Emerging therapeutic approaches in the management of metastatic castration-resistant prostate cancer - Abstract

Prostate Cancer Research Program, Sidney Kimmel Comprehensive Cancer Center at Johns Hopkins, Baltimore, MD, USA.

 

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 systemic therapies is transient and survival times remain unacceptably short. Thus, we devote the second section of this two-part review to discussing emerging therapeutic paradigms and research strategies that are entering phase II and III clinical testing for men with metastatic CRPC. We will discuss a range of emerging hormonal, immunomodulatory, antiangiogenic, epigenetic and cell survival pathway inhibitors in current clinical trials, with an emphasis on how these therapies may complement our existing treatment options.

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Antonarakis ES, Armstrong AJ.   Are you the author?

Reference: Prostate Cancer Prostatic Dis. 2011 May 17. Epub ahead of print.
doi: 10.1038/pcan.2011.24

PubMed Abstract
PMID: 21577233

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