Clinicopathologic features associated with efficacy and long-term survival in metastatic melanoma patients treated with BRAF or combined BRAF and MEK inhibitors

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BACKGROUND: The degree of response and the duration of survival of patients treated with mitogen-activated protein kinase (MAPK) inhibitors are highly variable. Whether baseline clinicopathologic factors can predict the clinical course with treatment is largely unknown.

METHODS: For 142 consecutive immunotherapy- and MAPK inhibitor-naive patients with BRAF-mutant metastatic melanoma who were treated during clinical trials with BRAF inhibitors (n = 111) or a combination of dabrafenib and trametinib (n = 31), clinicopathologic factors were correlated with the response to MAPK inhibitors and survival.

RESULTS: The median follow-up was 15.7 months (range, 0.6-60.5 months). The 2-, 3-, and 4-year overall survival (OS) rates were 43%, 24%, and 24%, respectively. A multivariate analysis demonstrated that the only clinicopathologic factors associated with longer progression-free survival (PFS) and OS were female sex and a normal pretreatment serum lactate dehydrogenase (LDH) level. The BRAF V600E genotype and an absence of primary melanoma ulceration were also independently associated with longer PFS but not OS. The median OS was 23.5 months for patients with normal LDH levels and 7.3 months for those with elevated LDH levels (hazard ratio, 0.31; P < .001). Complete responders had the best survival, but disease progression still occurred in 2 of 7 patients.

CONCLUSIONS: Long-term survival occurs for a minority of patients receiving MAPK inhibitor treatment alone. Sex, serum LDH, BRAF genotype, and primary melanoma ulceration status are independent factors associated with treatment outcomes. Patients with a complete response to treatment have the best survival, but relapses still occur.

Medienart:

E-Artikel

Erscheinungsjahr:

2015

Erschienen:

2015

Enthalten in:

Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:121

Enthalten in:

Cancer - 121(2015), 21 vom: 01. Nov., Seite 3826-35

Sprache:

Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

Menzies, Alexander M [VerfasserIn]
Wilmott, James S [VerfasserIn]
Drummond, Martin [VerfasserIn]
Lo, Serigne [VerfasserIn]
Lyle, Megan [VerfasserIn]
Chan, Matthew M K [VerfasserIn]
Thompson, John F [VerfasserIn]
Guminski, Alex [VerfasserIn]
Carlino, Matteo S [VerfasserIn]
Scolyer, Richard A [VerfasserIn]
Kefford, Richard F [VerfasserIn]
Long, Georgina V [VerfasserIn]

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Themen:

207SMY3FQT
33E86K87QN
Antineoplastic Agents
BRAF
Biomarker
Biomarkers, Tumor
Comparative Study
Dabrafenib
EC 1.1.1.27
EC 2.7.11.1
EC 2.7.11.25
Imidazoles
Indoles
Inhibitor
Journal Article
L-Lactate Dehydrogenase
Lactate dehydrogenase (LDH)
MAP Kinase Kinase Kinases
Melanoma
Oximes
Protein Kinase Inhibitors
Proto-Oncogene Proteins B-raf
Pyridones
Pyrimidinones
QGP4HA4G1B
Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't
Sulfonamides
Survival
Trametinib
Vemurafenib

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Date Completed 11.02.2016

Date Revised 22.12.2020

published: Print-Electronic

Citation Status MEDLINE

doi:

10.1002/cncr.29586

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PPN (Katalog-ID):

NLM251309509