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Molecular Mechanisms of Therapies for Prostate Cancer with Bone Metastasis

  • Alexandra Vander Ark,
  • Erica Woodford and
  • Xiaohong Li*
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Journal of Exploratory Research in Pharmacology   2016;1(1):35-39

doi: 10.14218/JERP.2016.00023

Abstract

Prostate cancer (PCa) is one of the most diagnosed cancers in American men and is a leading cause of cancer deaths in advanced forms of disease. Seventy to ninety percent of men who die of PCa will have developed bone metastases during the course of the disease, and these bone metastases cause severe pain that can lead to further skeletal complications. The standard treatment for PCa generally includes androgen deprivation therapy, radiation, and chemotherapy, either singly or in combination, depending on disease progression. These treatments are able to slow disease progression slightly, but an urgent need remains for a more curative approach. In addition to the adverse effects resulting from these treatments, androgen deprivation therapy can often lead to a castration-resistant form of the disease, which is even more difficult to treat and often becomes metastatic. In the past several years, new drugs that target androgens, the bone microenvironment, and other mechanisms involved in PCa have shown promise in clinical trials for advanced PCa; these include abiraterone, enzalutamide, sipuleucel-T, radium-223, denosumab, and cabazitaxel, and will be described in further detail in this review. The continuous improvement upon current therapies and development of new drugs is promising for the future of advanced PCa, and the authors will give their perspective on these different treatment approaches.

Keywords

Prostate cancer, Bone metastasis, Treatment, Androgen deprivation therapy, Radiation, Bone microenvironment, Androgen, Castration-resistant

Introduction

According to the American Cancer Society, 1 in 7 men will be diagnosed with prostate cancer (PCa) in their lifetime.1 There is a 10-year survival rate of 99% when the disease is caught early; however, this rate drops to 30% when patients develop metastasis. Seventy to ninety percent of patients who die of PCa have bone metastasis, which classifies their disease state as advanced.2 PCa bone metastasis causes skeletal-related events (SREs), such as fracture, hypercalcemia, or spinal cord compression, as well as severe pain. Current therapies, such as bisphosphonates, steroids, and chemotherapies, are used to relieve these symptoms and slow disease progression, but they are also associated with adverse reactions and do not significantly improve the patients’ overall survival. Therefore, developing new approaches to target PCa bone metastasis is an urgent need.

It is important to understand the molecular mechanisms behind PCa metastasis when developing new therapies. Normal bone homeostasis is largely dependent on osteoclast and osteoblast function during bone turnover, as well as the various factors that are released during the process. PCa cells secrete factors such as parathyroid hormone-related protein (PTHrP), which initiates osteoblast expression of the receptor activator of nuclear factor kappa-B ligand (RANKL), which further stimulates maturation of osteoclasts to resorb bone. The bone is a powerhouse, which stores many growth factors and cytokines that are released upon PCa-induced resorption. Factors like transforming growth factor-beta (TGF-β) are released from the bone matrix and cause stimulation of osteoblasts, which, in turn, signal to osteoclasts for more bone resorption. This rapid bone turnover that occurs during PCa bone metastasis is known as the “vicious cycle”.

This review will discuss the molecular mechanisms of current clinical therapies and our perspectives on the potential new therapies for PCa bone metastasis patients. There have been several drugs approved for PCa therapy in the last few years, targeting a variety of cellular pathways. We will focus on the main approaches to current PCa therapy, primarily on the respective underlying molecular mechanisms of each treatment. A list of drugs discussed in this review along with their respective categories and mechanisms of action are included in Table 1.

