Comparative efficacy of chemoimmunotherapy versus immunotherapy for advanced non-small cell lung cancer : A network meta-analysis of randomized trials

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BACKGROUND: To the authors' knowledge, in the absence of head-to-head trials, it is unclear whether chemoimmunotherapy provides an additional overall survival (OS) benefit compared with immunotherapy alone in the first-line treatment of patients with advanced non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC). The authors conducted a systematic literature review and network meta-analysis (NMA) to compare the efficacy of chemoimmunotherapy versus ICI.

METHODS: MEDLINE, Excerpta Medica dataBASE (EMBASE), Cochrane Central Register of Controlled Trials, and ClinicalTrials.gov were searched from inception to April 2020. Phase 3 trials evaluating the efficacy of first-line ICI or chemoimmunotherapy and reporting efficacy outcomes (OS, progression-free survival [PFS], and the overall response rate [ORR]) stratified by programmed death-ligand 1 (PD-L1) status were included. NMA with a Bayesian random effects model was performed.

RESULTS: A total of 12 eligible trials comprising 7845 patients were included. In patients who were negative for PD-L1 (tumor proportion score [TPS] <1%), NMA comparing chemoimmunotherapy with dual-agent ICI failed to demonstrate a statistically significant difference with regard to OS, PFS, or the ORR. In patients with low PD-L1 (TPS 1%-49%), there was no statistically significant difference observed between chemoimmunotherapy compared with either single-agent ICI or dual-agent ICI with regard to OS or the ORR. In patients with high PD-L1 (TPS ≥50%), chemoimmunotherapy was found to be associated with an improved PFS and ORR compared with single-agent ICI, but not with dual-agent ICI. No differences in OS were observed with chemoimmunotherapy when compared with either single-agent or dual-agent ICIs.

CONCLUSIONS: Although chemoimmunotherapy appears to improve the ORR and PFS in patients with PD-L1-high tumors when compared with single-agent ICI, it does not appear to confer an OS benefit over single-agent or dual-agent ICI for patients with advanced NSCLC regardless of PD-L1 status. Prospective trials are needed to validate these findings.

Medienart:

E-Artikel

Erscheinungsjahr:

2021

Erschienen:

2021

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Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:127

Enthalten in:

Cancer - 127(2021), 5 vom: 01. März, Seite 709-719

Sprache:

Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

Pathak, Ranjan [VerfasserIn]
De Lima Lopes, Gilberto [VerfasserIn]
Yu, Han [VerfasserIn]
Aryal, Madan Raj [VerfasserIn]
Ji, Wenyan [VerfasserIn]
Frumento, Katherine Stemmer [VerfasserIn]
Wallis, Christopher J D [VerfasserIn]
Klaassen, Zachary [VerfasserIn]
Park, Henry S [VerfasserIn]
Goldberg, Sarah B [VerfasserIn]

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Themen:

B7-H1 Antigen
CD274 protein, human
Combination
Comparative Study
Drug therapy
Immune Checkpoint Inhibitors
Immunotherapy
Journal Article
Meta-analysis
Network
Non-small cell lung carcinoma
Programmed cell death protein 1 receptor/antagonists and inhibitors
Survival analysis
Systematic review

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Date Completed 15.10.2021

Date Revised 15.10.2021

published: Print-Electronic

Citation Status MEDLINE

doi:

10.1002/cncr.33269

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PPN (Katalog-ID):

NLM316877387