Landmark clinical trial reports 33% prostate cancer survival benefit from novel hormone therapy Wednesday, June 12, 2019 At ASCO 2019 the landmark ENZAMET | CCTG PR17 (NCT02446405) clinical trial demonstrated that hormone therapy with a drug called enzalutamide can improve the survival of some men with advanced, hormone‐sensitive prostate cancer. Findings, show that men with this sort of cancer who receive enzalutamide with standard treatment have a 33% improvement in survival compared to men receiving standard treatment alone. The results were presented in the Plenary Session at the American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO) Annual Scientific Meeting in Chicago on June 2, 2019 and published simultaneously in the New England Journal of Medicine (NEJM). ENZAMET | CCTG PR17 was a global collaborative investigator‐initiated trial led by ANZUP and included the Canadian Cancer Trials Group, Dana‐Farber Cancer Institute, and Cancer Trials Ireland. Read more here
