This randomized phase II trial compares testosterone therapy with the current standard treatment, enzalutamide, to see how well they work in treating patients with prostate cancer that is not causing signs or symptoms, has not responded to hormone therapy, and has spread to other parts of the body. Testosterone replacement therapy may help stop tumor cell growth and shrink tumors. Androgen can cause the growth of prostate cancer cells. Antihormone therapy, such as enzalutamide, may fight prostate cancer by blocking the cancer cells from using androgen. It is not yet known whether testosterone therapy is more effective than enzalutamide in treating patients with prostate cancer that has not responded to hormone therapy.
Study sponsor and potential other locations can be found on ClinicalTrials.gov for NCT02286921.
PRIMARY OBJECTIVES:
I. To determine if treatment with supraphysiologic testosterone (bipolar androgen therapy [BAT]) will improve progression free survival compared to enzalutamide in asymptomatic men with evidence of progressive metastatic castration resistant prostate cancer (CRPC) post-treatment with abiraterone.
SECONDARY OBJECTIVES:
I. Investigate the safety of cyclical parenteral testosterone in asymptomatic men with recurrent castrate resistant prostate cancer.
II. Prostate specific antigen (PSA) response rate (proportion of patients achieving a PSA decline >= 50% according to Prostate Cancer Working Group [PCWG2] criteria).
III. Objective response rate in patients with measurable disease on computed tomography (CT) scan using Response Evaluation Criteria in Solid Tumor (RECIST) criteria.
IV. Time to PSA progression to each arm of therapy based on PCWG2 criteria.
V. Time to radiographic progression to each arm based on RECIST 1.1 and PCWG2 criteria.
VI. PSA response rate to enzalutamide post-BAT.
VII. PSA response rate to BAT post-enzalutamide.
VIII. Comparison of effect of each treatment arm on quality of life as assessed by patient completion of validated instruments.
OUTLINE: Patients are randomized to 1 of 2 treatment arms.
ARM A: Patients receive testosterone cypionate or testosterone enanthate intramuscularly (IM) on day 1. Courses repeat every 28 days in the absence of disease progression or unacceptable toxicity. Patients with disease progression may cross over to Arm B.
ARM B: Patients receive enzalutamide orally (PO) daily on days 1-28. Courses repeat every 28 days in the absence of disease progression or unacceptable toxicity. Patients with disease progression may cross over to Arm A.
After completion of study treatment, patients are followed up for 12 months.
Lead OrganizationJohns Hopkins University/Sidney Kimmel Cancer Center
Principal InvestigatorSamuel Ray Denmeade