A Case of Switching from GnRH Agonist to Antagonist for Castration Resistant Prostate Cancer Control.

CRPC Degarelix GnRH antagonist

Journal

Case reports in oncology
ISSN: 1662-6575
Titre abrégé: Case Rep Oncol
Pays: Switzerland
ID NLM: 101517601

Informations de publication

Date de publication:
Historique:
received: 14 08 2019
accepted: 21 08 2019
entrez: 15 10 2019
pubmed: 15 10 2019
medline: 15 10 2019
Statut: epublish

Résumé

GnRH antagonist and GnRH agonist are widely used as androgen deprivation therapy for metastatic prostate cancer. A previous report demonstrated that patients with PSA levels of >20 ng/mL using GnRH antagonists showed favorable outcomes in comparison to those using GnRH agonists. An 82-year old male patient with edema, a stony hard nodule on his prostate, and an initial PSA level of 6,717 ng/mL was referred to our hospital due to suspected prostate cancer. He received prostate needle biopsy and was diagnosed with prostate cancer with bone metastasis, with a Gleason Score of 4 + 4 = 8. He was then treated with a GnRH agonist (leuprorelin acetate) and bicalutamide from July 2015. Although his PSA level decreased to 582.0 ng/mL in December 2015, his PSA level gradually increased and CRPC developed. He indicated that he did not wish to take 2nd generation anti-androgen drugs or receive systemic chemotherapy. We introduced a GnRH antagonist (degarelix) in February 2015; his PSA level did not change and his CRPC was controlled. We herein report a case in which changing a GnRH agonist to a GnRH antagonist contributed to CRPC control.

Identifiants

pubmed: 31607884
doi: 10.1159/000502859
pii: cro-0012-0688
pmc: PMC6787414
doi:

Types de publication

Case Reports

Langues

eng

Pagination

688-692

Informations de copyright

Copyright © 2019 by S. Karger AG, Basel.

Déclaration de conflit d'intérêts

The authors declare no conflicts of interest in association with the present study.

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Auteurs

Rumiko Sugimura (R)

Departments of Urology and Renal Transplantation, Yokohama City University Medical Center, Yokohama, Japan.

Takashi Kawahara (T)

Departments of Urology and Renal Transplantation, Yokohama City University Medical Center, Yokohama, Japan.
Department of Urology, Yokohama City University Graduate School of Medicine, Yokohama, Japan.

Yasuhide Miyoshi (Y)

Departments of Urology and Renal Transplantation, Yokohama City University Medical Center, Yokohama, Japan.

Masahiro Yao (M)

Department of Urology, Yokohama City University Graduate School of Medicine, Yokohama, Japan.

Sawako Chiba (S)

Department of Diagnostic Pathology, Yokohama City University Medical Center, Yokohama, Japan.

Hiroji Uemura (H)

Departments of Urology and Renal Transplantation, Yokohama City University Medical Center, Yokohama, Japan.

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