Unidad de Investigación Clínica de Cáncer de Próstata

Vacante Director

Investigador Clínico I

Daniel Alameda
Elena Castro

Becarios Post-doctorales

Ylenia Cendón
David Martínez

Técnicos de Laboratorio

Eva María Casas

Prostate cancer is the most common cancer diagnosis in men and, despite its potential to be cured in almost 90% of early stages, its metastatic spread causes about 6,000 deaths every year in Spain alone, whilst in the US over 30,000 men succumb to the disease each year.

During the last few years, our Group has focused precisely on the development of new methods to identify and treat the most aggressive and lethal forms of prostate cancer, in order to accelerate precision medicine for the disease. In particular, over the last 8 years, our group has made significant contributions in:

Establishing and developing several biomarkers based on the concept of liquid biopsy.
Understanding the implication of gene alterations leading to DNA repair deficiency in this disease.
Developing new treatments for prostate cancer.

Our work has been widely recognised with several highly cited publications in top journals in our field, including The New England Journal of Medicine, The Lancet Oncology, The Journal of Clinical Oncology, European Urology, Annals of Oncology, and many others.

Publicaciones

Lorente D, Llacer C, Lozano R, de Velasco G, Romero-Laorden N, Rodrigo M, Sánchez-Iglesias Á, di Capua C, Castro E, Ferrer C, Sánchez-Hernández A, Olmos D. (2021). Prognostic Score and Benefit from Abiraterone in First-line Metastatic, Castration-resistant Prostate Cancer. Eur Urol 80, 641-649. Publicación CNIO.
Smith MR, Thomas S, Gormley M, Chowdhury S, Olmos D, Oudard S, Feng FY, Rajpurohit Y, Urtishak K, Ricci DS, Rooney B, Lopez-Gitlitz A, Yu M, Wyatt AW, Li M, Attard G, Small EJ. (2021). Blood Biomarker Landscape in Patients with High-risk Nonmetastatic Castration-Resistant Prostate Cancer Treated with Apalutamide and Androgen-Deprivation Therapy as They Progress to Metastatic Disease. Clin Cancer Res 27, 4539-4548. Publicación CNIO.
Lozano R, Lorente D, Aragon IM, Romero-Laorden N, Nombela P, Mateo J, Reid AHM, Cendón Y, Bianchini D, Llacer C, Sandhu SK, Sharp A, Rescigno P, Garcés T, Pacheco MI, Flohr P, Massard C, López-Casas PP, Castro E, de Bono JS, Olmos D. (2021). Value of Early Circulating Tumor Cells Dynamics to Estimate Docetaxel Benefit in Metastatic Castration-Resistant Prostate Cancer (mCRPC) Patients. Cancers 13, 2334. Publicación CNIO.
Sokolova AO, Marshall CH, Lozano R, Gulati R, Ledet EM, De Sarkar N, Grivas P, Higano CS, Montgomery B, Nelson PS, Olmos D, Sokolov V, Schweizer MT, Yezefski TA, Yu EY, Paller CJ, Sartor O, Castro E, Antonarakis ES, Cheng HH (2021). Efficacy of systemic therapies in men with metastatic castration resistant prostate cancer harboring germline ATM versus BRCA2 mutations. Prostate 81, 1382-1389. Publicación CNIO.
Sweeney C, Bracarda S, Sternberg CN, Chi KN, Olmos D, Sandhu S, Massard C, Matsubara N, Alekseev B, Parnis F, Atduev V, Buchschacher GL Jr, Gafanov R, Corrales L, Borre M, Stroyakovskiy D, Alves GV, Bournakis E, Puente J, Harle-Yge ML, Gallo J, Chen G, Hanover J, Wongchenko MJ, Garcia J, de Bono JS. (2021). Ipatasertib plus abiraterone and prednisolone in metastatic castration-resistant prostate cancer (IPATential150): a multicentre, randomised, double-blind, phase 3 trial. Lancet 398, 131-142. Publicación CNIO.
