Immune checkpoint inhibitor therapy and outcomes from SARS-CoV-2 infection in patients with cancer : a joint analysis of OnCovid and ESMO-CoCARE registries

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BACKGROUND: As management and prevention strategies against COVID-19 evolve, it is still uncertain whether prior exposure to immune checkpoint inhibitors (ICIs) affects COVID-19 severity in patients with cancer.

METHODS: In a joint analysis of ICI recipients from OnCovid (NCT04393974) and European Society for Medical Oncology (ESMO) CoCARE registries, we assessed severity and mortality from SARS-CoV-2 in vaccinated and unvaccinated patients with cancer and explored whether prior immune-related adverse events (irAEs) influenced outcome from COVID-19.

FINDINGS: The study population consisted of 240 patients diagnosed with COVID-19 between January 2020 and February 2022 exposed to ICI within 3 months prior to COVID-19 diagnosis, with a 30-day case fatality rate (CFR30) of 23.6% (95% CI 17.8 to 30.7%). Overall, 42 (17.5%) were fully vaccinated prior to COVID-19 and experienced decreased CFR30 (4.8% vs 28.1%, p=0.0009), hospitalization rate (27.5% vs 63.2%, p<0.0001), requirement of oxygen therapy (15.8% vs 41.5%, p=0.0030), COVID-19 complication rate (11.9% vs 34.6%, p=0.0040), with a reduced need for COVID-19-specific therapy (26.3% vs 57.9%, p=0.0004) compared with unvaccinated patients. Inverse probability of treatment weighting (IPTW)-fitted multivariable analysis, following a clustered-robust correction for the data source (OnCovid vs ESMO CoCARE), confirmed that vaccinated patients experienced a decreased risk of death at 30 days (adjusted OR, aOR 0.08, 95% CI 0.01 to 0.69).Overall, 38 patients (15.8%) experienced at least one irAE of any grade at any time prior to COVID-19, at a median time of 3.2 months (range 0.13-48.7) from COVID-19 diagnosis. IrAEs occurred independently of baseline characteristics except for primary tumor (p=0.0373) and were associated with a significantly decreased CFR30 (10.8% vs 26.0%, p=0.0462) additionally confirmed by the IPTW-fitted multivariable analysis (aOR 0.47, 95% CI 0.33 to 0.67). Patients who experienced irAEs also presented a higher median absolute lymphocyte count at COVID-19 (1.4 vs 0.8 109 cells/L, p=0.0098).

CONCLUSION: Anti-SARS-CoV-2 vaccination reduces morbidity and mortality from COVID-19 in ICI recipients. History of irAEs might identify patients with pre-existing protection from COVID-19, warranting further investigation of adaptive immune determinants of protection from SARS-CoV-2.

Medienart:

E-Artikel

Erscheinungsjahr:

2022

Erschienen:

2022

Enthalten in:

Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:10

Enthalten in:

Journal for immunotherapy of cancer - 10(2022), 11 vom: 30. Nov.

Sprache:

Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

Cortellini, Alessio [VerfasserIn]
Dettorre, Gino M [VerfasserIn]
Dafni, Urania [VerfasserIn]
Aguilar-Company, Juan [VerfasserIn]
Castelo-Branco, Luis [VerfasserIn]
Lambertini, Matteo [VerfasserIn]
Gennatas, Spyridon [VerfasserIn]
Angelis, Vasileios [VerfasserIn]
Sita-Lumsden, Ailsa [VerfasserIn]
Rogado, Jacobo [VerfasserIn]
Pedrazzoli, Paolo [VerfasserIn]
Viñal, David [VerfasserIn]
Prat, Aleix [VerfasserIn]
Rossi, Maura [VerfasserIn]
Berardi, Rossana [VerfasserIn]
Alonso-Gordoa, Teresa [VerfasserIn]
Grisanti, Salvatore [VerfasserIn]
Dimopoulou, Georgia [VerfasserIn]
Queirolo, Paola [VerfasserIn]
Pradervand, Sylvain [VerfasserIn]
Bertuzzi, Alexia [VerfasserIn]
Bower, Mark [VerfasserIn]
Arnold, Dirk [VerfasserIn]
Salazar, Ramon [VerfasserIn]
Tucci, Marco [VerfasserIn]
Harrington, Kevin J [VerfasserIn]
Mazzoni, Francesca [VerfasserIn]
Mukherjee, Uma [VerfasserIn]
Tsourti, Zoi [VerfasserIn]
Michielin, Olivier [VerfasserIn]
Pommeret, Fanny [VerfasserIn]
Brunet, Joan [VerfasserIn]
Vincenzi, Bruno [VerfasserIn]
Tonini, Giuseppe [VerfasserIn]
Patriarca, Andrea [VerfasserIn]
Biello, Federica [VerfasserIn]
Krengli, Marco [VerfasserIn]
Tabernero, Josep [VerfasserIn]
Pentheroudakis, George [VerfasserIn]
Gennari, Alessandra [VerfasserIn]
Peters, Solange [VerfasserIn]
Romano, Emanuela [VerfasserIn]
Pinato, David J [VerfasserIn]

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Themen:

COVID-19
Cytotoxicity, Immunologic
Immune Checkpoint Inhibitors
Immunogenicity, Vaccine
Immunotherapy
Journal Article
Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't
Vaccination

Anmerkungen:

Date Completed 02.12.2022

Date Revised 13.12.2022

published: Print

ClinicalTrials.gov: NCT04393974

Citation Status MEDLINE

doi:

10.1136/jitc-2022-005732

funding:

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PPN (Katalog-ID):

NLM349630720