Kairemo Kalevi, Milton Denai R, Etchebehere Elba, Rohren Eric M, Macapinlac Homer A
Department of Nuclear Medicine, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, United States.
Department of Molecular Radiotherapy and Nuclear Medicine, Docrates Cancer Center, Helsinki, Finland.
Curr Radiopharm. 2018;11(2):147-152. doi: 10.2174/1874471011666180629145030.
223Ra was the first therapeutic alpha-emitting radionuclide registered for clinical practice. This radionuclide is targeting actively bone-forming cells, and it is approved for treating metastatic skeletal disease in prostate cancer. 18F-PET is used to detect skeletal metastatic disease based on osteoblastic activity. The aim of this study was to analyze, if 18F-PET can be used assessing the results of 223Ra therapy, and to report final median overall survival in a total of 773 therapy cycles.
A 161 men with castration-resistant prostate cancer were included in a single institution study (Protocol#: PA14-0848) and they received a total of 773 223Ra therapy cycles.
The median overall survival (95% CI) was 12.4 (9.1, 16.1) months in patient population. Interim Na18F-PET imaging was applied in 14 patients at baseline, after 3 cycles and after 6 cycles. TLF10 (skeletal disease burden at SUV-values >10 on Na18F -PET) were calculated in all these PET studies, and there was no significant association between change in TLF10 after 3 cycles and TLF10 after 6 cycles (p=0.20).
From these results, we conclude that interim imaging does not help in assessing the final outcome of 223Ra therapy. The survival benefit of 223Ra therapy alone is more than a year in a high-risk group of advanced prostate cancer.
镭-223是首个获批用于临床实践的发射α粒子的治疗性放射性核素。这种放射性核素靶向活跃的骨形成细胞,已被批准用于治疗前列腺癌的骨转移疾病。18F-PET基于成骨细胞活性用于检测骨转移疾病。本研究的目的是分析18F-PET是否可用于评估镭-223治疗的结果,并报告总共773个治疗周期的最终中位总生存期。
161名去势抵抗性前列腺癌男性患者纳入一项单中心研究(方案编号:PA14-0848),他们共接受了773个镭-223治疗周期。
患者群体的中位总生存期(95%CI)为12.4(9.1,16.1)个月。14名患者在基线、3个周期后和6个周期后进行了中期18F-NaPET成像。在所有这些PET研究中计算了TLF10(18F-NaPET上SUV值>10时的骨疾病负担),3个周期后TLF10的变化与6个周期后TLF10之间无显著相关性(p=0.20)。
根据这些结果,我们得出结论,中期成像无助于评估镭-223治疗的最终结果。在晚期前列腺癌的高危组中,单独使用镭-223治疗的生存获益超过一年。