Since 13 November 2013, XOFIGO has been authorised on the European zone for the treatment of patients with prostate cancer, in the phase of resistance to castration, with symptomatic bone metastases. Prostate cancer is the most common non-cutaneous cancer in men internationally, and more than 90% of patients with hormone-resistant prostate cancer will have bone metastases.
They frequently give rise to "bone events" that include spinal cord compressions and pathological fractures requiring surgery or external radiotherapy.
Bone metastases are an important cause of death, disability, quality of life degradation and increase the cost of treatment.
There is therefore a need for bone-targeting therapeutic agents that provide a benefit in terms of survival.
Xofigo is indicated in patients with bone metastases symptomatic of hormone-resistant prostate cancer and without known visceral metastases.
This treatment appears to have fewer side effects than chemotherapy (and does not call into question subsequent chemotherapy) or that the currently available metabolic bone radiotherapy as well as better pain control and survival gain than the latter do not
