AI-enabled analysis of H&E-stained prostate cancer tissue images: Assessing risk for metastasis prior to apalutamide (APA) treatment of patients with non-metastatic castration-resistant prostate cancer (nmCRPC).

Authors

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Pooya Mobadersany

Janssen Research & Development, Cambridge, MA

Pooya Mobadersany , Shaozhou Ken Tian , Stephen S. F. Yip , Joel Greshock , Najat Khan , Margaret K. Yu , Sharon McCarthy , Sabine D. Brookman-May , Hassan Muhammad , Chensu Xie , Wei Huang , Hirak S Basu , George Wilding , Parag Jain , Rajat Roy , Eric Jay Small , Fred Saad , Matthew Raymond Smith

Organizations

Janssen Research & Development, Cambridge, MA, Janssen Research & Development, Spring House, PA, Janssen Research & Development, Titusville, NJ, Janssen Research & Development, Los Angeles, CA, Janssen Research & Development, Raritan, NJ, PathomIQ Inc., Cupertino, CA, University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, CA, Division of Urology, Centre Hospitalier de l’Université de Montréal (CHUM/CRCHUM), Montreal, QC, Canada, Massachusetts General Hospital Cancer Center and Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA

Research Funding

Pharmaceutical/Biotech Company
Janssen R&D

Background: Most prostate cancer patients (pts) treated with androgen deprivation therapy (ADT) for progressive disease will experience progression to CRPC. APA has been approved for the treatment of nmCRPC and metastatic castration sensitive prostate cancer (mCSPC). AI-enabled tools developed to predict oncological outcomes from digitized whole-slide images (WSIs) of H&E-stained tissues are a practical alternative to costly genomic testing tools that require sufficient tumor material. PathomIQ has developed the AI-enabled prognostic test PRAD-DX that predicts risk of metastasis from WSIs of H&E-stained core biopsies or radical prostatectomy specimens. It has been validated as a research tool on more than 2000 tissue samples across multiple institutions. The objective of this study is to evaluate PRAD-DX on predicting risk of metastatic progression using archived primary tumor samples from a randomized, double-blind, phase 3 trial in nmCRPC pts [1]. Methods: WSIs were collected from 471 pts (APA+ADT (n=315); placebo+ADT (n=156)), de-identified and anonymized prior to the AI analysis. Patient outcomes were blinded to the PathomIQ team. 35 pts were excluded due to lack of tumor or poor image quality; PRAD-DX scores were generated for 436 (93%) pts. The PRAD-DX test generated a risk score for each patient between 0 and 1, with higher values representing increased risk of metastasis. A pre-determined cut-off of 0.55 was previously developed to provide the best predictive accuracy and stratification with respect to time-to-metastasis on multiple clinical cohorts and was applied to this dataset. Kaplan-Meier analysis was performed on Metastasis-free-survival (MFS). Results: All pts receiving APA+ADT had improved outcomes compared with pts receiving ADT alone, independent of PRAD-DX risk score category. 53% of pts had high PRAD-DX scores and significantly benefited from treatment with APA+ADT compared to placebo+ADT with regard to MFS (hazard ratio, 0.19; 95% CI, 0.1 – 0.37; P<0.005). 47% were assigned low PRAD-DX risk; also in this cohort, treatment with APA+ADT resulted in a significantly improved MFS (hazard ratio, 0.39; 95% CI, 0.17 – 0.86; P=0.02). Conclusions: These results indicate that PRAD-DX score derived from AI-powered image analysis could be used as a biomarker to identify pts at highest risk of metastatic progression in the nmCRPC setting. Although, there are limitations related to sample size, this may have significant impact in identifying pts for informed clinical trial patient selection based on their individual risk profile for development of novel therapies. 1) Smith MR, Saad F, Chowdhury S, et al. N Engl J Med. 2018;378(15):1408-1418. doi:10.1056/NEJMoa1715546.

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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 5027)

DOI

10.1200/JCO.2023.41.16_suppl.5027

Abstract #

5027

Poster Bd #

121

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