Dexamethasone Prior to Re-treatment With Enzalutamide in Treating Patients With Metastatic Hormone-Resistant Prostate Cancer Previously Treated With Enzalutamide and Docetaxel

Stopped early · Not applicable

Conditions studied: Hormone-Resistant Prostate Cancer, Metastatic Prostate Carcinoma, Prostate Adenocarcinoma, Stage IV Prostate Cancer

In brief

This pilot trial studies how well dexamethasone and re-treatment with enzalutamide work in treating patients with prostate cancer that has spread to other places in the body (metastatic), does not respond to hormone therapy (hormone-resistant), and was previously treated with enzalutamide and docetaxel. Dexamethasone treatment may be able to reverse one resistance mechanism to enzalutamide therapy (overabundance of receptors for dexamethasone and other glucocorticoids inside cancer cells) and allow for renewed therapeutic sensitivity to enzalutamide. Androgens (a type of male hormone) can bind to androgen receptors found inside prostate cancer cells, which may cause the cancer cells to grow. Enzalutamide may stop the growth of prostate cancer cells by blocking the activity of the cancer cell androgen receptors. Giving dexamethasone prior to re-treatment with enzalutamide may be a treatment for prostate cancer.

Key facts

Study ID

NCT02491411

Run by

Sidney Kimmel Comprehensive Cancer Center at Johns Hopkins

People needed

5

Starts

2015-09-01

Expected to finish

2018-03-01

Last updated by the study team

2018-07-12

Who can join

Age: 18 and older. Sex: male. Healthy volunteers: not accepted.

You may qualify if…

• Patients must have histologically or cytologically confirmed adenocarcinoma of the prostate
• Patients must have metastatic disease radiographically documented by CT/magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) or bone scan; measurable disease is not necessary for inclusion
• Eastern Cooperative Oncology Group (ECOG) performance status =< 2 (Karnofsky >= 60%)
• Life expectancy of greater than 3 months in the opinion of the investigator
• Absolute neutrophil count >= 1,500/mcL
• Platelets >= 100,000/mcL
• Hemoglobin >= 8; transfusion is allowed
• Total bilirubin =< 1.5 x institutional upper limit of normal
• Aspartate aminotransferase (AST)(serum glutamic oxaloacetic transaminase [SGOT])/alanine aminotransferase (ALT)(serum glutamate pyruvate transaminase [SGPT]) =< 2.5 x institutional upper limit of normal
• Creatinine clearance >= 30 by Cockcroft-Gault formula
• Patients must have progression after prior treatment with Enza at any point in the disease course (pre- or post-chemotherapy)
• Patients must have progressed after prior treatment with docetaxel; docetaxel must have specifically been given for castration-resistant metastatic disease
• Prior treatment with other second line hormone therapy is allowed (e.g. flutamide, bicalutamide, nilutamide, ketoconazole, abiraterone, ARN-509); patients must be off these therapies for at least 4 weeks prior to starting treatment
• Prior treatment with Xofigo (223Radium), Provenge, mitoxantrone and cabazitaxel is allowed
• Patients must have rising PSA on two successive measurements, at least 2 weeks apart
• Patient must be treated with continuous androgen ablative therapy (e.g. goserelin, leuprolide, triptorelin, or degarelix, if he has not had prior surgical castration) and have castrate levels of testosterone (< 50 ng/dL or 1.7 nmol/L)
• Ability to understand and the willingness to sign a written informed consent document

You may not qualify if…

• Patients who have had chemotherapy or radiotherapy within 4 weeks prior to entering the study or those who have not recovered from adverse events due to agents administered more than 4 weeks earlier (persistent toxicity >= grade 1)
• Patients who have received any other investigational agents within the last 4 weeks
• History of allergic reactions attributed to compounds of similar chemical or biologic composition to Dex or Enza
• Any use of systemic corticosteroids in the prior 4 weeks
• Uncontrolled diabetes mellitus
• History of seizure, underlying brain injury with loss of consciousness, transient ischemic attack within the past 12 months, cerebral vascular accident, brain metastases, and brain arteriovenous malformations
• Patients receiving any medications or substances that are inhibitors or inducers of cytochrome P450 family 2, subfamily C, polypeptide 8 (CYP2C8) are ineligible (e.g. gemfibrozil, rifampin, trimethoprim, pioglitazone)
• Uncontrolled intercurrent illness including, but not limited to, ongoing or active infection, symptomatic congestive heart failure, unstable angina pectoris, cardiac arrhythmia, or psychiatric illness/social situations or geographical condition that would limit compliance with study requirements

Where it is running

• Johns Hopkins University/Sidney Kimmel Cancer Center — Baltimore, Maryland, United States

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