting of AR+ luminal tumor cells and AR- neuroendocrine (NE) ...
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Journal ArticleProstate Cancer Prostatic Dis · December 2019
BACKGROUND: Sipuleucel-T is an autologous cellular immunotherapy that is FDA approved for the treatment of asymptomatic or minimally symptomatic metastatic castrate-resistant prostate cancer (mCRPC). The IMPACT registry trial demonstrated a 4.1 month survi ...
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Journal ArticleProstate Cancer Prostatic Dis · December 2019
BACKGROUND: Up to 90% of men with metastatic castration-resistant prostate cancer (mCRPC) will have a distribution of disease that includes bone metastases demonstrated on a Technetium-99m (99mTc-MDP) bone scan. The Prostate Cancer Working Group 2 and 3 Co ...
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Journal ArticleCancer · December 1, 2019
BACKGROUND: The large registry, PROVENGE Registry for the Observation, Collection, and Evaluation of Experience Data (PROCEED)(NCT01306890), evaluated sipuleucel-T immunotherapy for asymptomatic/minimally symptomatic metastatic castration-resistant prostat ...
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Journal ArticleJ Clin Oncol · November 10, 2019
PURPOSE: Enzalutamide, a potent androgen-receptor inhibitor, has demonstrated significant benefits in metastatic and nonmetastatic castration-resistant prostate cancer. We evaluated the efficacy and safety of enzalutamide in metastatic hormone-sensitive pr ...
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Journal ArticleNucleic Acids Res · November 4, 2019
Enzalutamide, a second-generation androgen receptor (AR) antagonist, has demonstrated clinical benefit in men with prostate cancer. However, it only provides a temporary response and modest increase in survival, indicating a rapid evolution of resistance. ...
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Journal ArticleEur Urol Oncol · November 2019
BACKGROUND: In the PREVAIL study, enzalutamide provided significant improvements versus placebo in clinical outcomes in chemotherapy-naïve men with metastatic castration-resistant prostate cancer (mCRPC). The association of post-treatment prostate-specific ...
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Journal ArticleUrologic oncology · November 2019
PurposeTargeted inhibitors and immunotherapy have entered the treatment landscape of metastatic prostate cancer. Genomic testing may uncover which patients benefit most from these therapies. We report the clinical utility and benefits of Foundatio ...
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Journal ArticleProstate · November 2019
BACKGROUND: Docetaxel prednisone is a standard of care for men with metastatic castration-resistant prostate cancer (mCRPC), and plasma vascular endothelial growth factor (VEGF) levels are a poor prognostic factor in this population; therefore, we evaluate ...
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Journal ArticleProstate Cancer Prostatic Dis · September 2019
PURPOSE: The objective of this study was to test a low-carbohydrate diet (LCD) plus walking to reduce androgen deprivation therapy (ADT)-induced metabolic disturbances. MATERIALS AND METHODS: This randomized multi-center trial of prostate cancer (PCa) pati ...
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Journal ArticleCancer Med · August 2019
BACKGROUND: Pembrolizumab is approved for patients with metastatic, microsatellite instability (MSI)-high or mismatch repair-deficient (dMMR) solid tumors. However, very few men with prostate cancer were included in these initial studies. METHODS: We perfo ...
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Journal ArticleProstate · July 2019
BACKGROUND: Radium-223 improves survival and time to first symptomatic skeletal event in symptomatic bone predominant metastatic castrate-resistant prostate cancer (mCRPC). The imaging response to radium-223 has not been well characterized. METHODS: To des ...
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Journal ArticleClin Genitourin Cancer · June 2019
The incidence of renal-cell carcinoma has been increasing each year, with nearly one third of new cases diagnosed at advanced or metastatic stage. The advent of targeted therapies for metastatic renal-cell carcinoma (mRCC) has underscored the need to subty ...
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Journal ArticleMol Cancer Res · June 2019
CDH1 (also known as E-cadherin), an epithelial-specific cell-cell adhesion molecule, plays multiple roles in maintaining adherens junctions, regulating migration and invasion, and mediating intracellular signaling. Downregulation of E-cadherin is a hallmar ...
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ConferenceJournal of Clinical Oncology · May 20, 2019
TPS5086 Background: Men with mCRPC who have a BRCA1/2 mutation ( BRCA1/2mut) or mutations in other genes resulting in HRD have a poor prognosis. A novel liquid biopsy test (EPIC Sciences) identifies CTCs with ...
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ConferenceJournal of Clinical Oncology · May 20, 2019
TPS5097 Background: Androgen deprivation combined with salvage external beam radiation therapy (RT) have improved survival for patients (pts) with non-metastatic hormone naïve PC and PSA recurrence after radical prostatectomy (RP ...
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ConferenceJournal of Clinical Oncology · May 20, 2019
e14291 Background: Low-density lipoprotein receptor-related protein 1B (LRP1B) is a putative tumor suppressor gene spanning > 500 kb on chromosome 2. A melanoma study previously reported enrichment of LRP1B mutations in respon ...
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ConferenceJournal of Clinical Oncology · May 20, 2019
5062 Background: Patients with advanced prostate cancer (PC) frequently harbor pathogenic or likely pathogenic (P/LP) germline variants (GVs) in mismatch repair (MMR) and homologous repair (HR) enzymes which have clinical and tre ...
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ConferenceJournal of Clinical Oncology · May 20, 2019
e14259 Background: Immune checkpoint inhibitors (ICIs) are standard of care for mRCC and mUC patients (pts). PD-L1 status is gaining importance as a predictive biomarker, particularly for cisplatin-ineligible mUC. PD-L1 positivit ...
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ConferenceJournal of Clinical Oncology · May 20, 2019
5048 Background: ENZA has demonstrated benefit in men with metastatic and nonmetastatic castration-resistant prostate cancer (CRPC). ARCHES assessed the efficacy of ENZA with ADT in men with mHSPC, including pre-specified subgrou ...
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ConferenceJournal of Clinical Oncology · May 20, 2019
5022 Background: We have previously developed and externally validated a prognostic model of OS in men with mCRPC treated with docetaxel (D), which included eight predictors: opioid analgesic use, ECOG performance status, albumin ...
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ConferenceJournal of Clinical Oncology · May 20, 2019
5080 Background: Patient-reported symptoms using the PRO-CTCAE provide insights into the patient experience with care. Earlier use of AAP (an androgen biosynthesis inhibitor plus prednisone) with androgen deprivation therapy in c ...
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ConferenceJournal of Clinical Oncology · May 20, 2019
5044 Background: The Phase 3 ARCHES trial (NCT02677896) evaluated the efficacy and safety of ENZ + androgen deprivation therapy (ADT) vs placebo (PBO) + ADT in 1150 men with mHSPC. Here we report patient-reported outcome (PRO) da ...
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ConferenceJournal of Clinical Oncology · May 20, 2019
5008 Background: Androgen receptor (AR) signaling is an important growth mechanism in mCRPC, providing the rationale for treatment with AR axis inhibitors such as ENZ and AAP. Targeting AR with anti-androgens such as ENZ can resu ...
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ConferenceJournal of Clinical Oncology · May 20, 2019
5035 Background: Prostate cancer risk and mortality are higher in AAs versus CAUs. Post-hoc analyses of pooled Phase 3 data (n = 737) suggested substantial OS benefit for AA men receiving sipuleucel-T (n = 33) vs placebo (n = 10) ...
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Journal ArticleCancer · May 1, 2019
BACKGROUND: Because cell-free DNA (cfDNA) analysis facilitates the noninvasive genomic profiling of metastatic castration-resistant prostate cancer (mCRPC), the authors evaluated the association between cfDNA alterations and outcomes and evolution with the ...
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Journal ArticleJ Clin Oncol · May 1, 2019
PURPOSE: Androgen receptor splice variant 7 (AR-V7) results in a truncated receptor, which leads to ligand-independent constitutive activation that is not inhibited by anti-androgen therapies, including abiraterone or enzalutamide. Given that previous repo ...
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Journal ArticleJ Natl Compr Canc Netw · May 1, 2019
The NCCN Guidelines for Prostate Cancer include recommendations regarding diagnosis, risk stratification and workup, treatment options for localized disease, and management of recurrent and advanced disease for clinicians who treat patients with prostate c ...
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ConferenceJournal of Clinical Oncology · March 1, 2019
577 Background: Immune checkpoint inhibitors (ICIs) are now standard of care for mRCC and mUC patients (pts). PD-L1 status is gaining importance as a predictive biomarker, particularly for cisplatin-ineligible mUC. Four different ...
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ConferenceJournal of Clinical Oncology · March 1, 2019
172 Background: Pembrolizumab is approved for patients with metastatic, microsatellite instability-high (MSI-H) or mismatch repair-deficient (dMMR) solid tumors who have progressed on prior therapy and have no satisfactory treatm ...