Smith MR, Saad F, Chowdhury S, Oudard S, Hadaschik BA, Graff JN, Olmos D, Mainwaring PN, Lee JY, Uemura H, De Porre P, Smith AA, Brookman-May SD, Li S, Zhang K, Rooney B, Lopez-Gitlitz A, Small EJ (2021). Apalutamide and Overall Survival in Prostate Cancer. Eur Urol 79, 150-158. Publicación CNIO.
Lozano R, Castro E, Aragón IM, Cendón Y, Cattrini C, López-Casas PP, Olmos D (2020). Genetic aberrations in DNA repair pathways: a cornerstone of precision oncology in prostate cancer. Br J Cancer 124, 552-563. Publicación CNIO.
Khalaf DJ, Aragón IM, Annala M, Lozano R, Taavitsainen S, Lorente D, Finch DL, Romero-Laorden N, Vergidis J, Cendón Y, Oja C, Pacheco MI, Zulfiqar M; PROREPAIR-B investigators, Gleave ME, Wyatt AW, Olmos D, Chi KN, Castro E (2020). HSD3B1 (1245A>C) Germline Variant and Clinical Outcomes in Metastatic Castration-Resistant Prostate Cancer Patients Treated With Abiraterone and Enzalutamide: Results From Two Prospective Studies. Ann Oncol 31, 1186-1197. Publicación CNIO.
Hussain M, Mateo J, Fizazi K, Saad F, Shore N, Sandhu S, Chi KN, Sartor O, Agarwal N, Olmos D, Thiery-Vuillemin A, Twardowski P, Roubaud G, Özgüroglu M, Kang J, Burgents J, Gresty C, Corcoran C, Adelman CA, de Bono J; PROfound Trial Investigators (2020). Survival with Olaparib in Metastatic Castration-Resistant Prostate Cancer. New Engl J Med 383, 2345-2357. Publicación CNIO.
Lorente D, Castro E, Lozano R, Puente J, Romero-Laorden N, Rodríguez-Vida A, Lainez N, Villatoro R, Llácer C, Cattrini C, Hernández A, Domenech M, Zambrana F, Almagro E, Luque R, Martinez E, López-Campos F, Gonzalez B, Méndez-Vidal MJ, Medina A, Piulats JM, Olmos D; PROREPAIR-B Study Investigators. (2020). Association Between Second Progression-free Survival (PFS2) and Overall Survival in Metastatic Castration-resistant Prostate Cancer. Eur Urol 77, 763-766. Publicación CNIO.
Perez-Ruixo C, Ackaert O, Ouellet D, Chien C, Uemura H, Olmos D, Mainwaring P, Lee JY, Yu MK, Perez-Ruixo JJ, Smith MR, Small EJ (2020). Efficacy and Safety Exposure-Response Relationships of Apalutamide in Patients with Nonmetastatic Castration-Resistant Prostate Cancer.. Clin Cancer Res 26, 4460-4467. Publicación CNIO.
de Bono J, Mateo J, Fizazi K, Saad F, Shore N, Sandhu S, Chi KN, Sartor O, Agarwal N, Olmos D, Thiery-Vuillemin A, Twardowski P, Mehra N, Goessl C, Kang J, Burgents J, Wu W, Kohlmann A, Adelman CA, Hussain M. (2020). Olaparib for Metastatic Castration-Resistant Prostate Cancer.. New Engl J Med 382, 2091-2102. Publicación CNIO.
Rescigno P, Dolling D, Conteduca V, Rediti M, Bianchini D, Lolli C, Ong M, Li H, Omlin AG, Schmid S, Caffo O, Zivi A, Pezaro CJ, Morley C, Olmos D, Romero-Laorden N, Castro E, Saez MI, Mehra N, Smeenk S, Sideris S, Gil T, Banks P, Sandhu SK, Sternberg CN, De Giorgi U, De Bono JS. (2020). Early Post-treatment Prostate-specific Antigen at 4 Weeks and Abiraterone and Enzalutamide Treatment for Advanced Prostate Cancer: An International Collaborative Analysis.. Eur Urol Oncol 3, 176-182. Publicación CNIO.
Messina C, Cattrini C, Soldato D, Vallome G, Caffo O, Castro E, Olmos D, Boccardo F, Zanardi E (2020). BRCA Mutations in Prostate Cancer: Prognostic and Predictive Implications. Journal of Oncology 0, 4986365. Publicación CNIO.
Cattrini C, Soldato D, Rubagotti A, Zinoli L, Zanardi E, Barboro P, Messina C, Castro E, Olmos D, Boccardo F (2020). Epidemiological Characteristics and Survival in Patients with De Novo Metastatic Prostate Cancer. Cancers 12, 2855. Publicación CNIO.
