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ABSTRACT: 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
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
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
Apalutamide plus ADT was an effective and well-tolerated option maintaining HRQoL in patients with mCSPC and nmCRPC regardless of age.Clinical trial registration
TITAN (NCT02489318); SPARTAN (NCT01946204).
SUBMITTER: Shen J
PROVIDER: S-EPMC10781967 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Jan
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Shen John J Chowdhury Simon S Agarwal Neeraj N Karsh Lawrence I LI Oudard Stéphane S Gartrell Benjamin A BA Feyerabend Susan S Saad Fred F Pieczonka Christopher M CM Chi Kim N KN Brookman-May Sabine D SD Rooney Brendan B Bhaumik Amitabha A McCarthy Sharon A SA Bevans Katherine B KB Mundle Suneel D SD Small Eric J EJ Smith Matthew R MR Graff Julie N JN
British journal of cancer 20231111 1
<h4>Background</h4>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.<h4>Methods</h4>Post-hoc analysis assessed patients receiving 240 mg/day apalutamide (525 TITAN and 806 SPARTAN) o ...[more]