Circulating chromatin conformation signatures to enhance PSA positive predictive value and overall accuracy for prostate cancer detection.

Authors

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Alexandre Akoulitchev

Oxford BioDynamics Plc, Oxford, United Kingdom

Alexandre Akoulitchev , Ewan Hunter , Matthew Salter , Ryan Powell , Tarun Naithani , Jayne Green , Francesca Fiorentino , Hashim Uddin Ahmed , Dmitri Pchejetski , Mathias Winkler

Organizations

Oxford BioDynamics Plc, Oxford, United Kingdom, Oxford BioDynmics Plc, Oxford, United Kingdom, Oxford Biodynamics Limited, Oxford, United Kingdom, Oxford BioDynamics plc, Oxford, United Kingdom, Oxford BioDynamics, Oxford, United Kingdom, King's College London, London, United Kingdom, Imperial College London, London, United Kingdom, School of Medicine, University of East Anglia, Norwich, United Kingdom, Department of Urology, Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust, London, United Kingdom

Research Funding

Institutional Funding
Imperial NHS Trust, UK, Oxford BioDynamics Plc

Background: Prostate cancer (PCa) has a high lifetime prevalence (one out of six men), but currently there is no widely accepted screening programme. Widely used prostate specific antigen (PSA) test at cut-off of 3.0 ng/mL does not have sufficient accuracy for detection of any prostate cancer, resulting in numerous unnecessary prostate biopsies in men with benign disease and false reassurance in some men with PCa. We have recently identified circulating chromosome conformation signatures (CCSs, Episwitch PCa test) allowing PCa detection and risk stratification in line with standards of clinical PCa staging. The purpose of this study was to determine whether combining the Episwitch PCa test with the PSA test will increase its diagnostic accuracy. Methods: n = 109 whole blood samples of men enrolled in the PROSTAGRAM screening pilot study and n = 38 samples of patients with established PCa diagnosis and cancer-negative controls from Imperial College NHS Trust were used. Samples were tested for PSA, and the presence of CCSs in the loci encoding for of DAPK1, HSD3B2, SRD5A3, MMP1, and miRNA98 associated with high-risk PCa identified in our previous work. Results: PSA > 3 ng/mL alone showed a low positive predicted value (PPV) of 0.14 and a high negative predicted value (NPV) of 0.93. EpiSwitch alone showed a PPV of 0.91 and a NPV of 0.32. Combining PSA and Episwitch tests has significantly increased the PPV to 0.81 although reducing the NPV to 0.78. Furthermore, integrating PSA, as a continuous variable (rather than a dichotomised 3 ng/mL cut-off), with EpiSwitch in a new multivariant stratification model, Prostate Screening EpiSwitch (PSE) test, has yielded a remarkable combined PPV of 0.93 and NPV of 0.95 when tested on the independent prospective cohort. Conclusions: Our results demonstrate that combining the standard PSA readout with circulating chromosome conformations (PSE test) allows for significantly enhanced PSA PPV and overall accuracy for PCa detection. The PSE test is accurate, rapid, minimally invasive, and inexpensive, suggesting significant screening diagnostic potential to minimise unnecessary referrals for expensive and invasive MRI and/or biopsy testing, with further extended prospective blinded validation of the new combined signature in a screening cohort with low cancer prevalence as the next step for PSE adoption in PCa screening.

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Abstract Details

Meeting

2023 ASCO Annual Meeting

Session Type

Publication Only

Session Title

Publication Only: 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 e17016)

DOI

10.1200/JCO.2023.41.16_suppl.e17016

Abstract #

e17016

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