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SPARTAN
A Study of Apalutamide (ARN-509) in Men With Non-Metastatic Castration-Resistant Prostate Cancer
- NCT01946204 ↗
- Active, not recruiting
- Aragon Pharmaceuticals, Inc.
- Focused
We haven't built an HCP commentary report on SPARTAN 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.
Indexed commentary on SPARTAN so far
Podcasts, YouTube videos and X posts we have indexed that name the trial. It is where a report starts, not where it ends: the build searches for more, so finished reports usually cover more than this.
| Channel | Indexed | |
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| X threads | 3 |
The trial
ClinicalTrials.gov- Official title
- A Multicenter, Randomized, Double-Blind, Placebo-Controlled, Phase III Study of ARN-509 in Men With Non-Metastatic (M0) Castration-Resistant Prostate Cancer
- Phase
- Phase 3
- Status
- Active, not recruiting
- Conditions
- Prostatic Neoplasms
- Interventions
- Apalutamide; Placebo
- Arms
- Treatment Arm A: Apalutamide · Experimental
- Treatment Arm B: Placebo · Placebo comparator
- Enrollment
- 1,207
- Primary outcomes
- Metastasis-Free Survival (MFS) by Blinded Independent Central Review (BICR)
- Sponsor
- Aragon Pharmaceuticals, Inc.
- Start
- Oct 14, 2013
- Primary completion
- May 19, 2017
- Results posted
- Yes
- Registry record
- NCT01946204 · updated Sep 28, 2026
Publications
linked from the registry- Ni X, Sui J, Wang B, Wang H, Freedland SJ, Ye D, Zhu Y. Lower Testosterone Level and Metastases-Free Survival in Patients With Nonmetastatic Castration-Resistant Prostate Cancer Treated With Novel Antiandrogens: A Post Hoc Analysis of SPARTAN and ARAMIS. J Urol. 2025 Jul;214(1):10-17. doi: 10.1097/JU.0000000000004545. Epub 2025 Mar 25. PubMed 40132221
- Feng FY, Smith MR, Saad F, Mobadersany P, Tian SK, Yip SSF, Greshock J, Khan N, Yu MK, McCarthy S, Brookman-May SD, Bourla AB, Todorovic T, Yamashita R, Huang HC, Royce TJ, Showalter TN, Griffin J, Mitani A, Esteva A, Small EJ. Digital Pathology-Based Multimodal Artificial Intelligence Scores and Outcomes in a Randomized Phase III Trial in Men With Nonmetastatic Castration-Resistant Prostate Cancer. JCO Precis Oncol. 2025 Jan;9:e2400653. doi: 10.1200/PO-24-00653. Epub 2025 Jan 31. PubMed 39889245
- Roy S, Malone S, Wing K, Chowdhury S, Kishan AU, Sun Y, Wallis CJD, Mohamad O, Jia AY, Swami U, Zaorsky NG, Morgan SC, Ong M, Agarwal N, Spratt DE, Small EJ, Saad F. Prior Local Therapy and First-Line Apalutamide in Patients With Nonmetastatic Castration-Resistant Prostate Cancer: A Secondary Analysis of the SPARTAN Randomized Clinical Trial. JAMA Netw Open. 2024 Oct 1;7(10):e2439434. doi: 10.1001/jamanetworkopen.2024.39434. PubMed 39405060
- Karsh LI, Bevans KB, Saad F, Chung BH, Oudard S, Brookman-May SD, McCarthy SA, Smith MR, Chi KN, Small EJ, Agarwal N. Prostate-specific antigen and health-related quality of life in individuals with advanced prostate cancer treated with apalutamide: a plain language summary of the SPARTAN and TITAN studies. Future Oncol. 2024;20(35):2689-2698. doi: 10.1080/14796694.2024.2384257. Epub 2024 Aug 20. PubMed 39163505
- Shen J, Chowdhury S, Agarwal N, Karsh LI, Oudard S, Gartrell BA, Feyerabend S, Saad F, Pieczonka CM, Chi KN, Brookman-May SD, Rooney B, Bhaumik A, McCarthy SA, Bevans KB, Mundle SD, Small EJ, Smith MR, Graff JN. Apalutamide efficacy, safety and wellbeing in older patients with advanced prostate cancer from Phase 3 randomised clinical studies TITAN and SPARTAN. Br J Cancer. 2024 Jan;130(1):73-81. doi: 10.1038/s41416-023-02492-8. Epub 2023 Nov 11. PubMed 37951974
- Pollock Y, Smith MR, Saad F, Chowdhury S, Oudard S, Hadaschik B, Olmos D, Lee JY, Uemura H, Bhaumik A, Londhe A, Rooney B, Brookman-May SD, De Porre P, Mundle SD, Small EJ. Clinical characteristics associated with falls in patients with non-metastatic castration-resistant prostate cancer treated with apalutamide. Prostate Cancer Prostatic Dis. 2023 Mar;26(1):156-161. doi: 10.1038/s41391-022-00592-9. Epub 2022 Oct 8. PubMed 36209239
- Chowdhury S, Oudard S, Uemura H, Joniau S, Dearden L, Capone C, Van Sanden S, Diels J, Hadaschik BA. Apalutamide Compared with Darolutamide for the Treatment of Non-metastatic Castration-Resistant Prostate Cancer: Efficacy and Tolerability in a Matching-Adjusted Indirect Comparison. Adv Ther. 2022 Jan;39(1):518-531. doi: 10.1007/s12325-021-01885-6. Epub 2021 Nov 19. PubMed 34797506
- Uemura H, Koroki Y, Iwaki Y, Imanaka K, Kambara T, Lopez-Gitlitz A, Smith A, Uemura H. Skin rash following Administration of Apalutamide in Japanese patients with Advanced Prostate Cancer: an integrated analysis of the phase 3 SPARTAN and TITAN studies and a phase 1 open-label study. BMC Urol. 2020 Sep 2;20(1):139. doi: 10.1186/s12894-020-00689-0. PubMed 32878613
- Smith MR, Mehra M, Nair S, Lawson J, Small EJ. Relationship Between Metastasis-free Survival and Overall Survival in Patients With Nonmetastatic Castration-resistant Prostate Cancer. Clin Genitourin Cancer. 2020 Apr;18(2):e180-e189. doi: 10.1016/j.clgc.2019.10.030. Epub 2019 Nov 6. PubMed 31980408
- Saad F, Cella D, Basch E, Hadaschik BA, Mainwaring PN, Oudard S, Graff JN, McQuarrie K, Li S, Hudgens S, Lawson J, Lopez-Gitlitz A, Yu MK, Smith MR, Small EJ. Effect of apalutamide on health-related quality of life in patients with non-metastatic castration-resistant prostate cancer: an analysis of the SPARTAN randomised, placebo-controlled, phase 3 trial. Lancet Oncol. 2018 Oct;19(10):1404-1416. doi: 10.1016/S1470-2045(18)30456-X. Epub 2018 Sep 10. PubMed 30213449
- Smith MR, Saad F, Chowdhury S, Oudard S, Hadaschik BA, Graff JN, Olmos D, Mainwaring PN, Lee JY, Uemura H, Lopez-Gitlitz A, Trudel GC, Espina BM, Shu Y, Park YC, Rackoff WR, Yu MK, Small EJ; SPARTAN Investigators. Apalutamide Treatment and Metastasis-free Survival in Prostate Cancer. N Engl J Med. 2018 Apr 12;378(15):1408-1418. doi: 10.1056/NEJMoa1715546. Epub 2018 Feb 8. PubMed 29420164