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Hormone Refractory Prostatic Cancer: The Role of Radiolabelled Diphosphonates and Growth Factor Inhibitors

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Prostate Cancer and Bone Metastasis

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Prostate cancer responds dramatically to androgen ablative therapy. For the majority of patients, the responses are not durable, particularly in bone, and progression developed in a median of 12–18 months [1,2]. Once hormone-refractory disease becomes clinically manifest, no standard therapy exists [3], and median survival rarely exceeds one year. While the exact etiology of androgen independence is not well defined, increasing evidence suggests that autocrine and paracrine production of specific growth factors may be contributory [4]. The unique avidity of prostatic cancer cells for the skeleton, a cause of significant morbidity [5], is also partially related to the presence of specific bone marrow derived growth factors that stimulate prostatic cancer cell growth [6]. This report describes therapies directed specifically to prostatic cancer in the skeleton and to one putative growth factor inhibitor, suramin, that has recently shown activity in the hormone refractory setting.

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Scher, H.I., Curley, T., Yeh, S., Tong, W., O’Moore, P.V., Larson, S. (1992). Hormone Refractory Prostatic Cancer: The Role of Radiolabelled Diphosphonates and Growth Factor Inhibitors. In: Karr, J.P., Yamanaka, H. (eds) Prostate Cancer and Bone Metastasis. Advances in Experimental Medicine and Biology, vol 324. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4615-3398-6_12

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