Feasibility of a Chemotherapy With Docetaxel-Prednisone for Castration-resistant Metastatic Prostate Cancer Elderly Patients

• Status: Completed
• Trial end date: 2017-04-27
• Target enrollment: 0
• Participant gender: Male

Summary

The objective of this study is to evaluate the feasibility of two different chemotherapy protocols with adjusted doses for patients aged 75 and over who often have medical problems other than prostate cancer. Patient will receive Docetaxel either every 3 weeks or weekly. In both cases, chemotherapy is combined with prednisone. The protocol will be considered feasible when patient will receive 6 cycles of chemotherapy (1 cycle = 3 weeks).

Additionally to this primary objective, efficacy will also be evaluated for both protocols as well as tolerance to treatment, quality of life and evolution of geriatric data.

• Phase: Phase 2
• Accepts Healthy Volunteers?: No

Details

• Lead Sponsor: UNICANCER
• Treatments: Docetaxel; Prednisone

Criteria

Inclusion Criteria:

• Age >= 75

• Histologically proven prostate adenocarcinoma

• Metastatic disease, not pre-treated with chemotherapy refractory to castration

• Hormone refractory prostate cancer is defined as follows:

• Patients with documented testosterone castration (<0.50 ng / ml)

• Patient who received prior hormonal therapy (either orchidectomy or Luteinizing hormone-releasing hormone (LHRH) agonist alone or combined with an anti-androgen)

• Patients should continue primary androgen suppression by LHRH agonist (in case of non-surgical castration)

• For patients treated with anti-androgens prior to inclusion, a wash-out period is required (4 weeks for flutamide and nilutamide, 6 weeks for other products) as well as measured progression after anti-androgen discontinuation.

• Progressive disease under hormonotherapy, with progression defined by

Increase of PSA level (two consecutive increases of PSA compared to baseline with a minimum of one week between both measurements)

OR emergence of a new lesion

OR measurable progressive disease (increase of a previous measurable lesion >= 25% in cross section)

OR progressive bone metastases (defined only by the appearance of a new lesion on bone scan)

OR progressive symptoms (defined as cancer pain Grade 2 according to the NCI-CTC V4.0, despite level 2 analgesics intake).

• Patients of Groups 2 and 3 [ "vulnerable" and "frail"] of SIOG classification

• WHO Performance Status (PS) >= 3

• PSA >= 5 ng / ml

• Neutrophils >= 2.109 /L

• Platelets >= 100.109/L

• Haemoglobin ≥ 9 g/dl

• Bilirubin and SGOT / SGPT <1.5 x ULN (<= 2.5 x ULN if hepatic metastasis)

• creatinine <= 2.5 x ULN

• In case of previous palliative or analgesic radiotherapy, a minimum of 14 days must have elapsed between end of radiotherapy and inclusion into the study

• Previous treatment with bisphosphonates should be continued without change during the study treatment and can not be initiated either within 28 days prior to study entry or during the study

• Signed informed consent by patients, according to local regulations

Exclusion Criteria:

• "healthy" or "terminal illness" Groups according to the recommendations of International Society of Geriatric Oncology (SIOG)

• Concomitant or previous malignancy within 5 years prior the study (except basal or squamous in situ cell skin carcinoma)

• Presence of brain metastasis symptoms

• Prior treatment by intravenous radiopharmaceutical agent (e.g. Strontium 89, Samarium lexidronam) within 2 months before study entry

• Initiation of a bisphosphonate therapy within 28 days prior to randomisation

• Any concomitant anticancer treatment (radiotherapy, radiopharmaceutical agent, chemotherapy)

• Patients with uncontrolled infection

• Patients with peripheral neuropathy of grade> 1

• Patients medically unstable (e.g. unstable diabetes, uncontrolled hypertension or decompensated heart failure or myocardial infarct within 3 months)

• Gastro duodenal active ulcer

• Hypersensitivity to study drugs

• Treatment with any experimental drug within 30 days prior to or during the study

• Psychological, familial, sociological or geographical location conditions which do not allow medical monitoring and compliance with study protocol.

• Patients protected by the law or patients placed under protective supervision of adults