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Role of androgen deprivation treatment in patients with castration-resistant prostate cancer, receiving docetaxel-based chemotherapy - Abstract

Friday, 20 August 2010

Oncology, and Urology, Asan Medical Center, University of Ulsan College of Medicine, Seoul, Korea.

To assess the impact of continued androgen deprivation therapy (ADT) in patients with castration-resistant prostate cancer (CRPC) receiving first-line docetaxel-based chemotherapy.

A retrospective review was performed on 78 patients fulfilling the criteria for CRPC who were treated with docetaxel-based chemotherapy over 5 years.

Thirty-nine patients received concurrent ADT (ADT group), whereas 39 patients discontinued ADT (No-ADT group). PSA response rates were 66.7% for ADT patients and 48.7% for No-ADT patients (P = 0.27). The median progression-free survival and overall survival were 5.0 months and 24.8 months for ADT patients and 4.9 months and 22.1 months for No-ADT patients, respectively (P = 0.57, P = 0.94). Follow-up testosterone levels were available in 13 patients of the No-ADT group and none of them recovered a normal serum testosterone level over a median follow-up duration of 8.3 months from ADT discontinuation. ADT was recommenced in 21 of 39 patients in the No-ADT group and, of these, 6 (29%) achieved a PSA response.

Clinical outcomes were not significantly different when patients with CRPC received concurrent ADT, or were not so treated, when receiving first-line docetaxel-based chemotherapy. Despite ADT withdrawal, serum testosterone level did not recover to the noncastrated level during the period of chemotherapy, and reinduction of hormone sensitivity occurred in about one-quarter of patients.

Written by:

Lee JL, Eun Kim J, Ahn JH, Lee DH, Lee J, Kim CS, Hyuk Hong J, Hong B, Song C, Ahn H.

Reference: Am J Clin Oncol. 2010 Aug 3. Epub ahead of print.

PubMed Abstract

PMID: 20686407 Forum: Metastatic prostate cancer Title: ADT with Docetaxel

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