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TITAN trial (apalutamide): what clinicians have said so far
A Study of Apalutamide (JNJ-56021927, ARN-509) Plus Androgen Deprivation Therapy (ADT) Versus ADT in Participants With mHSPC
- NCT02489318 ↗
- Active, not recruiting
- Aragon Pharmaceuticals, Inc.
- Focused size, estimated: 1–150 verified statements once built
We haven't built an HCP commentary report on TITAN (apalutamide in metastatic hormone-sensitive prostate cancer) 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 TITAN 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.
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| 4 posts on X, typically up to 18 once built |
The trial
ClinicalTrials.gov- Official title
- A Phase 3 Randomized, Placebo-controlled, Double-blind Study of Apalutamide Plus Androgen Deprivation Therapy (ADT) Versus ADT in Subjects With Metastatic Hormone-sensitive Prostate Cancer (mHSPC)
- Phase
- Phase 3
- Status
- Active, not recruiting
- Conditions
- Prostate Cancer
- Interventions
- Apalutamide; Placebo; Androgen Deprivation Therapy (ADT)
- Arms
- Apalutamide plus ADT · Experimental
- Placebo plus ADT · Experimental
- Enrollment
- 1,052
- Primary outcomes
- Radiographic Progression-free Survival (rPFS)
- Overall Survival (OS)
- Sponsor
- Aragon Pharmaceuticals, Inc.
- Start
- Nov 27, 2015
- Primary completion
- Sep 7, 2020
- Results posted
- Yes
- Registry record
- NCT02489318 · updated Nov 4, 2026
Publications
linked from the registry- Hori T, Iwamoto H, Inaba T, Nakagawa R, Kamijima T, Kano H, Makino T, Naito R, Yaegashi H, Shigehara K, Nohara T, Izumi K, Mizokami A. Association Between Castration-resistant Prostate Cancer Progression Patterns and Survival Outcomes in Metastatic Castration-sensitive Prostate Cancer: A Post Hoc Analysis of the TITAN Trial. Eur Urol Focus. 2026 Sep 11:S2405-4569(26)00149-5. doi: 10.1016/j.euf.2026.07.003. Online ahead of print. PubMed 42728112
- Hori T, Iwamoto H, Inaba T, Nakagawa R, Kamijima T, Makino T, Naito R, Kadomoto S, Yaegashi H, Shigehara K, Nohara T, Izumi K, Mizokami A. Integrating NCCN and LATITUDE in metastatic castration-sensitive prostate cancer: a TITAN analysis. World J Urol. 2026 Aug 19;44(1):585. doi: 10.1007/s00345-026-06695-5. PubMed 42616151
- 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
- Roy S, Sun Y, Chi KN, Ong M, Malone S, Wallis CJD, Kishan AU, Malone J, Swami U, Gebrael G, Brown JR, Jia AY, Morgan SC, Saad F, Chowdhury S, Agarwal N, Spratt DE. Early Prostate-Specific Antigen Response by 6 Months Is Predictive of Treatment Effect in Metastatic Hormone Sensitive Prostate Cancer: An Exploratory Analysis of the TITAN Trial. J Urol. 2024 Nov;212(5):672-681. doi: 10.1097/JU.0000000000004158. Epub 2024 Jul 26. PubMed 39058790
- Merseburger AS, Agarwal N, Bjartell A, Uemura H, Soto AJ, Bhaumik A, Bohm J, Tran N, Krochmann N, Nematian-Samani M, Mundle SD, Brookman-May SD, Lopez-Gitlitz A, McCarthy SA, Chi K, Chowdhury S. Targeted Investigational Treatment Analysis of Novel Anti-androgen (TITAN) study: ultralow prostate-specific antigen decline with apalutamide plus androgen-deprivation therapy. BJU Int. 2024 Dec;134(6):982-991. doi: 10.1111/bju.16449. Epub 2024 Jun 28. PubMed 38940282
- 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
- Merseburger AS, Agarwal N, Bhaumik A, Lefresne F, Karsh LI, Pereira de Santana Gomes AJ, Soto AJ, Given RW, Brookman-May SD, Mundle SD, McCarthy SA, Uemura H, Chowdhury S, Chi KN, Bjartell A. Apalutamide plus androgen deprivation therapy in clinical subgroups of patients with metastatic castration-sensitive prostate cancer: A subgroup analysis of the randomised clinical TITAN study. Eur J Cancer. 2023 Nov;193:113290. doi: 10.1016/j.ejca.2023.113290. Epub 2023 Aug 11. PubMed 37708629
- Agarwal N, McQuarrie K, Bjartell A, Chowdhury S, Pereira de Santana Gomes AJ, Chung BH, Ozguroglu M, Juarez Soto A, Merseburger AS, Uemura H, Ye D, Given R, Basch E, Miladinovic B, Lopez-Gitlitz A, Chi KN. Apalutamide plus Androgen Deprivation Therapy for Metastatic Castration-Sensitive Prostate Cancer: Analysis of Pain and Fatigue in the Phase 3 TITAN Study. J Urol. 2021 Oct;206(4):914-923. doi: 10.1097/JU.0000000000001841. Epub 2021 May 27. PubMed 34039013
- Chi KN, Chowdhury S, Bjartell A, Chung BH, Pereira de Santana Gomes AJ, Given R, Juarez A, Merseburger AS, Ozguroglu M, Uemura H, Ye D, Brookman-May S, Mundle SD, McCarthy SA, Larsen JS, Sun W, Bevans KB, Zhang K, Bandyopadhyay N, Agarwal N. Apalutamide in Patients With Metastatic Castration-Sensitive Prostate Cancer: Final Survival Analysis of the Randomized, Double-Blind, Phase III TITAN Study. J Clin Oncol. 2021 Jul 10;39(20):2294-2303. doi: 10.1200/JCO.20.03488. Epub 2021 Apr 29. PubMed 33914595
- 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
- Agarwal N, McQuarrie K, Bjartell A, Chowdhury S, Pereira de Santana Gomes AJ, Chung BH, Ozguroglu M, Juarez Soto A, Merseburger AS, Uemura H, Ye D, Given R, Cella D, Basch E, Miladinovic B, Dearden L, Deprince K, Naini V, Lopez-Gitlitz A, Chi KN; TITAN investigators. Health-related quality of life after apalutamide treatment in patients with metastatic castration-sensitive prostate cancer (TITAN): a randomised, placebo-controlled, phase 3 study. Lancet Oncol. 2019 Nov;20(11):1518-1530. doi: 10.1016/S1470-2045(19)30620-5. Epub 2019 Sep 29. PubMed 31578173
- Chi KN, Agarwal N, Bjartell A, Chung BH, Pereira de Santana Gomes AJ, Given R, Juarez Soto A, Merseburger AS, Ozguroglu M, Uemura H, Ye D, Deprince K, Naini V, Li J, Cheng S, Yu MK, Zhang K, Larsen JS, McCarthy S, Chowdhury S; TITAN Investigators. Apalutamide for Metastatic, Castration-Sensitive Prostate Cancer. N Engl J Med. 2019 Jul 4;381(1):13-24. doi: 10.1056/NEJMoa1903307. Epub 2019 May 31. PubMed 31150574