Table 1

Mechanistic actions of prostate cancer therapeutics

Drug NameTherapeutic CategoryMechanism of Action
AbirateroneAndrogen Deprivation TherapyCYP17 inhibitor that decreases circulating levels of androgen
CabitaxelChemotherapeuticAntimitotic that stops PCa division and alters the cell efflux pump to extend cellular drug levels
CAR T TherapyImmune TherapyTargets prostate-specific antigens such as PSMA or PSCA to kill PCa cells
DegarelixLHRH AntagonistStops LHRH from binding its receptor and prevents LH flare that would otherwise spike testosterone levels
DenosumabRANKL InhibitorRANKL antibody that blocks osteoclast differentiation and activity
DocetaxelChemotherapeuticAntimitotic agent that stops PCa cell division
EnzalutamideAndrogen Deprivation TherapyAndrogen receptor inhibitor that prevents AR translocation to the nucleus and further androgen signaling
Galeterone and NiclosamideAndrogen Deprivation TherapyTargets AR-V7 to reduce androgen levels (generally used in combination with either abiraterone or enzalutamide)
IpilimumabImmune Checkpoint TherapyCTLA-4 antibody that promotes adaptive immunity and T cell response to attack PCa cells
Nivolumab and PembrolizumabImmune Checkpoint TherapyPD-1 antibody that allows immune response of cytotoxic T cells to attack PCa cells
Radium-223Radiation TherapyAlpha-emitting radiation with structure similar to calcium for greater bone specificity
Sipuleucel-TImmunotherapyCancer vaccine that facilitates the T cell immune response targeting PAP on PCa cells
SRPK1 InhibitorVEGF and FGFR InhibitorsAlters VEGF splicing to antiangiogenic isoforms, reducing tumor angiogenesis
Zoledronic AcidBisphosphonateTargets osteoclasts to reduce bone resorption and turnover

Targeting cancer cells

Androgen ablation therapy

The surgical or chemical removal of androgen signaling, known as androgen deprivation therapy (ADT), is a common treatment for advanced PCa. ADT reduces the amount of available androgen that would otherwise stimulate PCa cell growth through the androgen receptor (AR). Administration of ADT prior to primary tumor removal is still controversial, but studies have shown that it leads to a decrease in lymph node invasion and better organ confinement as well as overall progression-free survival when initiated at diagnosis.3 Some clinicians choose a combination treatment of pelvic radiation and ADT for their patients to target any micrometastases that may be present at the time of primary tumor removal.4

One disadvantage to ADT is that a flare reaction in bone metastasis can occur upon initiation, leading to rapid bone repair and an increase in osteoblast activity.5 This makes it very important for clinicians to take into account the progression of disease and risk for the patient before beginning treatment. While ADT can slow progression of disease, there are adverse effects for patients, including hot flashes, night sweats, hair loss, irritability, loss of libido, and erectile dysfunction.6 Another disadvantage to ADT is that testosterone levels have to be monitored consistently, which becomes difficult when trying to detect castration levels of 50 ng/dL or less. The testosterone level of 50 ng/dL has been set as the standard for castration, but there is question as to whether the baseline should be reduced to 20 ng/dL, for which better patient results have been reported.3

Drugs like abiraterone, enzalutamide, and galeterone, have been developed to target alternate androgen activation of AR that may contribute to rising testosterone levels and PCa progression.7–9 The first of these drugs, abiraterone, is a CYP17 inhibitor that prevents the conversion of pregnenalone to dihydrotestosterone (DHT) and has been shown to significantly increase survival, particularly in patients with metastatic castration-resistant PCa (CRPC), as compared to treatment with prednisone alone.9 The second of these drugs, enzalutamide, works through an AR binding competition mechanism and inhibition of translocation of AR into the nucleus, both of which impair AR activation.8 Both abiraterone and enzalutamide have improved survival in patients, but one-third of PCa patients have an AR-V7 splice variant that makes them resistant to this therapy. In order to overcome resistance to these drugs, a couple of new therapies are in trials, including niclosamide and galeterone, and have shown some success by specifically targeting AR-V7 along with inhibition of AR by abiraterone or enzalutamide.10 These alternatives could be used to reduce androgen signaling ever further, but, even so, ADT does not cure prostate cancer and can lead to castration-resistant disease.

Luteinizing hormone-releasing hormone (LHRH) agonists and antagonists are another way to reduce androgen signaling in PCa patients. LHRH agonists act on the anterior pituitary gland to block testosterone production.3 The down side of this agonist is that it causes an initial spike in LH release that can stimulate PCa cells, leading to side effects like spinal cord compression, ureteral/urethral obstruction, or bone pain. In this case, antiandrogens are generally added to the therapy to block downstream AR signaling and suppress these side effects. This strategy of combined androgen blockade is used to keep the levels of androgens below the castration baseline of 50 ng/dL, even with the LH burst from drug initiation.

