Journal article
The role of doxorubicin and epirubicin in the treatment of patients with metastatic hormone-refractory prostate cancer
Cancer treatment reviews, Vol.34(8), pp.710-718
12/01/2008
DOI: 10.1016/j.ctrv.2008.05.004
PMID: 18620815
Abstract
Advanced hormone-refractory prostate cancer (HRPC) is characterized by prevalently osteoblastic bone metastases which are what mostly affect these patients’ quality of life and make the assessment of response to treatment particularly difficult by commonly used criteria. HRPC cannot be cured by any available therapeutic option, and chemotherapy has to be still considered as a palliative treatment. The anthracyclines doxorubicin (Dox) and epirubicin (Epi), alone or in combination with other agents, have been extensively used in the treatment of HRPC, but controversial results have been reported. The majority of reviewed studies reported a pain reduction in >50% of patients receiving Dox or Epi, suggesting a substantial palliative effect by their use in metastatic HRPC. The weekly schedule of anthracyclines seemed to achieve similar results to the 3-weekly schedule but with a better toxicity profile. Although the toxic adverse effects were usually manageable when anthracyclines were combined with other agents, toxicity was severe by a number of aggressive regimens. Docetaxel is today approved for the treatment of HRPC, and must be considered the standard platform on which new agents may be combined. Given that HRPC includes a heterogeneous group of patients with variable rates of tumour growth, the combination of docetaxel with active agents such as anthracyclines may deserve further clinical investigation.
Details
- Title: Subtitle
- The role of doxorubicin and epirubicin in the treatment of patients with metastatic hormone-refractory prostate cancer
- Creators
- Roberto Petrioli - University of SienaAnna Ida Fiaschi - University of SienaEdoardo Francini - University of SienaAlessandra Pascucci - University of SienaGuido Francini - University of Siena
- Resource Type
- Journal article
- Publication Details
- Cancer treatment reviews, Vol.34(8), pp.710-718
- DOI
- 10.1016/j.ctrv.2008.05.004
- PMID
- 18620815
- NLM abbreviation
- Cancer Treat Rev
- ISSN
- 0305-7372
- eISSN
- 1532-1967
- Publisher
- Elsevier Ltd
- Number of pages
- 9
- Language
- English
- Date published
- 12/01/2008
- Academic Unit
- Internal Medicine
- Record Identifier
- 9985221243502771
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