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ConferenceJournal of Clinical Oncology · March 1, 2019
281 Background: Both ENZA and ABI are associated with significant toxicity to the cardiovascular-musculoskeletal system and physical side effects. However whether they cause a decline in cardiorespiratory fitness (CRF), as conven ...
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ConferenceJournal of Clinical Oncology · March 1, 2019
29 Background: Salvage external beam radiotherapy (RT) and hormonal therapy improves survival over RT alone in men with non-metastatic hormone naïve PC and PSA recurrence after radical prostatectomy (RP). We investigated the safe ...
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ConferenceJournal of Clinical Oncology · March 1, 2019
TPS328 Background: Men with metastatic castration-resistant prostate cancer (mCRPC) who have a BRCA1/2 mutation ( BRCA1/2mut) or mutations in other HRD genes have a poor prognosis. The EPIC liquid biopsy test ...
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ConferenceJournal of Clinical Oncology · March 1, 2019
183 Background: Current PCWG3 guidelines for men with mCRPC define BS progression during therapy as requiring confirmation of new bone lesions that develop over time with additional new lesions. New unconfirmed BS lesions may ref ...
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ConferenceJournal of Clinical Oncology · March 1, 2019
174 Background: Trials of approved agents in mCRPC have reported shorter overall survival (OS) in men with visceral metastases (mets). The phase 3 IMPACT trial evaluated sipuleucel-T, an autologous cellular immunotherapy, in mCRP ...
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ConferenceJournal of Clinical Oncology · March 1, 2019
177 Background: Managing patients ≥ 80 years old (yo) with mCRPC is challenging, given the high prevalence of comorbidities, polypharmacy, organ dysfunction, and reduced performance status (PS). Balancing treatment benefit with s ...
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ConferenceJournal of Clinical Oncology · March 1, 2019
TPS340 Background: A Phase II trial showed olaparib (tablets, 300 mg bid) in combination with abiraterone (1000 mg od plus prednisone/prednisolone 5 mg bid) significantly prolonged radiologic progression-free survival (rPFS) comp ...
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ConferenceJournal of Clinical Oncology · March 1, 2019
687 Background: ENZA, a potent androgen receptor inhibitor, has demonstrated benefit in men with metastatic and nonmetastatic castration-resistant prostate cancer (CRPC). Efficacy of ENZA with ADT in men with mHSPC is unknown. Me ...
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ConferenceJournal of Clinical Oncology · March 1, 2019
237 Background: Androgen receptor inhibitor enzalutamide improves survival in patients with metastatic CRPC (mCRPC) and reduces risk of metastasis or death versus placebo in patients with non-metastatic CRPC (nmCRPC). This post h ...
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Journal ArticleJ Clin Med · February 7, 2019
The evolution of therapeutic resistance is a major cause of death for cancer patients. The development of therapy resistance is shaped by the ecological dynamics within the tumor microenvironment and the selective pressure of the host immune system. These ...
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Journal ArticleClin Cancer Res · February 1, 2019
Ipatasertib combined with abiraterone in PTEN-null prostate cancer improved progression-free survival in a randomized phase II study of patients with metastatic castration-resistant prostate cancer (mCRPC), providing clinical evidence of reciprocal activat ...
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Journal ArticlePharmacol Ther · February 2019
Cancer metastasis and therapy resistance are the major unsolved clinical challenges, and account for nearly all cancer-related deaths. Both metastasis and therapy resistance are fueled by epithelial plasticity, the reversible phenotypic transitions between ...
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Journal ArticleClin Cancer Res · January 1, 2019
PURPOSE: Neuroendocrine prostate cancer (NEPC) is an aggressive variant of prostate cancer that may develop de novo or as a mechanism of treatment resistance. N-myc is capable of driving NEPC progression. Alisertib inhibits the interaction between N-myc an ...
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Journal ArticlePLoS One · 2019
BACKGROUND: Radium-223 is a targeted alpha-particle therapy that improves survival in men with metastatic castration resistant prostate cancer (mCRPC), particularly in men with elevated serum levels of bone alkaline phosphatase (B-ALP). We hypothesized tha ...
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Journal ArticlePrecis Clin Med · December 2018
A broad understanding of the tumor immune landscape has led to a revolution of immune checkpoint inhibitors in the treatment of multiple cancer types. In genitourinary malignancies, immune checkpoint inhibitors have improved outcomes for patients with meta ...
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Journal ArticleAnn Oncol · November 1, 2018
BACKGROUND: Prognostic models are needed that reflect contemporary practice for men with metastatic castration-resistant prostate cancer (mCRPC). We sought to identify predictive and prognostic variables for overall survival (OS) in chemotherapy-naïve men ...
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Journal ArticleProstate Cancer Prostatic Dis · September 2018
BACKGROUND: Until 2015, androgen deprivation therapy (ADT) alone was the standard-of-care for metastatic hormone-sensitive prostate cancer (mHSPC). In 2015, the CHAARTED and STAMPEDE-Docetaxel studies demonstrated marked survival benefit with the addition ...
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Journal ArticleProstate Cancer Prostatic Dis · September 2018
BACKGROUND: Intermediate endpoints are needed in early phase studies of men with metastatic castration-resistant prostate cancer (mCRPC) that can reliably predict success in phase 3 trials. Among men with measurable disease, objective response may provide ...
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Journal ArticleSmall · August 2018
The study of circulating tumor cells (CTCs) offers pathways to develop new diagnostic and prognostic biomarkers that benefit cancer treatments. In order to fully exploit and interpret the information provided by CTCs, the development of a platform is repor ...
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Journal ArticleJAMA Oncol · July 1, 2018
IMPORTANCE: Prostate cancer commonly metastasizes to bone, and bone metastases are associated with pathologic fractures, pain, and reduced survival. Bone disease is routinely visualized using the technetium Tc 99m (99mTc) bone scan; however, the standard i ...
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Journal ArticleBiomark Med · July 2018
AIM: To test if Ki67 expression is prognostic for biochemical recurrence (BCR) after radical prostatectomy (RP). METHODS: Ki67 immunohistochemistry was performed on tissue microarrays constructed from specimens obtained from 464 men undergoing RP at the Du ...
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ConferenceCancer Research · July 1, 2018
AbstractBackground: Although immune checkpoint inhibitors (ICIs) have shown efficacy in a range of solid tumors, there are no established circulating biomarkers able to identify early responders to treatment ...
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Journal ArticleEur Urol Oncol · June 2018
CONTEXT: In advanced prostate cancer (PC), there is increasing investigation of circulating biomarkers, including quantitation and characterization of circulating tumour cells and cell-free nucleic acids, for therapeutic monitoring and as prognostic and pr ...
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Journal ArticleJAMA Oncol · May 1, 2018
IMPORTANCE: Drug development for metastatic castration-resistant prostate cancer has been limited by a lack of clinically relevant trial end points short of overall survival (OS). Radiographic progression-free survival (rPFS) as defined by the Prostate Can ...
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Journal ArticleProstate Cancer Prostatic Dis · April 2018
BACKGROUND: Platinum-based chemotherapy is effective in men with neuroendocrine prostate cancer (NEPC), but it is unclear whether histology (adenocarcinoma vs. non-adenocarcinoma NEPC variants) is predictive of platinum sensitivity. Given that NEPC exists ...
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ConferenceJournal of Clinical Oncology · February 20, 2018
318 Background: In the era of precision medicine, significant effort has been placed on identifying clinically actionable molecular targets to aid in the treatment of metastatic prostate cancer (mPC). Recent data supports homolog ...
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ConferenceJournal of Clinical Oncology · February 20, 2018
382 Background: Nearly one third of men treated with curative intent for localized prostate cancer (PC) will develop a rising PSA. The rate of PSA rise (PSA doubling time aka PSASDT) is a predictor metastases and PC death. In lab ...
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ConferenceJournal of Clinical Oncology · February 20, 2018
299 Background: The need for validated circulating biomarkers is well recognised in advanced prostate cancer (PCa). Circulating biomarkers evaluating plasma cell-free nucleic acids and circulating tumour cells are being investiga ...
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ConferenceJournal of Clinical Oncology · February 20, 2018
11 Background: Combined external beam radiotherapy (RT) and androgen deprivation therapy (ADT) improves survival over RT alone for high risk prostate cancer (PC). Long-term ADT use, currently recommended for high risk PC, also in ...
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ConferenceJournal of Clinical Oncology · February 20, 2018
160 Background: Radium-223 is a targeted alpha therapy that improves survival in men with mCRPC. The biologic basis for radium-223 efficacy is not completely understood. We hypothesized that PC osteomimicry, a form of epithelial ...