Correa R , Navarro M , Lobato M , Otero A , Jerez I , Rico JM , Zapata I , Lupiañez Y , Medina JA, Olmos D, Gómez-Millán J (2020). Influence of the Technique and Comorbidities in Hypofractionated Radiotherapy for Prostate Cancer. Clin Transl Oncol 22, 311-318. Publicación CNIO.
Oliva L, Lozano R, Llácer C, Aragón I, Pajares BI, Sáez MI, Herrera-Imbroda B, Montesa A, Hernández D, Villatoro R, Otero A, Correa R, Grau G, Peinado P, Pacheco MI, García-Galisteo E, Rueda A, Machuca FJ, Alba E, Márquez-Aragonés A, Olmos D, Castro E (2019). Risk Prediction Tools Available for Germline BRCA1/2 Mutations Underperform in Prostate Cancer Patients.. Eur Urol Oncol (in press). Publicación CNIO.
Small EJ, Saad F, Chowdhury S, Oudard S, Hadaschik BA, Graff JN, Olmos D, Mainwaring PN, Lee JY, Uemura H, De Porre P, Smith AA, Zhang K, Lopez-Gitlitz A, Smith MR (2019). Apalutamide and overall survival in non-metastatic castration-resistant prostate cancer. Ann Oncol 30, 1813-1820. Publicación CNIO.
Cattrini C, Castro E, Lozano R, Zanardi E, Rubagotti A, Boccardo F, Olmos D (2019). Current Treatment Options for Metastatic Hormone-Sensitive Prostate Cancer. Cancers 11, E1355. Publicación CNIO. Open Access
Lozano R, Almagro E, Castro E (2019). Relevance of radium-223 in hospital clinical practice from a medical oncologist point of view. Rev Esp Med Nucl Imagen Mol. 38, 106-111. Publicación CNIO.
Conteduca V, Jayaram A, Romero-Laorden N, Wetterskog D, Salvi S, Gurioli G, Scarpi E, Castro E, Marin-Aguilera M, Lolli C, Schepisi G, Maugeri A, Wingate A, Farolfi A, Casadio V, Medina A, Puente J, Vidal MJM, Morales-Barrera R, Villa-Guzmán JC, Hernando S, Rodriguez-Vida A, González-Del-Alba A, Mellado B, Gonzalez-Billalabeitia E, Olmos D, Attard G, De Giorgi U (2019). Plasma Androgen Receptor and Docetaxel for Metastatic Castration-resistant Prostate Cancer. Eur Urol 75, 368-373. Publicación CNIO.
Naldaiz-Gastesi N, Goicoechea M, Aragón IM, Pérez-López V, Fuertes-Alvarez S, Herrera-Imbroda B, López de Munain A, de Luna-Diaz R, Baptista PM, Fernández MA, Lara MF, Izeta A (2019). Isolation and characterization of myogenic precursor cells from human cremaster muscle. Sci. Reports 9, 3454. Publicación CNIO. Open Access
Nombela P, Lozano R, Aytes A, Mateo J, Olmos D, Castro E (2019). BRCA2 and Other DDR Genes in Prostate Cancer. Cancers 11, E352. Publicación CNIO. Open Access
Castro E, Romero-Laorden N, Del Pozo A, Lozano R, Medina A, Puente J, Piulats JM, Lorente D, Saez MI, Morales-Barrera R, Gonzalez-Billalabeitia E, Cendón Y, García-Carbonero I, Borrega P, Mendez Vidal MJ, Montesa A, Nombela P, Fernández-Parra E, Gonzalez Del Alba A, Villa-Guzmán JC, Ibáñez K, Rodriguez-Vida A, Magraner-Pardo L, Perez-Valderrama B, Vallespín E, Gallardo E, Vazquez S, Pritchard CC, Lapunzina P, Olmos D (2019). PROREPAIR-B: A Prospective Cohort Study of the Impact of Germline DNA Repair Mutations on the Outcomes of Patients With Metastatic Castration-Resistant Prostate Cancer. J Clin Oncol 37, 490-503. Publicación CNIO.
Lorente D, Olmos D, Mateo J, Dolling D, Bianchini D, Seed G, Flohr P, Crespo M, Figueiredo I, Miranda S, Scher HI, Terstappen LWMM, de Bono JS. (2018). Circulating Tumor Cell Increase as a Biomarker of Disease Progression in Metastatic Castration-Resistant Prostate Cancer Patients with Low Baseline CTC Counts.. Ann Oncol (in press). Publicación CNIO.
