Putative Biomarkers of Clinical Benefit With Pembrolizumab in Advanced Urothelial Cancer : Results from the KEYNOTE-045 and KEYNOTE-052 Landmark Trials

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PURPOSE: In an exploratory analysis, we investigated the association between programmed death ligand 1 (PD-L1), tumor mutational burden (TMB), T-cell-inflamed gene expression profile (TcellinfGEP), and stromal signature with outcomes of pembrolizumab in urothelial carcinoma (UC).

PATIENTS AND METHODS: Patients with advanced UC received first-line pembrolizumab 200 mg every 3 weeks in the single-arm phase II KEYNOTE-052 trial (NCT02335424) and salvage pembrolizumab 200 mg every 3 weeks or chemotherapy (paclitaxel/docetaxel/vinflunine) in the randomized phase III KEYNOTE-045 trial (NCT02256436). The association of each biomarker (continuous variable) with objective response rate (ORR), progression-free survival (PFS), and overall survival (OS) was evaluated using logistic regression (ORR) and Cox PH (PFS, OS), adjusted for ECOG PS; nominal P values were calculated without multiplicity adjustment (one-sided, pembrolizumab; two-sided, chemotherapy). Significance was prespecified at α = 0.05.

RESULTS: In KEYNOTE-052, PD-L1, TMB, and TcellinfGEP were significantly associated with improved outcomes; stromal signature was significantly associated with worse outcomes. In KEYNOTE-045, although findings for TMB and TcellinfGEP with pembrolizumab were consistent with those of KEYNOTE-052, PD-L1 was not significantly associated with improved outcomes, nor was stromal signature associated with worse outcomes with pembrolizumab; chemotherapy was not associated with outcomes in a consistent manner for any of the biomarkers. Hazard ratio (HR) estimates at prespecified cutoffs showed an advantage for pembrolizumab versus chemotherapy regardless of PD-L1 or TMB, with a trend toward lower HRs in the combined positive score ≥10 and the TMB ≥175 mutation/exome subgroup. For TcellinfGEP, PFS and OS HRs were lower in the TcellinfGEP-nonlow subgroup regardless of treatment.

CONCLUSIONS: Multiple biomarkers characterizing the tumor microenvironment may help predict response to pembrolizumab monotherapy in UC, and potential clinical utility of these biomarkers may be context-dependent.

Errataetall:

CommentIn: J Urol. 2023 May;209(5):1025-1026. - PMID 37026649

Medienart:

E-Artikel

Erscheinungsjahr:

2022

Erschienen:

2022

Enthalten in:

Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:28

Enthalten in:

Clinical cancer research : an official journal of the American Association for Cancer Research - 28(2022), 10 vom: 13. Mai, Seite 2050-2060

Sprache:

Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

Bellmunt, Joaquim [VerfasserIn]
de Wit, Ronald [VerfasserIn]
Fradet, Yves [VerfasserIn]
Climent, Miguel A [VerfasserIn]
Petrylak, Daniel P [VerfasserIn]
Lee, Jae-Lyun [VerfasserIn]
Fong, Lawrence [VerfasserIn]
Necchi, Andrea [VerfasserIn]
Sternberg, Cora N [VerfasserIn]
O'Donnell, Peter H [VerfasserIn]
Powles, Thomas [VerfasserIn]
Plimack, Elizabeth R [VerfasserIn]
Bajorin, Dean F [VerfasserIn]
Balar, Arjun V [VerfasserIn]
Castellano, Daniel [VerfasserIn]
Choueiri, Toni K [VerfasserIn]
Culine, Stephane [VerfasserIn]
Gerritsen, Winald [VerfasserIn]
Gurney, Howard [VerfasserIn]
Quinn, David I [VerfasserIn]
Vuky, Jacqueline [VerfasserIn]
Vogelzang, Nicholas J [VerfasserIn]
Cristescu, Razvan [VerfasserIn]
Lunceford, Jared [VerfasserIn]
Saadatpour, Assieh [VerfasserIn]
Loboda, Andrey [VerfasserIn]
Ma, Junshui [VerfasserIn]
Rajasagi, Mohini [VerfasserIn]
Godwin, James Luke [VerfasserIn]
Homet Moreno, Blanca [VerfasserIn]
Grivas, Petros [VerfasserIn]

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Themen:

Antibodies, Monoclonal, Humanized
B7-H1 Antigen
Biomarkers, Tumor
Clinical Trial, Phase III
DPT0O3T46P
Journal Article
Pembrolizumab
Randomized Controlled Trial
Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

Anmerkungen:

Date Completed 17.05.2022

Date Revised 21.04.2023

published: Print

ClinicalTrials.gov: NCT02335424, NCT02256436

CommentIn: J Urol. 2023 May;209(5):1025-1026. - PMID 37026649

Citation Status MEDLINE

doi:

10.1158/1078-0432.CCR-21-3089

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PPN (Katalog-ID):

NLM337789827