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ConferenceJournal of Clinical Oncology · February 20, 2018
191 Background: Most immune checkpoint inhibitors have shown limited efficacy in unselected men with mPC, and there is limited understanding about which immune checkpoints (ICs) are relevant in mPC. We evaluated ICs on the cell s ...
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ConferenceJournal of Clinical Oncology · February 20, 2018
222 Background: Bone scans were not obtained in the phase 3 ALSYMPCA trial, and retrospective series have reported varying rates of development of new lesions and resolution of existing lesions, following treatment with Radium-22 ...
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ConferenceJournal of Clinical Oncology · February 20, 2018
234 Background: In STRIVE pts with CRPC (M0 n = 139; M1 n = 257), median time to 10-point decrease from baseline in FACT-P total for ENZA vs. BIC was 8.4 vs. 8.3 months (hazard ratio [HR] 0.91; 95% confidence interval [CI] 0.70, ...
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Journal ArticleAdv Drug Deliv Rev · February 1, 2018
Methods enabling the isolation, detection, and characterization of circulating tumor cells (CTCs) in blood have clear potential to facilitate precision medicine approaches in patients with cancer, not only for prognostic purposes but also for prediction of ...
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Journal ArticleJ Immunother Cancer · January 25, 2018
Immune checkpoint inhibitors targeting the PD-1 pathway have greatly changed clinical management of metastatic urothelial carcinoma and metastatic renal cell carcinoma. However, response rates are low, and biomarkers are needed to predict for treatment res ...
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Journal ArticleJ Urol · December 2017
PURPOSE: Metastatic castration resistant prostate cancer with low baseline prostate specific antigen represents an early stage in the natural history of castration resistant prostate cancer progression (low volume disease), low prostate specific antigen pr ...
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ConferenceEur J Cancer · August 2017
BACKGROUND: Phosphatidylinositol-3-kinase (PI3K) and androgen receptor pathway activation is common in metastatic castration resistant prostate cancer (mCRPC). Buparlisib is an oral, pan-class I PI3 kinase inhibitor. METHODS: This was a multisite single ar ...
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Journal ArticleCancer · June 15, 2017
BACKGROUND: In the AFFIRM trial, enzalutamide significantly increased overall survival (OS) for men with metastatic castration-resistant prostate cancer (mCRPC) after chemotherapy versus placebo and significantly decreased prostate-specific antigen (PSA) l ...
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ConferenceCurr Med Res Opin · June 2017
OBJECTIVE: To estimate the healthcare costs and characteristics of docetaxel chemotherapy episodes of care for men with metastatic castration-resistant prostate cancer (mCRPC). METHODS: This study used the Medicare 5% sample and MarketScan Commercial (2010 ...
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Journal ArticleProstate Cancer Prostatic Dis · June 2017
BACKGROUND: Advanced prostate cancer is a phenotypically diverse disease that evolves through multiple clinical courses. PSA level is the most widely used parameter for disease monitoring, but it has well-recognized limitations. Unlike in clinical trials, ...
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Journal ArticleUrol Oncol · June 2017
PURPOSE: Evidence suggests differences in androgen receptor AR signaling between black (B) and white (W) patients with prostate cancer, but pivotal trials of abiraterone acetate (AA) for patients with metastatic castration-resistant prostate cancer (mCRPC) ...
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ConferenceJournal of Clinical Oncology · May 20, 2017
5006 Background: Quantitative measures of metastatic bone disease are needed in men with mCRPC. We recently demonstrated the validity/reproducibility of a computational approach to bone scan imaging that employs artificial intell ...
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ConferenceJournal of Clinical Oncology · May 20, 2017
e16532 Background: DNA repair defects are common in men with mCRPC, and platinum chemotherapy may have a role in selected patients. We aimed to determine whether neuroendocrine variant prostate cancer (NEPC) is associated with a ...
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ConferenceJournal of Clinical Oncology · May 20, 2017
e18280 Background: The concurrent development of many CRPC treatments within a short period of time has made prospective data on their sequential use and efficacy complicated, which have challenged clinician confidence, knowledge ...
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Journal ArticleJ Vis Exp · April 7, 2017
Phenotypic plasticity refers to a phenomenon in which cells transiently gain traits of another lineage. During carcinoma progression, phenotypic plasticity drives invasion, dissemination and metastasis. Indeed, while most of the studies of phenotypic plast ...
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Journal ArticleClin Cancer Res · March 1, 2017
Purpose: Beyond enumeration, circulating tumor cells (CTCs) can provide genetic information from metastatic cancer that may facilitate a greater understanding of tumor biology and enable a precision medicine approach.Experimental Design: CTCs and paired le ...
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ConferenceProstate · March 2017
BACKGROUND: Tasquinimod is an immunomodulating and anti-antiangiogenic oral agent with anti-prostate cancer activity in preclinical studies and in clinical trials of men with metastatic castration resistant prostate cancer (mCRPC), including single agent a ...
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ConferenceEur Urol · February 2017
UNLABELLED: Enzalutamide significantly improved radiographic progression-free survival (rPFS) and overall survival (OS) among men with chemotherapy-naïve metastatic castration-resistant prostate cancer at the prespecified interim analysis of PREVAIL, a pha ...
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Journal ArticleInt J Urol · December 2016
Here we present, to the best of our knowledge, the first case of a paraneoplastic Cushing's syndrome (hypercortisolism) resulting from treatment-related neuroendocrine prostate cancer - a highly aggressive and difficult disease to treat. A 51-year-old man ...
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Journal ArticleEur Urol · October 2016
BACKGROUND: Enzalutamide, an oral androgen receptor inhibitor, significantly improved overall survival (OS) and radiographic progression-free survival (rPFS) versus placebo in the PREVAIL trial of men with chemotherapy-naïve metastatic castration-resistant ...
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Journal ArticleMol Cell Biol · October 1, 2016
Phenotypic plasticity involves a process in which cells transiently acquire phenotypic traits of another lineage. Two commonly studied types of phenotypic plasticity are epithelial-mesenchymal transition (EMT) and mesenchymal-epithelial transition (MET). I ...
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Journal ArticleLab Chip · September 21, 2016
Liquid biopsies hold enormous promise for the next generation of medical diagnoses. At the forefront of this effort, many are seeking to capture, enumerate and analyze circulating tumor cells (CTCs) as a means to prognosticate and develop individualized tr ...
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Journal ArticleProstate Cancer Prostatic Dis · September 2016
While there are myriad mechanisms of primary and acquired resistance to conventional and next-generation hormonal therapies in prostate cancer, the potential role of androgen receptor splice variants (AR-Vs) has recently gained momentum. AR-Vs are abnormal ...
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Journal ArticleOncogene · August 18, 2016
The cascade that culminates in macrometastases is thought to be mediated by phenotypic plasticity, including epithelial-mesenchymal and mesenchymal-epithelial transitions (EMT and MET). Although there is substantial support for the role of EMT in driving c ...
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Journal ArticleOncotarget · August 2, 2016
Treatment with androgen-targeted therapies can induce upregulation of epithelial plasticity pathways. Epithelial plasticity is known to be important for metastatic dissemination and therapeutic resistance. The goal of this study is to elucidate the functio ...
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ConferenceJ Clin Oncol · August 1, 2016
PURPOSE: Tasquinimod, a novel oral therapy targeting the tumor microenvironment, significantly improved progression-free survival (PFS) in a randomized, placebo-controlled phase II trial in men with metastatic castration-resistant prostate cancer (mCRPC). ...
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Journal ArticleJ Clin Oncol · June 20, 2016
PURPOSE: Enzalutamide, a potent oral androgen receptor inhibitor, improves survival in men with metastatic castration-resistant prostate cancer (CRPC) before and after chemotherapy. Bicalutamide, a nonsteroidal antiandrogen, is widely used to treat men wit ...
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Journal ArticleEur Urol · June 2016
UNLABELLED: We explored the association between Response Evaluation Criteria in Solid Tumors (RECIST) 1.0 and 1.1 changes and overall survival (OS) in patients with metastatic castration-resistant prostate cancer (mCRPC) from the control arms of the VENICE ...
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Journal ArticleMol Cancer Res · June 2016
UNLABELLED: Amplification of the MET oncogene is associated with poor prognosis, metastatic dissemination, and drug resistance in many malignancies. We developed a method to capture and characterize circulating tumor cells (CTC) expressing c-MET using a fe ...
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Journal ArticleJ Clin Oncol · May 10, 2016
PURPOSE: Reports have suggested that metastatic site is an important predictor of overall survival (OS) in men with metastatic castration-resistant prostate cancer (mCRPC), but these were based on a limited number of patients. We investigate the impact of ...
