I n Western countries, prostate cancer is the most common malignancy in men and ranks third in mortality. In 2010, an estimated 217 730 new cases are anticipated in the United States, and about 32 050 men are expected to die from the disease. Until 2004, numerous clinical trials in men with metastatic castration-resistant prostate cancer (mCRPC) failed to demonstrate any significant change in o...

Prostate cancer is a common cancer in men; for metastatic disease, it has a 5-year survival rate of 30%. No FDA-approved therapy for castrate-resistant prostate cancer (CRPC) known to improve survival was available until 2004, when based on a significant survival benefit over mitoxantrone, docetaxel in combination with prednisone was approved. In combination with prednisone, cabazitaxel, which ...

Until recently, patients with castration-resistant prostate cancer (CRPC) had limited therapeutic options once they became refractory to docetaxel chemotherapy, and no treatments improved survival. This changed in June 2010 when the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approved cabazitaxel as a new option for patients with CRPC whose disease progresses during or after docetaxel treatment. For mos...

Drug resistance remains a major challenge in achieving cures cancer patients. Cabazitaxel has shown the ability to overcome drug induced by paclitaxel and docetaxel; however, substantially high toxicity been observed patients receiving this agent, which compromises its efficacy. We have previously demonstrated that polymeric platform (termed cabazitaxel-NPs) encapsulating oligolactide-cabazitax...

Purpose: To improve the outcomes of patients with castration-resistant prostate cancer (CRPC), there is an urgent need for more effective therapies and approaches that individualize specific treatments for patients with CRPC. These studies compared the novel taxane cabazitaxel with the previous generation docetaxel, and aimed to determine which tumors are most likely to respond. Experimental de...

BACKGROUND Cabazitaxel is a novel tubulin-binding taxane drug with antitumour activity in docetaxel-resistant cancers. We aimed to compare the efficacy and safety of cabazitaxel plus prednisone with those of mitoxantrone plus prednisone in men with metastatic castration-resistant prostate cancer with progressive disease after docetaxel-based treatment. METHODS We undertook an open-label rando...

INTRODUCTION To date, there are no guidelines for a rational and more favourable sequence of treatment after docetaxel. Two drugs (cabazitaxel and abiraterone) have recently been approved as second-line treatment after docetaxel failure in metastatic castration-resistant prostate cancer (mCRPC), but there are no studies comparing abiraterone versus cabazitaxel. The most suitable drug is chosen ...

BACKGROUND Haematuria and pelvic pain are recognized and documented adverse reactions related to Cabazitaxel use. To date there has not been any documentation of imaging findings in patients with this presentation. CASES We report a case series of five patients who experienced these symptoms while on Cabazitaxel and were all found to have very similar urothelial changes on CT. The patients we...

INTRODUCTION ATP-binding cassette subfamily B member 1 (ABCB1) and subfamily C member 10 (ABCC10) proteins are efflux transporters that couple the energy derived from ATP hydrolysis to the translocation of toxic substances and chemotherapeutic drugs out of cells. Cabazitaxel is a novel taxane that differs from paclitaxel by its lower affinity for ATP-binding cassette (ABC) transporters. METHO...