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Prostate Cancer | Last Active: Sep 25 8:27am | Replies (44)

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Unfortunately, there are a few options for neuroendocrine cancer. There are some chemo with platinum options, but they don’t give long-term results and the side effects are pretty rough. There are a couple of studies working on neuroendocrine cancer. UC Davis has a study that is having people join it right now, but you need to live near Sacramento, California, or be able to get there. There’s a second study run with a doctor from UC San Francisco, but it is only accepting women with neuroendocrine breast cancer right now.

Problem with neuroendocrine cancer, people don’t have a long life span. There are just no treatments equal to what they have for regular prostate cancer.

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There is a phase II trial underway now for using Apalutamide (Erleada) and Cetrelimab (Libtayo) together to treat neuroendocrine cancer, following on results of earlier, smaller studies. Unfortunately, the trial is no longer accepting new participants, and even if it does turn out to be successful, it will probably be a few years before it's generally available as a treatment.
https://www.cancer.gov/research/participate/clinical-trials-search/v?id=NCI-2021-05986