Immune-Related Thyroid Adverse Events Predict Response to PD-1 Blockade in Patients with Melanoma

Antibodies against programmed cell death protein-1 or its ligand (PD-(L)1) are a standard of care in melanoma; however, this treatment may cause immune-related adverse events. The aim of this study was to evaluate the immune-related thyroid adverse events (irTAEs) during anti-PD-1 therapy and analyze their influence on the overall survival rates in melanoma. We included 249 patients with metastatic melanoma treated in our institution between 2014 and 2021; the median age was 62 years (range: 17-90); 58% were males, and 37% of patients had the BRAF mutation. We included patients with a normal TSH at baseline and followed up with measurement of TSH levels during immunotherapy. In our group, 95 patients had a TSH outside the normal range: 63 not clinically significant and 32 with clinical symptoms of hypothyroidism. The 3-year overall survival rate was related to the irTAEs of clinical hypothyroidism, abnormal clinically not significant TSH, and euthyreosis at 56%, 43%, and 32%, respectively (p = 0.002). After adjusting the Cox model for potential confounding variables, clinically significant hypothyroidism was an independent prognostic factor with HR 0.51 (95% CI 0.29-0.87). In conclusion, the patients who developed clinically significant hypothyroidism requiring replacement therapy with L-thyroxin were the group who benefitted most from anti-PD-1 treatment.

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E-Artikel

Erscheinungsjahr:

2022

Erschienen:

2022

Enthalten in:

Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:14

Enthalten in:

Cancers - 14(2022), 5 vom: 28. Feb.

Sprache:

Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

Dawidowska, Anna [VerfasserIn]
Jagodzinska-Mucha, Paulina [VerfasserIn]
Koseła-Paterczyk, Hanna [VerfasserIn]
Jaczewska, Sylwia [VerfasserIn]
Sobczuk, Paweł [VerfasserIn]
Chelstowska, Monika [VerfasserIn]
Kowalska, Maria [VerfasserIn]
Badziak-Sterczewska, Honorata [VerfasserIn]
Poleszczuk, Jan [VerfasserIn]
Rutkowski, Piotr [VerfasserIn]
Lugowska, Iwona [VerfasserIn]

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Themen:

Endocrinopathies
Immune-related adverse event
Journal Article
Melanoma
Prognosis
Survival

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Date Revised 16.03.2022

published: Electronic

Citation Status PubMed-not-MEDLINE

doi:

10.3390/cancers14051248

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PPN (Katalog-ID):

NLM337984050