We examined data from US Veterans with prostate cancer (PC) to assess disease response to immune checkpoint inhibitors (ICI) as monotherapy or combined with abiraterone or enzalutamide to assess ICI efficacy in the real-world. We queried the VA corporate data warehouse (CDW) to identify Veterans with a diagnosis of PC who received ICI for any malignancy and had ≥1 PSA measurement while receiving ICI. To evaluate ICI monotherapy, we restricted analysis to Veterans who had not received LHRH agonists/antagonists, PC-directed medical therapy, or radiation/extirpative surgery of the bladder/prostate within and preceding the duration of ICI administration. For ICI combination analysis, we identified Veterans who received abiraterone or enzalutamide for PC while on ICI. We calculated rates of tumor (PSA) growth (g-rates), comparing them to a 1:2 matched reference cohort. We identified 787 Veterans with PC and ≥1 PSA measurement while receiving an ICI. Median duration of ICI therapy was 155 days. 223 Veterans received ICI monotherapy, with only 17(8%) having a reduction in PSA (median decline = 43%). 12 (5%) had PSA declines >30% (PSA30) which included 6 (3%) who had PSA reductions greater than 50% (PSA50). Median g-rates for ICI plus abiraterone (n = 20) or enzalutamide (n = 31) were 0.000689/d-1 and 0.002819/d-1, respectively, and were statistically insignificant compared to g-rates of matched cohorts receiving abiraterone (g = 0.000925/d-1, P = 0.73) or enzalutamide (g = 0.001929/d-1, P = 0.58) alone. Our data align with clinical trial data in PC, demonstrating limited benefit from ICI monotherapy and predicting no survival benefit from simultaneous abiraterone or enzalutamide with an ICI using g-rate.
Seminars in oncology. 2024 May 11 [Epub ahead of print]
Harshraj Leuva, George Moran, Nader Jamaleddine, Mina Meseha, Mengxi Zhou, Yunju Im, Ta-Chueh Melody Rosenberg, Yeun-Hee Anna Park, Carol Luhrs, Susan E Bates, Izak Faiena
University of Nebraska Medical Center, Omaha, NE, USA; James J. Peters Bronx Veterans Affairs Medical Center, Bronx, NY, USA. Electronic address: ., Columbia University Herbert Irving Comprehensive Cancer Center, New York, NY, USA., SUNY Downstate Health Sciences University, Brooklyn, NY, USA; Veterans Affairs New York Harbor Healthcare System - Brooklyn Campus, New York, NY, USA., University of Nebraska Medical Center, Omaha, NE, USA., James J. Peters Bronx Veterans Affairs Medical Center, Bronx, NY, USA., Columbia University Herbert Irving Comprehensive Cancer Center, New York, NY, USA; James J. Peters Bronx Veterans Affairs Medical Center, Bronx, NY, USA.