Lorente D, Olmos D, Mateo J, Dolling D, Bianchini D, Seed G, Flohr P, Crespo M, Figueiredo I, Miranda S, Scher HI, Terstappen LWMM, de Bono JS (2018). Circulating tumour cell increase as a biomarker of disease progression in metastatic castration-resistant prostate cancer patients with low baseline CTC counts. Ann Oncol 29, 1554-1560. Publicación CNIO.
Romero-Laorden N, Lozano R, Jayaram A, López-Campos F, Saez MI, Montesa A, Gutierrez-Pecharoman A, Villatoro R, Herrera B, Correa R, Rosero A, Pacheco MI, Garcés T, Cendón Y, Nombela MP, Van de Poll F, Grau G, Rivera L, López PP, Cruz JJ, Lorente D, Attard G, Castro E, Olmos D (2018). Phase II pilot study of the prednisone to dexamethasone switch in metastatic castration-resistant prostate cancer (mCRPC) patients with limited progression on abiraterone plus prednisone (SWITCH study). Br J Cancer 119, 1052-1059. Publicación CNIO.
Rodriguez-Vida A, Torregrosa MD, Pinto Á, Climent MÁ, Olmos D, Carles J (2018). Selection and monitoring of patients with metastatic castration-resistant prostate cancer for treatment with radium-223. Clin Transl Oncol 20, 676-686. Publicación CNIO.
Cassinello J, Arranz JÁ, Piulats JM, Sánchez A, Pérez-Valderrama B, Mellado B, Climent MÁ, Olmos D, Carles J, Lázaro M (2018). SEOM clinical guidelines for the treatment of metastatic prostate cancer (2017). Clin Transl Oncol 20, 57-68. Publicación CNIO.
Lawrence MG, Obinata D, Sandhu S, Selth LA, Wong SQ, Porter LH, Lister N, Pook D, Pezaro CJ, Goode DL, Rebello RJ, Clark AK, Papargiris M, Van Gramberg J, Hanson AR, Banks P, Wang H, Niranjan B, Keerthikumar S, Hedwards S, Huglo A, Yang R, Henzler C, Li Y, Lopez-Campos F, Castro E, Toivanen R, Azad A, Bolton D, Goad J, Grummet J, Harewood L, Kourambas J, Lawrentschuk N, Moon D, Murphy DG, Sengupta S, Snow R, Thorne H, Mitchell C, Pedersen J, Clouston D, Norden S, Ryan A, Dehm SM, Tilley WD, Pearson RB, Hannan RD, Frydenberg M, Furic L, Taylor RA, Risbridger GP (2018). Patient-derived models of abiraterone and enzalutamide resistant prostate cancer reveal sensitivity to ribosome-directed therapy. Eur Urol 74, 562-572. Publicación CNIO.
Mikropoulos C, Selkirk CGH, Saya S, Bancroft E, Vertosick E, Dadaev T, Brendler C, Page E, Dias A, Evans DG, Rothwell J, Maehle L, Axcrona K, Richardson K, Eccles D, Jensen T, Osther PJ, van Asperen CJ, Vasen H, Kiemeney LA, Ringelberg J, Cybulski C, Wokolorczyk D, Hart R, Glover W, Lam J, Taylor L, Salinas M, Feliubadaló L, Oldenburg R, Cremers R, Verhaegh G, van Zelst-Stams WA, Oosterwijk JC, Cook J, Rosario DJ, Buys SS, Conner T, Domchek S, Powers J, Ausems MG, Teixeira MR, Maia S, Izatt L, Schmutzler R, Rhiem K, Foulkes WD, Boshari T, Davidson R, Ruijs M, Helderman-van den Enden AT, Andrews L, Walker L, Snape K, Henderson A, Jobson I, Lindeman GJ, Liljegren A, Harris M, Adank MA, Kirk J, Taylor A, Susman R, Chen-Shtoyerman R, Pachter N, Spigelman A, Side L, Zgajnar J, Mora J, Brewer C, Gadea N, Brady AF, Gallagher D, van Os T, Donaldson A, Stefansdottir V, Barwell J, James PA, Murphy D, Friedman E, Nicolai N, Greenhalgh L, Obeid E, Murthy V, Copakova L, McGrath J, Teo SH, Strom S, Kast K, Leongamornlert DA, Chamberlain A, Pope J, Newlin AC, Aaronson N, Ardern-Jones A, Bangma C, Castro E, Dearnaley D, Eyfjord J, Falconer A, Foster CS, Gronberg H, Hamdy FC, Johannsson O, Khoo V, Lubinski J, Grindedal EM, McKinley J, Shackleton K, Mitra AV, Moynihan C, Rennert G, Suri M, Tricker K; IMPACT study collaborators, Moss S, Kote-Jarai Z, Vickers A, Lilja H, Helfand BT, Eeles RA (2018). Prostate-specific antigen velocity in a prospective prostate cancer screening study of men with genetic predisposition. Br J Cancer 118, 266-276. Publicación CNIO.
