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ABSTRACT: Purpose
The PARP inhibitor rucaparib is approved in the United States for patients with metastatic castration-resistant prostate cancer (mCRPC) and a deleterious germline and/or somatic BRCA1 or BRCA2 (BRCA) alteration. While sequencing of tumor tissue is considered the standard for identifying patients with BRCA alterations (BRCA+), plasma profiling may provide a minimally invasive option to select patients for rucaparib treatment. Here, we report clinical efficacy in patients with BRCA+ mCRPC identified through central plasma, central tissue, or local genomic testing and enrolled in TRITON2.Patients and methods
Patients had progressed after next-generation androgen receptor-directed and taxane-based therapies for mCRPC and had BRCA alterations identified by central sequencing of plasma and/or tissue samples or local genomic testing. Concordance of plasma/tissue BRCA status and objective response rate and prostate-specific antigen (PSA) response rates were summarized.Results
TRITON2 enrolled 115 patients with BRCA+ identified by central plasma (n = 34), central tissue (n = 37), or local (n = 44) testing. Plasma/tissue concordance was determined in 38 patients with paired samples and was 47% in 19 patients with a somatic BRCA alteration. No statistically significant differences were observed between objective and PSA response rates to rucaparib across the 3 assay groups. Patients unable to provide tissue samples and tested solely by plasma assay responded at rates no different from patients identified as BRCA+ by tissue testing.Conclusions
Plasma, tissue, and local testing of mCRPC patients can be used to identify men with BRCA+ mCRPC who can benefit from treatment with the PARP inhibitor rucaparib.
SUBMITTER: Loehr A
PROVIDER: S-EPMC8678310 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Dec
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Loehr Andrea A Patnaik Akash A Campbell David D Shapiro Jeremy J Bryce Alan H AH McDermott Ray R Sautois Brieuc B Vogelzang Nicholas J NJ Bambury Richard M RM Voog Eric E Zhang Jingsong J Piulats Josep M JM Hussain Arif A Ryan Charles J CJ Merseburger Axel S AS Daugaard Gedske G Heidenreich Axel A Fizazi Karim K Higano Celestia S CS Krieger Laurence E LE Sternberg Cora N CN Watkins Simon P SP Despain Darrin D Simmons Andrew D AD Dowson Melanie M Golsorkhi Tony T Chowdhury Simon S Abida Wassim W
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<h4>Purpose</h4>The PARP inhibitor rucaparib is approved in the United States for patients with metastatic castration-resistant prostate cancer (mCRPC) and a deleterious germline and/or somatic <i>BRCA1</i> or <i>BRCA2</i> (BRCA) alteration. While sequencing of tumor tissue is considered the standard for identifying patients with BRCA alterations (BRCA<sup>+</sup>), plasma profiling may provide a minimally invasive option to select patients for rucaparib treatment. Here, we report clinical effic ...[more]