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Journal ArticleJ Clin Oncol · April 20, 2016
PURPOSE: Evolving treatments, disease phenotypes, and biology, together with a changing drug development environment, have created the need to revise castration-resistant prostate cancer (CRPC) clinical trial recommendations to succeed those from prior Pro ...
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ConferenceProstate Cancer Prostatic Dis · March 2016
BACKGROUND: In men with high Gleason PC and rapid PSA progression after surgery, failure rates remain unacceptably high despite salvage radiation. We explored a novel multimodality approach of docetaxel with anti-angiogenic therapy before salvage radiother ...
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Journal ArticleProstate Cancer Prostatic Dis · March 2016
BACKGROUND: Given the potential importance of epithelial plasticity (EP) to cancer metastasis, we sought to investigate biomarkers related to EP in men with localized prostate cancer (PC) for the association with time to PSA recurrence and other clinical o ...
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Journal ArticleLancet Oncol · March 2016
BACKGROUND: Non-clear cell renal cell carcinomas are histologically and genetically diverse kidney cancers with variable prognoses, and their optimum initial treatment is unknown. We aimed to compare the mTOR inhibitor everolimus and the VEGF receptor inhi ...
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Journal ArticleClin Geriatr Med · February 2016
The impact of localized prostate cancer in the elderly depends on disease aggressiveness and life expectancy. In men with localized prostate cancer, those with low-risk disease or a shorter life expectancy should be managed expectantly, whereas those with ...
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Journal ArticleAnn Oncol · February 2016
BACKGROUND: Prostate cancer disproportionately affects older men. Because age affects treatment decisions, it is important to understand the efficacy and tolerability of therapies for advanced prostate cancer in elderly men. This analysis describes efficac ...
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Journal ArticleTher Adv Urol · February 2016
Treatment options have significantly expanded in recent years for men with metastatic castration-resistant prostate cancer (mCRPC), with the routine use of immunotherapy (sipuleucel-T) and novel hormonal agents such as enzalutamide and abiraterone acetate ...
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ConferenceJournal of Clinical Oncology · January 10, 2016
275 Background: Docetaxel prednisone (DP) is a standard of care for men with metastatic castrate resistant prostate cancer (mCRPC) with median progression-free survival (PFS) of 4-6 months and overall survival (OS) of 19 months, ...
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ConferenceJournal of Clinical Oncology · January 10, 2016
169 Background: STRIVE was arandomized, double-blind, phase 2 trial comparing ENZA vs BIC in nonmetastatic (M0) or metastatic (M1) CRPC. In this study, ENZA significantly reduced the risk of prostate cancer progression or death c ...
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ConferenceJournal of Clinical Oncology · January 10, 2016
193 Background: Sip-T is an FDA-approved, autologous cellular immunotherapy for asymptomatic or minimally symptomatic metastatic castration-resistant prostate cancer (mCRPC). Post-hoc analysis of the phase 3 IMPACT study revealed ...
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ConferenceJournal of Clinical Oncology · January 10, 2016
320 Background: Sip-T is an autologous cellular immunotherapy approved by the FDA for the treatment of asymptomatic or minimally symptomatic metastatic castration-resistant prostate cancer. PROCEED (NCT01306890) is a phase 4 regi ...
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ConferenceJournal of Clinical Oncology · January 10, 2016
266 Background: ENZ significantly increased OS for men with metastatic castration-resistant prostate cancer (mCRPC) vs. placebo and significantly decreased PSA levels. However, the prognostic significance and role of PSA falls as ...
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ConferenceJournal of Clinical Oncology · January 10, 2016
182 Background: In PREVAIL, enzalutamide (ENZA) significantly improved OS (hazard ratio [HR] 0.71; P < 0.0001) and rPFS (HR 0.19; P < 0.0001) compared with placebo in chemotherapy-naïve metastatic castration-resistant prost ...
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ConferenceJournal of Clinical Oncology · January 10, 2016
239 Background: TASQ is an oral agent with immunomodulatory, anti-angiogenic and anti-metastatic properties that targets the tumor microenvironment. It was recently reported from this study that in chemotherapy-naïve men with mCR ...
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ConferenceJournal of Clinical Oncology · January 10, 2016
194 Background: Sip-T is an autologous immunotherapy approved for asymptomatic or minimally symptomatic metastatic castration-resistant prostate cancer (mCRPC).Many therapeutic agents have been approved in a short time frame, and ...
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Journal ArticleCurr Oncol Rep · January 2016
Men with metastatic castration-resistant prostate cancer (mCRPC) frequently have circulating tumor cells (CTCs) that are detectable in their peripheral blood. The CellSearch® method of enumerating CTCs is presently the only FDA-cleared CTC test available c ...
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Journal ArticleJ Natl Compr Canc Netw · January 2016
The NCCN Guidelines for Prostate Cancer address staging and risk assessment after an initial diagnosis of prostate cancer and management options for localized, regional, and metastatic disease. Recommendations for disease monitoring, treatment of recurrent ...
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Journal ArticleClin Cancer Res · October 15, 2015
Notch signaling is implicated in prostate cancer progression and docetaxel resistance. Cui and colleagues describe the additive efficacy and mechanisms of a γ-secretase inhibitor, PF-03084014, and docetaxel in preclinical models of prostate cancer, suggest ...
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Journal ArticleEur J Cancer · September 2015
BACKGROUND: Cixutumumab, a human monoclonal antibody (HuMAb), targets the insulin-like growth factor receptor. Ramucirumab is a recombinant HuMAb that binds to vascular endothelial growth factor receptor-2. A non-comparative randomised phase II study evalu ...
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Journal ArticleClin Genitourin Cancer · August 2015
BACKGROUND: Abiraterone acetate (AA) has demonstrated improved outcomes in men with metastatic castration-resistant prostate cancer (mCRPC). However, data are lacking on the effect of AA on subsequent efficacy of enzalutamide or docetaxel. PATIENTS AND MET ...
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Journal ArticleClin Genitourin Cancer · August 2015
BACKGROUND: Everolimus, an oral inhibitor of mammalian target of rapamycin (mTOR), and sunitinib, an oral inhibitor of vascular endothelial growth factor (VEGF)/platelet-derived growth factor receptor tyrosine kinase signaling, have both been shown to prov ...
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ConferenceCancer Research · August 1, 2015
AbstractBackground: The androgen receptor (AR) is a key gene involved in prostate cancer (PC) biology, including disease development, response to initial hormonal therapies, and subsequent resistance to horm ...
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Journal ArticleBJU Int · July 2015
For several years, docetaxel was the only treatment shown to improve survival of patients with metastatic castration-resistant prostate cancer (mCRPC). There are now several novel agents available, although chemotherapy with docetaxel and cabazitaxel conti ...
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Journal ArticleHistol Histopathol · June 2015
Carcinosarcomas are rare, biphasic tumors that are comprised of carcinomatous and sarcomatous elements. While the exact mechanism by which these two phenotypes arise within a single tumor remains unclear, molecular evidence indicates that the epitheliod an ...
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Journal ArticleProstate Cancer Prostatic Dis · June 2015
BACKGROUND: Owing to efficacy and tolerability, abiraterone acetate (AA) is a leading treatment for men with metastatic castration-resistant prostate cancer. Increased serum concentrations of AA, such as by taking AA with food, may lead to the inhibition o ...
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Journal ArticleClin J Oncol Nurs · June 2015
BACKGROUND: Sipuleucel-T, an autologous cellular immunotherapy, is approved for the treatment of certain patients with metastatic castration-resistant prostate cancer (mCRPC). Sipuleucel-T is the first personalized treatment for prostate cancer to be manuf ...
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Journal ArticleJ Natl Compr Canc Netw · May 2015
Most of the updates in the 2015 NCCN Clinical Practice Guidelines in Oncology (NCCN Guidelines) for Prostate Cancer center on the systemic therapy front, with a host of newer agents in the mix. At the NCCN 20th Annual Conference, Dr. Andrew J. Armstrong di ...
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Journal ArticleExpert Opin Pharmacother · March 2015
INTRODUCTION: Over the past decade, treatment options for men with metastatic castration-resistant prostate cancer (CRPC) have expanded with the addition of abiraterone acetate (AA), enzalutamide, sipuleucel-T, radium-223, docetaxel and cabazitaxel. The op ...
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Journal ArticleUrol Oncol · March 2015
BACKGROUND: The presence of ≥5 circulating tumor cells (CTCs) is prognostic for shorter survival in men with metastatic castration-resistant prostate cancer (mCRPC). However, some men have low CTCs despite widespread disease, suggesting heterogeneity in CT ...
