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SynthesisMedical oncology (Northwood, London, England)2018

Is the fatigue an adverse event of the second generation of hormonal therapy? Data from a literature-based meta-analysis.

Giandomenico Roviello, Daniele Generali

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Synthesis in Medical oncology (Northwood, London, England), 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 5 papers, 2 of them syntheses that pooled it.

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5citing papers in PubMed, 2 pooled it
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1 · What the graph read from it

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2 · The registry

The trial behind it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

5 citing papers in PubMed, 2 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 9 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. Role of novel hormonal therapies in the management of non-metastatic castration-resistant prostate cancer: a literature-based meta-analysis of randomized trials.Clinical & translational oncology : official publication of the Federation of Spanish Oncology Societies and of the National Cancer Institute of Mexico · 2020
    Pooled it
  2. Incidence of the adverse effects of androgen deprivation therapy for prostate cancer: a systematic literature review.Supportive care in cancer : official journal of the Multinational Association of Supportive Care in Cancer · 2020
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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

2 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Giandomenico RovielloDivision of Medical Oncology, Department of Onco-Hematology, IRCCS-CROB, Referral Cancer Center of Basilicata, Via Padre Pio 1, 85028, Rionero in Vulture, PZ, Italy. giandomenicoroviello@hotmail.it.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0001-5504-8237
Daniele GeneraliDepartment of Medical, Surgery and Health Sciences, University of Trieste, Piazza Ospitale 1, 34129, Trieste, Italy.
University of Trieste · IT

Funding

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

New hormonal therapies have enriched the therapeutic armamentarium for patients with castration-resistant prostate cancer (CRPC). Fatigue is one of the most common adverse events registered in phase III trials of these new drugs. The aim of this article is to perform a meta-analysis based on all available literature data focused on the risk rate (RR) of fatigue from new hormonal agent-based therapy in patients with CRPC. A total of 11,751 cases were included from 11 randomized trials. The analysis revealed that the second generation of hormonal therapies increased the RR of any-grade fatigue (RR = 1.27) and grade 3-4 fatigue (RR = 1.25). This last adverse event was always higher in a pre-chemotherapy setting. In conclusion, given the limitations of a literature-based study, rather than a meta-analysis based on individual patients' data, our study confirmed the increase in the RR for any-grade and grade 3-4 fatigue during the second generation of hormonal therapies, with particular attention being paid to grade 3-4 in the pre-chemotherapy setting of the disease.

Indexed as

Antineoplastic Agents, HormonalDisease ProgressionFatigueHumansMalePrognosisProstatic Neoplasms, Castration-ResistantAntineoplastic Agents, HormonalAbirateroneEnzalutamideFatigueOrteronel

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PMID29387974
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