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In 16 male subjects undergoing androgen blockade with nilutamide 100 to 300 mg/day for 8 weeks for male to female gender reassignment, prostate volume was not changed (de Voogt et al. 1987).
The plateau level of nilutamide (steady state) was obtained after about 14 days of repeated administration of the drug (150 mg b.i.d.) and did not depend upon intervals between doses.
Although the t1/2 of nilutamide is h (mean 56 h) (39), suggesting that once-daily dosing would be appropriate, a three times per day regimen has been employed in most clinical trials.
Trial experience with nilutamide monotherapy is limited to one small non-comparative study involving 26 patients with metastatic disease given nilutamide 100 mg three times daily (the dose used when nilutamide is administered as a component of MAB) [14]. The median progression-free survival in these patients was 9 months, with a median overall survival of 23 months. There have been no comparative trials of nilutamide with other antiandrogens or with castration [15]. The limited available data on nilutamide monotherapy means that no meaningful conclusions about the role of nilutamide in this setting can be determined. Nilutamide is not licensed as monotherapy.
[...] the frequency of gynecomastia with antiandrogens in monotherapy is [...] around [...] 79% with nilutamide [...]
Treatment with estrogen has the highest incidence of gynecomastia, at 40 – 80%, anti-androgens, including flutamide, bicalutamide and nilutamide, are next, with a 40 – 70% incidence, followed by GnRH analogs (goserelin, leuprorelin) and combined androgen deprivation [...]
Gynecomastia occurs in up to 80% of patients who receive nonsteroidal antiandrogens (eg, bicalutamide, flutamide, or nilutamide), usually within the first 6 to 9 months after the initiation of treatment.
Akaza had to prematurely terminate a nilutamide study in Japan as 12.6% of his patients developed interstitial lung disease [4]. This complication has been mainly observed in Japan and much less in other trials worldwide.
Incidences of abnormal liver function test results have been variously reported from 2%-33% in nilutamide groups [13, 32, 33, 45] and from 4%-62% in flutamide groups [5, 7, 9, 11, 34, 38-40, 48] in trials of monotherapy and CAB.
In addition, nilutamide is noted to exhibit mitochondrial toxicity by inhibiting complex I activity of the mitochondrial respiratory chain leading to the impairment of ATP formation and the biosynthesis of glutathione, thereby possibly predisposing the liver to toxicity [13].
Liver injury is well recognized with all antiandrogens (Table 33-3). Thus, among all published cases identified between 1986 and 2003, flutamide (46), cyproterone (21), nilutamide (4), and bicalutamide (1) were implicated [107,108].
{{cite book}}: |journal= ignored (help)In large registration clinical trials, ALT elevations occurred in 2% to 33% of patients during nilutamide therapy. The elevations were usually mild, asymptomatic and transient, rarely requiring drug discontinuation. In rare instances, clinically apparent acute liver injury has occurred during nilutamide therapy, but the number of published cases are few, and the agent appears to be far less hepatotoxic than flutamide.
Trial experience with nilutamide monotherapy is limited to one small non-comparative study involving 26 patients with metastatic disease given nilutamide 100 mg three times daily (the dose used when nilutamide is administered as a component of MAB) [14]. The median progression-free survival in these patients was 9 months, with a median overall survival of 23 months. There have been no comparative trials of nilutamide with other antiandrogens or with castration [15]. The limited available data on nilutamide monotherapy means that no meaningful conclusions about the role of nilutamide in this setting can be determined. Nilutamide is not licensed as monotherapy.
[...] the frequency of gynecomastia with antiandrogens in monotherapy is [...] around [...] 79% with nilutamide [...]
Treatment with estrogen has the highest incidence of gynecomastia, at 40 – 80%, anti-androgens, including flutamide, bicalutamide and nilutamide, are next, with a 40 – 70% incidence, followed by GnRH analogs (goserelin, leuprorelin) and combined androgen deprivation [...]
Gynecomastia occurs in up to 80% of patients who receive nonsteroidal antiandrogens (eg, bicalutamide, flutamide, or nilutamide), usually within the first 6 to 9 months after the initiation of treatment.
Incidences of abnormal liver function test results have been variously reported from 2%-33% in nilutamide groups [13, 32, 33, 45] and from 4%-62% in flutamide groups [5, 7, 9, 11, 34, 38-40, 48] in trials of monotherapy and CAB.
In addition, nilutamide is noted to exhibit mitochondrial toxicity by inhibiting complex I activity of the mitochondrial respiratory chain leading to the impairment of ATP formation and the biosynthesis of glutathione, thereby possibly predisposing the liver to toxicity [13].
Liver injury is well recognized with all antiandrogens (Table 33-3). Thus, among all published cases identified between 1986 and 2003, flutamide (46), cyproterone (21), nilutamide (4), and bicalutamide (1) were implicated [107,108].
{{cite book}}: |journal= ignored (help)In large registration clinical trials, ALT elevations occurred in 2% to 33% of patients during nilutamide therapy. The elevations were usually mild, asymptomatic and transient, rarely requiring drug discontinuation. In rare instances, clinically apparent acute liver injury has occurred during nilutamide therapy, but the number of published cases are few, and the agent appears to be far less hepatotoxic than flutamide.
Trial experience with nilutamide monotherapy is limited to one small non-comparative study involving 26 patients with metastatic disease given nilutamide 100 mg three times daily (the dose used when nilutamide is administered as a component of MAB) [14]. The median progression-free survival in these patients was 9 months, with a median overall survival of 23 months. There have been no comparative trials of nilutamide with other antiandrogens or with castration [15]. The limited available data on nilutamide monotherapy means that no meaningful conclusions about the role of nilutamide in this setting can be determined. Nilutamide is not licensed as monotherapy.
Treatment with estrogen has the highest incidence of gynecomastia, at 40 – 80%, anti-androgens, including flutamide, bicalutamide and nilutamide, are next, with a 40 – 70% incidence, followed by GnRH analogs (goserelin, leuprorelin) and combined androgen deprivation [...]
In addition, nilutamide is noted to exhibit mitochondrial toxicity by inhibiting complex I activity of the mitochondrial respiratory chain leading to the impairment of ATP formation and the biosynthesis of glutathione, thereby possibly predisposing the liver to toxicity [13].
In large registration clinical trials, ALT elevations occurred in 2% to 33% of patients during nilutamide therapy. The elevations were usually mild, asymptomatic and transient, rarely requiring drug discontinuation. In rare instances, clinically apparent acute liver injury has occurred during nilutamide therapy, but the number of published cases are few, and the agent appears to be far less hepatotoxic than flutamide.
In 16 male subjects undergoing androgen blockade with nilutamide 100 to 300 mg/day for 8 weeks for male to female gender reassignment, prostate volume was not changed (de Voogt et al. 1987).