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ConferenceJournal of Clinical Oncology · March 1, 2015
272 Background: AA men are underrepresented in randomized clinical trials (RCTs) for prostate cancer, despite an almost 2-fold greater incidence in AA vs Caucasian populations. Sip-T is an autologous cellular immunotherapy approv ...
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ConferenceJournal of Clinical Oncology · March 1, 2015
200 Background: In the phase 3 PREVAIL trial, enzalutamide (ENZA), an androgen receptor inhibitor, improved overall survival (OS) and radiographic progression-free survival (rPFS) relative to placebo (PBO) in chemotherapy-naïve m ...
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ConferenceJournal of Clinical Oncology · January 20, 2015
84 Background: Multiple GI malignancies including gastric, pancreatic, and colorectal cancers harbor genetic alterations in the MET oncogene. MET amplification is associated with poor prognosis, and c-MET targeted therapies are i ...
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Journal ArticleEur Urol · January 2015
CONTEXT: Once believed to represent a uniform malignant phenotype, renal cell carcinoma (RCC) is now viewed as a diverse group of cancers that arise from the nephron. OBJECTIVE: To review the pathologic characteristics, clinical behavior, molecular biology ...
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Journal ArticleCrit Rev Clin Lab Sci · 2015
Substantial advances in the molecular biology of prostate cancer have led to the approval of multiple new systemic agents to treat men with metastatic castration-resistant prostate cancer (mCRPC). These treatments encompass androgen receptor directed thera ...
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Chapter · January 1, 2015
Despite significant advances in diagnosis and management, prostate cancer is still a leading cause of cancer-related death in men. Castration-resistant prostate cancer (CRPC) is defined by disease progression despite androgen deprivation and castrate level ...
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Journal ArticleInt J Urol · December 2014
OBJECTIVES: To determine whether oncological outcomes are improved in prostate cancer patients by using a multidisciplinary strategy as compared with a standard clinic paradigm, and whether time to treatment is delayed when using a multidisciplinary approa ...
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Journal ArticleBJU Int · December 2014
OBJECTIVE: To investigate the association of radiographic progression defined by Prostate Cancer Working Group (PCWG)-2 guidelines and overall survival (OS) in men with metastatic castration-resistant prostate cancer (mCRPC). PATIENTS AND METHODS: Two tria ...
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Journal ArticleUrol Oncol · November 2014
INTRODUCTION: Drug development and clinical decision making for patients with metastatic prostate cancer (PC) have been hindered by a lack of quantitative methods of assessing changes in bony disease burden that are associated with overall survival (OS). B ...
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OtherCancer Epidemiology, Biomarkers & Prevention · November 1, 2014
AbstractPreviously, our group developed fluorescence-based alternative splicing reporters of epithelial plasticity to visualize phenotypic transitions in real time in vivo (Oltean et al., 2008; Oltean et al. ...
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Journal ArticleClin Genitourin Cancer · October 2014
BACKGROUND: We retrospectively evaluated the prognostic impact of neutrophil-lymphocyte ratio (NLR) as a marker for inflammatory and immune state in men with progressive metastatic castration resistant prostate cancer (mCRPC) following docetaxel. METHODS: ...
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Journal ArticleCancer Metastasis Rev · September 2014
Nearly 30,000 men die annually in the USA of prostate cancer, nearly uniformly from metastatic dissemination. Despite recent advances in hormonal, immunologic, bone-targeted, and cytotoxic chemotherapies, treatment resistance and further dissemination are ...
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Journal ArticleClin Genitourin Cancer · August 2014
BACKGROUND: Vatalanib is an oral vascular endothelial growth factor receptor (VEGFR) tyrosine kinase inhibitor (TKI), whereas everolimus inhibits mammalian target of rapamycin (mTOR). Combination therapy with VEGFR and mTOR inhibitors has not been well tol ...
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Journal ArticleEndocr Relat Cancer · August 2014
As prostate cancer (PCa) progresses to the lethal castration resistant and metastatic form, genetic and epigenetic adaptation, clonal selection, and evolution of the tumor microenvironment contribute to the emergence of unique biological characteristics un ...
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Journal ArticleN Engl J Med · July 31, 2014
BACKGROUND: Enzalutamide is an oral androgen-receptor inhibitor that prolongs survival in men with metastatic castration-resistant prostate cancer in whom the disease has progressed after chemotherapy. New treatment options are needed for patients with met ...
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Journal ArticleCancer Chemother Pharmacol · May 2014
PURPOSE: This study was conducted to evaluate potential pharmacokinetic interactions between docetaxel and atrasentan as part of a phase I/II clinical trial. METHODS: Patients with prostate cancer were treated with intravenous docetaxel (60-75 mg/m(2)) eve ...
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Journal ArticleJ Natl Compr Canc Netw · May 2014
Neuroendocrine prostate cancer (NEPC) encompasses various clinical contexts, ranging from the de novo presentation of small cell prostatic carcinoma to a treatment-emergent transformed phenotype that arises from typical adenocarcinoma of the prostate. The ...
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Journal ArticleJ Natl Compr Canc Netw · May 2014
Prostate cancer has surpassed lung cancer as the most common cancer in men in the United States. The NCCN Guidelines for Prostate Cancer provide multidisciplinary recommendations on the clinical management of patients with prostate cancer based on clinical ...
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ConferenceJournal of Clinical Oncology · February 1, 2014
178 Background: Serum alkaline phosphatase (AP) changes in men with metastatic prostate cancer have been described since the Nobel Prize winning discovery of the hormonal dependence of PC. High serum AP is independently associate ...
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ConferenceJournal of Clinical Oncology · February 1, 2014
LBA1^ Background: Enzalutamide, an orally administered androgen receptor inhibitor, improved overall survival (OS) in men with mCRPC who had received prior docetaxel therapy (Scher et al, NEJM 367:13, 2012). This study examined w ...
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ConferenceJournal of Clinical Oncology · February 1, 2014
183 Background: Sipuleucel-T (sip-T) is an autologous cellular immunotherapy indicated for asymptomatic or minimally symptomatic metastatic castration-resistant prostate cancer. Approval of sip-T was based primarily on the random ...
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ConferenceJournal of Clinical Oncology · February 1, 2014
64 Background: Sipuleucel-T is an autologous cellular immunotherapy indicated for asymptomatic or minimally symptomatic mCRPC based on data from the pivotal phase 3 IMPACT trial that demonstrated a 22% reduction in the risk of de ...
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ConferenceJournal of Clinical Oncology · February 1, 2014
185 Background: Sip-T is an autologous cellular immunotherapy indicated for asymptomatic or minimally symptomatic metastatic castration-resistant prostate cancer (mCRPC). PROCEED is an ongoing phase 4 registry, enrolling pts rece ...
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ConferenceJournal of Clinical Oncology · February 1, 2014
65 Background: Given the evolving treatments available in metastatic castration resistant prostate cancer (mCRPC), predictive biomarkers are desirable that maximize benefit and minimize harms and costs.The goal of this study was ...
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Journal ArticleEur Urol · January 2014
The presence of visceral metastases is adversely prognostic in men with metastatic castration-resistant prostate cancer (mCRPC), but the prognostic impact of the site of visceral metastasis is unclear. Men with mCRPC in the TAX 327 phase 3 trial receiving ...
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Journal ArticleClin Cancer Res · December 15, 2013
PURPOSE: Tasquinimod (Active Biotech) is an oral immunomodulatory, anti-angiogenic, and anti-metastatic agent that delayed metastatic disease progression in a randomized placebo-controlled phase II trial in men with metastatic castration-resistant prostate ...
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Journal ArticleProc Natl Acad Sci U S A · December 10, 2013
The relationship between the cells that initiate cancer and the cancer stem-like cells that propagate tumors has been poorly defined. In a human prostate tissue transformation model, basal cells expressing the oncogenes Myc and myristoylated AKT can initia ...
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Journal ArticleProstate Cancer and Prostatic Diseases · December 1, 2013
Background:Preclinical drug screens identified disulfiram as a potent in vitro inhibitor of prostate cancer (PCa) cell growth. Although many mechanisms for its anticancer activity have been proposed, tumor suppressor gene re-expression through promoter dem ...
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Journal ArticleJ Natl Compr Canc Netw · December 1, 2013
The NCCN Guidelines for Prostate Cancer provide multidisciplinary recommendations on the clinical management of patients with prostate cancer. This report highlights notable recent updates. Radium-223 dichloride is a first-in-class radiopharmaceutical that ...
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Journal ArticleMethods · December 1, 2013
Epithelial tumor cells can become mesenchymal cells and vice versa via phenotypic transitions, a process known as epithelial plasticity. We postulate that during the process of metastasis, circulating tumor cells (CTCs) lose their epithelial phenotype and ...
