PSA response rate as a surrogate marker for median overall survival in docetaxel-based first-line treatments for patients with metastatic castration-resistant prostate cancer: an analysis of 22 trials

Tumor Biology

Volumn 35, Issue 11, 2014, Pages 10601-10607

  Francini, Edoardo ^a   Petrioli, Roberto ^b   Rossi, Giulia ^b   Laera, Letizia ^b   Roviello, Giandomenico ^b  

^a POLICLINICO UMBERTO I   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SIENA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Docetaxel; OS surrogate marker; Prostate cancer; PSA RR

Indexed keywords

DOCETAXEL; PLACEBO; PREDNISONE; ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENT; BIOLOGICAL MARKER; PROSTATE SPECIFIC ANTIGEN; TAXOID;

CANCER COMBINATION CHEMOTHERAPY; CANCER SURVIVAL; CASTRATION RESISTANT PROSTATE CANCER; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE MARKER; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; METASTASIS; OVERALL SURVIVAL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; REVIEW; TREATMENT RESPONSE; BLOOD; CLINICAL TRIAL (TOPIC); META ANALYSIS (TOPIC); MORTALITY; PROGNOSIS; PROSTATIC NEOPLASMS, CASTRATION-RESISTANT; SECONDARY; SURVIVAL RATE;

ANTINEOPLASTIC COMBINED CHEMOTHERAPY PROTOCOLS; BIOLOGICAL MARKERS; CLINICAL TRIALS AS TOPIC; HUMANS; MALE; META-ANALYSIS AS TOPIC; PREDNISONE; PROGNOSIS; PROSTATE-SPECIFIC ANTIGEN; PROSTATIC NEOPLASMS, CASTRATION-RESISTANT; SURVIVAL RATE; TAXOIDS;

EID: 84920973092     PISSN: 10104283     EISSN: 14230380     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s13277-014-2559-8     Document Type: Review

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