Final analysis results from TITAN: A phase III study of apalutamide (APA) versus placebo (PBO) in patients (pts) with metastatic castration-sensitive prostate cancer (mCSPC) receiving androgen deprivation therapy (ADT).

Authors

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Kim N. Chi

BC Cancer and Vancouver Prostate Centre, Vancouver, BC, Canada

Kim N. Chi , Simon Chowdhury , Anders Bjartell , Byung Ha Chung , Andrea Juliana Pereira de Santana Gomes , Robert Given , Álvaro Juárez Soto , Axel Stuart Merseburger , Mustafa Ozguroglu , Hirotsugu Uemura , Dingwei Ye , Spyros Triantos , Suneel Mundle , Sharon Anne McCarthy , Julie S. Larsen , Weili Sun , Katherine Bevans , Ke Zhang , Nibedita Bandyopadhyay , Neeraj Agarwal

Organizations

BC Cancer and Vancouver Prostate Centre, Vancouver, BC, Canada, Guy’s, King's, and St. Thomas' Hospitals, and Sarah Cannon Research Institute, London, United Kingdom, Skåne University Hospital, Lund University, Malmö, Sweden, Yonsei University College of Medicine and Gangnam Severance Hospital, Seoul, South Korea, Liga Norte Riograndense Contra O Cancer, Natal, Brazil, Urology of Virginia, Eastern Virginia Medical School, Norfolk, VA, Hospital Universitario de Jerez de la Frontera, Cadiz, Spain, University Hospital Schleswig-Holstein, Campus Lübeck, Lübeck, Germany, Istanbul University-Cerrahpaşa, Cerrahpaşa School of Medicine, Istanbul, Turkey, Kindai University Faculty of Medicine, Osaka, Japan, Fudan University Shanghai Cancer Center, Shanghai, China, Janssen Research & Development, Spring House, PA, Janssen Research & Development, Raritan, NJ, Janssen Research & Development, Los Angeles, CA, Janssen Research & Development, Horsham, PA, Janssen Research & Development, San Diego, CA, Huntsman Cancer Institute, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT

Research Funding

Pharmaceutical/Biotech Company
Janssen Research & Development

Background: TITAN evaluated APA or PBO added to ADT in pts with mCSPC. Pts with high- and low-volume disease, prior docetaxel, prior treatment for localized disease, and prior ADT (≤ 6 mos) were eligible. At the first interim analysis, with 22.7 mos median follow-up, APA significantly improved dual primary end points of overall survival (OS) (hazard ratio [HR] 0.67) and radiographic progression-free survival (rPFS) (HR 0.48) compared with PBO (Chi et al. NEJM. 2019). At that time, OS analysis was first planned interim while rPFS was final. TITAN was unblinded, allowing pts without progression who were still receiving PBO to cross over to APA. Herein, we report the final analysis of efficacy and safety results from TITAN. Methods: 1052 mCSPC pts were randomized 1:1 to receive APA (240 mg QD) or PBO plus ADT. Time-to-event end points were analyzed by Kaplan-Meier method and Cox proportional hazards model. A preplanned sensitivity analysis for OS, accounting for crossover using inverse probability censoring weighted (IPCW) log-rank test, was conducted. No formal statistical retesting was performed; nominal p values were reported without multiplicity adjustment. Change from baseline in Functional Assessment of Cancer Therapy-Prostate (FACT-P) total score was assessed using a mixed-effect repeated-measures model. Results: With 44 mos median follow-up, 405 OS events had occurred. After unblinding, 208 PBO pts (39.5%) crossed over to APA. Median treatment duration was 39.3 mos for the APA group, 20.2 mos for the entire PBO group, and 15.4 mos for the PBO→APA crossover group. OS was superior in the APA group compared with the PBO group despite crossover (Table). 48-mo survival rates were 65% (APA) vs 52% (PBO). Other end points also favored APA vs PBO (Table). Health-related quality of life (HRQoL), per total FACT-P, was maintained in the APA group through the study and was not different from the PBO group. Safety was consistent with previous reports. Conclusions: With close to 4 yrs of follow-up, the final analysis of TITAN demonstrated that in a broad population of pts with mCSPC, APA plus ADT provides an improvement in OS with a 35% reduction in risk of death, which increased to 48% reduction after adjusting for pts who crossed over from PBO to APA. In addition, there was consistent benefit with APA in other end points, including delaying castration resistance, and HRQoL continued to be maintained with an acceptable safety profile. Clinical trial information: NCT02489318

End point, median mosAPA + ADT
(n = 525)
PBO + ADT
(n = 527)
HRp Value
OSNE52.20.65< 0.0001
OS (crossover adjusted by IPCW)NE39.80.52< 0.0001
PFS2NENE0.66< 0.0001
Time to castration resistanceaNE11.40.34< 0.0001

NE, not estimable.

aTime from randomization to radiographic disease progression, prostate-specific antigen progression, or skeletal-related event, whichever occurred first.

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Abstract Details

Meeting

2021 Genitourinary Cancers Symposium

Session Type

Rapid Oral Abstract Session

Session Title

Rapid Abstract Session: Prostate Cancer

Track

Prostate Cancer - Advanced,Prostate Cancer - Localized

Sub Track

Therapeutics

Clinical Trial Registration Number

NCT02489318

Citation

J Clin Oncol 39, 2021 (suppl 6; abstr 11)

DOI

10.1200/JCO.2021.39.6_suppl.11

Abstract #

11

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