Alicia K. Morgans, MD, MPH, FASCO, on How Does Androgen Receptor Inhibition Affect Quality of Life?
2025 ASCO Annual Meeting
Alicia K. Morgans, MD, MPH, FASCO, of Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, discusses health-related quality-of-life data from the phase III ARANOTE trial, which evaluated the androgen receptor inhibitor darolutamide in combination with androgen-deprivation therapy (ADT) vs ADT plus placebo for patients with metastatic hormone-sensitive prostate cancer (Abstract 5004).
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On behalf of the ARASENS investigators, I was very pleased to present the ARASENS quality of life data. ARASENS is a phase three study in patients with metastatic hormone-sensitive prostate cancer. Patients were enrolled and were randomized to ADT plus darolutamide versus ADT and placebo to assess a primary endpoint of radiographic progression-free survival of darolutamide in this setting. Importantly, patients who were enrolled were predominantly high-volume metastatic disease and most had de novo metastatic hormone-sensitive disease. In terms of the quality of life analysis, patients were assessed by the Brief Pain. In the patients treated with ADT plus darolutamide versus ADT alone. I think also importantly the subscales of the FACT-P that were analyzed did suggest that certain subscales were improved more than others including urinary symptoms and prostate cancer-specific symptoms as well as functional well-being and social well-being, suggesting that patients were reporting that they had better time with their families and performing their daily activities. Ultimately, these suggest that darolutamide in the addition to ADT were improving metastatic hormone-sensitive prostate cancer patients' quality of life in addition to being associated with the radiographic progression-free survival advantage for this combination.
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