Italian multicenter study, will enroll \~566 pts with oligometastatic hormone sensitive prostate cancer who are candidates to receive treatment with apalutamide. After 6 months from the start of treatment, patients will be randomized to receive local treatment based on the investigator's choice ( either one between primary radiotherapy or cytoreductive prostatectomy), in addition to apalutamide, or to continue just with medical therapy.
Primary end point: To determine whether treatment with apalutamide in combination with androgen-deprivative therapy for 6 months followed by locoregional treatment with radiotherapy or radical prostatectomy has better efficacy than medical treatment with apalutamide + ADT alone in terms of radiographic progression-free survival (rPFS), specifically time to radiographic progression in soft tissue per RECIST 1.1 or in bone per PCWG3 criteria by investigator, or death. Secondary end points: To evaluate tumor shrinkage after locoregional approach and to evaluate short and long term side effects after locoregional surgery or RT, time to PSA progression, time to castration resistance, cancer specific survival, overall survival and quality of life according to EPIC-26 and EQ-5D-5L questionnaires.
Study Type
INTERVENTIONAL
Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
TREATMENT
Masking
NONE
Enrollment
566
All participants will receive apalutamide 240 mg (4 x 60 mg) tablets orally once daily. Apalutamide is distributed in Italy under the trade name of Erleada® 60 mg. All patients not undergoing surgical castration should also continue medical castration by taking a gonadotropin-releasing hormone (GnRHa) analogue during treatment.
Patients who will undergo radiotherapy as a local treatment must be treated according to the following scheme: External beam radiotherapy administered at 36 Gy in six consecutive weekly fractions of 6 Gy, or 55 Gy in 20 daily fractions of 2・75 Gy over 4 weeks. Radiation therapy will be given with the patient supine and with a full bladder and an empty rectum. The planned target volume is prostate only, with an 8 mm margin posteriorly and a 10 mm margin elsewhere. No RT on lymph nodes is foreseen. RT should begin 6 months after the first dose of apalutamide (+/- 2 weeks). Radical prostatectomy should be performed 6 months after the first dose of apalutamide (+/- 2 weeks).
European Institute of Oncology
Milan, Lombardy, Italy
NOT_YET_RECRUITINGASST Santi Paolo e Carlo
Milan, Lombardy, Italy
NOT_YET_RECRUITINGIstituto Tumori Milano
Milan, Mi, Italy
RECRUITINGRadiographic Progression-Free Survival (rPFS)
Evaluation of the efficacy of treatment with APA+ADT for 6 months followed by locoregional treatment with radiotherapy or radical prostatectomy compared to treatment with APA+ ADT alone in terms of Radiographic Progression-Free Survival (rPFS) in patients with hormone prostate adenocarcinoma -susceptible with low-volume metastatic disease.
Time frame: Up to 48 months
Local event - free survival
Defined as the absence of one of the following conditions in the follow up: urinary retention, hydronephrosis, acute or chronic renal failure exacerbation, intestinal obstruction
Time frame: Up to 48 months
Local treatment - free survival
Defined as the absence of the need for one of the following interventions: trans-urethral resection of the prostate, placement of a ureteral stent or nephrostomy for hydronephrosis, bladder catheterization, surgery for intestinal obstruction/colostomy
Time frame: Up to 48 months
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