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Filter by:Androgen Deprivation Therapy (ADT) is standard treatment for locally advanced or advanced Prostate Cancer (PC). The musculoskeletal toxicity associated with ADT is well established, leading to a decrease in muscle mass, increased fat percentage, weight gain, sexual dysfunction and increased risk of depression, fatigue, diabetes, cardiovascular disease and reduced quality of life. Numerous studies have shown an association between physical activity, physical capacity and quality of life in cancer patients and recent epidemiological research suggest that regular, moderate-intensity physical activity may have a positive effect on survival in men with prostate cancer. Within exercise physiology there is new evidence pointing to recreational soccer as a unique form of intermittent exercise that effectively stimulates aerobic and anaerobic energy delivery systems, leading to beneficial musculoskeletal, metabolic and cardiovascular adaptations of importance for health. It is our overall hypothesis that 12 weeks of recreational soccer training 2-3 times per week will improve the health profile of PC patients receiving ADT treatment.
How are testosterone levels of patients with prostate cancer under treatment with Firmagon® changing. Former studies showed a quick fall of testosterone levels after start of therapy with Firmagon® and a quick recovery when therapy is stopped. The investigators want to prove this in a normal outpatient urologist setting. Furthermore data is collected to prove the adherence to the German S3-Guideline for the treatment of prostate cancer.
Phase 2 hypofractionation study usion proton beam therapy for prostate adenocarcinoma
The main objective of this multicenter, randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled phase III trial is to assess the impact of maintenance orteronel on disease progression and hence on quality of life in patients with metastatic castration-resistant prostate cancer who have achieved at lease disease stabilization after first line chemotherapy with docetaxel.
This randomized pilot clinical trial studies sipuleucel-T with or without deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA) vaccine therapy in treating patients with prostate cancer that has not responded to previous treatment with hormones and has spread to other places in the body. Vaccines may help the body build an effective immune response to kill tumor cells. It is not yet known whether giving sipuleucel-T vaccine works better with or without DNA vaccine therapy in treating prostate cancer.
Prostate cancer is the most commonly diagnosed cancer in men in Canada. Over 30% of men over the age of fifty have histological evidence of prostate cancer on biopsy. Despite the stage migration afforded by early detection with serum prostate specific antigen (PSA) testing and an apparent trend toward improved survival over the past several years, prostate cancer remains a significant cause of morbidity and mortality. Biochemical failure after primary therapy (surgery or radiation) remains a significant health care burden and strategies to delay clinical prostate cancer progression and prolong the interval from treatment failure to systemic therapy would be of significant clinical benefit for those men suffering from a finding of PSA recurrence. PSA is widely accepted as the most useful prognostic marker of prostate cancer progression, particularly after primary therapy with radical surgery or radiation. 5 Despite improved cancer control rates with definitive management of early stage prostate cancer, a PSA recurrence is unfortunately a common occurrence (25-50%) in most large case series. Microenvironmental factors have been demonstrated to play a pivotal role in the selection of neoplastic cell subpopulations expressing more malignant phenotypes and contributing to the progression of localized and metastatic disease. Very low levels of O2 (< 10 mmHg) has been well described in many solid tumours (including prostate cancer) and the extent of hypoxia has been demonstrated to represent an independent marker of a poor prognosis for patients with various types of cancers. Tumour hypoxia contributes to numerous adaptive phenotypes including increased invasion and metastasis, as well as evasion of immune cell surveillance increased resistance to radiotherapy and chemotherapy. Although cellular adaptive responses to hypoxia are likely mediated by various mechanisms, our previous preclinical studies suggest that decreased nitric oxide (NO)-dependent signalling plays a significant role in this progression of a malignant phenotype.
Objective was to evaluate the efficacy and safety of the histrelin acetate subdermal implant (originally versus Lupron Depot-3 Month) in male patients with advanced prostate cancer during 52 weeks of treatment with the implant. After consultation w/ FDA, design was modified to eliminate the Lupron arm and continued the study as an open-label non-randomized study. Primary endpoint was testosterone suppression, as assessed by the percent of patients whose testosterone indicated chemical castration levels (<=50 ng/dL) through 52 weeks of treatment with an implant.
This research is being done to see if an investigational prostate cancer vaccine, called GVAX, can safely be given together with a single intravenous injection of a drug called cyclophosphamide to men that will undergo surgery to remove their cancerous prostate glands who have also received standard hormonal therapy.
The purpose of this study is to determine whether sustainable daily physical activity is effective in improving biological indicators of health and self-reported quality of life in men with prostate cancer.
The purpose of this study is to evaluate the safety and efficacy of abiraterone acetate when co-administered with prednisone in Asian patients with metastatic castration-resistant prostate cancer (mCRPC) who have failed docetaxel-based chemotherapy.