Table A1.
Indications and Regulatory Labels for the Currently Approved Drugs for CRPC, Aligned With the PCWG3 Manifestation-Specific Outcome Framework
Early manifestations (response): control, relieve, or eliminate |
Approved to control pain or indicated for patients with symptoms |
Mitoxantrone plus prednisone for the treatment of patients with pain related to advanced hormone-refractory prostate cancer |
89Sr for the relief of bone pain in patients with painful skeletal metastases |
153Sm for relief of pain in patients with osteoblastic metastatic bone lesions that enhance on radionuclide bone scan |
Radium-223* (symptoms from bone metastases with no involvement of other organs) |
No FDA drug approvals on the basis of: |
PSA declines |
Tumor shrinkage |
Bone scan improvement |
Changes in circulating tumor cell number |
Later manifestations (progression): delay or prevent |
Approved or shown to delay SREs or SSEs |
Zoledronic acid (SRE) |
Denosumab (SRE) |
Abiraterone acetate (SRE)*,† |
Enzalutamide (SRE)*,† |
Radium-223 (SSE)*,‡ |
Approved for delay of death (survival) |
Docetaxel |
Sipuleucel-T |
Cabazitaxel |
Abiraterone acetate plus prednisone |
Enzalutamide |
Radium-223 |
Delay of radiographic progression using PCWG2-based criteria, coprimary with survival |
Abiraterone acetate plus prednisone |
Enzalutamide |
Abbreviations: CRPC, castration-resistant prostate cancer; FDA, United States Food & Drug Administration; PCWG2, Prostate Cancer Clinical Trials Working Group 2; PCWG3, Prostate Cancer Clinical Trials Working Group 3; PSA, prostate-specific antigen; SREs, skeletal-related events; SSEs, symptomatic skeletal events.
Indicated for patients with symptoms.
Shown to delay SREs.
Shown to delay SSEs.