1) Chemotherapy options for advanced prostate cancer have expanded significantly since the 1980s, with docetaxel and cabazitaxel approved based on trials showing improved survival.
2) Landmark trials in 2004 established docetaxel as providing a survival benefit over mitoxantrone for castration-resistant prostate cancer (CRPC). Subsequent trials tested docetaxel combinations without additional benefit.
3) New hormone therapies like abiraterone and enzalutamide provide alternatives or additions to chemotherapy for metastatic CRPC, but optimal sequencing remains unclear given new options.