Systemic inflammatory response and nutritional biomarkers as predictors of nivolumab efficacy for gastric cancer

PURPOSE: To investigate the usefulness of clinicopathological systemic inflammatory response and nutritional biomarkers for predicting the efficacy of nivolumab in patients with advanced gastric cancer.

METHODS: The subjects of this study were 29 patients who received nivolumab treatment for advanced gastric cancer at the Kochi Medical School between 2017 and 2019. Clinicopathological information, including systemic inflammatory response data, were obtained to investigate the associations between baseline cancer-related prognostic variables and survival outcomes.

RESULTS: Immune-related adverse events (irAEs) of any grade were identified in 34.5% (10/29) of the patients. The median progression-free survival of patients with irAEs was significantly greater than that of patients without irAEs (5.8 months vs. 1.2 months, respectively; P = 0.028). The neutrophil to lymphocyte ratio (NLR) after 4 weeks of treatment in the complete response (CR) or partial response (PR) group was significantly lower than that in the stable disease (SD) or progression disease (PD) group (2.2 vs. 2.9, respectively; P = 0.044). The prognostic nutrition index (PNI) before treatment in the CR or PR group was significantly higher than that in the SD or PD group (37.1 vs. 32.1, respectively; P = 0.011). The PNI 8 weeks after treatment and the Glasgow prognostic score (GPS) before treatment were significantly associated with a poor outcome.

CONCLUSION: The irAE, NLR, PNI, and GPS may be useful predictive markers for nivolumab efficacy in patients with advanced gastric cancer.

Medienart:

E-Artikel

Erscheinungsjahr:

2020

Erschienen:

2020

Enthalten in:

Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:50

Enthalten in:

Surgery today - 50(2020), 11 vom: 15. Nov., Seite 1486-1495

Sprache:

Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

Namikawa, Tsutomu [VerfasserIn]
Yokota, Keiichiro [VerfasserIn]
Tanioka, Nobuhisa [VerfasserIn]
Fukudome, Ian [VerfasserIn]
Iwabu, Jun [VerfasserIn]
Munekage, Masaya [VerfasserIn]
Uemura, Sunao [VerfasserIn]
Maeda, Hiromichi [VerfasserIn]
Kitagawa, Hiroyuki [VerfasserIn]
Kobayashi, Michiya [VerfasserIn]
Hanazaki, Kazuhiro [VerfasserIn]

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Themen:

31YO63LBSN
Antineoplastic Agents, Immunological
Gastric cancer
Immune checkpoint inhibitor
Immune-related adverse events
Journal Article
Neutrophil to lymphocyte ratio
Nivolumab
Prognostic nutrition index
Programmed death-1

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Date Completed 23.11.2020

Date Revised 23.11.2020

published: Print-Electronic

Citation Status MEDLINE

doi:

10.1007/s00595-020-02048-w

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PPN (Katalog-ID):

NLM311214053