Accession Number:

AD1173818

Title:

Prognostic Biomarkers in Active Surveillance: Parsing Risk in Early Stage Prostate Cancer

Descriptive Note:

[Technical Report, Final Report]

Corporate Author:

BETH ISRAEL DEACONESS HOSPITAL INC BOSTON MA

Personal Author(s):

• Einstein, David J.

Report Date:

2021-11-01

Pagination or Media Count:

19

Abstract:

While a majority of prostate cancers PCa remain clinically insignificant, some have the potential to metastasize and become lethal and therefore merit intervention. Thus, identification of men most at risk and most likely to benefit from therapy is a major clinical and public health challenge. Furthermore, identification of phenotypic subtypes amenable to strategies such as immunotherapy could enhance personalized treatment. During this period, we continued to expand our cohort of non-indolent active surveillance AS patients in order to provide a comparitor for the relatively quiet copy-number landscape we previously identified in indolent AS patients. We also investigated a novel phenotype of immunogenic localized PCa characterized by an apparent anti-tumor immune response. Finally, we investigated driver mutations in localized PCa and examined how these were affected by metastatic spread and treatment resistance.

Descriptors:

• medical personnel
• lymphocytes
• cells
• blood
• physicians
• therapy
• androgen receptors
• personnel management
• bladder cancer
• clinical trials
• genetic structures
• united states
• biomedical research
• neoplasms
• prostate cancer
• african americans
• cancer

Subject Categories:

• Medicine and Medical Research

Distribution Statement:

[A, Approved For Public Release]