Abstract
Until the last few years very little information has been available regarding the potential of chemotherapy in prostatic cancer. Few drugs have been adequately tested to determine their efficacy, if any. Of the little conventional chemotherapy that has been documented, only diethylstilbestrol diphosphate (Stilphostrol, Honvan) has been safe, effective (at least in relieving bone pain) and available for repeat courses of treatment. The several well controlled clinical trials recently embarked upon and described in this article should reveal much about the effectiveness in prostatic cancer of agents already accepted in chemotherapy of other malignancies. Newer drugs will also require thorough testing. At this time no specific recommendations for chemotherpay other than the use of intravenous diethylstillbestrol diphospate can be made. Agents like estramustine phosphate (Estracyt) and flutamide (SCH-13521) with little to no bone marrow, liver, or renal toxicity are very promising. Studies of single-agent, sequential, and combined chemotherapy will necessarily lead to safe effective chemotherapy as adjuncts to surgery and/or radiotherapy for prostatic cancer in all stages.
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