Background:Preclinical studies in prostate cancer (PC) models demonstrated the anti-tumour activity of the first fully synthetic epothilone, sagopilone.
This is the first study to investigate the activity and safety of sagopilone in patients with metastatic castration-resistant PC (CRPC).
Methods: Chemotherapy-naïve patients with metastatic CRPC received sagopilone (one cycle: 16 mg m-2intravenously over 3 h q3w) plus prednisone (5 mg twice daily). The primary efficacy evaluation was prostate-specific antigen (PSA) response rate (≥50% PSA reduction confirmed ≥28 days apart). According to the Simon two-stage design, ≥3 PSA responders were necessary within the first 13 evaluable patients for recruitment to continue until 46 evaluable patients were available.
Results: In all, 53 patients received ≥2 study medication cycles, with high compliance. Mean individual dose was 15.1±1.4 mg m-2during initial six cycles, mean dose intensity 94±9%. The confirmed PSA response rate was 37%. Median overall progression-free survival was 6.4 months. The most commonly reported adverse events (>10% of patients) were peripheral neuropathy (94.3%), fatigue (54.7%) and pain in the extremities (47.2%). Sagopilone was associated with very little haematological toxicity.
Conclusion: This study shows that first-line sagopilone has noteworthy anti-tumour activity and a clinically significant level of neuropathy for patients with metastatic chemotherapy-naïve CRPC.
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Beer TM, Smith DC, Hussain A, Alonso M, Wang J, Giurescu M, Roth K, Wang Y. Are you the author?
Knight Cancer Institute, Oregon Health & Science University, Mail code CH14R, 3303 SW Bond Avenue, Portland, OR 97239, USA.
Reference: Br J Cancer. 2012 Aug 21;107(5):808-13.
doi: 10.1038/bjc.2012.339
PubMed Abstract
PMID: 22850553
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