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Journal ArticleClin Genitourin Cancer · December 2013
BACKGROUND: Phosphatase and tensin homologue (PTEN) loss is common in advanced prostate cancer, leading to constitutive activation of the PI3 kinase pathway. Temsirolimus blocks mammalian target of rapamycin (mTOR)/target of rapamycin complex 1 (TORC1), a ...
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Journal ArticleProstate Cancer Prostatic Dis · December 2013
BACKGROUND: Preclinical drug screens identified disulfiram as a potent in vitro inhibitor of prostate cancer (PCa) cell growth. Although many mechanisms for its anticancer activity have been proposed, tumor suppressor gene re-expression through promoter de ...
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Journal ArticleLancet Oncol · December 2013
BACKGROUND: Src kinase-mediated interactions between prostate cancer cells and osteoclasts might promote bone metastasis. Dasatinib inhibits tyrosine kinases, including Src kinases. Data suggests that dasatinib kinase inhibition leads to antitumour activit ...
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Journal ArticleJ Natl Cancer Inst · November 20, 2013
BACKGROUND: Several prognostic models for overall survival (OS) have been developed and validated in men with metastatic castration-resistant prostate cancer (mCRPC) who receive first-line chemotherapy. We sought to develop and validate a prognostic model ...
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Journal ArticleClin Adv Hematol Oncol · November 2013
Castration-resistant prostate cancer (CRPC) is defined as prostate cancer that no longer responds to androgen deprivation therapy. At the genome level, CRPC is a heterogeneous disease that is marked by a range of genetic and epigenetic lesions. These lesio ...
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Journal ArticleUrol Oncol · November 2013
OBJECTIVES: Abiraterone acetate (AA) is a CYP17 inhibitor of androgen synthesis approved for use following docetaxel for metastatic castration-resistant prostate cancer (mCRPC); evaluation in the pre-docetaxel setting is ongoing. Given that the reported ef ...
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Journal ArticleJ Clin Oncol · November 1, 2013
PURPOSE: Prostate-specific antigen (PSA) kinetics, and more specifically a ≥ 30% decline in PSA within 3 months after initiation of first-line chemotherapy with docetaxel, are associated with improvement in overall survival (OS) in men with metastatic cast ...
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Journal ArticleUrol Oncol · October 2013
OBJECTIVES: As complex novel cancer drugs are developed, supply may transiently fail to meet demand as production capacity established for research purposes is scaled up to meet anticipated clinical volume. There are no clear guidelines for how clinicians ...
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Journal ArticleAnn Oncol · July 2013
BACKGROUND: Abiraterone acetate and enzalutamide both improve outcomes in patients with metastatic castration-resistant prostate cancer (mCRPC). Optimal sequencing for these agents and whether cross-resistance occurs is unknown. METHODS: Multicentre review ...
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Journal ArticleEndocr Relat Cancer · June 2013
The phosphatidylinositol 3-kinase (PI3K)/Akt/mammalian target of rapamycin (mTOR) pathway is a key signaling pathway that has been linked to both tumorigenesis and resistance to therapy in prostate cancer and other solid tumors. Given the significance of t ...
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Journal ArticleCurr Treat Options Oncol · March 2013
In recent years, great success has been achieved on many fronts in the treatment of men with metastatic castration-resistant prostate cancer (CRPC), including novel chemotherapeutics, immunotherapies, bone microenvironment-targeted agents, and hormonal the ...
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Journal ArticleClin Genitourin Cancer · March 2013
PURPOSE: The activity of systemic agents after progression when using vascular endothelial growth factor receptor (VEGFR) tyrosine kinase inhibition (TKI) and mammalian target of rapamycin (mTOR) inhibition in patients with metastatic renal cell carcinoma ...
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ConferenceJournal of Clinical Oncology · February 20, 2013
105 Background: PTEN loss is common in advanced prostate cancer, leading to constitutive activation of the PI3 Kinase pathway. Temsirolimus blocks mTOR/TORC1, a key signaling node in this pathway; its activity in men with advance ...
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Journal ArticleJ Clin Oncol · February 20, 2013
6 Background: ENZA increased median overall survival (OS) by 4.8 mo (P <0.001, HR 0.63) vs placebo (PBO) in metastatic castration-resistant prostate cancer (mCRPC) patients (pts) post-docetaxel in AFFIRM (HI Scher et al, NEJM 2012). Corticosteroids (CS) ca ...
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Journal ArticleJ Clin Oncol · February 20, 2013
219 Background: Epigenetic silencing of tumor suppressor genes (TSG) by promoter methylation contributes to carcinogenesis and progression. Targeting these epigenetic changes in PCa has been hindered by a paucity of available agents. D potently inhibits PC ...
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Journal ArticleJ Clin Oncol · February 20, 2013
24 Background: Several prognostic models for overall survival (OS) have been developed and validated in men with chemotherapy naïve mCRPC. The primary objective was to develop and validate a prognostic model that can be used to predict OS in men who have f ...
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Journal ArticleJ Clin Oncol · February 20, 2013
LBA8 Background: SRC kinases may contribute to androgen independence of mCRPC.Dasatinib (DAS) inhibits tyrosine kinases including SRC kinases with preclinical evidence for antimetastatic activity, inhibition of osteoclast function in tumor microenvironment ...
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Journal ArticleEur Urol · February 2013
CONTEXT: Bone metastases are a common feature of advanced genitourinary malignancies and a prominent cause of morbidity and mortality. OBJECTIVE: The objective of this review is to discuss the incidence, pathophysiology, and management of bone metastases i ...
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Journal ArticleUrol Oncol · January 2013
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OBJECTIVES: Epidermal growth factor receptor (EGFR) and HER-2 tyrosine kinases may be involved in activation of androgen receptor and progression of prostate cancer. They represent potential therapeutic targets in prostate cancer. Lapatinib is an oral inhi ...
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Journal ArticleCancer J · 2013
With the surge in therapeutic options for men with castration-resistant prostate cancer (CRPC) comes increasingly complicated treatment decision making, highlighting the need for biomarkers that can identify appropriate patients for specific treatments and ...
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Journal ArticleCancer Manag Res · 2013
BACKGROUND: Radium-223 chloride ((223)Ra; Alpharadin) is an alpha-emitting radioisotope that targets areas of osteoblastic metastasis and is excreted by the small intestine. When compared with beta-emitters (eg, strontium-89, samarium-153), (223)Ra deliver ...
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Journal ArticleBJU Int · December 2012
UNLABELLED: What's known on the subject? and What does the study add? Serum C-reactive protein (C-reactive protein) is emerging as a potential novel prognostic factor in metastatic castration-resistant prostate cancer (mCRPC). In the present study, a prosp ...
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Journal ArticleN Engl J Med · September 27, 2012
BACKGROUND: Enzalutamide (formerly called MDV3100) targets multiple steps in the androgen-receptor-signaling pathway, the major driver of prostate-cancer growth. We aimed to evaluate whether enzalutamide prolongs survival in men with castration-resistant p ...
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Journal ArticleJ Clin Oncol · September 20, 2012
PURPOSE: Lactate dehydrogenase (LDH) is an enzyme involved in anaerobic glycolysis and regulated by the phosphatidylinositol 3-kinase/Akt/mammalian target of rapamycin (mTOR)-containing complex 1 (PI3K/Akt/TORC1) pathway as well as tumor hypoxia/necrosis. ...
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Journal ArticleUrol Oncol · September 2012
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OBJECTIVES: The association of a change in serum alkaline phosphatase (ALP) with overall survival OS in men with metastatic castration-resistant prostate cancer (CRPC) receiving chemotherapy is unknown. We evaluated the association of changes in ALP within ...
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Journal ArticleJ Natl Compr Canc Netw · September 2012
The NCCN Clinical Practice Guidelines in Oncology (NCCN Guidelines) for Prostate Cancer provide multidisciplinary recommendations for the clinical management of patients with prostate cancer. These NCCN Guidelines Insights highlight notable recent updates. ...
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Journal ArticleJ Biol Chem · March 30, 2012
Pannexin 1 (PANX1) channels mediate release of ATP, a "find-me" signal that recruits macrophages to apoptotic cells; PANX1 activation during apoptosis requires caspase-mediated cleavage of PANX1 at its C terminus, but how the C terminus inhibits basal chan ...
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Journal ArticleEur Urol · March 2012
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CONTEXT: We have recently witnessed a rapid increase in the number of effective systemic agents for men with metastatic castration-resistant prostate cancer (CRPC), including novel hormonal therapies (abiraterone acetate and MDV3100), immunotherapies (sipu ...
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Journal ArticleJ Clin Oncol · February 10, 2012
435 Background: Given a lack of clinical information on therapeutic efficacy of agents following progression after vascular endothelial growth factor (VEGF) tyrosine kinase inhibition (TKI) and mammalian target of rapamycin (mTOR) inhibition in metastatic ...
