Abstract

Optimal postoperative radiation therapy (PORT) dose is unclear in penile squamous cell carcinoma (PeSCC). Herein, we characterized the radiosensitivity index (RSI) and genomic-adjusted radiation dose (GARD) profiles in a cohort of patients with PeSCC, and assessed the application of GARD to personalize PORT. A total of 25 PeSCC samples were identified for transcriptomic profiling. The RSI score and GARD were derived for each sample. A cohort of 34 patients was reviewed for clinical correlation. The median RSI for PeSCC was 0.482 (range 0.215-0.682). The majority (n=21; 84%) of cases were classified as radioresistant. PeSCC GARD ranged from 9.56 to 38.39 (median 18.25), suggesting variable therapeutic effects from PORT. We further determined the optimal GARD-based RT doses to improve locoregional control. We found that therapeutic benefit was only achieved in 52% of PeSCC lesions with PORT of 50Gy, in contrast to 84% benefit from GARD-modeled PORT of 66Gy. In the clinical cohort, the majority of patients presented with pathological N2 or N3 disease (n=31; 91%) and was treated with adjuvant concurrent platinum-based chemoradiotherapy (CRT, n=30; 88%). Fourteen of the 34 patients (41%) had locoregional recurrence (LRR), of which half had LRR within six months of completion of PORT. The majority of PeSCC are intrinsically radioresistant with a low GARD-based therapeutic effect from PORT dose of 50Gy, consistent with the observed high rate of LRR in the clinical cohort. A GARD-based strategy will allow personalizing PORT dose prescription to individual tumor biology and improve outcomes.

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