Time to prostate-specific antigen nadir independently predicts overall survival in patients who have metastatic hormone-sensitive prostate cancer treated with androgen-deprivation therapy. Academic Article uri icon

Overview

abstract

  • BACKGROUND: The objective of this study was to evaluate the relation between the kinetics of prostate-specific antigen (PSA) decline after the initiation of androgen-deprivation therapy (ADT) and overall survival (OS) in men with metastatic, hormone-sensitive prostate cancer (HSPC). METHODS: The authors' institutional database was used to identify a cohort of men with metastatic HSPC who were treated with ADT. Patients were included if they had at least 2 serum PSA determinations before PSA nadir and at least 1 serum PSA value available within 1 month of ADT initiation. Patient characteristics, PSA at ADT initiation, nadir PSA, time to PSA nadir (TTN), and PSA decline (PSAD) in relation to OS were analyzed. RESULTS: One hundred seventy-nine patients were identified, and they had a median follow-up after ADT initiation of 4 years. The median OS after ADT initiation was 7 years. The median PSA level at ADT initiation and PSA nadir were 47 ng/mL and 0.28 ng/mL, respectively. On univariate analysis: TTN <6 months, PSAD >52 ng/mL per year, PSA nadir >or=0.2 ng/mL, PSA >or=47.2 ng/mL at ADT initiation, and Gleason score >7 were associated with shorter OS. On multivariate analysis, TTN <6 months, Gleason score >7, and PSA nadir >or=0.2 ng/mL independently predicted shorter OS. CONCLUSIONS: To the authors' knowledge, this was the first report to demonstrate that a faster time to reach a PSA nadir after the initiation of ADT was associated with shorter survival duration in men with metastatic HSPC. These results need confirmation but may indicate that a rapid initial response to ADT indicates more aggressive disease.

publication date

  • March 1, 2009

Research

keywords

  • Androgen Antagonists
  • Antineoplastic Agents, Hormonal
  • Neoplasms, Hormone-Dependent
  • Prostate-Specific Antigen
  • Prostatic Neoplasms

Identity

PubMed Central ID

  • PMC2931827

Scopus Document Identifier

  • 61449222946

Digital Object Identifier (DOI)

  • 10.1002/cncr.24064

PubMed ID

  • 19152438

Additional Document Info

volume

  • 115

issue

  • 5