UCLA researchers have reported a promising way to improve antibody-drug conjugates, or ADCs, in metastatic castration-resistant prostate cancer, a disease that remains difficult to control once it stops responding to hormone therapy. Their work suggests that pairing ADCs with a drug that blocks BCL-XL can make prostate cancer cells more vulnerable, leading to greater cell […]
A new regulatory approval is reshaping the treatment landscape for metastatic hormone-sensitive prostate cancer (mHSPC), bringing radioligand therapy into much earlier stages of disease. Pluvicto (lutetium Lu-177 vipivotide tetraxetan aka 177Lu-PSMA-617), a therapy targeting prostate-specific membrane antigen (PSMA), can now be used in combination with standard androgen deprivation therapy and androgen receptor pathway inhibitors in […]
LAST WEEK TODAY! A summary of what was published on ProstateWarriors.com during the past week Hello fellow warriors! Another heatwave, another newsletter (but the two are not correlated!). Stay strong and fight on! As usual, we also have a podcast if you prefer to listen to the newsletter, you can find it HERE. Clinical Research Phase 2 Trial […]
Thomas Jefferson University is running a phase 2 study of xaluritamig, also known as AMG 509, in adults with metastatic castration-resistant prostate cancer whose disease has shown a suboptimal response to Lu-177 vipivotide tetraxetan (aka 177Lu-PSMA 617) the radioligand therapy better known as Pluvicto. The trial reflects a very specific and clinically important question: what […]
ASP388B is an experimental anticancer drug now being tested in a first-in-human study for people with advanced solid tumors, including mCRPC. The public trial record shows it is being studied both alone and in combination with standard treatments, but its exact molecular target has not been publicly disclosed in the materials I could verify. In […]
The first-in-human Phase 1 trial is designed to evaluate safety, tolerability, pharmacokinetics, pharmacodynamics and early signs of anti-tumor activity for FX-111 just started recruiting. We already talked about the rationale behind it in this post. FX-111 is a selective degrader of ARon, the transcriptionally active, hormone-bound form of the androgen receptor. That distinction matters because […]
A study published in Nature Communications, “Muscle mitochondria, function, mass, and quality of life in prostate cancer during androgen deprivation therapy,” looked at how muscle health affects men with advanced prostate cancer during androgen deprivation therapy. The researchers followed 60 patients over six months and assessed body composition, strength, endurance, quality of life, and skeletal […]
KAIST has reported a new cancer-fighting nanoparticle platform that combines two powerful ideas into one system: helping the immune system notice cancer cells and delivering gene therapy directly into those cells. The basic concept is simple. Instead of only trying to poison or block a tumor from the outside, the nanoparticle makes the cancer cell […]
LAST WEEK TODAY! A summary of what was published on ProstateWarriors.com during the past week Hello fellow warriors! We never stop scouting for new weapons to fight this battle. Stay strong and fight on! As usual, we also have a podcast if you prefer to listen to the newsletter, you can find it HERE. Clinical Research Phase 3 […]
Research presented during ASCO GU 2026, showed that germline DDR variants are common enough in metastatic prostate cancer to matter clinically, but their impact is highly gene-specific. In this 3,005-patient cohort, about 9% carried a germline DDR variant, and the study was especially important because it assessed both small variants and structural variants across 31 […]