The main objective of the trial to determine if the combination of apalutamide with 6 months of androgen deprivation therapy by LHRH agonists in patients with intermediate and limited high-risk, localized prostate cancer receiving primary radiation therapy (RT) results in an improvement of disease-free survival (DFS) evaluated by the treating physician, in comparison to the combination of radiation and androgen deprivation therapy without the addition of apalutamide.
Study Type
INTERVENTIONAL
Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
TREATMENT
Masking
NONE
Dose escalated Intensity-Modulated Radiation therapy (IMRT) with conventional fractionation, hypofractionation and prostate brachytherapy are allowed.
240 mg PO daily, started the same day as the first LHRHa injection, for 6 months
2 injections of a three-monthly LHRH agonist depot
Disease-free survival
Events for this endpoint include loco-regional recurrence, distant metastases (radiologically or pathologically confirmed), death from any cause, whichever occurs first
Time frame: 7.8 years from First Patient In (FPI)
Progression-free survival
includes first events of biochemical failure by Phoenix criteria in addition to the events listed in the primary endpoint DFS
Time frame: 7.8 years from First Patient In (FPI)
Distant Metastasis-free survival
Time frame: 7.8 years from First Patient In (FPI)
Overall survival
Time frame: 7.8 years from First Patient In (FPI)
Prostate cancer specific survival
Time frame: 7.8 years from First Patient In (FPI)
Prostate-Specific Antigen (PSA) value
Prostate-Specific Antigen (PSA) value will be assessed at the end of the treatment of each patient
Time frame: 5.5 years from First Patient In (FPI)
Adverse events graded according to the National Cancer Institute Common Occurrence of Adverse Events
Adverse events will be graded according to the National Cancer Institute Common Terminology Criteria for adverse events (NCI-CTCAE) version 4.0
Time frame: 7.8 years from First Patient In (FPI)
Health-related quality of life
Health-related quality of life will be evaluated using self-administered EORTC QLQ-C30 questionnaire
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Non-steroidal anti-androgen (e. g. flutamide, bicalutamide) PO daily for 4 weeks, started 2 weeks before the first LHRH agonist injection
Time frame: 7.8 years from First Patient In (FPI)
Health-related quality of life
Health-related quality of life will be evaluated using EORTC QLQ-PR25 instruments
Time frame: 7.8 years from First Patient In (FPI)
Prostate-Specific Antigen (PSA) nadir
Prostate-Specific Antigen (PSA) nadir will be assessed as the lowest value achievement on treatment
Time frame: 5.5 years from First Patient In (FPI)