Pazopanib Hydrochloride With or Without Bicalutamide in Treating Patients With Prostate Cancer That Did Not Respond to Hormone Therapy
Hormone-Resistant Prostate Cancer, Recurrent Prostate Carcinoma

About this trial
This is an interventional treatment trial for Hormone-Resistant Prostate Cancer
Eligibility Criteria
Inclusion Criteria:
- Histologically or cytologically confirmed prostate cancer
Must have received prior hormonal therapy, including either medical (luteinizing hormone-releasing hormone [LHRH] agonist) or surgical (orchiectomy) castration
- Castrate level of testosterone (< 50 ng/dL)
- Patients treated with LHRH agonists must continue or restart this therapy
- Must have radiological documentation of either measurable or non-measurable disease
Must show documented progression of prostate cancer while on hormonal therapy as indicated by PSA increase
- Rising PSA is defined as ≤ 2 consecutive rises in PSA taken ≥ 1 week and ≤ 2 months apart
- PSA >= 5 ng/mL
- No known brain metastases
- Eastern Cooperative Oncology Group (ECOG) performance status (PS) 0-2 OR Karnofsky PS 60-100%
- Life expectancy > 3 months
- White blood cell (WBC) >= 3,000/mm^3
- Absolute neutrophil count (ANC) >= 1,500/mm^3
- Platelet count >= 100,000/mm^3
- International normalized ratio (INR) =< 1.2
- Activated partial thromboplastin time (PTT) =< 1.2 times upper limit of normal (ULN)
- Bilirubin normal
- Aspartate aminotransferase (AST) and alanine aminotransferase (ALT) =< 1.5 times ULN
- Creatinine normal OR creatinine clearance >= 60 mL/min
- Fertile patients must use effective contraception
- No history of allergic reactions attributed to compounds of similar chemical or biological composition to pazopanib hydrochloride or bicalutamide
- Proteinuria =< 1+ on 2 consecutive dipsticks taken >= 1 week apart
- QTc < 480 msec
- No significant electrocardiogram (ECG) abnormalities
- No poorly controlled hypertension (systolic blood pressure [BP] > 150 mm Hg or diastolic BP > 90 mm Hg)
- No condition (e.g., gastrointestinal [GI] tract disease resulting in an inability to take oral medication or a requirement for intravenous (IV) alimentation; prior surgical procedures affecting absorption; or active peptic ulcer disease) that impairs the ability to swallow and retain pazopanib hydrochloride tablets
- No serious or nonhealing wound, ulcer, or bone fracture
- No abdominal fistula, gastrointestinal (GI) perforation, or intra-abdominal abscess within the past 28 days
- No cerebrovascular accident within the past 6 months
- No myocardial infarction, cardiac arrhythmia, admission for unstable angina, cardiac angioplasty, or stenting within the past 12 weeks
- No venous thrombosis within the past 12 weeks
No New York Heart Association (NYHA) class III-IV heart failure
- Patients with a history of NYHA class II heart failure who are asymptomatic on treatment are eligible
- No concurrent uncontrolled illness, including, but not limited to, ongoing or active infection
- No psychiatric illness or social situation that would preclude study compliance
- Recovered from all prior therapy
- Prior neoadjuvant or adjuvant chemotherapy allowed
- More than 4 weeks since prior chemotherapy (6 weeks for nitrosoureas or mitomycin C) or radiotherapy
- At least 4 weeks since prior antiandrogens
- At least 4 weeks since prior surgery
- No prior bicalutamide therapy lasting > 3 months in duration
- Concurrent steroids allowed if no change in steroid dosage within the past 4 weeks
- No other concurrent investigational agents
No concurrent therapeutic warfarin
- Concurrent low molecular weight heparin or prophylactic low-dose warfarin allowed
- No concurrent combination antiretroviral therapy for human immunodeficiency virus (HIV)-positive patients
Sites / Locations
- BCCA-Vancouver Cancer Centre
- Juravinski Cancer Centre at Hamilton Health Sciences
- Cancer Centre of Southeastern Ontario at Kingston General Hospital
- London Regional Cancer Program
- Ottawa Hospital and Cancer Center-General Campus
- University Health Network-Princess Margaret Hospital
Arms of the Study
Arm 1
Arm 2
Experimental
Experimental
Arm A (pazopanib hydrochloride)
Arm B (pazopanib hydrochloride, bicalutamide)
Patients receive pazopanib hydrochloride PO QD on days 1-28. .
Patients receive pazopanib hydrochloride PO QD on days 1-28. Patients also receive bicalutamide PO QD on days 8-28 of course 1 and on days 1-28 in all subsequent courses.