Abstract
Purpose Prostate cancer is clinically and molecularly heterogeneous. We determined the prognosis of men with ERG-ETS fusions and SPINK1 over expression. Materials and Methods Men were identified with intermediate or high risk localized prostate cancer treated with radical prostatectomy and no therapy before metastasis. A case-cohort design sampled a cohort (262) enriched with metastasis from the entire cohort and a cohort (213) enriched with metastasis from patients with biochemical recurrence. We analyzed transcriptomic profiles and subtyped tumors as m-ERG+, m-ETS+, m-SPINK1+ or Triple Negative (m-ERG─/m-ETS─/m-SPINK1─), and multivariable logistic regression analyses, Kaplan-Meier and multivariable Cox models were used to evaluate subtypes as predictors of clinical outcomes. Results Overall 36%, 13%, 11% and 40% of prostate cancer was classified as m-ERG+, m-ETS+, m-SPINK1+ and Triple Negative, respectively. Univariable analysis demonstrated that m-SPINK1+ tumors were more common in African-American men (OR 5, 95% CI 1.6–16) but less commonly associated with positive surgical margins (OR 0.16, 95% CI 0.03–0.69) compared to the m-ERG+ group. Compared to the Triple Negative group, m-SPINK1+ showed similar associations with race and surgical margins in univariable and multivariable analyses across the entire cohort. Survival analyses did not show significant differences among m-ERG+, m-ETS+ and Triple Negative cases. m-SPINK1+ independently predicted prostate cancer specific mortality after metastasis (HR 2.48, 95% CI 0.96–6.4) and biochemical recurrence (HR 3, 95% CI 1.1–8). Conclusions SPINK1 over expression is associated with prostate cancer specific mortality in at risk men with biochemical and clinical recurrence after prostatectomy. ERG-ETS alterations are not prognostic for outcome.
Original language | English (US) |
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Pages (from-to) | 1436-1444 |
Number of pages | 9 |
Journal | Journal of Urology |
Volume | 196 |
Issue number | 5 |
DOIs | |
State | Published - Nov 1 2016 |
Keywords
- genomics
- neoplasm metastasis
- prognosis
- prostatic neoplasms
- transcriptome
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- Urology