Use of multiparametric MRI to alter management pathways: Treatment patterns of prostate cancer in the targeted biopsy era.

2015 ◽  
Vol 33 (7_suppl) ◽  
pp. 56-56
Author(s):  
Raju Chelluri ◽  
Thomas P Frye ◽  
Arvin George ◽  
Michele Fascelli ◽  
Richard Ho ◽  
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56 Background: As the use of multiparametric MRI (mpMRI) to diagnose prostate cancer (PCa) becomes established, better knowledge of treatment patterns is needed to counsel patients. Prior studies have shown 40-55% undergo Radical Prostatectomy (RP), while only 6% prefer Active Surveillance (AS), and that stratification by risk does not greatly alter treatment pathways. We aim to delineate the distribution of PCa treatment modalities in the MRI/US fusion-guided prostate biopsy (FB) era. Methods: A retrospective review was performed of all patients who underwent FB at the NIH from 2010 to present. Demographics, Gleason scores, MRI Suspicion scores and treatment outcomes were recorded. Patients were stratified according to D’Amico Risk Criteria, and outcomes were coded into four categories: AS; RP; Radiation (XRT, Brachytherapy); and Other (Systemic or Focal therapy). Results: 839 men were reviewed. Mean age was 62.6 years old and mean PSA was 9.7 ng/mL. Total cancer detection rate was 70% (n = 589). Of FB positive men, 474 had treatment information available. Overall 225 (47.5%) entered AS, 158 (33.3%) underwent RP, 61 (12.9%) received XRT, and 30 (6.3%) received other intervention. Subgroup analysis by MRI suspicion score (Table) showed 47.4% frequency of RP in the high vs. 30.9% and 19.4% for moderate and low suspicion groups, respectively. Analysis by D’Amico Risk (Table) showed 86% of low risk men chose AS vs. 0% of high risk men. Conversely 9.7% of low, 44.5% of intermediate and 55.7% of high risk men underwent RP. Conclusions: FB was associated with a higher rate of AS choice as a treatment modality for low risk disease. However most patients with clinically significant PCa still chose RP as their treatment. FB is an additional tool that allows the urologist to better counsel patients and provides individualized treatment for PCa. [Table: see text]

2021 ◽  
Vol 28 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Neda Gholizadeh ◽  
Peter B. Greer ◽  
John Simpson ◽  
Jonathan Goodwin ◽  
Caixia Fu ◽  
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Abstract Background Current multiparametric MRI (mp-MRI) in routine clinical practice has poor-to-moderate diagnostic performance for transition zone prostate cancer. The aim of this study was to evaluate the potential diagnostic performance of novel 1H magnetic resonance spectroscopic imaging (MRSI) using a semi-localized adiabatic selective refocusing (sLASER) sequence with gradient offset independent adiabaticity (GOIA) pulses in addition to the routine mp-MRI, including T2-weighted imaging (T2WI), diffusion-weighted imaging (DWI) and quantitative dynamic contrast enhancement (DCE) for transition zone prostate cancer detection, localization and grading. Methods Forty-one transition zone prostate cancer patients underwent mp-MRI with an external phased-array coil. Normal and cancer regions were delineated by two radiologists and divided into low-risk, intermediate-risk, and high-risk categories based on TRUS guided biopsy results. Support vector machine models were built using different clinically applicable combinations of T2WI, DWI, DCE, and MRSI. The diagnostic performance of each model in cancer detection was evaluated using the area under curve (AUC) of the receiver operating characteristic diagram. Then accuracy, sensitivity and specificity of each model were calculated. Furthermore, the correlation of mp-MRI parameters with low-risk, intermediate-risk and high-risk cancers were calculated using the Spearman correlation coefficient. Results The addition of MRSI to T2WI + DWI and T2WI + DWI + DCE improved the accuracy, sensitivity and specificity for cancer detection. The best performance was achieved with T2WI + DWI + MRSI where the addition of MRSI improved the AUC, accuracy, sensitivity and specificity from 0.86 to 0.99, 0.83 to 0.96, 0.80 to 0.95, and 0.85 to 0.97 respectively. The (choline + spermine + creatine)/citrate ratio of MRSI showed the highest correlation with cancer risk groups (r = 0.64, p < 0.01). Conclusion The inclusion of GOIA-sLASER MRSI into conventional mp-MRI significantly improves the diagnostic accuracy of the detection and aggressiveness assessment of transition zone prostate cancer.


2013 ◽  
Vol 12 (1) ◽  
pp. e583-e584
Author(s):  
F. Mistretta ◽  
A. Losa ◽  
G. Cardone ◽  
M. Lazzeri ◽  
G.M. Gadda ◽  
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2021 ◽  
Vol 39 (15_suppl) ◽  
pp. 5061-5061
Author(s):  
Matthew R. Cooperberg ◽  
Paul Brendel ◽  
Daniel J. Lee ◽  
Rahul Doraiswami ◽  
Hariesh Rajasekar ◽  
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5061 Background: We used data from a specialty-wide, community-based urology registry to determine trends in outpatient prostate cancer (PCa) care during the COVID-19 pandemic. Methods: 3,165 (̃ 25%) of US urology providers, representing 48 states and territories, participate in the American Urological Association Quality (AQUA) Registry, which collects data via automated extraction from electronic health record systems. We analyzed trends in PCa care delivery from 156 practices contributing data in 2019 and 2020. Risk stratification was based on prostate-specific antigen (PSA) at diagnosis, biopsy Gleason, and clinical T-stage, and we used a natural language processing algorithm to determine Gleason and T-stage from unstructured clinical notes. The primary outcome was mean weekly visit volume by PCa patients per practice (visits defined as all MD and mid-level visits, telehealth and face-to-face), and we compared each week in 2020 through week 44 (November 1) to the corresponding week in 2019. Results: There were 267,691 PCa patients in AQUA who received care between 2019 and 2020. From mid-March to early November, 2020 (week 10 – week 44) the magnitude of the decline and recovery varied by risk stratum, with the steepest drops for low-risk PCa (Table). For 2020, overall mean visits per day (averaged weekly) were similar to 2019 for the first 9 weeks (̃25). Visits declined to week 14 (18.19; a 31% drop from 2019), recovered to 2019 levels by week 23, and declined steadily to 11.89 (a 58% drop from 2019) as of week 44, the cut off of this analysis. Conclusions: Access to care for men with PCa was sharply curtailed by the COVID-19 pandemic, and while the impact was less for men with high-risk disease compared to those with low-risk disease, visits even for high-risk individuals were down nearly one-third and continued to fall through November. This study provides real-world evidence on the magnitude of decline in PCa care across risk groups. The impact of this decline on cancer outcomes should be followed closely.[Table: see text]


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