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Title: Predictors of real-world utilisation of docetaxel combined with androgen deprivation therapy in metastatic hormone-sensitive prostate cancer.
Author: Azad, A.
Tran, B.
Davis, I.
Parente, P.
Evans, M.
Wong, S.
Brown, Stephen
Evans, S.
Millar, J.
Murphy, D.
Papa, N.
Issue Date: 2022
Publication Title: Internal Medicine Journal
Volume: 52
Issue: 8
Start Page: 1339
End Page: 1346
Abstract: Background Docetaxel has emerged as a standard-of-care for metastatic hormone-sensitive prostate cancer (mHSPC). Uptake of docetaxel for mHSPC in Australia has not previously been reported. Aims To investigate the real-world uptake of docetaxel in mHSPC and to identify predictors of utilisation of docetaxel in mHSPC. Methods Men diagnosed from June 2014 to December 2018 and enrolled in the Prostate Cancer Outcomes Registry-Victoria (PCOR-Vic) were included. Data collected include demographics, diagnosis method and institution, staging investigations and treatments within 12 months of diagnosis. Wilcoxon rank-sum, Chi-squared and trend tests were used to identify predictors of docetaxel utilisation. All predictors were entered as covariates simultaneously into a multivariable logistic regression model. Statistical significance was set at 0.05 (two sided). Results In all, 1014 men with mHSPC were analysed, 25% of whom received docetaxel with androgen deprivation therapy. Uptake of docetaxel increased from 20% in 2014 to 33% in 2018. Predictors of higher usage of docetaxel were younger age and treatment in a private hospital, with both remaining significant on multivariable analysis. Notably, the proportion of men aged <70 years receiving docetaxel increased from 54% in 2014–2015 to 64% in 2016–2018, while in men aged ≥70 years the comparative figures were 15% and 22% respectively. Conclusions Although docetaxel was not used in the majority of cases, there was a clear increase in docetaxel uptake, especially in younger men following publication of the CHAARTED and STAMPEDE trials. Identifying barriers to real-world implementation of pivotal clinical trial data is critical to improving outcomes in mHSPC.
URI: http://hdl.handle.net/11054/2023
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1111/imj.15288
Internal ID Number: 01961
Health Subject: PROSTATE CANCER
CHEMOTHERAPY
DOCETAXEL
CASTRATION
HORMONE-SENSITIVE
METASTATIC
Type: Journal Article
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