Preferred treatment regimens for rare genitourinary (GU) malignancies.
Abstract
780 Background: Rare GU cancers offer a challenge in determining standard of care therapy. Often data is extrapolated from small patient series or other tumor types to help guide clinicians. There is a lack of prospective data to guide therapy. Methods: We conducted a five-question survey via the Alliance for Clinical Trials in Oncology cooperative group network to identify commonly used and preferred regimens for the treatment of metastatic rare GU malignancies, including bladder squamous cell carcinoma (SCC), bladder adenocarcinoma, small cell bladder carcinoma (SCBC), penile SCC, and sex cord stromal tumors. Each question included 1) number of patients the provider treated per year, and 2) preferred frontline metastatic regimen for the rare tumor (multiple choice options drawn from the literature and selected after a discussion with a panel of experts (Table)). Surveys were emailed to the GU malignancy Alliance members, including academic and NCI Community Oncology Research Program (NCORP) sites. Responses were pooled and analyzed. Results: Fifty-one survey responses were received. One outlier was removed from the analysis leaving 50 responses. Twenty-six sites (52%) were NCORP, 22 sites were academic (44%), 2 sites were other. For the bladder SCC patients, the average number seen per year was 3.6 (range 0-15), 36.7% chose gemcitabine/platinum, 32.7% chose carboplatin/paclitaxel/gemcitabine, and 16.3% chose ITP as their preferred frontline regimen. For the adenocarcinoma bladder patients, the average number seen per year was 2.7 (range 0-10), 47.9% chose FOLFOX/CAPOX, 20.8% chose Gem-FLP, 16.7% chose FOLFOX/CAPOX + Bevacizumab and 6.2% chose ITP. For the SCBC patients, the average number seen per year was 3.1 (range 0-10), 62% chose platinum/etoposide with an immune checkpoint inhibitor compared to 36% who chose platinum/etoposide alone. For the penile SCC patients, the average number seen per year was 2.5 (range 0-10), 71.4% chose TIP,16.3% chose cisplatin/5FU and 10.2% chose immune checkpoint inhibitor. For the sex cord stromal tumor patients, the average number seen per year was 0.9 (range 0-10), 66.0% reported never treated and 19.2% chose BEP. Conclusions: This survey provides information on the most used regimens to treat rare GU malignancies and highlights the need for prospective studies to determine the best frontline therapy. These results are being used to inform the design of a first-line clinical trial to evaluate the most efficacious therapy for these rare GU malignancies. Survey Choices Option 1 Option 2 Option 3 Option 4 Option 5 - write in Bladder SCC ITP CarboTaxolGem GemPlatinum ddMVAC Bladder Adenocarcinoma ITP FOLFOX FOLFOX+bev Gem-FLP SCBC EP EP + ICI IA-EP Penile SCC TIP Cis/5FU ICI Cetuximab Sex Cord Stromal Tumor BEP VIP Never treated ITP - ifosfamide, paclitaxel, and cisplatin; EP – etoposide/platinum; IA-EP – ifosfamide/Adriamycin-EP; Gem-FLP – gemcitabine, 5-FU, leucovorin, cisplatin.
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Journal of Clinical Oncology
Lippincott Williams & Wilkins
Authors (14)
Nicholas I. Simon
Medstar Georgetown University Hospital, Washington, DC
Stephanie A. Berg
Department of Medical Oncology Dana‐Farber Cancer Institute Boston Massachusetts USA
Alan Tan
From the Center for Cancer Research, National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda (A.B.A., N.S., S.N., L.L., L.C.), the Sidney Kimmel Comprehensive Cancer Center at Johns Hopkins, Baltimore (J.H.-C.), and the Investigational Drug Branch, Cancer Therapy Evaluation Program, National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health, Rockville (H.S., E.S.) — all in Maryland; the Alliance Statistics and Data Management Center, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN (K.V.B., M.O., C.M., G.P.B.); AdventHealth Cancer Institute and the University of Central Florida, Orlando (G.S.); Dana–Farber/Harvard Cancer Center, Boston (S.B., B.M.); UNC Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center, Chapel Hill (W.Y.K.), and Duke University Medical Center and Duke Cancer Institute, Durham (J.H., S.H.) — both in North Carolina; the University of Kansas Cancer Center, Westwood (R.P.); Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, New York (M.Y.T., M.J.M., J.E.R.), and Roswell Park Comprehensive Cancer Center, Buffalo (G.C.) — both in...
Elias Chandran
National Cancer Institute, Bethesda, MD
Saad Omar Atiq
Mount Sinai Tisch Cancer Center, New York, NY
Andre Rashad Kydd
Fox Chase Cancer Center, Philadelphia, PA
Lisa M. Cordes
National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD
Amir Mortazavi
Division of Medical Oncology, The Ohio State University Comprehensive Cancer Center, Arthur G. James Cancer Hospital and Richard J. Solove Research Institute, Columbus, OH
Melissa A Reimers
Division of Oncology, Department of Internal Medicine, Washington University in St. Louis, St. Louis, MO
Matthew I. Milowsky
Cora N. Sternberg
Andrew J. Armstrong, MD, ScM, FACP, Division of Medical Oncology, Department of Medicine, Duke Cancer Institute Center for Prostate and Urologic Cancer, Duke University, Durham, NC; Arun A. Azad, MBBS, PhD; Department of Medical Oncology, Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre, Melbourne, Australia, Sir Peter MacCallum Department of Oncology, University of Melbourne, Parkville, Australia; Fred Saad, MD, University of Montreal Hospital Center, Montreal, QC, Canada; Maha Hussain, MD, FACP, FASCO, Robert H. Lurie Comprehensive Cancer Center, Northwestern University, Chicago, IL; Taro Iguchi, MD, PhD, Department of Urology, Kanazawa Medical University, Ishikawa, Japan; Arnulf Stenzl, MD, Department of Urology, University of Tübingen, Tübingen, Germany; and Cora N. Sternberg, MD, FACP, Englander Institute for Precision Medicine, Meyer Cancer Center, Weill Cornell Medicine, New York, NY
Jonathan E. Rosenberg
Genitourinary Oncology Service Department of Medicine Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center New York New York USA
Matthew D. Galsky
Division of Hematology and Medical Oncology, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai
Andrea B Apolo
National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD