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Cabazitaxel in castration resistant prostate cancer with brain metastases: 3 case reports

Authors :
Tania Policastro
Piera Federico
Giuseppe Di Lorenzo
Livio Puglia
Sabino De Placido
Pasquale Rescigno
Michela Izzo
Davide Bosso
Carlo Buonerba
Publication Year :
2014
Publisher :
Baishideng Publishing Group Inc, 2014.

Abstract

Prostate cancer is the most common non-cutaneous malignancy for men. The skeleton is the most common metastatic site but, following an improvement in survival, metastases in uncommon sites are being found more frequently in clinical practice, especially brain metastases. Despite the new drugs now available for metastatic castration resistant prostate cancer, no clinical evidence exists about their effectiveness on brain metastases. We describe the clinical history of 3 patients treated with cabazitaxel plus whole brain radiotherapy. These case reports demonstrate that cabazitaxel is highly active and well tolerated in brain metastases.

Details

Language :
English
Database :
OpenAIRE
Accession number :
edsair.doi.dedup.....f342d2df513c1f1db320df1690817d20