1. Department of Urology, Renji Hospital, School of Medicine, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai 200127,China; 2. Department of Urology, Shanghai International Medical Center, No.4358 KangXin Awy, Shanghai 200000,China; 3. Shanghai Institute of Ultrasound in Medicine, Department of Ultrasonography, Shanghai Jiaotong University Affiliated No. 6 Hospital, Yishan Road 600, Shanghai 200233, PR China. * Liancheng Fan, Chenfei Chi and Sanwei Guo contributed equally.
✉ Corresponding authors: Baijun Dong and Wei Xue, Department of Urology, Renji Hospital, School of Medicine, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai 200127, China E-mail addresses: dongbaijuncom (Dong, B) xueweicom (Xue, W).
Citation:
Fan L, Chi C, Guo S, Wang Y, Cai W, Shao X, Xu F, Pan J, Zhu Y, Shangguan X, Xin Z, Hu J, Qian H, Xie S, Wang R, Zhou L, Dong B, Xue W. Serum Pre-Albumin Predicts the Clinical Outcome in Metastatic Castration-Resistant Prostate Cancer Patients Treated With Abiraterone. J Cancer 2017; 8(17):3448-3455. doi:10.7150/jca.21134. https://www.jcancer.org/v08p3448.htm
Objective To determine the prognostic utility of serum pre-albumin in metastatic castration-resistant prostate cancer (mCRPC) patients treated with abiraterone (AA).
Patients and Methods 112 chemotherapy pretreated or chemotherapy-naive patients were scheduled for systemic treatment with AA. Serum pre-albumin levels were measured before and after 3 months of AA treatment. Univariate and multivariate analyses were performed to determine prognostic factors that were associated with PSA progression-free survival (PSA-PFS), radiographic PFS (rPFS) and overall survival (OS). The Harrell concordance index with variables only or combined pre-albumin data were used to evaluate the prognostic accuracy.
Results The group of patients with baseline pre-albumin value ≥20mg/dL had a longer OS, PSA-PFS, rPFS than those with pre-albumin value <20mg/dL. Based on the values of pre-albumin before and after 3 months of AA treatment, we divided these patients into 4 groups: high-high, high-low, low-high and low-low group. High- high group showed a significantly better OS, PSA-PFS, rPFS than other 3 groups. In multivariate analysis, low pre-albumin level remained significant predictors of OS (HR, 13.2; P<0.001), rPFS (HR, 3.7; P=0.003) and PSA-PFS (HR, 8.7; P<0.001). The estimated c-index of the multivariate model for OS increased from 0.814 without pre-albumin to 0.845 when pre-albumin added.
Conclusion Low pretreatment serum pre-albumin is a negative independent prognosticator of survival outcomes in mCRPC treated with AA and also increases the accuracy of established prognostic model. Serial pre-albumin evaluation might help clinicians guide clinical treatment of mCRPC patients.
Fan, L., Chi, C., Guo, S., Wang, Y., Cai, W., Shao, X., Xu, F., Pan, J., Zhu, Y., Shangguan, X., Xin, Z., Hu, J., Qian, H., Xie, S., Wang, R., Zhou, L., Dong, B., Xue, W. (2017). Serum Pre-Albumin Predicts the Clinical Outcome in Metastatic Castration-Resistant Prostate Cancer Patients Treated With Abiraterone. Journal of Cancer, 8(17), 3448-3455. https://doi.org/10.7150/jca.21134.
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Fan, L.; Chi, C.; Guo, S.; Wang, Y.; Cai, W.; Shao, X.; Xu, F.; Pan, J.; Zhu, Y.; Shangguan, X.; Xin, Z.; Hu, J.; Qian, H.; Xie, S.; Wang, R.; Zhou, L.; Dong, B.; Xue, W. Serum Pre-Albumin Predicts the Clinical Outcome in Metastatic Castration-Resistant Prostate Cancer Patients Treated With Abiraterone. J. Cancer 2017, 8 (17), 3448-3455. DOI: 10.7150/jca.21134.
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Fan L, Chi C, Guo S, Wang Y, Cai W, Shao X, Xu F, Pan J, Zhu Y, Shangguan X, Xin Z, Hu J, Qian H, Xie S, Wang R, Zhou L, Dong B, Xue W. Serum Pre-Albumin Predicts the Clinical Outcome in Metastatic Castration-Resistant Prostate Cancer Patients Treated With Abiraterone. J Cancer 2017; 8(17):3448-3455. doi:10.7150/jca.21134. https://www.jcancer.org/v08p3448.htm
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Fan L, Chi C, Guo S, Wang Y, Cai W, Shao X, Xu F, Pan J, Zhu Y, Shangguan X, Xin Z, Hu J, Qian H, Xie S, Wang R, Zhou L, Dong B, Xue W. 2017. Serum Pre-Albumin Predicts the Clinical Outcome in Metastatic Castration-Resistant Prostate Cancer Patients Treated With Abiraterone. J Cancer. 8(17):3448-3455.
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