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Testicular Cancer
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French Prostate Cancer Award - A Phase III trial of Aspirin and Pravastatin in patients with castrate-resistant prostate cancer (PEACE-4)

Movember Funding to Date

EUR 300,000

What we seek to achieve

There is an urgent medical need to find drugs that are effective and that are affordable and can be combined with the newer treatment modalities without causing too much toxicity. In this clinical trial, Dr Karim Fizazi’s team will investigate the role of statins and aspirin in the treatment of castrate resistant prostate cancer.

Country
France
Co-funded
PHRC, la fondation Cancer du Luxembourg EUR 704,861
Implemented by
Movember Foundation
Project start date
May 2017
Project Status
In Progress

About the project

This project will look at “redesigning” old drugs, aspirin and pravastatin, for new uses in prostate cancer. These drugs have a well-known side effect profile that mostly compares favorably with novel anti-cancer drugs. Moreover the overlapping toxicity is potentially low. 

In addition to the postulated anti-cancer effects both drugs have properties that could counteract the adverse metabolic side effects caused by androgen-deprivation therapy, therefore potentially further reducing morbidity and mortality. 

The role of the statins and the aspirin in castrate resistant prostate cancer will be assessed by a clinical trial. This is a 4 arm, multicenter, international, open phase III randomized trial. 

Such a trial cannot be done in one European country alone in a decent time frame. So it is important to collaborate. This trial is planned to be conducted in France (GETUG), Switzerland (SAKK), Europe (EORTC GU group), Spain (SOGUG), Germany (AUO), and Ireland (ICORG) under the umbrella of the Prostate Cancer Consortium in Europe (PEACE). PEACE is an academic effort to gather forces from different countries to conduct large phase III trials in prostate cancer in Europe.  Two other PEACE phase III trials in Europe have started accruing in 2014. 

This research project underwent a peer review process involving a panel of experts in clinical and translational research across the prostate cancer field.

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