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Hypoxia-associated gene signatures are not prognostic in high-risk localized prostate cancers undergoing androgen deprivation therapy with radiation therapy
Reardon, M. D. Bibby, B. A. S. Thiruthaneeswaran, N. Pereira, R. R. Mistry, H. More, E. Tsang, Y. Vickers, A. J. Reeves, K. J. Henry, A.
Reardon, M. D.
Bibby, B. A. S.
Thiruthaneeswaran, N.
Pereira, R. R.
Mistry, H.
More, E.
Tsang, Y.
Vickers, A. J.
Reeves, K. J.
Henry, A.
Abstract
Purpose: Men with high-risk prostate cancer (PCa) are treated with androgen deprivation therapy (ADT) and radiation therapy, but the disease reoccurs in 30% of patients. Biochemical recurrence of PCa after treatment is influenced by tumor hypoxia. Tumors with high levels of hypoxia are aggressive, resistant to treatment, and have increased metastatic capacity. Gene expression signatures derived from diagnostic biopsies can predict tumor hypoxia and radiosensitivity, but none are in routine clinical use, due to concerns about the applicability of these biomarkers to new patient cohorts. There has been no or limited testing in cohorts of high-risk PCa. Methods and Materials: We generated transcriptomic data for cohorts of patients with high-risk PCa. Patients were treated with ADT followed by external beam radiation therapy with or without a brachytherapy boost. Biomarkers curated from the literature were calculated from pretreatment biopsy gene expression data. The primary endpoint for survival analyses was bio- chemical recurrence-free survival and the secondary endpoints were distant metastasis-free survival and overall survival. Results: The performance of the selected biomarkers was poor, with none achieving prognostic significance for biochemical recurrence-free survival or distant metastasis-free survival in any cohort. The brachytherapy boost cohort received shorter durations of ADT than the conventionally fractionated or hypofractionated cohorts (Wilcoxon rank sum test, P = 2.1 pound 10-18 and 2.3 pound 10-10, respectively) and had increased risk of distant metastasis (log-rank test, P = 8 pound 10-4). There were no consis- tent relationships between biomarker score and outcome for any of the endpoints. Conclusions: Hypoxia and radiosensitivity biomarkers were not prognostic in patients with high-risk PCa treated with ADT plus radiation therapy. We speculate that the lack of prognostic capability could be caused by the variable hypoxia-modifying effects of the ADT that these high-risk patients received before and during definitive treatment with radiation therapy. A deeper understanding of biomarker construction, performance, and inter-cohort transferability in relation to patient character- istics, sample handling, and treatment modalities is required before hypoxia biomarkers can be recommended for routine clini- cal use in the pretreatment setting. (c) 2024 The Author(s). Published by Elsevier Inc. This is an open access article under the CC BY license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/)
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Reardon MD, Bibby BAS, Thiruthaneeswaran N, Pereira RR, Mistry H, More E, et al. Hypoxia-Associated Gene Signatures Are Not Prognostic in High-Risk Localized Prostate Cancers Undergoing Androgen Deprivation Therapy With Radiation Therapy. INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF RADIATION ONCOLOGY BIOLOGY PHYSICS. 2025 MAR 1;121(3):752-60. PubMed PMID: WOS:001427584600001. English.