Increased utilization of prostate-specific membrane antigen (PSMA)-targeted radionuclide therapy (PSMA-TRT) in African American (AA) patients at an academic medical center.

Authors

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Joseph Earl Thomas

NewYork-Presbyterian/Weill Cornell Medical Center, New York, NY

Joseph Earl Thomas , Jones T. Nauseef , Michael Philip Sun , Amie Patel , Angela Tan , Mahelia Bissassar , Jyothi Manohar , Kritika Subramanian , Koby Amankwah , Gabriela Madera , Ana M. Molina , Cora N. Sternberg , David M. Nanus , Neil Harrison Bander , Scott T. Tagawa

Organizations

NewYork-Presbyterian/Weill Cornell Medical Center, New York, NY, Weill Cornell Medicine, Division of Hematology & Medical Oncology; Sandra and Edward Meyer Cancer Center, New York, NY, Weill Cornell Medicine, Division of Hematology & Medical Oncology, New York, NY, Weill Cornell Medicine, New York, NY, Weill Cornell Medical Center, New York, NY, Weill Cornell Medicine, Caryl and Israel Englander Institute for Precision Medicine, New York, NY, Weill Cornell Medicine, Division of Molecular Imaging and Therapeutics, Department of Radiology, New York, NY, Weill Cornell Medical College, New York, NY, Weill Medical College of Cornell University/NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital, New York, NY, Englander Institute for Precision Medicine, Weill Cornell Department of Medicine, Meyer Cancer Center, NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital, New York, NY, Weill Cornell Medicine, Division of Hematology & Medical Oncology, NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital, New York, NY

Research Funding

Other
Weill Cornell Medicine, Prostate Cancer Foundation, Department of Defense

Background: At Weill Cornell Medicine (WCM), we have had a research program utilizing anti-PSMA mAb J591 since the year 2000. With the addition of PSMA ligand-based therapies in 2017, we have enrolled around 300 patients on investigational PSMA-TRT clinical trials. Since the approval of 177Lu-PSMA-617 (Pluvicto; Lu-177 vipivotide tetraxetan), we began standard-of-care (SOC) treatment, co-enrolling willing patients into a research registry. Recognizing the low numbers of AA patients enrolled on therapeutic clinical trials in the U.S., we made a concerted effort to increase the number of AA patients with prostate cancer (PC) enrolled on clinical trials at WCM. We retrospectively assessed the demographic data of patients enrolled on PSMA-TRT clinical trials to determine changing patterns of enrollment, and to determine if our efforts have improved access to these novel treatments for this under-represented, but high-risk population of patients. Methods: We collected demographic data (namely race and ethnicity) on patients with PC from WCM who were included on our PSMA-TRT investigational clinical trial databases or enrolled on our SOC 177Lu-PSMA-617 research registry. We used self-reported race and, when not available (due to patient death or loss of follow-up), demographic information documented in the medical record. Patients were grouped into 5-year cohorts based on either the date of consent for trial enrollment, or the start date of PSMA-TRT treatment (based on available information). Institutional tumor registry data was used as a comparator to assess the total percentage of AA patients with PC seen at WCM. Results: The percentages of patients included on PSMA-TRT clinical trials at WCM who were identified as AA were as follows: 2000-2004: 3.1% (2/65), 2005-2009: 5.1% (3/59), 2010-2014: 6.1% (2/33), and 2015-2019: 5.9% (5/85). The percentage of AA patients on PSMA-TRT studies from 2020 through July 2022 was 18.2% (16/88, inclusive of 8/72 investigational TRT subjects and 8/16 SOC registry participants). The total percentages of AA patients seen at Cornell based upon analysis of our tumor registry data were as follows: 2000-2004: 10.5% (182/1728), 2005-2009: 6.9% (250/3607), 2010-2014: 10% (326/3255), 2015-2019: 11.5% (278/2413), and 2020: 14.1%. Tumor registry data for 2021-present were not yet available. Conclusions: The percentage of AA patients on investigational PSMA-TRT trials at our institution notably increased from 2000-2019 (3.1%-6.1%) to 2020-2022 (11.1%). Moreover, 50% of those treated with 177Lu-PSMA-617 since its FDA approval and co-enrolled on our research registry identified as AA. These data suggest that outreach and increasing access to AA patients for novel PC treatment such as PSMA-TRT can result in increased numbers of underrepresented patients enrolling on clinical trials and receiving the most modern standards of care (i.e., PSMA-TRT).

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Abstract Details

Meeting

2023 ASCO Genitourinary Cancers Symposium

Session Type

Poster Session

Session Title

Poster Session A: Prostate Cancer

Track

Prostate Cancer - Advanced,Prostate Cancer - Localized

Sub Track

Cancer Disparities

Citation

J Clin Oncol 41, 2023 (suppl 6; abstr 36)

DOI

10.1200/JCO.2023.41.6_suppl.36

Abstract #

36

Poster Bd #

A19

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