Combined therapies can help keep testosterone levels at bay but come with added risk to patients, including increased risk for diabetes, osteoporosis, cardiac events and stroke.3 LHRH antagonists have been more recently investigated for their ability to help avoid LH flare from the pituitary gland, meaning that no antiandrogens would be needed to counteract the increase in testosterone and ultimately equating to less risk for adverse effects. Degarelix is an LHRH antagonist that works by consistently suppressing follicle-stimulating hormone (FSH) levels, which would otherwise stimulate PCa growth. LHRH antagonists have been found to improve progression-free survival better than other ADTs as well.3

While these therapies can reduce androgen signaling to PCa cells and slow down progression of disease, patients and clinicians have to decide on the best treatment for their individual case. Since ADT can lead to CRPC and metastasis, a patient with low-risk disease has to acknowledge the potential for future complications associated with starting ADT. Once PCa becomes castration-resistant or metastatic, it is very difficult to treat and most often leads to patient death.

Chemotherapy

Taxanes are a group of chemotherapeutic agents used to treat advanced PCa that interfere with microtubules during mitosis and prevent the cell from reaching anaphase, thereby leading to apoptosis.11 Docetaxel was approved for treatment of metastatic CRPC in 2004 and has since become the standard treatment for advanced disease, but, unfortunately, disease progression is still inevitable. Docetaxel used in combination with other therapies has provided some promising results of progression-free survival.7,11,12 Even so, some PCa becomes resistant to docetaxel and new treatment options are needed. Cabazitaxel was approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to treat docetaxel-resistant PCa, and works by targeting microtubules, altering the efflux pump in the cell (so that drug remains in the cell longer), and inducing apoptosis.12 Carboplatin (a platinum-based drug), and everolimus (an mTOR inhibitor) have been used in clinical trials as a combination therapy and have been shown to exert antitumor effects and to reduce prostate-specific antigen (PSA) levels.7

Chemotherapy agents such as docetaxel can be beneficial for many patients with metastatic CRPC; however, more specific bone-targeting agents could help eliminate the adverse effects to other non-cancerous replicating cells throughout the patient’s body. In general, docetaxel is well tolerated by patients, but it can result in fever, fatigue, pneumonitis, gastrointestinal complications, neuropathies and more.13

Immune therapy

Sipuleucel-T

Sipuleucel-T has recently been approved by the U.S. FDA as an antigen presenting cell (APC)-based vaccine for PCa.6 Sipuleucel-T works through T cell immunity targeted against PCa cells, and utilizes peripheral blood mononuclear cells, including APCs, from the patient. These cells are activated ex vivo with a recombinant fusion protein (PA2024) consisting of a prostate antigen, prostatic acid phosphatase (PAP), fused to the granulocyte-macrophage colony-stimulating factor. This therapy acts through APC stimulation of T cell immune responses targeted to PAP that is highly expressed on most PCa cells. The prostate antigen is incubated with patient APCs (obtained by blood draw) and infused back into the patient once the cells are activated and ready to fight the PCa cells.

Sipuleucel-T has been shown to reduce the risk of death among metastatic CRPC patients and to increase the median survival by at least 4 months, as compared to other currently available therapeutics.14,15 Adverse effects for this immunotherapy are similar to flu-like symptoms, and include headache, fever, nausea, chills, joint pain, and some gastrointestinal discomfort. But unlike with the other treatments, these symptoms usually occur immediately following application of the drug and rescind within a couple of days. The extended survival (of at least 4 months as compared to the other drugs), the better quality of life during treatment, and the reduced risk of death by 22.5% could make this therapy worth the time and money for many patients with advanced or metastatic CRPC.15

Immune checkpoint therapy

Immune checkpoint therapy is another treatment method that has been in clinical trials for multiple cancers, including PCa. These kinds of therapies utilize various antibody targets involved in immune response to elicit antitumor effects through T cells.16 Nivolumab and pembrolizumab are antibodies against the programmed death-1 (PD-1) protein that promote cytotoxic T cell immunity to increase the attack on and destruction of cancer cells. Ipilimumab is another immune checkpoint therapy that has been in clinical trials, which targets the cytotoxic T lymphocyte-associated protein 4 (CTLA-4). This therapy works similarly by inducing adaptive immunity so that T cells become activated and begin attacking PCa cells.16,17

