Enzalutamide after chemotherapy in advanced castration-resistant prostate cancer: the Italian Named Patient Program

Future Oncol. 2018 Nov;14(26):2691-2699. doi: 10.2217/fon-2018-0113. Epub 2018 Sep 12.

Abstract

Aim: To collect efficacy and safety data of enzalutamide after docetaxel, we retrospectively evaluated the Italian Named Patient Program results.

Patients & methods: Two hundred and nine metastatic castration-resistant prostate cancer patients were enrolled. Median age was 73 years. Total 42.1% patients had pain, 14.4% had a performance status of two and 59.8% had a Gleason score ≥8. Total 31.1% had previously received ≥2 chemotherapies, 15.3 and 12% had been previously treated with abiraterone and cabazitaxel, respectively and 14.8% had received both.

Results: Median progression-free survival and overall survival were 4.8 and 13.1 months, respectively. A prostate-specific antigen reduction ≥50% was observed in 49.1%. Total 32.7% abiraterone-pretreated patients achieved a biochemical response compared with 56% of abiraterone-naive patients.

Conclusion: Enzalutamide was safe and well tolerated. Its antitumor activity in abiraterone-pretreated patients was limited.

Keywords: efficacy; enzalutamide; prostate cancer; safety.

Publication types

  • Clinical Trial, Phase III
  • Multicenter Study
  • Randomized Controlled Trial

MeSH terms

  • Adult
  • Aged
  • Aged, 80 and over
  • Androstenes / pharmacology
  • Androstenes / therapeutic use
  • Antineoplastic Combined Chemotherapy Protocols / pharmacology
  • Antineoplastic Combined Chemotherapy Protocols / therapeutic use*
  • Benzamides
  • Disease Progression
  • Docetaxel / pharmacology
  • Docetaxel / therapeutic use
  • Drug Resistance, Neoplasm
  • Humans
  • Italy / epidemiology
  • Kallikreins / blood
  • Kaplan-Meier Estimate
  • Male
  • Middle Aged
  • Nitriles
  • Phenylthiohydantoin / analogs & derivatives*
  • Phenylthiohydantoin / pharmacology
  • Phenylthiohydantoin / therapeutic use
  • Progression-Free Survival
  • Prostate-Specific Antigen / blood
  • Prostatic Neoplasms, Castration-Resistant / blood
  • Prostatic Neoplasms, Castration-Resistant / drug therapy*
  • Prostatic Neoplasms, Castration-Resistant / mortality
  • Prostatic Neoplasms, Castration-Resistant / pathology
  • Retrospective Studies

Substances

  • Androstenes
  • Benzamides
  • Nitriles
  • Docetaxel
  • Phenylthiohydantoin
  • enzalutamide
  • KLK3 protein, human
  • Kallikreins
  • Prostate-Specific Antigen
  • abiraterone