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ASCO GU 2014: Why does the Medivation PREVAIL trial matter?

This week sees the start of the American Society of Clinical Oncology Symposium on Genitourinary Cancers (ASCO GU) in San Francisco.

Prostate cancer has certainly been in the minds of investors the past few weeks in anticipation of the COMET-1 prostate cancer trial results for cabozantinib (Cometriq).

The share price went on a run-up until Exelixis CEO Michael Morrissey took yet another trip to the biotech ATM machine.  Somehow, this doesn’t come as any surprise given past performance.  The key issue at stake here, however, is will the COMET-1 trial be positive or negative?  The outcome is much anticipated and will no doubt influence the chances of successful approval for cabozantinib in advanced prostate cancer.  Data is expected sometime in first half of this year.

What we can expect in the media this week is more news on the Medivation and Astellas phase 3 trial PREVAIL clinical trial of enzalutamide (Xtandi) in men with advanced prostate cancer who had not yet received chemotherapy.  The ASCO GU abstracts are publicly available at 5pm on Tuesday.

Currently, the key data from oncology medical conferences is focused squarely on Medivation’s enzalutamide and the PREVAIL data.  It seems a good idea to discuss what are the key things to watch out for?

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ASCO GU 2014 Prostate Cancer Preview #GU14

As 2013 comes to an end, rather than look back as many are doing, I’m looking forward to 2014. January is a busy month for cancer meetings with the ASCO organized gastrointestinal cancers symposium (ASCO GI) and genitourinary cancers symposium (ASCO GU) both taking place in San Francisco a few weeks apart.

In fact, looking at the calendar of forthcomings meetings, 2014 looks to have a West Coast focus, with the annual meeting of the American Association for Cancer Research (AACR) taking place in San Diego in April, and the American Society of Hematology (ASH) annual meeting also heading to San Francisco in December.

Transcontinental airfares are notoriously expensive at the last minute so if flying from the East Coast, do make travel plans early!

The ASCO GU symposium takes place at the San Francisco Marriott Marquis from Jan 20 – February 1, 2014. The abstracts for meeting go online at 5pm Eastern Time on Jan 28.

ASCO in a December 19 press release have already announced what will be highlighted on the January 28 press cast, and what many of the media can be anticipated to write about from the meeting.

Perhaps not surprisingly the Medivation PREVAIL trial data (LBA1) is top of the list; the abstract for this presentation has already been published online as Professor Tombal (@BertrandTOMBAL) kindly highlighted on Twitter.

This preview highlights some of the prostate cancer abstracts and presentations to watch out for at the meeting:

Drugs discussed in this post include: enzalutamide (Xtandi), abiraterone (Zytiga), ODM-201, ARN-509, ipilimumab (Yervoy).

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