Chimeric antigen receptor (CAR) T cell therapy

CAR T cell therapy is another novel treatment used in various cancer types. This type of therapy targets cancer-specific antigens in order to gain specificity and kill cancer cells solely. The prostate-specific membrane antigen (PSMA) and prostate stem cell antigen (PSCA) have been targeted in clinical trials for PCa, but have shown minimal antitumor effects.18

More advanced CAR T cell therapies use a combination of costimulatory agents, and these have shown much greater antitumor effects than the first-generation therapies; however, they have also shown a greater potential for eliciting more severe adverse immune reactions. Cytokine release syndrome remains a concern for CAR T cell therapy, as it can lead to fevers, fatigue, nausea, and the life-threatening conditions of multi-organ dysfunction or failure.19,20 PCa expresses many antigens that are not present in other tissues, which is what makes this type of therapy so attractive, and once the adverse effects of these drugs are diminished, the development of combined immunotherapies targeting these antigens will have substantial antitumor potential for both metastatic and castration-resistant disease.

Targeting the bone microenvironment

Bisphosphonates

While chemotherapies, ADT, and radiation may help reduce progression of disease, there is still need for therapy that can treat bone metastasis specifically. There are currently several drugs available that target the bone microenvironment so that normal bone mass can be achieved.

Bisphosphonates are synthetic analogues of phosphates that inhibit hydroxyapatite crystal dissolution in bone tissues. These drugs are endocytosed by osteoclasts and become incorporated into the cell as non-hydrolyzable analogues of adenosine triphosphate (ATP), which accumulates in the cell, inhibits absorption, and induces apoptosis. Targeting osteoclasts leads to reduction in bone resorption and decreased bone turnover, which is increased in metastases. There are 3 different classes of bisphosphonates used in the clinic, and the second- and third-generations include nitrogen-containing bisphosphonates, like zoledronic acid.

Zoledronic acid was found to be 10,000-fold more potent than first-generation bisphosphonates, such as clodronate.21 Zoledronic acid improves upon other bisphosphonates by additionally inhibiting farnesyl diphosphate synthase, which blocks the mevalatone pathway. This reduces downstream metabolites and prevents posttranslational modifications of GTPases like Ras, Rab, Rho, and Rac that are essential signaling proteins for regulation of multiple cell processes in osteoclasts.21 Bisphosphonates bind to the bone matrix and are absorbed by osteoclasts during bone remodeling that occurs during metastasis, and the interference with their maturation leads to apoptosis. This reduces osteoclast function and inhibits resorption, leading to overall reduction in bone turnover, osteoblast function, and bone mass maintenance.22,23 While the bisphosphonates can help slow disease progression and reduce bone pain, there still remains a need for more curative treatment.

RANKL inhibitors

Denosumab has been developed as an alternative therapy to bisphosphonates, and functions by inhibiting RANK signaling. It is a monoclonal antibody to RANK ligand (RANKL), and has been shown to increase time to skeletal-related events (SREs) better than bisphosphonates.24 Blocking RANKL prevents mature osteoclast activity as well as their differentiation, which interrupts bone turnover.21 Denosumab was found to be a superior treatment to zoledronic acid for time to first SRE, with the time being increased 18% (36 months), but without any significant change in overall survival or disease progression. It did, however, decrease serum levels of urine N-telopeptide (uNTx) and alkaline phosphatase (ALP) as compared to zoledronic acid treatment. uNTx is a bone turnover marker that has been associated with increased risk in patients with PCa. In particular, patients with moderate to high levels of uNTx were shown to have a 2-fold increased risk for skeletal complications and disease progression; thus, a drug that results in lower levels of this marker is expected to significantly reduce risk for PCa advancement.21,25

There are particular benefits to the two bone-targeted therapies described above, and each patient will have a different case that may benefit from either one. Zoledronic acid needs to be intravenously administered and patients are monitored for renal complications throughout treatment. Denosumab can be given subcutaneously or orally and has no adverse effects in renal health or acute phase reactions. Patients will need to consider the cost of treatment along with long-term adverse effects and benefits depending on their disease severity and age.