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 (2018). Apalutamide Treatment and Metastasis-free Survival in Prostate Cancer. New Engl J Med 378, 1408-1418. Publicación CNIO.
Mateo J, Boysen G, Barbieri CE, Bryant HE, Castro E, Nelson PS, Olmos D, Pritchard CC, Rubin MA, de Bono JS (2017). DNA Repair in Prostate Cancer: Biology and Clinical Implications.. Eur Urol 71, 417-425. Publicación CNIO.
Banerjee S, Califano R, Corral J, de Azambuja E, De Mattos-Arruda L, Guarneri V, Hutka M, Jordan K, Martinelli E, Mountzios G, Ozturk MA, Petrova M, Postel-Vinay S, Preusser M, Qvortrup C, Volkov MNM, Tabernero J, Olmos D, Strijbos MH (2017). Professional Burnout in European Young Oncologists: Results of The European Society For Medical Oncology (ESMO) Young Oncologists Committee Burnout Survey.. Ann Oncol 28, 1590-1596. Publicación CNIO.
García JL, Lozano R, Misiewicz-Krzeminska I, Fernández-Mateos J, Krzeminski P, Alfonso S, Marcos RA, García R, Gómez-Veiga F, Virseda Á, Herrero M, Olmos D, Cruz-Hernández JJ. (2017). A novel capillary nano-immunoassay for assessing androgen receptor splice variant 7 in plasma. Correlation with CD133 antigen expression in circulating tumor cells. A pilot study in prostate cancer patients.. Clin Transl Oncol 19, 1350-1357. Publicación CNIO.
Moynihan C, Bancroft EK, Mitra A, Ardern-Jones A, Castro E, Page EC, Eeles RA (2017). Ambiguity in a masculine world: Being a BRCA1/2 mutation carrier and a man with prostate cancer.. Psycho-Oncol 26, 1987-1993. Publicación CNIO.
Heinrich D, Bektic J, Bergman AM, Caffo O, Cathomas R, Chi KN, Daugaard G, Keizman D, Kindblom J, Kramer G, Olmos D, Omlin A, Sridhar SS, Tucci M, van Oort I, Nilsson S (2017). The Contemporary Use of Radium-223 in Metastatic Castration-resistant Prostate Cancer. Clin Genitourin Cancer (in press). Publicación CNIO.
Romero-Laorden N, Castro E (2017). Inherited mutations in DNA repair genes and cancer risk.. Curr Prob Cancer 41, 251-264. Publicación CNIO.
Zabala-Letona A, Arruabarrena-Aristorena A, Martín-Martín N, Fernandez-Ruiz S, Sutherland JD, Clasquin M, Tomas-Cortazar J, Jimenez J, Torres I, Quang P, Ximenez-Embun P, Bago R, Ugalde-Olano A, Loizaga-Iriarte A, Lacasa-Viscasillas I, Unda M, Torrano V, Cabrera D, van Liempd SM, Cendon Y, Castro E, Murray S, Revandkar A, Alimonti A, Zhang Y, Barnett A, Lein G, Pirman D, Cortazar AR, Arreal L, Prudkin L, Astobiza I, Valcarcel-Jimenez L, Zuñiga-García P, Fernandez-Dominguez I, Piva M, Caro-Maldonado A, Sánchez-Mosquera P, Castillo-Martín M, Serra V, Beraza N, Gentilella A, Thomas G, Azkargorta M, Elortza F, Farràs R, Olmos D, Efeyan A, Anguita J, Muñoz J, Falcón-Pérez JM, Barrio R, Macarulla T, Mato JM, Martinez-Chantar ML, Cordon-Cardo C, Aransay AM, Marks K, Baselga J, Tabernero J, Nuciforo P, Manning BD, Marjon K, Carracedo A (2017). mTORC1-dependent AMD1 regulation sustains polyamine metabolism in prostate cancer.. Nature 547, 109-113. Publicación CNIO.
Romero-Laorden N, Piñeiro-Yañez E, Gutierrez-Pecharroman A, Pacheco MI, Calvo E, Al-Shahrour F, Castro E, Olmos D (2017). Somatic BRCA2 bi-allelic loss in the primary prostate cancer was associated to objective response to PARPi in a sporadic CRPC patient.. Ann Oncol 28, 1158-1159. Publicación CNIO.