Department of Medicine, Division of Hematology and Oncology, George Washington University Medical Center, Washington, DC, USA.

Prostate cancer remains the most common non-cutaneous malignancy among American men. Since the advent of PSA testing, most men are diagnosed with localized disease, but a proportion of men will be diagnosed with metastatic disease, many will eventually receive chemotherapy with docetaxel and prednisone. However, responses are not durable and all men will ultimately progress on this treatment. As such, continued efforts are geared towards the discovery of new agents and mechanisms of targeting prostate cancer. Angiogenesis has been shown to play an important role in tumorigenesis, proliferation and metastasis in prostate cancer. Here we discuss the major angiogenic signaling pathway involving VEGF in prostate cancer progression and the role of various promising agents that targets this pathway. This includes bevacizumab, thalidomide and its analogues, tyrosine kinase inhibitors sorafenib and AZD2171, and other inhibitors of angiogenic signaling pathways. Results of key clinical trials associated with the use of these agents and future directions are discussed herein.

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Aragon-Ching JB, Dahut WL.   Are you the author?

Reference:
Curr Mol Pharmacol. 2009 Jun 1;2(2):161-168.

PubMed Abstract
PMID:19617926

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