Conditions: Metastatic Cancer Prostate Cancer
Keywords: recurrent prostate cancer stage IV prostate cancer bone metastases
Allocation: RANDOMIZED | Intervention model: PARALLEL
Enrollment: 80
Healthy volunteers: no

Brief summary:
RATIONALE: Androgens can stimulate the growth of prostate cancer cells. Drugs such as goserelin and leuprolide may fight prostate cancer by stopping the adrenal glands from producing androgens. Drugs used in chemotherapy such as doxorubicin work in different ways to stop tumor cells from dividing so they stop growing or die. Zoledronate may prevent bone loss and stop the growth of tumor cells in bone. Radioactive substances such as strontium-89 may relieve bone pain associated with prostate cancer. It is not yet known whether hormone (androgen) ablation therapy and chemotherapy combined with zoledronate is more effective with or without strontium-89 in treating prostate cancer and bone metastases.

PURPOSE: This randomized phase II trial is studying giving hormone ablation therapy, doxorubicin, and zoledronate together with strontium-89 to see how well it works compared to hormone ablation therapy, doxorubicin, and zoledronate alone in treating patients with androgen-dependent prostate cancer and bone metastases.

Detailed description:
OBJECTIVES:

Primary

* Compare the clinical efficacy of hormonal ablative therapy combined with doxorubicin and zoledronate with or without strontium chloride Sr 89, in terms of progression-free survival, in patients with androgen-dependent prostate cancer and bone metastases.

OUTLINE: This is a randomized, multicenter study. Patients are stratified according to the number of bony metastases (≤ 6 versus \> 6). Patients are randomized to 1 of 2 treatment arms.

* Arm I: Patients receive hormonal ablative therapy comprising luteinizing hormone-releasing hormone agonist (e.g., leuprolide or goserelin) continuously during study treatment OR bilateral orchiectomy. Patients also receive doxorubicin intravenously (IV) on days 1, 8, and 15 every 28 days for 2 courses; zoledronate IV over 15 minutes on day 1 every 28 days for 6 courses; and a single dose of strontium chloride Sr 89 IV over 1-2 minutes on day 1.
* Arm II: Patients receive hormonal ablative therapy, doxorubicin, and zoledronate as in arm I.

In both arms, treatment continues in the absence of disease progression or unacceptable toxicity.

Patients are followed every 3 months.

PROJECTED ACCRUAL: A total of 80 patients (40 per treatment arm) will be accrued for this study within 20 months.

Arms:
arm 1: Arm I: Hormonal ablative therapy (HAT) comprising luteinizing hormone-releasing hormone agonist (e.g., leuprolide or goserelin) continuously during study treatment OR bilateral orchiectomy; doxorubicin IV on days 1, 8, and 15 every 28 days for 2 courses; zoledronate IV over 15 minutes on day 1 every 28 days for 6 courses; and a single dose of strontium chloride Sr 89 IV over 1-2 minutes on day 1. arm 2: Arm II: HAT, doxorubicin, and zoledronate as in arm I. HAT comprising luteinizing hormone-releasing hormone agonist (e.g., leuprolide or goserelin) continuously during study treatment OR bilateral orchiectomy; doxorubicin IV on days 1, 8, and 15 every 28 days for 2 courses; zoledronate IV over 15 minutes on day 1 every 28 days for 6 courses.

Interventions: intervention 1: Doxorubicin hydrochloride intervention 2: Goserelin acetate intervention 3: Leuprolide acetate intervention 4: Zoledronic acid intervention 5: orchiectomy intervention 6: strontium chloride Sr
Intervention descriptions: intervention 1: Doxorubicin 20 mg/m\^2 is administered intravenously either over 15 to 30 minutes via a peripheral line or over 24 hours via a central line on days 1, 8, and 15 every 28 days for 2 cycles. intervention 2: None intervention 3: None intervention 4: 4 mg given intravenously over 15 minutes every 28 days for a total of 6 doses. intervention 5: None intervention 6: 1 dose of strontium-89 (4 millicurie (mCi) total dose) administered intravenously on the first day of treatment

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