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Dr. Oliver Sartor on the VISION Trial and Improving Care for Patients With mCRPC

Dr. Oliver Sartor on the VISION Trial and Improving Care for Patients With mCRPC

FromASCO Daily News


Dr. Oliver Sartor on the VISION Trial and Improving Care for Patients With mCRPC

FromASCO Daily News

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13 minutes
Released:
Nov 18, 2021
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Guest host Dr. Neeraj Agarwal, editor-in-chief of ASCO Daily News and director of the Genitourinary Cancers Program at the University of Utah Huntsman Cancer Institute, interviews Dr. Oliver Sartor, medical director of the Tulane Cancer Center in New Orleans, on the practice-changing VISION trial and its impact on the current treatment paradigm for mCRPC. Transcript ASCO Daily News: Welcome to the ASCO Daily News Podcast. Our topic today is the practice-changing VISION trial, a phase III trial of radioligand therapy in patients with metastatic castration-resistant prostate cancer. Our guest host, Dr. Neeraj Agarwal, the editor-in-chief of the ASCO Daily News and director of the Genitourinary Cancers Program at the University of Utah's Huntsman Cancer Institute, will speak with one of the trial's investigators, Dr. Oliver Sartor, the medical director of the Tulane Cancer Center and Laborde Professor for Cancer Research. Their full disclosures are available on the transcript of this episode, and disclosures relating to all episodes of the Daily News Podcast are available on our transcripts at asco.org/podcasts.   Dr. Neeraj Agarwal: Hi, my name is Dr. Neeraj Agarwal. I am with Dr. Oliver Sartor. Today, we are going to discuss one of the practice-changing trials in the context of metastatic castration-resistant prostate cancer. Welcome to the ASCO Daily News Podcast, Dr. Sartor. Thanks for taking the time to be with us today.   Dr. Oliver Sartor: Thank you, Neeraj. A pleasure to be here.   Dr. Neeraj Agarwal: You recently published the primary results of the phase III VISION trial, which tested the efficacy of a novel radioligand therapy, Lutetium-177-PSMA-617, in men with metastatic castrate-resistant prostate cancer. Could you please tell us more about this compound and why you did this study?   Dr. Oliver Sartor:  So I'll start off with the compound itself. Radioligand therapy is a therapy that has a little warhead, and that warhead in this case is Lutetium-177. But it's guided by binding to PSMA. Now, PSMA is prostate-specific membrane antigen, and many of us are familiar with it, but some may not be. So PSMA is a protein expressed on the surface of most prostate cancer cells. Not all patients have it, but most do. And the ability of the PSMA Lutetium-177 to target the cancer was indicated in some preliminary studies, but they have not been to phase III. So the purpose of the phase III VISION trial was really to design a definitive study to look at overall survival, in particular, to determine whether or not this agent was truly active. And the good news is, it is truly active. And in the VISION trial, we were able to not only extend life with an overall survival benefit, haz ratio 0.62, but there was also a time-to-progression image-based radiographic progression-free survival. It was also much in favor of the PSMA Lutetium with a haz ratio of 0.4. So whether or not you look at time to cancer progression or whether or not you look at overall survival, this is an effective therapy. It, of course, does have some adverse side effects. We can talk more about that, but it's reasonably well tolerated. And I do anticipate that there'll be an FDA approval as a consequence of these pivotal findings.   Dr. Neeraj Agarwal: These are wonderful results and news for our patients. Please tell me how it will affect the current treatment paradigm of our patients with mCRPC. As we know, you selected patients who had disease progression on chemotherapy with taxanes and novel hormonal therapy. But real-world studies, many of which were published by you, have shown that docetaxel is received by a minority of patients with metastatic prostate cancer. So how do you envision treating your patients who do not want to be treated with chemotherapy as many of my patients do? How will you apply Lutetium-177 in their treatment?   Dr. Oliver Sartor:  Well, Neeraj, I think that we're going to be restricted in accordance with the label that the FDA provides
Released:
Nov 18, 2021
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