Clinical significance of a prostate-specific antigen flare phenomenon in patients with hormone-refractory prostate cancer receiving docetaxel.

Abstract:

:Docetaxel has shown promise for the treatment of hormone-refractory prostate cancer and has become the standard of care. The flare phenomenon is a known entity in androgen-deprivation therapy of advanced prostate cancer and it has also been described in palliative chemotherapy of hormone-refractory prostate cancer. The aim of this study was to evaluate the clinical impact of a prostate-specific antigen flare phenomenon in docetaxel-treated hormone-refractory prostate cancer patients. From December 2002 to August 2005, we treated 44 patients with hormone-refractory prostate cancer applying docetaxel-based regimens. Prostate-specific antigen levels were determined before therapy and weekly thereafter. Patients were divided into three groups: response (group 1), progression (group 2) and flare (group 3). Flare was defined as initially rising prostate-specific antigen under therapy, dropping thereafter to values below baseline. The groups were compared for overall survival by Kaplan-Meier analysis. We observed a prostate-specific antigen flare phenomenon in eight (18%) of 44 evaluable patients; 24 (54.5%) patients were primary responders and 12 (27.3%) experienced progressive disease. In group 3, prostate-specific antigen levels rose to 107-180% from baseline and then dropped to 21-68%. Kaplan-Meier analysis showed significantly better overall median survival for groups 1 (18 months, P=0.0005) and 3 (19 months, P=0.006) than for group 2 (7 months). Survival in groups 1 and 3 was comparable. Grade 3 and 4 toxicity was below 5% and equally distributed between the 3 groups. In our limited patient cohort, prostate-specific antigen flare phenomenon does not seem to be a clinically relevant issue in terms of overall survival. Thus, an initial rise of prostate-specific antigen under docetaxel therapy in hormone-refractory prostate cancer does not indicate therapeutic failure and should not lead to early withdrawal from therapy in the absence of clinical signs of progression.

journal_name

Anticancer Drugs

journal_title

Anti-cancer drugs

authors

Olbert PJ,Hegele A,Kraeuter P,Heidenreich A,Hofmann R,Schrader AJ

doi

10.1097/01.cad.0000231468.69535.97

subject

Has Abstract

pub_date

2006-09-01 00:00:00

pages

993-6

issue

8

eissn

0959-4973

issn

1473-5741

pii

00001813-200609000-00014

journal_volume

17

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