Abstract
Despite aggressive clinicopathological features, mismatch repair (MMR)-mutated advanced prostate cancers are exquisitely responsive to standard and next-generation hormonal therapies, and also demonstrate anecdotal sensitivity to PD-1 inhibitors. Moreover, the presence of certain histological features (Gleason sum 9 or 10, and intraductal carcinoma) should prompt genomic evaluation of MMR deficiency, which is an actionable finding given the Food and Drug Administration's approval of pembrolizumab in this context.
Original language | English (US) |
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Pages (from-to) | 378-382 |
Number of pages | 5 |
Journal | European Urology |
Volume | 75 |
Issue number | 3 |
DOIs | |
State | Published - Mar 2019 |
Externally published | Yes |
Bibliographical note
Funding Information:Funding/Support and role of the sponsor : This work was partially supported by National Institutes of Health Cancer Center Support Grant P30 CA006973 (E.S.A. and T.L.L.), Department of Defense grant W81XWH-16-PCRP-CCRSA (E.S.A.), and the Bloomberg-Kimmel Institute for Cancer Immunotherapy (E.S.A., E.S., and D.M.P.).
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Financial disclosures: Emmanuel S. Antonarakis certifies that all conflicts of interest, including specific financial interests and relationships and affiliations relevant to the subject matter or materials discussed in the manuscript (eg, employment/affiliation, grants or funding, consultancies, honoraria, stock ownership or options, expert testimony, royalties, or patents filed, received, or pending), are the following: Emmanuel S. Antonarakis is a paid consultant/advisor to Janssen, Astellas, Sanofi, Dendreon, Medivation, ESSA, AstraZeneca, Clovis, and Merck; he has received research funding to his institution from Janssen, Johnson & Johnson, Sanofi, Dendreon, Genentech, Novartis, Tokai, Bristol Myers-Squibb, AstraZeneca, Clovis, and Merck; and he is the co-inventor of a biomarker technology that has been licensed to Qiagen. Tamara L. Lotan is a paid consultant/advisor to Janssen and has received research funding from Ventana/Roche.
Publisher Copyright:
© 2018 European Association of Urology
Keywords
- MSH2
- MSH6
- Microsatellite instability
- Mismatch repair
- Prostate cancer