Shorter Survival in Malignant Pleural Mesothelioma Patients With High PD-L1 Expression Associated With Sarcomatoid or Biphasic Histology Subtype : A Series of 214 Cases From the Bio-MAPS Cohort

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BACKGROUND: Anticancer immune responses are negatively regulated by programmed cell death 1 (PD-1) T-cell membrane protein interaction with its ligand, programmed death ligand 1 (PD-L1), on cancer cells. We sought to assess the prognostic role of PD-L1 expression in tumor samples from patients enrolled onto the IFCT-0701 MAPS randomized phase 3 trial (NCT00651456).

PATIENTS AND METHODS: Tumor samples were analyzed by immunohistochemistry for percentages of PD-L1 membrane-stained tumor cells using the E1L3N clone, and data were correlated to survival by multivariate Cox models including stratification variables.

RESULTS: PD-L1 staining was assessed in 214 (47.75%) of 448 patients. Epithelioid subtype represented 83.7% (179/214). Absence of PD-L1 staining occurred in 137 (64.1%) of 214 malignant pleural mesothelioma (MPM) samples, while 77 (35.9%) of 214 were PD-L1 positive, with 50 (64.9%) of 77 showing < 50% PD-L1-expressing tumor cells. Sarcomatoid/biphasic subtypes were more commonly PD-L1 positive than epithelioid subtype (P < .001). In patients with 1% or more PD-L1-stained tumor cells, median overall survival (OS) was 12.3 months versus 22.2 months for other patients (hazard ratio [HR] = 1.25; 95% confidence interval [CI], 0.93-1.67; P = .14). OS did not differ according to PD-L1 positivity in multivariate analyses (adjusted HR = 1.10; 95% CI, 0.81-1.49; P = .55). With a 50% cutoff, PD-L1-positive patients displayed a 10.5 months median OS versus 19.3 months for patients with lower PD-L1 expression (HR = 1.93; 95% CI, 1.27-2.93; P = .002). OS did not significantly differ in adjusted Cox models (adjusted HR = 1.20; 95% CI, 0.74-1.94; P = .47). In the 179 epithelioid MPM patients, high PD-L1 staining (≥ 50% of tumor cells) negatively affected OS, although not significantly, showing a 12.3-month median OS (95% CI, 4.3-21.6) versus 23-month (95% CI, 18.5-25.2) for patients with tumor PD-L1 staining in < 50% cells (P = .071). The progression-free survival (PFS) differences were statistically significant, with a longer 9.9-month median PFS in patients with low PD-L1 staining (< 50% cells) compared to 6.7 months of median PFS in patients with high PD-L1 expression (≥ 50% cells) (P = .0047).

CONCLUSION: Although high PD-L1 tumor cell expression was associated with poorer OS in MPM patients from the MAPS trial, its prognostic influence was lost in multivariate analyses in the whole cohort, while PD-L1 expression was strongly associated with the sarcomatoid/biphasic subtypes. In the epithelioid MPM subset of patients, high PD-L1 tumor expression (≥ 50%) negatively affected OS and PFS, with this prognostic influence remaining statistically significant for PFS after adjustment in multivariate Cox model.

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E-Artikel

Erscheinungsjahr:

2019

Erschienen:

2019

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Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:20

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Clinical lung cancer - 20(2019), 5 vom: 01. Sept., Seite e564-e575

Sprache:

Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

Brosseau, Solenn [VerfasserIn]
Danel, Claire [VerfasserIn]
Scherpereel, Arnaud [VerfasserIn]
Mazières, Julien [VerfasserIn]
Lantuejoul, Sylvie [VerfasserIn]
Margery, Jacques [VerfasserIn]
Greillier, Laurent [VerfasserIn]
Audigier-Valette, Clarisse [VerfasserIn]
Gounant, Valérie [VerfasserIn]
Antoine, Martine [VerfasserIn]
Moro-Sibilot, Denis [VerfasserIn]
Rouquette, Isabelle [VerfasserIn]
Molinier, Olivier [VerfasserIn]
Corre, Romain [VerfasserIn]
Monnet, Isabelle [VerfasserIn]
Langlais, Alexandra [VerfasserIn]
Morin, Franck [VerfasserIn]
Bergot, Emmanuel [VerfasserIn]
Zalcman, Gérard [VerfasserIn]
Levallet, Guénaëlle [VerfasserIn]

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B7-H1 Antigen
CD274 protein, human
Clinical Trial, Phase III
Immune checkpoint inhibitors
Immunohistochemistry
Journal Article
PD-1
Prognosis
Randomized Controlled Trial
Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

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Date Completed 07.04.2020

Date Revised 18.12.2020

published: Print-Electronic

ClinicalTrials.gov: NCT00651456

Citation Status MEDLINE

doi:

10.1016/j.cllc.2019.04.010

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NLM298930862