Cetin Bulent, Ozet Ahmet
Department of Internal Medicine, Division of Medical Oncology, Recep Tayyip Erdogan University Faculty of Medicine, Rize.
Department of Internal Medicine, Division of Medical Oncology, Gazi University Faculty of Medicine, Ankara, Turkey.
Curr Urol. 2019 Oct;13(2):57-63. doi: 10.1159/000499292. Epub 2019 Oct 1.
The treatment landscape for advanced prostate cancer is evolving rapidly, with new agents and strategies, and more optimal use of existing therapies under constant development. Efforts were focused on better understanding of the biology of the disease. This effort has paved the way for a more contemporary and effective therapies to be developed. There are now 6 FDA-approved therapies that increase overall survival. These include the immunotherapy sipuleucel-T; the 2 androgen pathway inhibitors: abiraterone acetate and enzalutamide; 2 chemotherapy drugs: docetaxel and cabazitaxel; and the radionuclide: radium-223. Advanced prostate cancer may be one of the few cancers for which multiple chemotherapy and nonchemotherapy regimens are considered as standard. Several recently published clinical trials have demonstrated the suprising activity of chemotherapy-free strategies, and we should not be too eager to discount these "old-fashioned" treatments. Optimal sequencing is still unclear because new therapies have proliferated so quickly that comparative data are limited. In this short communication, we identify current challenges and unmet needs in advanced prostate cancer and provide an overview of their respective clinical activity, while highlighting distinctions between therapies.
晚期前列腺癌的治疗格局正在迅速演变,新的药物和策略不断涌现,现有疗法的使用也在持续优化。研究重点在于更深入地了解该疾病的生物学特性。这一努力为开发更现代、更有效的疗法铺平了道路。目前有6种经美国食品药品监督管理局(FDA)批准的疗法可提高总体生存率。这些疗法包括免疫疗法sipuleucel-T;两种雄激素途径抑制剂:醋酸阿比特龙和恩杂鲁胺;两种化疗药物:多西他赛和卡巴他赛;以及放射性核素镭-223。晚期前列腺癌可能是少数几种多种化疗和非化疗方案均被视为标准治疗的癌症之一。最近发表的几项临床试验证明了无化疗策略出人意料的疗效,我们不应急于摒弃这些“传统”治疗方法。由于新疗法激增,比较数据有限,最佳治疗顺序仍不明确。在这篇简短的通讯中,我们确定了晚期前列腺癌当前面临的挑战和未满足的需求,并概述了它们各自的临床活性,同时强调了不同疗法之间的区别。