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Journal ArticleJ Clin Oncol · February 10, 2012
97 Background: Vascular endothelial growth factor (VEGF)-mediated angiogenesis and insulin-like growth factor (IGF-IR)-mediated signaling contribute to mCRPC growth. CIX and RAM are fully human IgG1 human monoclonal antibodies targeting IGF-IR and VEGF rec ...
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Journal ArticleJ Clin Oncol · February 10, 2012
204 Background: The efficacy of docetaxel following exposure to androgen synthesis inhibitors such as KC or abiraterone acetate (AA) is unknown. Given the emerging use of pre-docetaxel AA and docetaxel's inhibition of androgen signaling, we retrospectively ...
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Journal ArticleJ Clin Oncol · February 10, 2012
435 Background: Given a lack of clinical information on therapeutic efficacy of agents following progression after vascular endothelial growth factor (VEGF) tyrosine kinase inhibition (TKI) and mammalian target of rapamycin (mTOR) inhibition in metastatic ...
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Journal ArticleJ Clin Oncol · February 10, 2012
97 Background: Vascular endothelial growth factor (VEGF)-mediated angiogenesis and insulin-like growth factor (IGF-IR)-mediated signaling contribute to mCRPC growth. CIX and RAM are fully human IgG1 human monoclonal antibodies targeting IGF-IR and VEGF rec ...
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Journal ArticleJ Clin Oncol · February 10, 2012
204 Background: The efficacy of docetaxel following exposure to androgen synthesis inhibitors such as KC or abiraterone acetate (AA) is unknown. Given the emerging use of pre-docetaxel AA and docetaxel's inhibition of androgen signaling, we retrospectively ...
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Journal ArticleEur Urol · February 2012
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BACKGROUND: The optimal number of 3-wk docetaxel plus prednisone (DP) cycles for metastatic castration-resistant prostate cancer (mCRPC) is unclear. OBJECTIVE: A retrospective analysis of two clinical trials was performed to evaluate the association of the ...
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Journal ArticleAm Soc Clin Oncol Educ Book · 2012
With the surge in therapeutic options for castration-resistant prostate cancer (CRPC) comes increasingly complicated treatment decision making, highlighting the need for biomarkers that can identify appropriate patients for specific treatments and accurate ...
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Journal ArticleCancer · January 1, 2012
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BACKGROUND: To determine the potential efficacy of targeting both the tumor and bone microenvironment in patients with castration-resistant prostate cancer (PC), the authors conducted a phase 1-2 trial combining docetaxel with dasatinib, an oral SRC inhibi ...
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Journal ArticleJ Urol · January 2012
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PURPOSE: The multidisciplinary approach is becoming increasingly encouraged but little is known about the multidisciplinary experience compared to routine care. For patients with prostate cancer the goal is to provide evaluations by urologists, medical and ...
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Journal ArticleClin Adv Hematol Oncol · December 2011
Over the past year, the treatment of metastatic castration-resistant prostate cancer (mCRPC) was dramatically altered with the introduction of several novel agents. One of these agents, the cancer immunotherapy sipuleucel-T, represents a major change in th ...
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Journal ArticleJ Clin Oncol · October 20, 2011
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PURPOSE: The activity of the novel antitumor agent tasquinimod (TASQ) with S100A9 as a molecular target was investigated in men with metastatic castration-resistant prostate cancer (CRPC) and minimal symptoms. PATIENTS AND METHODS: We conducted a randomize ...
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Journal ArticleProstate Cancer Prostatic Dis · September 2011
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The management of men with metastatic castration-resistant prostate cancer (CRPC) has taken several leaps forward in the past year, with the demonstration of improved overall survival with three novel agents (sipuleucel-T, cabazitaxel with prednisone and a ...
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Journal ArticleCancer · September 1, 2011
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BACKGROUND: In men with metastatic castration-resistant prostate cancer (CRPC), the association of measurable tumor responses with overall survival (OS) is unknown. The authors retrospectively evaluated the TAX327 phase 3 trial to study this relation. METH ...
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Journal ArticleProstate Cancer Prostatic Dis · September 2011
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Although treatment options for men with castration-resistant prostate cancer (CRPC) have improved with the recent and anticipated approvals of novel immunotherapeutic, hormonal, chemotherapeutic and bone-targeted agents, clinical benefit with these systemi ...
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Journal ArticleCurr Clin Pharmacol · August 2011
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The advent of targeted systemic therapies has significantly improved treatment options for patients with metastatic renal cell carcinoma (RCC). Multiple agents that inhibit angiogenesis cell growth and proliferation via the VEGF and mTOR (TORC1) pathways h ...
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Journal ArticleMol Cancer Res · August 2011
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During cancer progression, malignant cells undergo epithelial-mesenchymal transitions (EMT) and mesenchymal-epithelial transitions (MET) as part of a broad invasion and metastasis program. We previously observed MET events among lung metastases in a precli ...
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Journal ArticleJ Clin Oncol · May 20, 2011
4664 Background: Sunitinib malate (Sutent, Pfizer) is an oral multi-targeted tyrosine kinase inhibitor of VEGF/PDGF receptors that may function in part to inhibit prostate tumor growth via anti-angiogenic mechanisms. METHODS: We conducted a multi-site stud ...
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Journal ArticleJ Clin Oncol · May 20, 2011
4582 Background: The optimal number of cycles of 3-weekly DP therapy for mCRPC has not been ascertained. An exploratory analysis was conducted comparing results of 335 men on the DP arm of the TAX-327 study, which limited chemotherapy to 10 cycles, and a r ...
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Journal ArticleJ Clin Oncol · May 20, 2011
e15019 Background: PSA decline ≥30% and ≥50% within 90 days of starting chemotherapy are suboptimal surrogates for overall survival (OS) and only capture a proportion of total benefit. Changes in ALP were shown to complement PSA changes as prognostic facto ...
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Journal ArticleJournal of Clinical Oncology · March 1, 2011
185 Background: Threeprognosticrisk groups have been identified in men with mCRPC (good [GR]/intermediate [IR]/poor [PR]) based on 0-1, 2 or 3-4 factors (visceral disease, pain, anemia, bone scan progression). Prostate Cancer Wor ...
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Journal ArticleJournal of Clinical Oncology · March 1, 2011
118 Background: In men with metastatic castration resistant prostate cancer (CRPC),the association of measurable tumor responses with overall survival (OS) is unknown. We retrospectively evaluated the TAX327 phase III trial to st ...
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Journal ArticleJournal of Clinical Oncology · March 1, 2011
126 Background: Tasquinimod (TASQ) is an oral quinoline-3-carboxamide derivative that binds to S100A9 and displays anti-angiogenic and anti-tumor activity in prostate cancer (PC) models. In a randomized blinded phase II study, 20 ...
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Journal ArticleJ Clin Oncol · March 2011
118 Background: In men with metastatic castration resistant prostate cancer (CRPC),the association of measurable tumor responses with overall survival (OS) is unknown. We retrospectively evaluated the TAX327 phase III trial to study this relationship. METH ...
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Journal ArticleJ Clin Oncol · March 2011
126 Background: Tasquinimod (TASQ) is an oral quinoline-3-carboxamide derivative that binds to S100A9 and displays anti-angiogenic and anti-tumor activity in prostate cancer (PC) models. In a randomized blinded phase II study, 206 (136 TASQ, 70 placebo [P] ...
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Journal ArticleJ Clin Oncol · March 2011
185 Background: Threeprognosticrisk groups have been identified in men with mCRPC (good [GR]/intermediate [IR]/poor [PR]) based on 0-1, 2 or 3-4 factors (visceral disease, pain, anemia, bone scan progression). Prostate Cancer Working Group (PCWG)-2 defines ...
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Journal ArticleClin Med Insights Oncol · 2011
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Most prostate cancer-related deaths occur in patients with castration-resistant prostate cancer (CRPC). Until recently, only therapy with docetaxel and prednisone has been shown to prolong survival in men with metastatic CRPC. With the United States Food a ...
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Journal ArticleProstate Cancer Prostatic Dis · June 2010
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In 2009, castration-resistant metastatic prostate cancer continues to account for more deaths in US men than any other cancer apart from lung cancer. Although novel targeted molecular, hormonal and immunologic agents are accelerating in their development i ...
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Journal ArticleClin Cancer Res · June 1, 2010
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PURPOSE: Given discrepancies between preclinical and clinical observations of mammalian target of rapamycin (mTOR) inhibition in prostate cancer, we sought to determine the pharmacodynamic effects of the mTOR/TORC1 inhibitor rapamycin in men with intermedi ...
