Apalutamide efficacy, safety and wellbeing in older patients with advanced prostate cancer from Phase 3 randomised clinical studies TITAN and SPARTAN.


Journal

British journal of cancer
ISSN: 1532-1827
Titre abrégé: Br J Cancer
Pays: England
ID NLM: 0370635

Informations de publication

Date de publication:
11 Nov 2023
Historique:
received: 16 05 2023
accepted: 01 11 2023
revised: 25 10 2023
medline: 12 11 2023
pubmed: 12 11 2023
entrez: 11 11 2023
Statut: aheadofprint

Résumé

Apalutamide plus androgen-deprivation therapy (ADT) improved outcomes in metastatic castration-sensitive prostate cancer (mCSPC) and non-metastatic castration-resistant PC (nmCRPC) in the Phase 3 randomised TITAN and SPARTAN studies, respectively, and maintained health-related quality of life (HRQoL). Apalutamide treatment effect by patient age requires assessment. Post-hoc analysis assessed patients receiving 240 mg/day apalutamide (525 TITAN and 806 SPARTAN) or placebo (527 TITAN and 401 SPARTAN) with ongoing ADT, stratified by age groups. Prostate-specific antigen declines, radiographic progression-free survival, metastasis-free survival, overall survival (OS), HRQoL and safety were assessed using descriptive statistics, Kaplan-Meier method, Cox proportional-hazards model and mixed-effects model for repeated measures. Hazard ratios (95% confidence intervals) generally favoured apalutamide plus ADT versus ADT alone across all endpoints regardless of age; e.g., OS values were 0.57 (0.40-0.80), 0.70 (0.54-0.91) and 0.74 (0.40-1.39) (TITAN) and 0.39 (0.19-0.78), 0.89 (0.69-1.16) and 0.81 (0.58-1.15) (SPARTAN) in patients aged <65, 65-79 and ≥80 years. Regardless of age, apalutamide also maintained HRQoL and was tolerated well with a potential trend in rates of adverse events increasing with age. Limitations include post-hoc nature and variability in sample size of age groups. Apalutamide plus ADT was an effective and well-tolerated option maintaining HRQoL in patients with mCSPC and nmCRPC regardless of age. TITAN (NCT02489318); SPARTAN (NCT01946204).

Sections du résumé

BACKGROUND BACKGROUND
Apalutamide plus androgen-deprivation therapy (ADT) improved outcomes in metastatic castration-sensitive prostate cancer (mCSPC) and non-metastatic castration-resistant PC (nmCRPC) in the Phase 3 randomised TITAN and SPARTAN studies, respectively, and maintained health-related quality of life (HRQoL). Apalutamide treatment effect by patient age requires assessment.
METHODS METHODS
Post-hoc analysis assessed patients receiving 240 mg/day apalutamide (525 TITAN and 806 SPARTAN) or placebo (527 TITAN and 401 SPARTAN) with ongoing ADT, stratified by age groups. Prostate-specific antigen declines, radiographic progression-free survival, metastasis-free survival, overall survival (OS), HRQoL and safety were assessed using descriptive statistics, Kaplan-Meier method, Cox proportional-hazards model and mixed-effects model for repeated measures.
RESULTS RESULTS
Hazard ratios (95% confidence intervals) generally favoured apalutamide plus ADT versus ADT alone across all endpoints regardless of age; e.g., OS values were 0.57 (0.40-0.80), 0.70 (0.54-0.91) and 0.74 (0.40-1.39) (TITAN) and 0.39 (0.19-0.78), 0.89 (0.69-1.16) and 0.81 (0.58-1.15) (SPARTAN) in patients aged <65, 65-79 and ≥80 years. Regardless of age, apalutamide also maintained HRQoL and was tolerated well with a potential trend in rates of adverse events increasing with age. Limitations include post-hoc nature and variability in sample size of age groups.
CONCLUSIONS CONCLUSIONS
Apalutamide plus ADT was an effective and well-tolerated option maintaining HRQoL in patients with mCSPC and nmCRPC regardless of age.
CLINICAL TRIAL REGISTRATION BACKGROUND
TITAN (NCT02489318); SPARTAN (NCT01946204).

Identifiants

pubmed: 37951974
doi: 10.1038/s41416-023-02492-8
pii: 10.1038/s41416-023-02492-8
doi:

Banques de données

ClinicalTrials.gov
['NCT02489318', 'NCT01946204']

Types de publication

Journal Article

Langues

eng

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Informations de copyright

© 2023. The Author(s).

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Auteurs

John Shen (J)

Jonsson Comprehensive Cancer Center, University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA, USA. JohnShen@mednet.ucla.edu.

Simon Chowdhury (S)

Guy's, King's, and St. Thomas' Hospitals, and Sarah Cannon Research Institute, London, UK.

Neeraj Agarwal (N)

Huntsman Cancer Institute, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT, USA.

Lawrence I Karsh (LI)

The Urology Center of Colorado, Denver, CO, USA.

Stéphane Oudard (S)

Georges Pompidou Hospital, University of Paris Cité, Paris, France.

Benjamin A Gartrell (BA)

Montefiore Medical Center, Bronx, NY, USA.

Susan Feyerabend (S)

Studienpraxis Urologie, Nürtingen, Germany.

Fred Saad (F)

Centre Hospitalier de l'Université de Montréal, Université de Montréal, Montréal, QC, Canada.

Christopher M Pieczonka (CM)

Associated Medical Professionals of NY, Syracuse, NY, USA.

Kim N Chi (KN)

BC Cancer and Vancouver Prostate Centre, Vancouver, BC, Canada.

Sabine D Brookman-May (SD)

Ludwig-Maximilians-University (LMU), Munich, Germany.
Janssen Research & Development, Spring House, PA, USA.

Brendan Rooney (B)

Janssen Research & Development, High Wycombe, UK.

Amitabha Bhaumik (A)

Janssen Research & Development, Titusville, NJ, USA.

Sharon A McCarthy (SA)

Janssen Research & Development, Raritan, NJ, USA.

Katherine B Bevans (KB)

Janssen Research & Development, Horsham, PA, USA.

Suneel D Mundle (SD)

Janssen Research & Development, Raritan, NJ, USA.

Eric J Small (EJ)

Helen Diller Family Comprehensive Cancer Center, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, CA, USA.

Matthew R Smith (MR)

Massachusetts General Hospital Cancer Center and Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA.

Julie N Graff (JN)

VA Portland Health Care System, Portland, and Knight Cancer Institute, Oregon Health & Science University, Portland, OR, USA.

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