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- Title
Management of advanced prostate cancer after first-line chemotherapy.
- Authors
Berthold, Dominik R; Sternberg, Cora N; Tannock, Ian F
- Abstract
Hormone refractory prostate cancer (HRPC) causes substantial morbidity and mortality. There are increasing options for both first- and second-line therapy in the palliative treatment of patients with HRPC. Medications to control symptoms should first be optimized in patients with late-stage disease, and radiotherapy applied to dominant painful bone lesions. Docetaxel, mitoxantrone, satraplatin, and ixabepilone are active chemotherapeutic agents in the first- and/or second-line setting for patients with HRPC, and this may be true also of older drugs such as oral cyclophosphamide and vinorelbine. Radioisotopes such as strontium and samarium are useful for treatment of more generalized bone pain. Third-line hormonal maneuvers including glucocorticoids, ketoconazole, and estrogens can lead to further palliation in some patients, and there are provocative data that chemotherapy might restore hormonal sensitivity in a subset of patients.
- Publication
Journal of clinical oncology : official journal of the American Society of Clinical Oncology, 2005, Vol 23, Issue 32, p8247
- ISSN
0732-183X
- Publication type
Journal Article
- DOI
10.1200/JCO.2005.03.1435