Renal & Urology News May-June 2017

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Sipuleucel-T May Help Blacks More Longer survival compared with whites reported BY JODY A. CHARNOW BOSTON—Treatment with sipuleucel-T is associated with longer overall survival in blacks versus whites with metastatic castration-resistant prostate cancer (mCRPC), according to data presented at the American Urological Association’s 2017 annual meeting. In a study led by A. Oliver Sartor, MD, the Laborde Professor of Cancer Research at Tulane University School of Medicine in New Orleans, black patients had an additional median overall survival (OS) benefit of 9.3 months compared with white patients (37.3

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vs. 28.0 months). In addition, among patients who had PSA levels below the median (26.8 ng/mL) at the time of treatment, black men had an OS benefit of almost 2 additional years compared with whites (54.3 vs. 33.4 months). On multivariate analysis, black race was an independent baseline predictor of improved OS following treatment with sipuleucel-T, the investigators reported. The findings reported by Dr. Sartor’s team are based on 630 men with mCRPC enrolled in the PROCEED registry. The cohort consisted of 210 blacks and 420 whites matched by baseline PSA level.

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RACIAL DIFFERENCES IN SURVIVAL In a study, sipuleucel-T treatment in patients with metastatic castrationresistant prostate cancer was associated with significantly longer median survival times, in months, among blacks versus whites. n Blacks n Whites

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Source: Sartor AO, Armstrong A, Ahaghotu C, et al. Overall survival analysis of African American and Caucasian patients receiving sipuleucel-T: Preliminary data from the PROCEED registry. [abstract] J Urol. 2017;197(4S):e456-e457. Oral presentation at the American Urological Association 2017 annual meeting in Boston on May 13, 2017. PD24-12.

The incidence of prostate cancer and the mortality rate from the disease are substantially higher among black than white men. In an interview with Renal & Urology News, Dr. Sartor said he was surprised by the racial difference in survival. “We’ve kind of gotten accustomed

to African Americans doing worse, and this was a reversal of that theme. I’m thinking that the most likely explanation is African-American immune systems are a little bit different. In this case, they’re different in a favorable way.” continued on page 9

AUA Releases PUL Efficacy for BPH Confirmed Updated Renal BY NATASHA PERSAUD who would have undergone, until now, BOSTON—Prostatic urethral lift TURP or another equivalent therapy.” Mass Guidelines (PUL), a minimally invasive treatment Of 212 patients referred for transureBY JODY A. CHARNOW BOSTON—Updated guidelines for the evaluation and management of renal masses released by the American Urological Association (AUA) at its 2017 annual meeting provide clinicians with more clearly defined criteria for the use of radical and partial nephrectomy, and active surveillance. The guidelines also now advocate the use of thermal ablation in selected cases, particularly for small tumors. Steven Campbell, MD, PhD, who chaired the AUA panel that developed the guidelines, said the expectation is that the guidelines will lead to more continued on page 9

for benign prostatic hyperplasia (BPH), demonstrates efficacy over 2 years for most candidates for transurethral resection of the prostate (TURP), researchers reported at the American Urological Association’s 2017 annual meeting. “PUL is a new and promising surgical technique which may alleviate symptomatic BPH, even in severely obstructed patients,” Karl-Dietrich Sievert, MD, PhD, professor of urology at University Rostock, Germany, told Renal & Urology News. “It is an easy surgical technique and has been efficacious in candidates

thral resection of the prostate (TURP), 86 patients (aged 38 to 85) opted for PUL after receiving information on the less invasive therapy. Unlike select participants from previous studies who had only mild to moderate obstruction, these patients had a range of obstruction and were treated in a real-world clinical setting at 5 German medical centers during 2012 to 2014. No patients were excluded from the study due to high post void residual (PVR), prostate volume (PV), a history of urinary retention,

THE NEW mCRPC DRUGS: WHAT THE FUTURE HOLDS

E. David Crawford, MD, and Tomasz M. Beer, MD, offer their perspectives. PAGE 20

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