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ERA 223

Radium-223 Dichloride and Abiraterone Acetate Compared to Placebo and Abiraterone Acetate for Men With Cancer of the Prostate When Medical or Surgical Castration Does Not Work and When the Cancer Has Spread to the Bone, Has Not Been Treated With Chemotherapy and is Causing no or Only Mild Symptoms

We haven't built a report for this trial yet. This page shows the registry record and the public commentary we found that names the trial. A report reads that commentary and sets out what clinicians said about the trial, each point linked to its source. How reports are made.

Commentary we found

Podcasts, YouTube videos and X posts in our index that name this trial. A report screens them, searches for more and cites what clinicians said when it is built.

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YouTube28
Podcasts20
X threads4

The trial

ClinicalTrials.gov
Official title
A Phase III Randomized, Double-blind, Placebo-controlled Trial of Radium-223 Dichloride in Combination With Abiraterone Acetate and Prednisone/Prednisolone in the Treatment of Asymptomatic or Mildly Symptomatic Chemotherapy-naïve Subjects With Bone Predominant Metastatic Castration-resistant Prostate Cancer(CRPC)
Phase
Phase 3
Status
Completed
Conditions
Prostatic Neoplasms
Interventions
Radium-223 dichloride (Xofigo, BAY88-8223); Matching placebo (normal saline); Abiraterone; Prednisone/Prednisolone
Arms
  • Radium-223 dichloride + Abi/Pred · Experimental
  • Placebo + Abi/Pred · Placebo comparator
Enrollment
806
Primary outcomes
  • Symptomatic Skeletal Event Free Survival (SSE-FS)
Sponsor
Bayer with Janssen Research & Development, LLC
Start
Mar 30, 2014
Primary completion
Feb 15, 2018
Results posted
Yes
Registry record
NCT02043678 · updated Feb 19, 2025

Publications

linked from the registry
  • Smith M, Parker C, Saad F, Miller K, Tombal B, Ng QS, Boegemann M, Matveev V, Piulats JM, Zucca LE, Karyakin O, Kimura G, Matsubara N, Nahas WC, Nole F, Rosenbaum E, Heidenreich A, Kakehi Y, Zhang A, Krissel H, Teufel M, Shen J, Wagner V, Higano C. Addition of radium-223 to abiraterone acetate and prednisone or prednisolone in patients with castration-resistant prostate cancer and bone metastases (ERA 223): a randomised, double-blind, placebo-controlled, phase 3 trial. Lancet Oncol. 2019 Mar;20(3):408-419. doi: 10.1016/S1470-2045(18)30860-X. Epub 2019 Feb 6. PubMed 30738780
  • Shore N, Higano CS, George DJ, Sternberg CN, Saad F, Tombal B, Miller K, Kalinovsky J, Jiao X, Tangirala K, Sartor O. Concurrent or layered treatment with radium-223 and enzalutamide or abiraterone/prednisone: real-world clinical outcomes in patients with metastatic castration-resistant prostate cancer. Prostate Cancer Prostatic Dis. 2020 Dec;23(4):680-688. doi: 10.1038/s41391-020-0236-0. Epub 2020 May 13. PubMed 32404868
  • Matsubara N, Kimura G, Uemura H, Uemura H, Nakamura M, Nagamori S, Mizokami A, Kikukawa H, Hosono M, Kinuya S, Krissel H, Siegel J, Kakehi Y. A randomized, double-blind, comparison of radium-223 and placebo, in combination with abiraterone acetate and prednisolone, in castration-resistant metastatic prostate cancer: subgroup analysis of Japanese patients in the ERA 223 study. Int J Clin Oncol. 2020 Apr;25(4):720-731. doi: 10.1007/s10147-019-01589-6. Epub 2019 Dec 10. PubMed 31823152