This phase II trial examines antiandrogen therapy interruptions in patients with hormone-sensitive prostate cancer that has spread to other places in the body (metastatic) responding exceptionally well to androgen receptor-pathway inhibitor therapy. The usual treatment for patients with metastatic prostate cancer is to receive hormonal medications including a medication to decrease testosterone levels in the body and a potent oral hormonal medication to block growth signals from male hormones (like testosterone) in the cancer cells. Patients whose cancer is responding exceptionally well to this therapy may take a break from these medications according to their doctor's guidance. This trial may help doctors determine if stopping treatment can allow for testosterone recovery.
PRIMARY OBJECTIVE: I. To determine the proportion of men who experience 18-month treatment-free interval from therapy with eugonadal testosterone (to \>= 150 ng/ml) after treatment interruption. SECONDARY OBJECTIVES: I. To determine time to eugonadal testosterone (\> 150 ng/dl). II. To determine duration off-treatment. III. To assess changes in quality of life as follows: 1. To assess changes in patient-reported quality of life as assessed by the Functional Assessment of Cancer Therapy- Prostate (FACT-P) total score from baseline to 24 months after treatment interruption. 2. To assess changes in the FACT-P subscales (i.e., physical well-being, social and family well-being, emotional well-being, functional well-being, and prostate cancer subscale) from baseline to 24 months after treatment interruption. 3. To assess changes in the FACT-P total score and subscales (i.e., physical well-being, social and family well-being, emotional well-being, functional well-being, and prostate cancer subscale) from baseline to the remaining post-baseline time points (i.e., 6, 12, and 18 months) after treatment interruption. OUTLINE: Patients stop both hormonal medications (medication to decrease testosterone levels in the body and potent oral hormonal medication to block growth signals from male hormones in the cancer cells). Patients are then followed every 12 months for symptoms. Patients with an increase in prostate specific antigen (PSA) level to greater than or equal to 5 ng/ml, changes on imaging studies suggesting that their cancer is growing back, or symptoms that the doctor thinks is related to their cancer growing back, resume both hormonal treatments. After completion of study treatment, patients are followed up every 6 months for 10 years from registration or withdrawal from the study or death.
Study Type
INTERVENTIONAL
Allocation
NA
Purpose
TREATMENT
Masking
NONE
Enrollment
79
Stop hormonal medications (Abiraterone, Enzalutamide, Apalutamide, Leuprolide, Goserelin, Degarelix, Relugolix)
Undergo follow-up
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Treatment-free with eugonadal testosterone (> 150 ng/dl)
The proportion of men who experience 18-month treatment-free interval from therapy with eugonadal testosterone (to \>= 150 ng/ml) after treatment interruption will be calculated for the study cohort.
Time frame: At 18 months
Time to eugonadal testosterone
The median time to eugonadal testosterone (\> 150 ng/dl) will be computed by the cumulative incidence function.
Time frame: Up to 10 years
Duration off-treatment
The median time off-treatment.
Time frame: Up to 10 years
Radiographic progression-free survival
The median time to radiographic progression or death (whichever occurs first) will be computed by the Kaplan-Meier estimator.
Time frame: Up to 10 years
Time to next treatment
The median time to the first subsequent treatment will be computed by the cumulative incidence function.
Time frame: Up to 24 months
Overall survival
The median survival time will be computed by the Kaplan-Meier estimator. Survival time defined as from treatment interruption per protocol to death due to any cause or censored at date last known alive.
Time frame: Assessed up to 10 years
Cancer-specific survival
The median survival time will be computed by the cumulative incidence function. Cancer-specific survival as defined as from treatment interruption per protocol to death attributable to cancer or its treatment in the opinion of the treating investigator or censored at date last known alive.
Time frame: Assessed up to 10 years
Non-cancer specific survival
The median survival time will be computed by the cumulative incidence function. Non-cancer-specific survival as defined as from treatment interruption per protocol to death not attributable to cancer or its treatment in the opinion of the treating investigator or censored at date last known alive.
Time frame: Up to 10 years
Prostate specific antigen (PSA) progression-free survival
The median PSA progression free survival time will be computed by the Kaplan-Meier estimator. PSA progression free survival as defined as from treatment interruption per protocol to the first PSA failure (two consecutive increases in PSA of 25% and \>= 2 ng/mL above nadir) or death.
Time frame: Assessed up to 10 years
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