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Table 1 Timeline

From: Pain, PSA flare, and bone scan response in a patient with metastatic castration-resistant prostate cancer treated with radium-223, a case report

Date

PSA (ng/mL)

Imaging

Bone pain level

Therapy

February 2008

14.8

Single bone metastasis in left pubic ramus

None

 

June 2008

20.1

 

None

ADT initiated

October 2008

0.2

 

None

 

June 2010

8.0

Progression: increase in the extent of abnormal radiotracer activity within the left acetabulum and left superior pubic ramus

None

Phase I study of BN83495 (DHEAS inhibitor)

July 2010

13

 

Moderate

Taken off study for PSA progression; Palliative radiation to pelvic bone metastasis for left hip pain

December 2010-January 2010

  

None

Sipuleucel-T immunotherapy

February 2011

 

Progression: new osseous metastases; no visceral metastases

None

 

April 2011

54.8

 

None

 

May 2011

 

Progression: new osseous metastases; no visceral metastases

None

 

June 2011

  

None

Phase III study of CYP17 inhibitor plus prednisone (randomized to CYP17 inhibitor arm)

October 2011

126.4

Progression: new osseous metastases; no visceral metastases

Moderate

Taken off study for symptomatic disease progression

January 2012-July 2012

234 (January) 46.95 (July)

 

Moderate → mild

10 cycles of docetaxel chemotherapy plus prednisone

August 2012 and October 2012

 

Stable osseous metastatic disease; no visceral metastases

Mild

 

December 2012

128

 

Moderate

Palliative radiation to a sacral osseous metastasis for low back pain

January 2013

331

 

Mild

Enzalutamide initiated

February 2013

224

 

Mild

 

July 2013

653

Progression of osseous metastatic disease; no visceral metastases

Severe diffuse bone pain

 

August 2013

996

 

Pain flare for 10 days after 1st dose of radium-223

1st dose of radium-223

October 2013

  

Pain significantly improved, discontinued opioids

 

November 2013

  

Mild pain controlled with NSAIDs

Symptomatic anemia, requiring transfusion. Has remained transfusion-dependent since.

December 2013

  

Mild pain controlled with NSAIDs

6th dose radium-223

January 2014

554

 

Mild pain controlled with NSAIDs

 

February 2014

 

Dramatic bone scan response to radium-223 with significant decrease in activity of all skeletal metastases

Mild pain controlled with NSAIDs

 

January-July 2014

Stable at about 600

 

Mild pain controlled with NSAIDs

 

July 2014

780

Out-of-field disease progression: new diffuse osseous metastases in the skull, no change in previously existing metastatic disease

Headache; Bone pain stable (mild)

Steroids and stereotactic radiation to skull base mass