Clinical Research Directory

Inclusion Criteria: 1. Prostate adenocarcinoma without distant metastatic disease with either Gleason score ≥ 7, PSA ≥ 10 ng/ml, or T2b or greater disease 2. Age \> 18 3. Performance Status: ECOG 0-1 4. Hematologic (minimal values): * Absolute neutrophil count \> 1,500/mm3 * Hemoglobin \> 8.0 g/dl * Platelet count \> 100,000/mm3 5. Hepatic function * Total bilirubin \< Upper limit of normal (ULN)(except for Gilbert's disease) * AST (SGOT) \< 1.5 x ULN * ALT (SGPT) \< 1.5 x ULN 6. Creatinine \< 1.5 x ULN 7. Men of childbearing potential must be willing to consent to using effective contraception while on treatment and for at least 3 months thereafter. Exclusion Criteria: 1. Patients with a history of seizure, underlying brain injury with loss of consciousness, transient ischemic attack within the past 12 months, cerebral vascular accident, brain metastases, brain arteriovenous malformation or the use of concomitant medications that may lower the seizure threshold 2. History of urological surgery or procedures predisposing to GU complications after radiation (will be determined by radiation oncologist) 3. History of diverticulitis, rectal bleeding or other lower GI diseases predisposing to GI complications after radiation (will be determined by radiation oncologist) 4. History of prior chemotherapy or pelvic irradiation, 5. History of prior invasive malignant cancer(s) within the last 5 years except adequately treated or controlled basal cell or squamous cell carcinoma of the skin. 6. Documented distant metastatic disease. NOTE: pelvic lymphadenopathy is NOT excluded. 7. Prior radical prostatectomy or cryosurgery for prostate cancer or bilateral orchiectomy. 8. No experimental medications within 30 days of study entry 9. Patients currently taking the following medications: * CYP2C8 inhibitors (e.g. Gemfibrozil) * CYP2C8 inducers (e.g. rifampin) * CYP3A4 inhibitors (itraconazole) * CYP3A4 inducers (e.g., carbamazepine, phenobarbital, phenytoin, rifabutin, rifampin, rifapentine)