Nutritional index for immune-checkpoint inhibitor in patients with metastatic gastro-esophageal junction/gastric cancer

2022 Journal of Gastrointestinal Oncology. All rights reserved..

Background: Nutritional status is strongly associated to prognosis in metastatic gastrooesophageal junction (mGOJ)/gastric cancer (GC) patients. The aim of the present study was to develop an immune-checkpoint inhibitor (ICI)-specific nutritional index (NI).

Methods: Ten serum and anthropometric nutritional markers derived from blood tests or CT scans were analyzed at baseline in patients treated with second-line ICI and correlated with overall survival (OS). An ICI-specific NI (the NUTRIICI) was developed with its specificity assessed in an independent group of patients treated with standard second-line chemotherapy.

Results: From June 2014 to December 2018, 57 mGOJ/GC patients (14 females, 43 males) with a median(m) age of 61 years (range 29-85) received ICI as second-line therapy (Pembrolizumab n=26, Nivolumab n=16, Avelumab n=15). Among the 10 analyzed variables, Onodera's prognostic NI (PNI) ≤33 and waist-to-hip (WHR) <1 were independent predictors of OS and used to build the NUTRIICI. Patients with both favorable factors (i.e., PNI >33 and WHR ≥1, comparator group) had a mOS of 18.0 vs. 6.7 months of patients with one unfavorable factor (either PNI ≤33 or WHR <1, Hazard Ratio, HR 3.06), vs. 1.3 months of patients with both unfavorable factors (HR 17.56), overall P<0.0001. In the independent group of patients treated with standard chemotherapy NUTRIICI was not associated with prognosis (P=0.57).

Conclusions: NUTRIICI is the first ICI-specific NI for mOGJ/GC patients receiving second-line ICI. A validation in larger cohorts is strongly encouraged.

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E-Artikel

Erscheinungsjahr:

2022

Erschienen:

2022

Enthalten in:

Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:13

Enthalten in:

Journal of gastrointestinal oncology - 13(2022), 5 vom: 10. Okt., Seite 2072-2081

Sprache:

Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

Morelli, Cristina [VerfasserIn]
Formica, Vincenzo [VerfasserIn]
Patrikidou, Anna [VerfasserIn]
Rofei, Michela [VerfasserIn]
Shiu, Kai Keen [VerfasserIn]
Riondino, Silvia [VerfasserIn]
Argirò, Renato [VerfasserIn]
Floris, Roberto [VerfasserIn]
Ferlosio, Amedeo [VerfasserIn]
Orlandi, Augusto [VerfasserIn]
Roselli, Mario [VerfasserIn]
Arkenau, Hendrik-Tobias [VerfasserIn]

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Themen:

Gastric cancer
Immunotherapy
Journal Article
Nutrition

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Date Revised 19.11.2022

published: Print

Citation Status PubMed-not-MEDLINE

doi:

10.21037/jgo-22-217

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PPN (Katalog-ID):

NLM349020213