Alkylating agent exposure and sperm concentration in adult survivors of childhood cancer: A report from the St. Jude Lifetime (SJLIFE) Cohort Study.

Authors

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Daniel M. Green

St. Jude Children's Research Hospital, Memphis, TN

Daniel M. Green , Wei Liu , William H. Kutteh , Raymond W. Ke , Kyla C. Shelton , Charles A. Sklar , Wassim Chemaitilly , Ching-Hon Pui , James Klosky , Sheri L. Spunt , Monika Metzger , Fariba Navid , Deo Kumar Srivastava , Kirsten K. Ness , Leslie L. Robison , Melissa M. Hudson

Organizations

St. Jude Children's Research Hospital, Memphis, TN, Fertility Associates of Memphis, Memphis, TN, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, New York, NY, St Jude Children's Research Hospital, Memphis, TN, Lucile Packard Children's Hospital at Stanford, Palo Alto, CA

Research Funding

No funding sources reported

Background: Male survivors of childhood cancer treated with alkylating agents (AA) are at risk for azoospermia; however, the long-term dose-risk relationship is unknown. Methods: Of the 287 SJLIFE participants treated with AA but no radiation therapy, 214 provided an evaluable semen sample (mean age at diagnosis: 7.9 years, mean age at evaluation: 29.8 years, and mean years from diagnosis to evaluation: 21.6 years). Survivors were categorized as azoospermia, oligospermia (sperm concentration > 0 and < 15 million/ml), or normospermia (sperm concentration ≥ 15 million/ml). AA exposure was estimated using the cyclophosphamide equivalent dose (CED). Risks were estimated using the odds ratio (OR) and 95% confidence intervals (CI) from multinomial logistic regression analyses. Results: Among survivors 24.8% had azoospermia, 27.6% oligospermia, and 47.6% normospermia (Table). CED was negatively correlated with sperm concentration (r = - 0.25, p< 0.001). Neither age at diagnosis nor age at evaluation was significantly associated with increased risk for azoospermia. Treatment with cis-platinum or carboplatinum did not increase the risk of azoospermia or oligospermia. Adjusting for age at diagnosis and at follow-up, CED was statistically significantly associated with azoospermia (OR= 1.22, 95% CI 1.11, 1.34) and oligospermia (OR=1.14, 95% CI, 1.04, 1.25) for each 1000 mg/m2increase of CED. Conclusions: We identified neither a threshold dose, below which impaired spermatogenesis was unlikely, nor a dose above which azoospermia was uniformly present. This result suggests that other factors, including genetic variation in drug metabolizing pathways, may modulate the impact of AA exposure on spermatogenesis.

Outcome No. CED (mg/m2)
Mean SD Range Median Interquartile range
Azoospermia 53 10,830 7,274 1,000 - 41,311 9,234 6,354-10,916
Oligospermia 59 8,480 4,264 2,100 - 31,894 8,000 5,650-9,872
Normospermia 102 6,626 3,576 1,016 - 15,645 6,137 3,386-9,396

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Abstract Details

Meeting

2014 ASCO Annual Meeting

Session Type

Oral Abstract Session

Session Title

Pediatric Oncology II

Track

Pediatric Oncology

Sub Track

Survivorship

Citation

J Clin Oncol 32:5s, 2014 (suppl; abstr 10010)

DOI

10.1200/jco.2014.32.15_suppl.10010

Abstract #

10010

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