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Journal ArticleEur J Cancer · February 2010
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AIMS OF THE STUDY: There are no known predictive factors of response in men receiving chemotherapy for metastatic castration-resistant prostate cancer (mCRPC). We investigated pre-treatment factors that predicted a 30% PSA decline (30% PSAD) within 3 month ...
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Journal ArticleClin Cancer Res · January 1, 2010
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PURPOSE: We sought to evaluate predictors of overall survival following progression after systemic chemotherapy in men with metastatic castration-resistant prostate cancer. EXPERIMENTAL DESIGN: For our study population, we used the TAX327 multicenter rando ...
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Journal ArticleJ Immunol · January 1, 2010
Cholesterol is a key component of cell membranes and is essential for cell growth and proliferation. How the accumulation of cellular cholesterol affects lymphocyte development and function is not well understood. We demonstrate that ATP-binding cassette t ...
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Journal ArticleOncologist · August 2009
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Recurrent prostate cancer has a complex molecular etiology and a prolonged disease course. Although initially responsive to androgen ablation, many men eventually become castration resistant, develop skeletal metastases, and are palliatively treated with d ...
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Journal ArticleJ Clin Oncol · May 20, 2009
5137 Background: Our aim was to develop and validate clinically applicable predictive factors for a >30% PSA decline 3 months following chemotherapy initiation, and to assess the performance of a risk-group based classification in predicting PSA declines a ...
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Journal ArticleJ Clin Oncol · May 20, 2009
5061 Background: Dasatinib, a potent inhibitor of SRC family kinases, inhibits in vitro prostate cancer cell proliferation and migration. Consistent with those findings are the clinical observations that osteoclast activity and bone turnover are downregula ...
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Journal ArticleProstate Cancer Prostatic Dis · 2009
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The purpose of this study was to evaluate the relationship of baseline body mass index (BMI) and serum testosterone level with prostate cancer outcomes in men with castration-resistant metastatic prostate cancer (CRPC). BMI and testosterone levels were eva ...
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Journal ArticleClin Cancer Res · October 1, 2008
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PURPOSE: The primary aims of this phase I-II study were to determine the maximum tolerated dose, dose-limiting toxicity, pharmacokinetics, and preliminary efficacy of the combination of docetaxel and the endothelin A receptor antagonist atrasentan as first ...
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Journal ArticleJ Natl Compr Canc Netw · September 2008
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The mammalian target of rapamycin (mTOR) protein complex functions as an integration center for various intracellular signaling pathways involving cell cycle progression, proliferation, and angiogenesis. These pathways are frequently dysregulated in cancer ...
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Journal ArticleCurr Opin Urol · May 2008
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PURPOSE OF REVIEW: Overall survival remains the benchmark in phase III settings of novel agents in castration-resistant metastatic prostate cancer. This review highlights many of the current potential early measures of response and clinical benefit that ar ...
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Chapter · January 1, 2008
Introduction Prostate cancer will result in approximately 30,000 annual deaths in men in the United States in 2005 and is the second leading cause of cancer deaths in men after lung cancer.1,2 While the death rate from prostate cancer has been declining du ...
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Journal ArticleUrol Oncol · 2008
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In 2007, drug development in castration-resistant metastatic prostate cancer (CRPC) remains challenging, due to the number of potentially viable molecular targets and clinical trials available, the lack of established surrogates for overall survival, and c ...
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Journal ArticleCancer J · 2008
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Despite advances in the treatment of hormone-refractory prostate cancer (HRPC) with docetaxel chemotherapy as evidenced by the TAX 327 and SWOG 99-16 trials, therapeutic options remain limited in patients with cancer that progresses while they are receivin ...
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Journal ArticleClin Cancer Res · November 1, 2007
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PURPOSE: To develop a prognostic model and nomogram using baseline clinical variables to predict death among men with metastatic hormone-refractory prostate cancer (HRPC). EXPERIMENTAL DESIGN: TAX327 was a clinical trial that randomized 1,006 men with meta ...
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Journal ArticleTher Clin Risk Manag · October 2007
Satraplatin is an orally bioavailable platinum chemotherapeutic agent under development for several cancer types, including hormone-refractory prostate cancer (HRPC). Satraplatin is being developed for the treatment of men with chemorefractory HRPC for sev ...
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Journal ArticleJ Clin Oncol · September 1, 2007
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PURPOSE: It is currently unclear if early prostate-specific antigen (PSA) or pain improvements are adequate surrogates for overall survival in men with metastatic hormone-refractory prostate cancer (HRPC). Here we examined various degrees of PSA decline an ...
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Journal ArticleBJU Int · May 2007
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Angiogenesis is an important hallmark of RCC, reflected in the natural history, Histology, genetics and now therapeutics of this disease. Clearly, the pro-angiogenic growth factor VEGF is a functional drug target in RCC and many strategies to inhibit this ...
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Journal ArticleMinerva Urol Nefrol · March 2007
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Systemic therapy beyond hormonal therapy for advanced prostate cancer includes chemotherapy, antiangiogenic therapy, signal transduction inhibitors, immunomodulatory therapy, and other experimental therapeutics. This review will discuss the state of system ...
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Journal ArticleRev Urol · 2007
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Prostate cancer is a common cause of death in men and remains incurable in the metastatic setting. In 2004, 2 landmark trials using docetaxel-based chemotherapy, TAX 327 and SWOG 99-16, showed a survival benefit for the first time in metastatic, hormone-re ...
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Journal ArticleCurr Opin Urol · May 2006
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PURPOSE OF REVIEW: The survival of hormone-refractory metastatic prostate cancer patients has improved with the use of docetaxel-based chemotherapy. The survival benefits, however, are modest suggesting that rationally designed therapeutic approaches are n ...
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Journal ArticleCan J Urol · June 2005
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The demonstration of a survival benefit with docetaxel for the treatment of metastatic hormone refractory prostate cancer (HRPC) is an important step forward in advancing treatment options for advanced prostate cancer. While docetaxel-based therapy has dem ...
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Journal ArticleCurr Oncol Rep · May 2005
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Our understanding of the role of chemotherapy for advanced prostate cancer has improved considerably in 2004 with the publication of two large randomized phase III trials and the approval by the US Food and Drug Administration of docetaxel and prednisone f ...
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Journal ArticleClin Adv Hematol Oncol · April 2005
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Considerable progress in the treatment of advanced prostate cancer was made in 2004 with the approval by the US Food and Drug Administration of docetaxel for the treatment of metastatic hormone-refractory prostate cancer. The survival benefit with docetaxe ...
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Chapter · January 1, 2005
INTRODUCTION Prostate cancer will result in approximately 30,000 annual deaths in men in the United States in 2005 and is the second leading cause of cancer deaths in men after lung cancer.1,2 While the death rate from prostate cancer has been declining du ...
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Journal ArticleWork · 2005
Employment discrimination of persons with cumulative trauma disorders (CTDs) was explored using the Integrated Mission System dataset of the US Equal Employment Opportunity Commission. Demographic characteristics and merit resolutions of the Charging Parti ...
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Journal ArticleCancer Biol Ther · 2003
The use of monoclonal antibodies as adjuvants to cancer chemotherapy has drawn considerable interest in recent years, due to the success of several novel agents against a broad range of targets. One such target is EpCAM (aka GA733-2, KSA, 17-1A antigen), a ...
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Journal ArticleJ Biomech · February 2000
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Cervical spine injuries continue to be a costly societal problem. Future advancements in injury prevention depend on improved physical and computational models which, in turn, are predicated on a better understanding of the responses of the neck during dyn ...
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ConferenceASME International Mechanical Engineering Congress and Exposition Proceedings Imece · January 1, 1997
The importance of buckling during compressive loading of the cervical spine was suggested by Torg (1985) and has been subsequently demonstrated both quasi-statically2 and dynamically3. The complex deformations resulting from first and second order cervical ...
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Journal ArticleOncogene · October 19, 1995
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We constructed in-frame deletion/replacement mutations in the Xenopus mos proto-oncogene that lie within conserved Mos-specific codons, but outside of the regions that are conserved among the src kinase family of genes. All gene products were assayed in vi ...
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Journal ArticlePflugers Arch · 1975
The concentration of tryptophan not incorporated into protein or polypeptides in the pancreas of male rats rose two- to three-fold in response to a 24 hrs period of food deprivation. On refeeding or intra-peritoneal administration of glucose the level of t ...
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Journal ArticleJournal of Clinical Oncology
Background: Phase III studies that led to ENZ approval in the treatment of mCRPC included side effects like fatigue, musculoskeletal pain, and falls, which could result from skeletal muscle loss. Such muscle loss (sarcopenia), in a variety of cancer popula ...
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