ALSYMPCA (ALpharadin in SYMPtomatic Prostate CAncer) is an international Phase III clinical study to evaluate the efficacy and safety of Radium-223 dichloride in patients with hormone refractory prostate cancer and skeletal metastases.
Conditions: Hormone Refractory Prostate Cancer, Bone Metastases
Eligibility Criteria
Inclusion Criteria
- Histologically or cytologically confirmed adenocarcinoma of the prostate
- Known hormone refractory disease
- Multiple skeletal metastases (≥ 2 hot spots) on bone scintigraphy
- No intention to use cytotoxic chemotherapy within the next 6 months
- Either regular (not occasional) analgesic medication use for cancer related bone pain or treatment with EBRT (External Beam Radiation Therapy) for bone pain
Exclusion Criteria
- Treatment with an investigational drug within previous 4 weeks, or planned during the treatment period
- Eligible for first course of docetaxel, i.e. patients who are fit enough, willing and where docetaxel is available
- Treatment with cytotoxic chemotherapy within previous 4 weeks, or planned during the treatment period, or failure to recover from adverse events due to cytotoxic chemotherapy administered more than 4 weeks ago
- Systemic radiotherapy with strontium-89, samarium-153, rhenium-186 or rhenium-188 for the treatment of bony metastases within previous 24 weeks
- Other malignancy treated within the last 5 years (except non-melanoma skin cancer or low-grade superficial bladder cancer)
- History of visceral metastasis, or visceral metastases as assessed by abdominal/pelvic CT or chest x-ray within previous 8 weeks
Eligibility criteria are kept as the original English records from ClinicalTrials.gov; actual eligibility is determined by the research team's formal assessment and the informed consent form. Source: ClinicalTrials.gov, updated automatically every two weeks. Last synced: 2026年10月8日.