Entacapone and prostate cancer risk in patients with Parkinson's Disease - Abstract

BACKGROUND: The association between Parkinson's disease (PD) and prostate cancer, both common in elderly men, is disputable.

In the STRIDE-PD study, prostate cancer developed in 9 patients (3.7%) receiving levodopa/carbidopa with entacapone, a catechol-O-methyltransferase inhibitor, versus 2 cases (0.9%) without entacapone. The current pharmacoepidemiological study aimed to determine whether entacapone increases prostate cancer incidence or mortality in PD patients and whether cumulative exposure affects these rates.

METHODS: We performed a retrospective cohort study using population-wide health care registers with patient-level linkage. Prostate cancer incidence and mortality were modeled by Cox's proportional hazards models.

RESULTS AND CONCLUSIONS: Use of entacapone with l-dopa/dopa decarboxylase inhibitor caused no increased risk of prostate cancer incidence (hazard ratio [HR]: 1.05; 95% confidence interval: 0.76-1.44) or mortality (0.93; 0.43-1.98). The HR for cumulative entacapone use of >360 days versus never-use was 0.82 (0.56-1.18) for prostate cancer incidence and 1.27 (0.60-2.72) for prostate cancer mortality.

Written by:
Korhonen P, Kuoppamäki M, Prami T, Hoti F, Christopher S, Ellmén J, Aho V, Vahteristo M, Pukkala E, Haukka J.   Are you the author?
EPID Research Oy, Espoo, Finland.

Reference: Mov Disord. 2015 Jan 16. Epub ahead of print.
doi: 10.1002/mds.26140


PubMed Abstract
PMID: 25639262

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