ArticleJournal for immunotherapy of cancer2018
Activity of durvalumab plus olaparib in metastatic castration-resistant prostate cancer in men with and without DNA damage repair mutations.
Article in Journal for immunotherapy of cancer, 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. It is linked to trial NCT02484404 (Phase I/II Study of the Anti-Programmed Death Ligand-1 Antibody Durvalumab), which is not on this map. Cited by 182 papers, 16 of them syntheses that pooled it.
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Phase I/II Study of the Anti-Programmed Death Ligand-1 Antibody Durvalumab (MEDI4736) in Combination With Olaparib and/or Cediranib for Advanced Solid Tumors and Advanced or Recurrent Ovarian, Triple Negative Breast, Lung, Prostate and Colorectal Cancers
Who cites it
182 citing papers in PubMed, 16 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 309 citations in OpenAlex.
- The efficacy of immune checkpoint inhibitors in metastatic castration-resistant prostate cancer: A meta-analysis and reconstructed individual patient data analysis.Human vaccines & immunotherapeutics · 2026Pooled it
- Clinical Benefit and Safety of Combined Immunotherapy and Targeted Therapy in Prostate Cancer.International journal of cancer · 2026Pooled it
- Can PARP Inhibitors Benefit Patients with Homologous Recombination Repair-Proficient Castration-Resistant Prostate Cancer? A Meta-analysis.Targeted oncology · 2026Pooled it
- Myeloid-derived suppressor cells in peripheral blood as predictive biomarkers in patients with solid tumors undergoing immune checkpoint therapy: systematic review and meta-analysis.Frontiers in immunology · 2024Pooled it
- Efficacy and safety of PARP inhibitors in metastatic castration-resistant prostate cancer: A systematic review and meta-analysis of clinical trials.Cancer treatment reviews · 2023Pooled it
- Immune checkpoint inhibitor-related hearing loss: a systematic review and analysis of individual patient data.Supportive care in cancer : official journal of the Multinational Association of Supportive Care in Cancer · 2023Pooled it
- Circulating myeloid-derived suppressor cells and survival in prostate cancer patients: systematic review and meta-analysis.Prostate cancer and prostatic diseases · 2023Pooled it
- Efficacy and safety of immune checkpoint inhibitors for patients with prostate cancer: a systematic review and meta-analysis.Frontiers in immunology · 2023Pooled it
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- Destabilizing the genome as a therapeutic strategy to enhance response to immune checkpoint blockade: a systematic review of clinical trials evidence from solid and hematological tumors.Frontiers in pharmacology · 2023Pooled it
- What Do We Have to Know about PD-L1 Expression in Prostate Cancer? A Systematic Literature Review. Part 3: PD-L1, Intracellular Signaling Pathways and Tumor Microenvironment.International journal of molecular sciences · 2021Pooled it
- What Do We Have to Know about PD-L1 Expression in Prostate Cancer? A Systematic Literature Review. Part 5: Epigenetic Regulation of PD-L1.International journal of molecular sciences · 2021Pooled it
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- What Do We Have to Know about PD-L1 Expression in Prostate Cancer? A Systematic Literature Review. Part 4: Experimental Treatments in Pre-Clinical Studies (Cell Lines and Mouse Models).International journal of molecular sciences · 2021Pooled it
- PARP inhibitors as a new therapeutic option in metastatic prostate cancer: a systematic review.Prostate cancer and prostatic diseases · 2020Pooled it
- Phase II study of olaparib and durvalumab in patients with metastatic castration-resistant prostate cancer.Journal for immunotherapy of cancer · 2026Trial
- Durvalumab and cediranib with and without olaparib in recurrent ovarian cancer: a phase II proof-of-concept study.Nature communications · 2026Trial
- A Phase II Pilot Study of Anti-PD-L1, Durvalumab, and a PARP Inhibitor, Olaparib in Patients With Metastatic Triple-Negative Breast Cancer With or Without Germline BRCA Mutation.Cancer medicine · 2025Trial
- Nivolumab plus rucaparib for metastatic castration-resistant prostate cancer: results from the phase 2 CheckMate 9KD trial.Journal for immunotherapy of cancer · 2022Trial
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27 authors at 6 institutions in 2 countries.
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Abstract
backgroundCheckpoint inhibitors have not been effective for prostate cancer as single agents. Durvalumab is a human IgG1-K monoclonal antibody that targets programmed death ligand 1 and is approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration for locally advanced or metastatic urothelial cancer and locally advanced, unresectable stage 3 non-small cell lung cancer. Olaparib, a poly (ADP-ribose) polymerase inhibitor, has demonstrated an improvement in median progression-free survival (PFS) in select patients with metastatic castration-resistant prostate cancer (mCRPC). Data from other trials suggest there may be improved activity in men with DNA damage repair (DDR) mutations treated with checkpoint inhibitors. This trial evaluated durvalumab and olaparib in patients with mCRPC with and without somatic or germline DDR mutations.
methodsEligible patients had received prior enzalutamide and/or abiraterone. Patients received durvalumab 1500 mg i.v. every 28 days and olaparib 300 mg tablets p.o. every 12 h until disease progression or unacceptable toxicity. All patients had biopsies of metastatic lesions with an evaluation for both germline and somatic mutations.
resultsSeventeen patients received durvalumab and olaparib. Nausea was the only nonhematologic grade 3 or 4 toxicity occurring in > 1 patient (2/17). No patients were taken off trial for toxicity. Median radiographic progression-free survival (rPFS) for all patients is 16.1 months (95% CI: 4.5-16.1 months) with a 12-month rPFS of 51.5% (95% CI: 25.7-72.3%). Activity is seen in patients with alterations in DDR genes, with a median rPFS of 16.1 months (95% CI: 7.8-18.1 months). Nine of 17 (53%) patients had a radiographic and/or PSA response. Patients with fewer peripheral myeloid-derived suppressor cells and with alterations in DDR genes were more likely to respond. Early changes in circulating tumor cell counts and in both innate and adaptive immune characteristics were associated with response.
conclusionsDurvalumab plus olaparib has acceptable toxicity, and the combination demonstrates efficacy, particularly in men with DDR abnormalities.
trial registrationClinicalTrials.gov identifier: NCT02484404 .
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