Comparative benefits of Nab - paclitaxel over gemcitabine or polysorbate - based
docetaxel in experimental pancreatic cancer.
CXCR4 peptide antagonist inhibits primary breast tumor growth, metastasis and enhances the efficacy of anti-VEGF treatment or
docetaxel in a transgenic mouse model.
No evaluable data were available for the comparison with
docetaxel in patients in whom prolongation of life was the primary treatment goal.
The researchers showed that cabazitaxel worked better than
docetaxel in human prostate cancer cells lines that were resistant hormone treatment, both in terms of slowing cancer - cell growth and in its ability to kill cancer cells.
If prolongation of life was the primary therapeutic objective and the patients were eligible for docetaxel treatment, the G - BA specified
docetaxel in combination with prednisone or prednisolone as appropriate comparator therapy (docetaxel population).
Not exact matches
Findings were presented at the WCLC are based on the updated results of 12 lung cancer patients enrolled
in the clinical trial with pembro and irinotecan or gemcitabine with or without vinorelbine or
docetaxel.
The next generation drug
in the taxane family, cabazitaxel, was approved
in 2010, but only for patients whose cancer no longer responded to hormone therapy or
docetaxel treatment.
Analysis of the tumor genes affected by the two drugs revealed that cabazitaxel had a greater effect on cellular division and regulation of chromatin — a spool for DNA that helps control which genes are
in use and when — whereas
docetaxel has a greater impact on DNA transcription and repair.
This was offset by a hint of considerably greater harm from radium - 223 + BSC due to more frequent, but never severe, diarrhea
in patients without
docetaxel pretreatment.
It was assumed
in the assessment that most of the remaining patients actively decided against
docetaxel treatment.
The majority of patients included
in the study were not eligible for
docetaxel because their disease had progressed despite pretreatment with this drug (approximately 57 %).
Researchers from BIND Biosciences
in Boston filled nanoparticles with the cancer drug
docetaxel and injected them into the blood of 17 people who had cancers that are normally resistant to the drug.
Results also showed 27.7 percent of patients
in the ADT plus
docetaxel arm had a decline
in prostate specific antigen (PSA) to less than 0.2 ng / mL at 12 months compared with 16.8 percent for those taking ADT alone.
«When we embarked on this study, early clinical trials and laboratory studies supported the possibility (or hypothesis) that earlier therapy
in appropriate patients with
docetaxel, used
in combination before hormonal resistance occurred, could have greater benefit, but required proof
in a definitive study.
Research coordinated by the ECOG - ACRIN Cancer Research Group, supported
in part by the National Cancer Institute, and published
in the current online version of The New England Journal of Medicine, examined the outcomes of giving the chemotherapy drug
docetaxel at the start of ADT.
In the ADT - plus -
docetaxel group, 45 patients whose disease progressed received additional
docetaxel.
The addition of
docetaxel not only lengthened survival but delayed disease progression as measured by an increase
in prostate - specific antigen (PSA), the appearance of new metastases, or worsening symptoms.
In the ADT - only group, 124 patients were given
docetaxel when their cancer worsened.
In the 520 patients who had high - extent disease (whose cancer had spread to major organs and / or the bones), treatment with ADT plus docetaxel had an even greater benefit: these men had a median overall survival of 49.2 months versus 32.2 in the ADT - only group — a difference of 17 month
In the 520 patients who had high - extent disease (whose cancer had spread to major organs and / or the bones), treatment with ADT plus
docetaxel had an even greater benefit: these men had a median overall survival of 49.2 months versus 32.2
in the ADT - only group — a difference of 17 month
in the ADT - only group — a difference of 17 months.
The new analysis extends follow - up significantly; it includes 790 patients randomized to either ADT alone (393 patients) or
in combination with
docetaxel (397 patients).
Long - term follow - up of a large phase III study showed that chemohormonal therapy involving
docetaxel added to androgen deprivation therapy (ADT) prolongs overall survival (OS) over ADT alone
in metastatic hormone - sensitive prostate cancer (mHSPC) patients with high - volume disease.
«Biomarkers determining who will or will not completely respond to neoadjuvant TCHP [trastuzumab, carboplatin,
docetaxel, and pertuzumab] are lacking,» wrote study authors led by Jeremy Force, DO, of Duke University School of Medicine
in Durham, North Carolina.
Disease - free survival was similar
in the 9 - week and 12 - month arms among those patients who received 100 mg / m2
docetaxel.
«
In all the subgroups we tested the longer arm tended to be better than the shorter one, but we did detect an interaction between
docetaxel dose and disease - free survival,» Joensuu said.
In contrast, among those who received 80 mg / m2
docetaxel, 12 months of trastuzumab had superior disease - free survival.
The trial actually enrolled 938 patients with recurrent advanced NSCLC; physicians initially chose pemetrexed or
docetaxel for patients, after which patients were randomized to either chemotherapy alone or
in addition to a cetuximab regimen.
The main purpose of this study is to find out more about the side effects of the study drug, MM - 121, when combined with the study drugs,
docetaxel or pemetrexed, and to learn if cancer cell growth (disease progression) is delayed
in people taking MM - 121 with
docetaxel or pemetrexed.
Researchers are also trying to learn about: - The level of MM - 121 that remains
in the human body at different time points when MM - 121 is combined with
docetaxel or pemetrexed - The relationship between the biomarker, heregulin, and cancer cell growth (disease progression)
in people dosed only with
docetaxel or pemetrexed.
Patient 2 was diagnosed with widespread metastatic prostate cancer
in 2013 and progressed on numerous systemic therapies, including leuprolide, bicalutamide, enzalutamide, abiraterone, and eventually
docetaxel.
CHFR silencing or microsatellite instability is associated with increased antitumor activity of
docetaxel or gemcitabine
in colorectal cancer.
The median age of patients was similar between the two groups, at 67
in the
docetaxel group and 66
in the erlotinib group.
Almost 72 % of
docetaxel patients were current or former smokers, compared with 81.7 %
in the erlotinib group.
There was one treatment - related death
in the erlotinib group, and 22.1 % of
docetaxel patients and 29.0 % of erlotinib patients suffered adverse events that led to dose modification.
The hazard ratio for progression - free survival was 0.69
in favor of
docetaxel (95 % CI, 0.52 — 0.93; P =.014).
The drug's manufacturer, Roche, said trials
in these patients have shown that giving pertuzumab
in combination with the drugs trastuzumab (Herceptin) and
docetaxel could extend survival by nearly 16 months compared to standard treatment.
Pertuzumab was approved by the FDA
in 2012 for first - line treatment of HER2 + metastatic breast cancer
in combination with trastuzumab and the chemotherapy
docetaxel (Taxotere).
In 2014, researchers at the National Cancer Conference made the following statement: «Long term significant scalp alopecia (here lasting for up to 3.5 years following completion of chemotherapy) may affect 10 - 15 % of patients following
docetaxel for EBC [early breast cancer].