title: Therapies in development for castrate-resistant prostate cancer.
abstract: The paucity of active medical therapies for advanced prostate cancer underlies a critical need for clinical research in this area. Multiple new treatments are being evaluated, including therapies that target adrenal androgens, such as abiraterone; new chemotherapies, such as the oral platinum analog, satraplatin, and an epothilone analog, ixabepilone; combinations of chemotherapy with other agents, such as the VEGF inhibitor, bevacizumab, and calcitriol; as well as multiple immunotherapeutics, including sipuleucel-T, GVAX and ipilimumab. This review will highlight the promise of these new approaches and the challenges to their development.
authors.affiliation: Department of Medicine, University of California, San Francisco, 1600 Divisadero Street, Box 1711, San Francisco, CA 94115, USA. andrea.harzstark@ucsf.edu
authors.forename: Andrea L
authors.initials: AL
authors.lastname: Harzstark
authors.forename: Charles J
authors.initials: CJ
authors.lastname: Ryan
mesh_terms: D018931:Antineoplastic Agents, Hormonal / Q000008:administration & dosage* / Q000009:adverse effects; D000971:Antineoplastic Combined Chemotherapy Protocols / Q000008:administration & dosage*; D017322:Clinical Trials, Phase II as Topic; D017326:Clinical Trials, Phase III as Topic; D019008:Drug Resistance, Neoplasm; D006801:Humans; D007167:Immunotherapy / Q000379:methods*; D008297:Male; D009367:Neoplasm Staging; D011379:Prognosis; D011471:Prostatic Neoplasms / Q000188:drug therapy* / Q000401:mortality / Q000473:pathology; D016032:Randomized Controlled Trials as Topic; D018570:Risk Assessment; D012680:Sensitivity and Specificity; D016019:Survival Analysis
chemical_list: D018931:Antineoplastic Agents, Hormonal