Conditions: Prostate Cancer
Keywords: adenocarcinoma of the prostate recurrent prostate cancer
Allocation: NA | Intervention model: SINGLE_GROUP
Enrollment: 17
Healthy volunteers: no

Brief summary:
RATIONALE: Estrogen may cause the growth of prostate cancer cells. Hormone therapy using fulvestrant may fight prostate cancer by blocking the use of estrogen by the tumor cells.

PURPOSE: This phase II trial is studying how well fulvestrant works in treating patients with recurrent prostate cancer.

Detailed description:
OBJECTIVES:

Primary

* Determine whether fulvestrant can slow the rise of prostrate-specific antigen (PSA) level in patients with early recurrent adenocarcinoma of the prostate after radical prostatectomy or irradiation.

Secondary

* Determine the utility of monitoring serum PSA in patients treated with this drug.
* Determine the safety of this drug in these patients.
* Determine changes in bone mineral density and markers of bone resorption in patients with PSA-only failure treated with this drug.

OUTLINE: This is an open-label, single group assignment study.

Patients receive fulvestrant intramuscularly on days 0, 14, and 28. Treatment repeats once a month in the absence of disease progression or unacceptable toxicity.

After completion of study treatment, patients are followed periodically.

PROJECTED ACCRUAL: A total of 32 patients will be accrued for this study for 84 months.

Arms:
arm 1: Fulvestrant will be provided as 250 mg in 5 mL as a pre-tilled syringe. Fulvestrant will be administered as 500 mg, that is, 2 injections of 5 mL, one into each buttock im on day 0. A single 250 mg in 5 mL injection will be administered on day 14 followed by a single 250 mg in 5 mL dose on day 28 and monthly thereafter.

Interventions: intervention 1: fulvestrant
Intervention descriptions: intervention 1: intramuscularly

Protocol document: