A predictive biomarker for prostate cancer drug resistance may lead to new drug development opportunities.

At ASCO 2014, one of the prostate cancer highlights was the oral presentation by Emmanuel Antonarakis MB BCh, Assistant Professor of Oncology at Johns Hopkins.

He presented elegant research, albeit in a small group of patients, about how constitutively active splice variants (AR-V’s) may represent one potential mechanism of resistance to androgen receptor (AR) signalling inhibitors such as enzalutamide (Astellas/Medivation) and androgen synthesis inhibitors such as abiraterone (JNJ).

I spoke to Dr Charles Ryan, Professor of Medicine and Urology at the University of California San Francisco (UCSF) about the significance of the data to clinical practice, and the new drug development opportunities that may follow-on from it.

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