Developmental Therapeutics in Metastatic Prostate Cancer: New Targets and New Strategies

Cancers (Basel). 2024 Sep 6;16(17):3098. doi: 10.3390/cancers16173098.

Abstract

There is an unmet need to develop new treatments for metastatic prostate cancer. With the development of targeted radioligand therapies, bispecific T cell engagers, antibody-drug conjugates and chimeric antigen receptor T cell (CAR T) therapies, tumor-associated cell surface antigens have emerged as new therapeutic targets in metastatic prostate cancer. Ongoing and completed clinical trials targeting prostate-specific membrane antigen (PSMA), six transmembrane epithelial antigens of the prostate 1 (STEAP1), kallikrein-related peptidase 2 (KLK2), prostate stem cell antigen (PSCA), and delta-like protein 3 (DLL3) in metastatic prostate cancer were reviewed. Strategies for sequential or combinational therapy were discussed.

Keywords: CAR T; DLL3; KLK2; PSCA; PSMA; STEAP1; antibody–drug conjugate; bispecific T cell engagers; immunotherapy; prostate cancer.

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This research received no external funding.