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A randomized, dose-response, multicenter phase II study of radium-223 chloride for the palliation of painful bone metastases in patients with castration-resistant prostate cancer

Nilsson, S., Strang, P., Aksnes, A. K., Franzèn, L., Olivier, P., Pecking, A., Staffurth, John Nicholas ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7834-3172, Vasanthan, S., Andersson, C. and Bruland, Ø. S. 2012. A randomized, dose-response, multicenter phase II study of radium-223 chloride for the palliation of painful bone metastases in patients with castration-resistant prostate cancer. European Journal of Cancer 48 (5) , pp. 678-686. 10.1016/j.ejca.2011.12.023

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Abstract

PURPOSE: To investigate the dose-response relationship and pain-relieving effect of radium-223, a highly bone-targeted alpha-pharmaceutical. METHODS: One hundred patients with castration-resistant prostate cancer (CRPC) and painful bone metastases were randomized to a single intravenous dose of 5, 25, 50 or 100 k Bq/kg radium-223. The primary end-point was pain index (visual analogue scale [VAS] and analgesic use), also used to classify patients as responders or non-responders. RESULTS: A significant dose response for pain index was seen at week 2 (P = .035). At week 8 there were 40%, 63%, 56% and 71% pain responders (reduced pain and stable analgesic consumption) in the 5, 25, 50 and 100 k Bq/kg groups, respectively. On the daily VAS, at week 8, pain decreased by a mean of -30, -31, -27 and -28 mm, respectively (P = .008, P = .0005, P = .002, and P < . 0001) in these responders (post-hoc analysis). There was also a significant improvement in the brief pain inventory functional index for all dose-groups (P = .04, .01, .002 and .02, Wilcoxon signed rank test). Furthermore, a decrease in bone alkaline phosphatase in the highest dose-group was demonstrated (P = .0067). All doses were safe and well tolerated. CONCLUSION: Pain response was seen in up to 71% of the patients with a dose response observed 2 weeks after administration. The highly tolerable side-effect profile of radium-223 previously reported was confirmed.

Item Type: Article
Date Type: Publication
Status: Published
Schools: Medicine
Subjects: R Medicine > RC Internal medicine > RC0254 Neoplasms. Tumors. Oncology (including Cancer)
Uncontrolled Keywords: Pain; Bone metastases; Prostate cancer; Castration-resistant; Alpha-pharmaceutical; Radium; Alpharadin; BPI; Functional index
Publisher: Elsevier
ISSN: 0959-8049
Last Modified: 21 Oct 2022 10:39
URI: https://orca.cardiff.ac.uk/id/eprint/40936

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