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Impact of 68Ga-PSMA-11 PET on Management in Patients with Biochemically Recurrent Prostate Cancer

Thomas A. Hope, Rahul Aggarwal, Bryant Chee, Dora Tao, Kirsten L. Greene, Matthew R. Cooperberg, Felix Feng, Albert Chang, Charles J. Ryan, Eric J. Small and Peter R. Carroll
Journal of Nuclear Medicine December 2017, 58 (12) 1956-1961; DOI: https://doi.org/10.2967/jnumed.117.192476
Thomas A. Hope
1Department of Radiology and Biomedical Imaging, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California
2Department of Radiology, San Francisco VA Medical Center, San Francisco, California
3UCSF Helen Diller Family Comprehensive Cancer Center, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California
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Rahul Aggarwal
3UCSF Helen Diller Family Comprehensive Cancer Center, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California
4Division of Hematology/Oncology, Department of Medicine, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California
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Bryant Chee
4Division of Hematology/Oncology, Department of Medicine, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California
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Dora Tao
1Department of Radiology and Biomedical Imaging, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California
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Kirsten L. Greene
5Department of Urology, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California; and
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Matthew R. Cooperberg
3UCSF Helen Diller Family Comprehensive Cancer Center, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California
5Department of Urology, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California; and
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Felix Feng
3UCSF Helen Diller Family Comprehensive Cancer Center, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California
6Department of Radiation Oncology, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California
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Albert Chang
6Department of Radiation Oncology, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California
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Charles J. Ryan
3UCSF Helen Diller Family Comprehensive Cancer Center, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California
4Division of Hematology/Oncology, Department of Medicine, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California
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Eric J. Small
3UCSF Helen Diller Family Comprehensive Cancer Center, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California
4Division of Hematology/Oncology, Department of Medicine, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California
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Peter R. Carroll
3UCSF Helen Diller Family Comprehensive Cancer Center, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California
5Department of Urology, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California; and
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    Percentage of patients with disease detected on 68Ga-PSMA-11 PET categorized by PSA level at time of imaging. Numbers in brackets are patients in each group with PET findings positive for disease. Percentage is percentage of patients in each group positive for disease.

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    Distribution of sites of disease seen on 68Ga-PSMA-11 PET as percentage of total patients. The most common sites of disease were prostate bed and pelvic lymph nodes (LN). RP = extrapelvic retroperitoneal.

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    Change in clinician’s description of disease location before and after imaging. Percentage of patients for whom clinicians did not know disease location decreased from 52% to 20%. ST = soft tissues.

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    Example of major change in management. A 69-y-old man with biochemically recurrent prostate cancer was originally treated with RP in 2014 and then with salvage RT in 2015. He presented for 68Ga-PSMA-11 PET with PSA of 0.059. Imaging demonstrated single PSMA-positive lesion in right iliac bone (C), with no correlate seen on CT (A and [fused image] B). Management was converted from active surveillance to RT combined with androgen-deprivation therapy.

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    Patient Characteristics

    CharacteristicData
    Age (y)69.0 ± 6.9
    Imaging modality
     PET/CT63 (50)
     PET/MRI63 (50)
    Prior treatment
     RP43 (34)
     RT41 (33)
     Both RP and RT33 (26)
     Other treatments9 (7)
     ADT41 (32)
    Currently on ADT8 (6)
    Time since last treatment (y)5.3 ± 5.4
    Prior conventional imaging
     CT of abdomen or pelvis57 (45)
     Bone scanning or 18F-NaF PET55 (44)
     MRI of pelvis22 (17)
     Any prior imaging80 (73)
    Laboratory values
     PSA (ng/dL)5.9 ± 10.3
     PSA doubling time (mo)8.7 ± 11.0
    Gleason score at diagnosis*
     3 + 319 (16)
     3 + 427 (22)
     4 + 334 (28)
     4 + 417 (14)
     4 + 517 (14)
     5 + 44 (3)
     5 + 53 (2)
    • ↵* Five patients did not have Gleason score at initial biopsy available.

    • ADT = androgen-deprivation therapy.

    • Qualitative data are expressed as numbers followed by percentages in parentheses; continuous data are expressed as mean ± SD.

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    Imaging Studies That Would Have Been Ordered in Place of 68Ga-PSMA-11 PET on Preimaging Surveys, and Studies That Were Prevented from Being Ordered on Postimaging Surveys

    Imaging studyWould have been orderedPrevented from being ordered
    Bone scanning70 (56%)21 (17%)
    CT44 (35)17 (13)
    MRI36 (29)3 (2)
    PET (18F-FDG or choline)16 (13)13 (10)
    Image-guided biopsy5 (4)8 (6)
    ProstaScint1 (1)0 (0)
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    TABLE 3

    Changes in Intended Management After 68Ga-PSMA-11 PET

    Treatment changen%
    Major changes6753.2
     Conversion to targeted treatment4031.7
      ADT > RT129.5
      AS > RT107.9
      ADT > RT+ADT64.8
      AS > RT+ADT54.0
      Biopsy > RT21.6
      Biopsy > RT+ADT21.6
      Biopsy > cryoablation10.8
      RT+ADT > surgery10.8
      Sipuleucel-T > RT10.8
     Conversion to systemic treatment129.5
      AS > ADT54.0
      RT+ADT > ADT monotherapy21.6
      RT > ADT21.6
      AS > abiraterone10.8
      Surgery > ADT10.8
      Biopsy > ADT10.8
     Conversion to AS107.9
      RT+ADT > AS43.2
      ADT > AS43.2
      RT > AS21.6
     Miscellaneous54.0
      Surgery > RT+ADT21.6
      RT+ADT > cryoablation10.8
      RT+ADT > RT+ADT+chemotherapy10.8
      ADT > PSMA RLT10.8
    Minor changes86.4
     RT > RT+ADT54.0
     RT+ADT > RT32.4
    • ADT = androgen-deprivation therapy; AS = active surveillance; RLT = radioligand therapy.

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    Patients with Major Changes in Management Categorized by Prior Treatment and PSA Level

    Prior treatment
    ParameterRPRTRP and RT
    Total patients (n)434133
     Mean PSA ± SD (ng/dL)2.7 ± 4.09.9 ± 14.63.9 ± 6.9
     Major change (n)14 (33%)24 (59%)23 (70%)
     Number with RT as treatment option on preimaging survey (n)26 (61%)10 (24%)5 (15%)
    PSA < 2 ng/dL
     Patients (n)29920
     Major change (n)9 (31%)6 (67%)14 (70%)
    PSA > 2 ng/dL
     Patients (n)143213
     Major change (n)5 (36%)18 (56%)9 (69%)

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Thomas A. Hope, Rahul Aggarwal, Bryant Chee, Dora Tao, Kirsten L. Greene, Matthew R. Cooperberg, Felix Feng, Albert Chang, Charles J. Ryan, Eric J. Small, Peter R. Carroll
Journal of Nuclear Medicine Dec 2017, 58 (12) 1956-1961; DOI: 10.2967/jnumed.117.192476

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