Cabazitaxel versus abiraterone or enzalutamide in poor prognosis metastatic castration-resistant prostate cancer : a multicentre, randomised, open-label, phase II trial

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BACKGROUND: Treatment of poor prognosis metastatic castration-resistant prostate cancer (mCRPC) includes taxane chemotherapy and androgen receptor pathway inhibitors (ARPI). We sought to determine optimal treatment in this setting.

PATIENTS AND METHODS: This multicentre, randomised, open-label, phase II trial recruited patients with ARPI-naive mCRPC and poor prognosis features (presence of liver metastases, progression to mCRPC after <12 months of androgen deprivation therapy, or ≥4 of 6 clinical criteria). Patients were randomly assigned 1 : 1 to receive cabazitaxel plus prednisone (group A) or physician's choice of enzalutamide or abiraterone plus prednisone (group B) at standard doses. Patients could cross over at progression. The primary endpoint was clinical benefit rate for first-line treatment (defined as prostate-specific antigen response ≥50%, radiographic response, or stable disease ≥12 weeks).

RESULTS: Ninety-five patients were accrued (median follow-up 21.9 months). First-line clinical benefit rate was greater in group A versus group B (80% versus 62%, P = 0.039). Overall survival was not different between groups A and B (median 37.0 versus 15.5 months, hazard ratio (HR) = 0.58, P = 0.073) nor was time to progression (median 5.3 versus 2.8 months, HR = 0.87, P = 0.52). The most common first-line treatment-related grade ≥3 adverse events were neutropenia (cabazitaxel 32% versus ARPI 0%), diarrhoea (9% versus 0%), infection (9% versus 0%), and fatigue (7% versus 5%). Baseline circulating tumour DNA (ctDNA) fraction above the cohort median and on-treatment ctDNA increase were associated with shorter time to progression (HR = 2.38, P < 0.001; HR = 4.03, P < 0.001). Patients with >30% ctDNA fraction at baseline had markedly shorter overall survival than those with undetectable ctDNA (HR = 38.22, P < 0.001).

CONCLUSIONS: Cabazitaxel was associated with a higher clinical benefit rate in patients with ARPI-naive poor prognosis mCRPC. ctDNA abundance was prognostic independent of clinical features, and holds promise as a stratification biomarker.

Errataetall:

CommentIn: Ann Oncol. 2021 Jul;32(7):831-832. - PMID 33930524

Medienart:

E-Artikel

Erscheinungsjahr:

2021

Erschienen:

2021

Enthalten in:

Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:32

Enthalten in:

Annals of oncology : official journal of the European Society for Medical Oncology - 32(2021), 7 vom: 15. Juli, Seite 896-905

Sprache:

Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

Annala, M [VerfasserIn]
Fu, S [VerfasserIn]
Bacon, J V W [VerfasserIn]
Sipola, J [VerfasserIn]
Iqbal, N [VerfasserIn]
Ferrario, C [VerfasserIn]
Ong, M [VerfasserIn]
Wadhwa, D [VerfasserIn]
Hotte, S J [VerfasserIn]
Lo, G [VerfasserIn]
Tran, B [VerfasserIn]
Wood, L A [VerfasserIn]
Gingerich, J R [VerfasserIn]
North, S A [VerfasserIn]
Pezaro, C J [VerfasserIn]
Ruether, J D [VerfasserIn]
Sridhar, S S [VerfasserIn]
Kallio, H M L [VerfasserIn]
Khalaf, D J [VerfasserIn]
Wong, A [VerfasserIn]
Beja, K [VerfasserIn]
Schönlau, E [VerfasserIn]
Taavitsainen, S [VerfasserIn]
Nykter, M [VerfasserIn]
Vandekerkhove, G [VerfasserIn]
Azad, A A [VerfasserIn]
Wyatt, A W [VerfasserIn]
Chi, K N [VerfasserIn]

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Themen:

2010-15-3
51F690397J
93T0T9GKNU
Abiraterone
Androgen Antagonists
Androgen receptor pathway inhibitor
Androstenes
Benzamides
Cabazitaxel
Circulating tumor DNA (ctDNA)
Clinical Trial, Phase II
Enzalutamide
G819A456D0
Journal Article
Multicenter Study
Nitriles
Phenylthiohydantoin
Plasma cell-free DNA
Prednisone
Prostate cancer
Randomized Controlled Trial
Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't
Taxane chemotherapy
Taxoids
VB0R961HZT

Anmerkungen:

Date Completed 28.06.2021

Date Revised 02.09.2021

published: Print-Electronic

ClinicalTrials.gov: NCT02254785

CommentIn: Ann Oncol. 2021 Jul;32(7):831-832. - PMID 33930524

Citation Status MEDLINE

doi:

10.1016/j.annonc.2021.03.205

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PPN (Katalog-ID):

NLM323913652