Conditions: Prostate Cancer
Keywords: RAD001 bicalutamide androgen independent prostate cancer
Allocation: NA | Intervention model: SINGLE_GROUP
Enrollment: 36
Healthy volunteers: no

Brief summary:
In the treatment of castration-resistant prostate cancer (CRPC), therapies will long response durations remain elusive as a result of the inherent ability of prostate cancer cells to develop iterative resistance. The goal of this study is to learn if the study drug RAD001 together with Bicalutamide can slow the growth of prostate cancer. The safety of the combination will also be studied.

Detailed description:
Bicalutamide, an androgen receptor (AR) antagonist, is frequently used as the first 'secondary hormonal therapy' in combination with another established agent (LHRH: luteinizing hormone-releasing hormone agonist/antagonist) to treat CRPC. A series of studies have shown that RAD001 through inhibition of mammalian target of rapamycin (mTOR) pathway has antitumor and anti-angiogenic activities. The hypothesis is that the combination of an antiandrogen and mTOR inhibitor would have additive and clinically significant effects in CRPC.

STATISTICAL CONSIDERATIONS:

The regimen will be considered promising if the rate of response/favorable outcome is 40% or greater. A rate of 20% (similar to that observed for bicalutamide alone) will not be considered worthy of further study. 38 patients (of whom 36 are assumed to be eligible) will be accrued to the study. If 11 or more patients have a favorable outcome (stable disease \> 6 months or response), the combination will be considered worthy of further study. Given this design, there is a 9% probability of declaring the combination effective if the true favorable outcome rate is 20% and a 91% probability of declaring the combination effective if the true favorable outcome rate is 40%.

Arms:
arm 1: RAD001: once daily dose of 10 mg (5 mg tablets)

Bicalutamide: once daily dose of 50 mg (50 mg tablets)

1 cycle=28 days

Both agents are administered continuously until progression of disease or unacceptable toxicity.

Interventions: intervention 1: RAD001 intervention 2: Bicalutamide
Intervention descriptions: intervention 1: None intervention 2: None

Protocol document: