Conditions: Prostate Cancer
Keywords: prostate metastatic castrate resistant
Allocation: NA | Intervention model: SINGLE_GROUP
Enrollment: 40
Healthy volunteers: no

Brief summary:
The purpose of this research study is to determine if the addition of dutasteride to a regimen with abiraterone acetate and prednisone will improve on therapy in patients with castrate-resistant prostate cancer and metastatic disease. This study will also help determine the side effects of the study treatment and how often they occur.

Detailed description:
Patients will receive abiraterone acetate and prednisone orally, once daily for 2 months (2 cycles) on an outpatient basis. At the start of cycle 3, dutasteride will be taken once daily. Patients will return to the clinic on Day 14 of the first 3 cycles for routine blood tests.

Patients will come to the clinic every 12 weeks for a CT scan and/or x-ray of the chest, CT scan or MRI of the abdomen and pelvis, bone scan, and blood test for testosterone and other specialized blood test.

Arms:
arm 1: Abiraterone acetate 1000mg orally once per day + prednisone 5mg orally once per day for two months, followed by abiraterone 1000mg orally once per day + prednisone 5mg orally once per day + dutasteride 3.5mg orally once per day in 28-day cycles until symptomatic or radiographic progression

Interventions: intervention 1: Abiraterone acetate intervention 2: Dutasteride intervention 3: Prednisone
Intervention descriptions: intervention 1: None intervention 2: None intervention 3: None

Protocol document: