Neutropenia, neutrophilia, and neutrophil-lymphocyte ratio as prognostic markers in patients with metastatic castration-resistant prostate cancer

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Background and purpose: Chemotherapy-induced neutropenia and neutrophil-to-lymphocyte ratio (NLR) are potentially useful prognostic markers in patients with metastatic castration-resistant prostate cancer (mCRPC). This post hoc analysis investigated whether these markers can be utilized for dose considerations and evaluated the prognostic impact of leukocyte subtypes.

Patients and methods: PROSELICA assessed the non-inferiority of cabazitaxel 20 mg/m2 (C20; n = 598) versus 25 mg/m2 (C25; n = 602) for overall survival (OS) in patients with mCRPC previously treated with docetaxel. The association of grade ⩾ 3 neutropenia, NLR, baseline neutrophilia and lymphopenia with OS, progression-free survival (PFS), and prostate-specific antigen response rate (PSArr) was investigated by an unplanned uni- and multivariate analyses.

Results: PROSELICA confirmed the negative prognostic value of increased baseline NLR [⩾3, hazard ratio (HR) 1.40; p < 0.0001], but did not identify a subgroup of patients benefiting more from C20 or C25. In this post hoc analysis, patients who developed grade ⩾3 neutropenia (n = 673) had a significantly improved OS [∆OS = 2.7 months, HR = 0.78 (95% CI 0.68-0.89)] with the greatest advantage observed in patients with baseline neutrophilia [n = 85; 5.3 months, 0.60 (0.42-0.84)]. After adjustment for the Halabi criteria, neutropenia grade ⩾ 3 was the only biomarker that remained significantly associated with OS [ (HR 0.86 (0.75-0.98)], PFS [HR 0.78 (0.68-0.88)], and PSArr [odds ratio (OR) 1.82 (1.37-2.41)] while neutrophilia showed the strongest association with OS [1.53 (1.29-1.81)].

Conclusions: Grade ⩾ 3 neutropenia was the only leukocyte-based biomarker associated with all key outcome parameters in mCRPC patients receiving cabazitaxel and might be able to overcome the negative prognostic effect of baseline neutrophilia.

NCT number: NCT01308580.

Medienart:

E-Artikel

Erscheinungsjahr:

2022

Erschienen:

2022

Enthalten in:

Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:14

Enthalten in:

Therapeutic advances in medical oncology - 14(2022) vom: 30., Seite 17588359221100022

Sprache:

Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

Meisel, Alexander [VerfasserIn]
de Wit, Ronald [VerfasserIn]
Oudard, Stephane [VerfasserIn]
Sartor, Oliver [VerfasserIn]
Stenner-Liewen, Frank [VerfasserIn]
Shun, Zhenming [VerfasserIn]
Foster, Meredith [VerfasserIn]
Ozatilgan, Ayse [VerfasserIn]
Eisenberger, Mario [VerfasserIn]
de Bono, Johann S [VerfasserIn]

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Themen:

Cabazitaxel
Journal Article
MCRPC
Neutropenia
Neutrophil-to-lymphocyte ratio
Neutrophilia
Prostate cancer

Anmerkungen:

Date Revised 22.03.2023

published: Electronic-eCollection

ClinicalTrials.gov: NCT01308580

Citation Status PubMed-not-MEDLINE

doi:

10.1177/17588359221100022

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PPN (Katalog-ID):

NLM341990833