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. 2025 Jan 13;52(6):2015–2022. doi: 10.1007/s00259-025-07076-7

Table 1.

Characteristics of 269 metastatic castration resistant prostate cancer (mCRPC) patients stratified according to treatment in first- or second-line mCRPC with 177-lutetium prostate-specific membrane antigen (Lu-PSMA) vs. androgen receptor pathway inhibitor (ARPI) or Lu-PSMA vs. docetaxel chemotherapy

A B
Characteristic N Overall
N = 2691
Lu-PSMA,
N = 29 (11%)a
ARPI,
N = 152 (57%)a
p-valueb Docetaxel,
N = 88 (33%)a
p-valueb
Age at metastatic disease, years 256 71 (65, 77) 74 (69, 79) 72 (66, 77) 0.055 68 (62, 73)  < 0.001
Age at mCRPC, years 167 72 (67, 79) 76 (73, 83) 74 (68, 79) 0.083 69 (64, 75)  < 0.001
PSA at mCRPC, ng/ml 133 17 (6, 47) 23 (9, 82) 18 (5, 47) 0.2 12 (4, 40) 0.091
Systemic treatment lines for mCRPC 269 3 (2, 4) 2 (1, 2) 3 (2, 4)  < 0.001 3 (3, 5)  < 0.001
Received cycles 139 3 (2, 6) 3 (2, 5) 4 (2, 6) 0.2
PSA response, % 26 23 (4, 62) 20 (11, 30) 17 (0, 90) 0.9 41 (17, 62) 0.3
ECOG at mCRPC 87 0.13 0.017
0 40 (46%) 4 (24%) 17 (45%) 19 (59%)
1–2 47 (54%) 13 (76%) 21 (55%) 13 (41%)
Cardiovascular disease 171 64 (37%) 9 (50%) 33 (34%) 0.2 22 (39%) 0.4
Gleason score 8–10 234 165 (71%) 16 (62%) 89 (69%) 0.5 60 (76%) 0.2
Local therapy 269 112 (42%) 12 (41%) 52 (34%) 0.5 48 (55%) 0.2
De Novo metastatic disease 259 140 (54%) 15 (54%) 86 (59%) 0.6 39 (45%) 0.4
High volume mHSPC 104 55 (53%) 6 (67%) 35 (54%) 0.7 14 (47%) 0.5
Metastatic sites at mCRPC 110 0.8 0.4
M1a 13 (12%) 2 (11%) 5 (10%) 6 (15%)
M1b 91 (83%) 15 (79%) 42 (84%) 34 (83%)
M1c 6 (5.5%) 2 (11%) 3 (6.0%) 1 (2.4%)
Pre-treatment 269
ARPI 269 (100%) 29 (100%) 152 (100%) 88 (100%)
Docetaxel 0 (0%) 0 (0%) 0 (0%) 0 (0%)

Abbreviations: PSA, Prostate-specific antigen; ECOG, Eastern Cooperative Oncology group; mHSPC, metastatic hormone-sensitive prostate cancer; ADT, Androgen deprivation therapy; nmHSPC, non-metastatic hormone-sensitive prostate cancer; m0CRPC, non-metastatic CRPC

aMedian (Q1, Q3); n (%);2 Kruskal-Wallis rank sum test; Fisher’s exact test; Pearson’s Chi-square test

bKruskal-Wallis rank sum test; Fisher’s exact test; Pearson’s Chi-square test