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Efficacy of olaparib (ola) plus abiraterone (abi) versus placebo (pbo) plus abi in patients (pts) with metastatic castration-resistant prostate cancer (mCRPC) with a germline or somatic BRCA mutation in the PROpel trial.

2025· article· en· W4407699835 on OpenAlexaff
Fred Saad, Andrew J. Armstrong, Mototsugu Oya, Neal D. Shore, Çağatay Arslan, Karina Costa Maia Vianna, Gary L. Buchschacher, Craig Gedye, Emma Brown, Urban Emmenegger, Friederike Schlürmann, Ji Youl Lee, Jae Young Joung, Mustafa Özgüroğlu, Elizabeth A. Harrington, Alan Barnicle, David McGuinness, Arnold Degboe, Christian Hosius, Noel W. Clarke

Bibliographic record

VenueJournal of Clinical Oncology · 2025
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldMedicine
TopicPARP inhibition in cancer therapy
Canadian institutionsSunnybrook HospitalCentre Hospitalier de l’Université de Montréal
Fundersnot available
KeywordsMedicineOlaparibProstate cancerAbirateroneGermlineSomatic cellGermline mutationPARP inhibitorOncologyEnzalutamideInternal medicinePlaceboCancerMutationAndrogen receptorPoly ADP ribose polymerasePathologyGenetics

Abstract

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219 Background: PROpel (NCT03732820) met its primary endpoint showing statistically significant investigator-assessed (INV) radiographic progression-free survival (rPFS) benefit with ola + abi vs pbo + abi in first-line mCRPC in pts enrolled irrespective of homologous recombination repair gene mutation (HRRm) status (intention-to-treat [ITT] hazard ratio [HR] 0.66, 95% CI 0.54–0.81; P <0.001). At final prespecified analysis (ITT), median overall survival (OS) with ola + abi vs pbo + abi was 42.1 vs 34.7 months (HR 0.81, 0.67–1.00; P =0.054). In pts assigned to HRRm subgroups using aggregated tumor tissue and circulating tumor DNA (ctDNA) test results ( post hoc analyses), the greatest benefit for ola + abi vs pbo + abi was in pts with BRCAm (rPFS HR 0.23, 0.12–0.43; OS HR 0.29, 0.14–0.56). Concordance based on HRRm status between tumor tissue and ctDNA testing was also high (80% +ve, 87% -ve predictive agreement). We report post hoc efficacy analyses in pts with BRCAm of germline (g) or somatic (s) origin. Methods: PROpel was a double-blind Phase III trial. Pts were randomized 1:1 to ola (300 mg twice daily [bid]) or pbo, and abi (1000 mg once daily) + prednisone/prednisolone (5 mg bid) until disease progression, unacceptable toxicity, or withdrawal of consent. Tumor BRCAm status was determined using aggregated results from tumor tissue (FoundationOne CDx) and ctDNA (FoundationOne Liquid CDx) tests, and g/s status by blood test (Myriad MyRisk). Results: Of the 85 BRCAm pts, 77 were evaluable for g/s status by blood test. Of these, 32% (n=25) had a BRCAm of g origin and 68% (n=52) of s origin. HRs for pts with g and s BRCAm for rPFS (INV 0.13 and 0.19, BICR 0.15 and 0.17) and OS (0.23 and 0.26) all favored ola + abi vs pbo + abi (Table). Conclusions: Ola + abi showed clinical benefit vs pbo + abi for rPFS and OS in pts with g or s BRCAm, supporting earlier findings in the overall BRCAm population of PROpel. Also, as g testing alone does not detect s mutations, these results highlight the importance of robust biomarker testing (which is currently underutilized in real-world practice), including tumor tissue or ctDNA testing, to inform treatment options. Clinical trial information: NCT03732820 . Germline BRCAm, (n=25) Somatic BRCAm, (n=52) Ola + Abi(n=15) Pbo + Abi (n=10) Ola + Abi (n=27) Pbo + Abi (n=25) rPFS* (INV, primary endpoint) Events, n (%) 5 (33.3) 10 (100) 7 (25.9) 17 (68.0) Median rPFS NR 6.9 NR 11.1 HR 0.13 (0.04–0.38) 0.19 (0.07–0.45) rPFS*(BICR, sensitivity analysis) Events 5 (33.3) 10 (100) 6 (22.2) 18 (72.0) Median rPFS NR 5.9 NR 9.1 HR 0.15 (0.05–0.45) 0.17 (0.06–0.41) OS † (key secondary endpoint) Events, n (%) 5 (33.3) 9 (90.0) 6 (22.2) 15 (60.0) Median OS NR 18.4 NR 27.5 HR 0.23 (0.07–0.67) 0.26 (0.09–0.65) *Primary analysis, DCO 30 July 2021; † Final prespecified analysis, DCO 12 Oct 2022. BICR, blinded independent central review; DCO, data cutoff; NR, not reached.

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How this classification was reachedexpand

Full frame machine prediction

Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.001
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.001
Version: metacan-v3-hybrid-931329e0061cValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Randomized trial · Consensus signal: Randomized trial
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: Empirical
Teacher disagreement score0.003
Threshold uncertainty score0.009

Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0010.001
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0010.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0010.001
Bibliometrics0.0000.000
Science and technology studies0.0000.000
Scholarly communication0.0010.001
Open science0.0000.000
Research integrity0.0010.002
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0030.000

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.132
GPT teacher head0.474
Teacher spread0.342 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it

Classification

machine, unvalidated

Machine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.

The models applied no category: nothing in the taxonomy fit this work.
Study designRandomized trial
Domainnot available
GenreEmpirical

How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".

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