Radium-223, an injected alpha-emitting radioisotope that homes to bone, lengthened survival and delayed skeletal complications in men with castration-resistant prostate cancer that had spread to bone but not to organs.
Phase 3 placebo-controlled trial of 921 men with castration-resistant prostate cancer, symptomatic bone metastases and no visceral disease, randomised 2:1 to six injections of radium-223 or placebo with best standard of care.
Median overall survival was 14.9 versus 11.3 months (hazard ratio 0.70), time to first symptomatic skeletal event was delayed (15.6 versus 9.8 months) and myelosuppression was mild.
Radium-223 is an option for symptomatic bone-predominant castration-resistant prostate cancer, now less used since lutetium-PSMA, and should not be combined with abiraterone after the ERA 223 fracture signal.
Shares Prostate cancer roadmap: from Huggins and the discovery that a cancer can depend on a hormone, through the PSA epidemic and what it cost, the androgen receptor drugs, the DNA repair subset and PSMA, to a 2032 registry watch, Metastatic castration-resistant prostate cancer, New England Journal of Medicine.
Shares Prostate cancer roadmap: from Huggins and the discovery that a cancer can depend on a hormone, through the PSA epidemic and what it cost, the androgen receptor drugs, the DNA repair subset and PSMA, to a 2032 registry watch, New England Journal of Medicine.
Shares Prostate cancer roadmap: from Huggins and the discovery that a cancer can depend on a hormone, through the PSA epidemic and what it cost, the androgen receptor drugs, the DNA repair subset and PSMA, to a 2032 registry watch, New England Journal of Medicine.
Shares Prostate cancer roadmap: from Huggins and the discovery that a cancer can depend on a hormone, through the PSA epidemic and what it cost, the androgen receptor drugs, the DNA repair subset and PSMA, to a 2032 registry watch, New England Journal of Medicine.
Shares Prostate cancer roadmap: from Huggins and the discovery that a cancer can depend on a hormone, through the PSA epidemic and what it cost, the androgen receptor drugs, the DNA repair subset and PSMA, to a 2032 registry watch, New England Journal of Medicine.
Shares Prostate cancer roadmap: from Huggins and the discovery that a cancer can depend on a hormone, through the PSA epidemic and what it cost, the androgen receptor drugs, the DNA repair subset and PSMA, to a 2032 registry watch, New England Journal of Medicine.
Shares Prostate cancer roadmap: from Huggins and the discovery that a cancer can depend on a hormone, through the PSA epidemic and what it cost, the androgen receptor drugs, the DNA repair subset and PSMA, to a 2032 registry watch, New England Journal of Medicine.
Shares Prostate cancer roadmap: from Huggins and the discovery that a cancer can depend on a hormone, through the PSA epidemic and what it cost, the androgen receptor drugs, the DNA repair subset and PSMA, to a 2032 registry watch, New England Journal of Medicine.