New strategies and new drugs Gerhardt Attard MD MRCP PhD Cancer Research UK Clinician Scientist and Honorary Consultant The Institute of Cancer Research and the Royal Marsden NHS Foundation Trust Some key questions Tumour Volume and Activity Who should receive docetaxel at start of ADT? Who should receive docetaxel before enza/abi? Is there any benefit in using abi/enza after the previous one has been used? Enzalutamide/ Abiraterone and Prednisolone LHRH analogue with addition of anti-androgen Local therapy Castrate Sensitive Abiraterone and prednisolone/ Enzalutamide Docetaxel chemotherapy Castrate Resistant Disease Time How can we treat abi/enza/taxa ne resistant disease? Trials and/or cabazitaxel second line chemotherapy • The results of the COU‐302 and PREVAIL trials can be extrapolated to symptomatic chemotherapy‐naïve patients • Yes • No • Enzalutamide or abiraterone should now be initiated prior to bicalutamide or other vintage anti‐androgens for the majority of patients 1. Yes 2. No • Hypothesis: Delay to initiation of most effective treatments in progressing patients is detrimental • TERRAIN trial • 375 patients enza vs bicalutamide • Significant increase in PFS (HR = 0.44; 95% Cl, 0.34‐0.57; p < 0.0001). • Median PFS was 15.7 months for enza vs 5.8 months for bicalutamide EAU 2015 Bulky, rapidly progressing metastases • GIVEN THE POOR METHODS FOR PREDICTING RESONSE, THE MORE EFFECTIVE TREATMENT SHOULD BE INITIATED IMMEDIATELY TO DELAY SYMPTOMS AND ALLOW SUBSEQUENT USE OF ALL LIFE‐PROLONGING TREATMENTS BEFORE FITNESS LEVELS DETERIORATE Asymptomatic with rising PSA but low volume metastases • Bicalutamide is at least as well tolerated but significantly cheaper – why not try bicalutamide 1st? Castration‐resistant state – hypothetical scenarios b 3 a 2 AA 1 3 2 SCENARIO 1 c 1 3 SCENARIO 2 1 b FACT: b > a ??: c >> a+b 2 TIME Castration‐resistant state – hypothetical scenarios b 3 a 2 AA 1 3 2 SCENARIO 1 OMIT VINTAGE AA c 1 SCENARIO 2 USE VINTAGE AA 1 3 b FACT: b > a ??: c >> a+b 2 TIME • Abiraterone or enzalutamide is the treatment of choice for a symptomatic patient who has progressed on the alternative novel AR targeting agent • Yes • No Sequencing of enzalutamide followed by abiraterone enzalutamide abiraterone Loriot Y et al. Ann Oncol 2013 Noonan K L et al. Ann Oncol 2013 Sequencing of abiraterone followed by enzalutamide < 50% PSA decline on prior abiraterone > 50% PSA decline on prior abiraterone Treatment duration (months) Median (95% CI) Range 2.9 (1.7–4.0) 0.6‐7.2 > 3 months 17 (43%) > 6 months 4 (10.3%) CRPC samples (Tumor biopsies or plasma containing genomic Pre-Castration samples material from multiple metastases) 1 (TRBP or cores from prostatectomy samples) 2 1 Tumour Volume and Activity 1 Enzalutamide/ Abiraterone and Prednisolone LHRH analogue with addition of anti-androgen Local therapy Castrate Sensitive Abiraterone and prednisolone/ Enzalutamide Docetaxel chemotherapy Castrate Resistant Disease Time Trials and/or cabazitaxel second line chemotherapy Circulating tumour cell enumeration Veridex CellSearch® • Analytically Valid and FDA Cleared (Breast, Colorectal, and Prostate) • Sample must be analysed within 96 hours • Immunomagnetic selection by anti-EpCAM MAB bound to ferrofluids • Immunofluorescence for CTC identification Tibbe AG et al, Nature Biotechnology, 1999 Identification of CTC Morphology CTC Unassigned Event CTC Unassigned Event CTC CTC CD45 APC Cytokeratin PE DAPI (DNA) CTC counts by strict CellSearch definition are prognostic & identify response to treatment in chemotherapy‐treated patients Colorectal %Probability of Survival Breast 100 90 80 70 60 50 40 30 20 10 0 100 90 80 70 60 50 40 30 20 10 0 n=83 (47%) n=38 (21%) n=39 (22%) 0 5 10 n=17 (10%) 15 20 25 30 35 40 45 50 Prostate 100 90 80 70 n=303 (70%) n=88 (38%) n=45 (20%) 60 50 n=74 (17%) n=24 (6%) n=29 (7%) 0 2 4 6 8 10 12 14 16 18 20 22 24 26 28 30 40 30 20 10 0 n=26 (11%) n=71 (31%) 0 2 4 Time from Baseline (Months) Remain Favorable Convert to Unfavorable Remain Unfavorable Convert to Favorable 6 8 10 12 14 16 18 20 22 24 26 28 30 AR splice variants lacking a ligand binding domain Dehm SM, Tindall DJ, Endocr Relat Cancer 2011;18:R183-R196 AR‐V7 associates with resistance Abiraterone Enzalutamide • Identifies >75% of resistant patients with a negligible error rate Antonarakis E, NEJM 2014 Several questions remain • Positive enrichment of CTC (not visualised): – differences in CTC count? – heterogeneous expression in CTC? – earlier stage patients with fewer CTC? • Define threshold for detection/achieve a quantitative assay? • Is detection of AR‐V7 a marker of a different underlying process that causes resistance? – Increasing full length AR? – AR amplification? – Stress reaction? Leveraging circulating free tumor DNA 1. Early detection and monitoring 2. Risk stratification of early patients 3. Genomic characterisation • treatment selection • dissecting resistance 4. Monitoring response Bidard FC et al. Sci Transl Med 2014 Spatial and temporal heterogeneity of AR genomic aberrations Clonal and PM differences in matched tumor biopsies and plasma samples Emergence of AR L702H on treatment NKX3.1‐ PSA AR L702H PTEN‐ 21q‐ CTC AR‐L702H causes resistance to abi/enza when given with pred Richards et al, Cancer Res 2012 Multiplex circulating biomarker assays • Next‐generation sequencing of circulating tumor DNA detects genomic aberrations in the AR that associate with resistance Carreira et al. Sci Transl Med 2014; 6(254):254ra125 Somatic aberrations in DNA repair machinery Grasso et al, Nature 2013 Responses to PARP inhibition Mateo et al, ESMO 2014 AR‐independent disease progression • 75 year old previously progressed on castration, bicalutamide, dexamethasone – Started abiraterone and prednisone in Jan 2010 – Baseline PSA 50ng/dl – Good PSA response (nadir: 6.7, July 2010) March 2011 10 June 11 1 Sep 18 15 Nov 18 Biopsied x2 8 Dec 11 AR IHC ERG IHC ERG FISH Pre‐treatment biopsy Tumor biopsy whilst responding to treatment New liver metastasis Circulating tumor cells N=36 Pezaro et al, Eur Urol 2014 Conclusions • Abiraterone and enzalutamide are effective and well tolerated • Probably preferred treatment for chemotherapy‐ naïve CRPC • Limited activity when used sequentially • Drugs inducing DNA damage could exploit DNA repair defects in ~30% of cancers • Biomarkers could improve current management paradigm of sequential abi/enza‐taxanes +/‐ Rad223
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