Prostate cancer responds to Revlimid
Just a brief note about a patient with hormone resistant prostate cancer who was started on Revlimid (lenalidomide) 10 mg daily. He developed a severe rash and fluid retention and the dose was stopped to be restarted after symptoms abated. The drug was decreased to 10 mg every other day. The rash subsided and the PSA decreased for a period of many months. This patient represents one of three Revlimid treated patients who has had a PSA reponse to the drug (the other two have failed). I suspect that similar to Thalidomide, Revlimid is active in this disease. If a patient can get the drug ($250.00 per daily 10 mg capsule) it may be worth a try. Though Celgene (CELG) stock is down in recent trading I suspect that it will recover and go up in the future. The drug is also active in chronic lymphocytic leukemia (new finding), multiple myeloma and of course some myelodysplastic syndromes (5q deletion and others) to name a few indications.