Prostate cancer public health system database from Brazil: Racial disparities and heterogeneity of treatment interventions to understand evidence-based practice patterns in a large real-world database.

Authors

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Daniel Herchenhorn

University of California, San Diego (UCSD), San Diego, CA

Daniel Herchenhorn , Rana R. McKay , Andre Deeke Sasse , Fernando Sabino Marques Monteiro , Brent Shane Rose , Gustavo Carvalhal , Fernando Cotait Maluf , Igor Alexandre Protzner Morbeck , Vinicius Carrera Souza , Elcio Firminiano Fernandes , Douglas Andreas Valverde , Nicholas D. James

Organizations

University of California, San Diego (UCSD), San Diego, CA, UC San Diego, La Jolla, CA, LACOG - Latin American Cooperative Oncology Group, Porto Alegre, Brazil, Univeristy of California San Diego, Department of Urology, La Jolla, CA, Latin American Cooperative Oncology Group (LACOG), Porto Alegre, Brazil, TECHTRIALS, Campinas, Brazil, Institute of Cancer Research, London, United Kingdom

Research Funding

No funding received
None.

Background: The Brazilian Public National Health System (SUS) provides an opportunity to understand epidemiologic information, treatments, discrepancies in care, and costs of men with prostate cancer (PCa) using a large real-world dataset. This analysis focuses on racial disparities and heterogeneity of specific interventions to understand evidence-based practice patterns in Brazil. Additionally, the dataset can serve as a model for other low-middle income countries (LMIC). Methods: Patients included in the database were those with a diagnosis of PCa receiving care in the SUS from 01/01/2008 to 08/31/2022. Data were analyzed using a proprietary Healthcare Data Science platform offered by TECHTRIALS and included information regarding stage, demographics, cancer-related information, treatment-related information, and resources utilized. Results: 657,609 PCa pts were diagnosed and treated at SUS during the 14.5-year study period of whom 382,263 (58%) were brown/black (non-white) and 262,820 (42%) white. Median age of the population was 72.6 years, and did not vary with race. 26.16% of the pts were diagnosed with stage IV and this was not impacted by race or localization, including state or type of city (capital or not). Rates of radical prostatectomy and radiation utilization were similar between race categories. Additionally, in patients with stage IV disease, rates of systemic therapy utilization including chemotherapy with docetaxel (7.7%), with a tendency to increase use in the last years, and androgen receptor signaling inhibitors (ARSI) with (0.6%) or enzalutamide (0.08%), were low and similar between race categories. Rates of first-generation anti-androgens and estrogens were higher (56%) The total costs of prostate cancer directed care was R$4.31 billions (US$820 millions) and race did not impact total cost of care and cost by procedure or therapy type options. Conclusions: This is one of the largest studies using public health-system databases for Prostate cancer with Real World Data ever published. Race had no impact in presenting stage, treatment received and even in the costs involved. Underutilization of chemotherapy (docetaxel) in a scenario of limiting resources and without the use of new hormonal therapies is a matter of concern, together with an overuse of agents without proven survival advantage. Our data highlights the need for increased access to life prolonging agents for patients with metastatic PCa in the SUS.

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Abstract Details

Meeting

2023 ASCO Annual Meeting

Session Type

Poster Session

Session Title

Genitourinary Cancer—Prostate, Testicular, and Penile

Track

Genitourinary Cancer—Prostate, Testicular, and Penile

Sub Track

Epidemiology/Outcomes

Citation

J Clin Oncol 41, 2023 (suppl 16; abstr 5025)

DOI

10.1200/JCO.2023.41.16_suppl.5025

Abstract #

5025

Poster Bd #

119

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