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TALAPRO-2

The PARP-plus-hormone combination that eventually showed an overall survival benefit, in 2024-25.

805 all-comers: rPFS HR 0.63; HRR-mutant cohort rPFS HR 0.45. Final OS (2025) HR 0.80 all-comers, 0.62 HRR-mutant. FDA approval (2023) limited to HRR-mutant disease.

Setting
First-line mCRPC: enzalutamide + talazoparib vs enzalutamide + placebo (all-comers and HRR-mutant cohorts)
Phase
Phase 3
Sponsor
Pfizer
Registry
Headline result
rPFS HR 0.63 (ITT); OS HR 0.80 (ITT), 0.62 (HRR-mutant).
Reported
2023
Enrolled
805
Replication
Consistent with PROpel and MAGNITUDE; the only PARP + ARPI combination with a significant all-comer OS benefit.

Outcomes

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In plain words
What these results mean for people, not percentages
805 people took part
Radiographic progression-free survival, all comersprimarysurrogate endpoint
  • Median 21.9 months with Placebo + enzalutamide.
  • Talazoparib + enzalutamide: Median not reached.
  • "Not reached" means that, when the data were analysed, more than half of that group had not yet had the event, which is good news for that group.
  • A median is a midpoint: half the people did better than this and half did worse.
  • Put another way, the treated group had about 37 percent lower chance of the event at any given time (hazard ratio 0.63, likely range 0.51 to 0.78).
  • This is a surrogate endpoint: it measures the cancer being controlled or absent on scans and tests, which often, but not always, translates into living longer.
Overall survival, all comers (final)survival endpoint
  • Median 45.8 vs 37 months with Talazoparib + enzalutamide compared with Placebo + enzalutamide; about 8.8 months longer for half the group.
  • A median is a midpoint: half the people did better than this and half did worse, so it is not a prediction for any one person.
  • Put another way, the treated group had about 20 percent lower chance of the event at any given time (hazard ratio 0.8, likely range 0.66 to 0.96).
  • Overall survival counts deaths from any cause, so it is the most direct measure of whether a treatment helps people live longer.
Be careful
  • These results apply to the people the trial enrolled: First-line mCRPC: enzalutamide + talazoparib vs enzalutamide + placebo (all-comers and HRR-mutant cohorts). People in a different situation may not see the same effect.

Numbers are from the trial as recorded here; see the source links in the table below. This is orientation, not medical advice: ask your team how closely the trial population matches you.

805 participants enrolled.

Radiographic progression-free survival, all comersprimary
HR 0.63 (0.51–0.78) · p <0.0001
Talazoparib + enzalutamide
Median not reached
Placebo + enzalutamide
21.9 mo

Median not reached

Source
Overall survival, all comers (final)
HR 0.8 (0.66–0.96) · p = 0.016
Talazoparib + enzalutamide
45.8 mo
Placebo + enzalutamide
37 mo
Source
EndpointArmnValueHR (95% CI)pSource
Radiographic progression-free survival, all comersprimaryTalazoparib + enzalutamide402Median not reached0.63 (0.51–0.78)<0.0001link
Placebo + enzalutamide40321.9 months
Overall survival, all comers (final)Talazoparib + enzalutamide45.8 months0.8 (0.66–0.96)0.016link
Placebo + enzalutamide37 months
Replication
Consistent with PROpel and MAGNITUDE; the only PARP + ARPI combination with a significant all-comer OS benefit.

Connected

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