Targeting PCa and bone microenvironment

Radiation

Radiation therapy after radical prostatectomy is standard of care for high-risk and metastatic PCa.3 Radiation localized to the pelvic region, as mentioned previously, is an option for patients that may be at risk for micrometastases at time of diagnosis. This can help prevent further growth in the pelvis as well as potential spread to other bones. There has been evidence to suggest that radiation not only treats PCa metastases, but also affects the bone microenvironment so that the bone is no longer hospitable to metastasis. Treatment with radiopharmaceuticals could potentially keep PCa cells or bone metastases dormant by inhibiting the necessary bone factors that lead to disease progression.5 This treatment can be a useful tool for CRPC by targeting mechanisms other than AR signaling, but other damaging effects will occur with treatment.

Radium-223 is an alpha emitting radiopharmaceutical used for PCa bone metastasis. It has a structure similar to calcium that helps it target the bone microenvironment and is less damaging than beta or gamma emissions.24,26 A significant improvement in overall survival of at least 4 months has been seen in CRPC bone metastasis patients.24 Multiple studies have been performed with this therapy, and have produced mixed results as to whether survival and disease progression are affected, but, overall, patients that have aggressive CRPC with a greater number of bone metastases have longer progression-free survival than those without Radium-223 treatment.5 Based on these results, it seems that this therapy may be a good choice for patients with aggressive PCa that has progressed to CRPC with multiple metastases.

Conclusion and perspectives

The continued development of new treatments for advanced PCa is promising for the future of patient therapy. Combination therapies targeted to the bone as well as new immunotherapies, such as sipuleucel-T and CAR T cell therapy have the potential to significantly reduce disease progression in PCa patients. Two of the biggest hurdles yet to be overcome are the adverse reactions that result from these drugs and the need to find a way by which to determine which therapy is best for each specific case.

There are currently 90 phase I/II trials and several phase III trials available for PCa patients.27 Vascular endothelial growth factor (VEGF) and fibroblast growth factor receptor (FGFR) inhibitors are a recent development designed to target angiogenesis in PCa tumors. A serine-arginine protein kinase 1 (SRPK1) inhibitor that switches VEGF splicing to antiangiogenic isoforms, rather than angiogenic ones, has shown improvement in PCa patient-derived xenograft models. This inhibitor has reduced tumor growth and microvessel formation in mouse tumors, and the SR proteins that the inhibitor regulates are up-regulated in human PCa tissues in correlation with disease stage and invasion. Drugs like alibercept, pasopanib, dovitinib, and lucitanib are currently in clinical trials, targeting VEGF and FGF pathways, but have not shown much improvement over the current therapies as of yet.28

There are many pathways and possible targets for PCa bone metastasis, and after reviewing the past and current therapies, combination treatment seems to be the most aggressive and successful treatment method for advanced and metastatic CRPC. Although combination therapy can have adverse side effects, the patients must compare the quality of life they expect during therapy to the expected survival and potential for disease progression. Each patient will present a different case, and depending on age and disease severity, clinicians will have to decide which therapy would be more beneficial for each one. With the new therapies that have been approved in the past several years and the treatments continuously entering the pipeline, there is hope for the future of metastatic CRPC therapy. But, as the current drugs only prolong the inevitable, there is still a need for a more curative treatment approach.

Abbreviations

PCa: 

prostate cancer

ADT: 

androgen deprivation therapy

AR: 

androgen receptor

CRPC: 

castration-resistant prostate cancer

LHRH: 

luteinizing hormone-releasing hormone

PSA: 

prostate-specific antigen

RANKL: 

receptor activator of nuclear factor kappa-B ligand

U.S. FDA: 

United States Food and Drug Administration

SREs: 

skeletal-related events

Declarations

Conflict of interest

The authors have no conflict of interests related to this publication.

Authors’ contributions

Conception and design (AVA, XL), writing of the manuscript (AVA, EW, XL), supervision (XL).

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