Comparative safety and effectiveness of TNF inhibitors, IL6 inhibitors and methotrexate for the treatment of immune checkpoint inhibitor-associated arthritis

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OBJECTIVES: To compare the safety and effectiveness of biologic and conventional disease-modifying antirheumatic drugs (DMARDs) for immune checkpoint inhibitor-associated inflammatory arthritis (ICI-IA).

METHODS: The retrospective multicentre observational study included patients with a diagnosis of ICI-IA treated with a tumour necrosis factor inhibitor (TNFi), interleukin-6 receptor inhibitor (IL6Ri) and/or methotrexate (MTX); patients with pre-existing autoimmune disease were excluded. The primary outcome was time to cancer progression from ICI initiation; the secondary outcome was time to arthritis control from DMARD initiation. Cox proportional hazard models were used to compare medication groups, adjusting for confounders.

RESULTS: 147 patients were included (mean age 60.3 (SD 11.9) years, 66 (45%) women). ICI-IA treatment was TNFi in 33 (22%), IL6Ri 42 (29%) and MTX 72 (49%). After adjustment for time from ICI initiation to DMARD initiation, time to cancer progression was significantly shorter for TNFi compared with MTX (HR 3.27 (95% CI 1.21 to 8.84, p=0.019)) while the result for IL6Ri was HR 2.37 (95% CI 0.94 to 5.98, p=0.055). Time to arthritis control was faster for TNFi compared with MTX (HR 1.91 (95% CI 1.06 to 3.45, p=0.032)) while the result for IL6Ri was HR 1.66 (95% CI 0.93 to 2.97, p=0.089). A subset analysis in patients with melanoma gave similar results for both cancer progression and arthritis control.

CONCLUSION: The treatment of ICI-IA with a biologic DMARD is associated with more rapid arthritis control than with MTX, but may be associated with a shorter time to cancer progression.

Medienart:

E-Artikel

Erscheinungsjahr:

2023

Erschienen:

2023

Enthalten in:

Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:82

Enthalten in:

Annals of the rheumatic diseases - 82(2023), 7 vom: 26. Juli, Seite 920-926

Sprache:

Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

Bass, Anne R [VerfasserIn]
Abdel-Wahab, Noha [VerfasserIn]
Reid, Pankti D [VerfasserIn]
Sparks, Jeffrey A [VerfasserIn]
Calabrese, Cassandra [VerfasserIn]
Jannat-Khah, Deanna P [VerfasserIn]
Ghosh, Nilasha [VerfasserIn]
Rajesh, Divya [VerfasserIn]
Aude, Carlos Andres [VerfasserIn]
Gedmintas, Lydia [VerfasserIn]
MacFarlane, Lindsey [VerfasserIn]
Arabelovic, Senada [VerfasserIn]
Falohun, Adewunmi [VerfasserIn]
Mushtaq, Komal [VerfasserIn]
Haj, Farah Al [VerfasserIn]
Diab, Adi [VerfasserIn]
Shah, Ami A [VerfasserIn]
Bingham, Clifton O [VerfasserIn]
Chan, Karmela Kim [VerfasserIn]
Cappelli, Laura C [VerfasserIn]

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Themen:

Antirheumatic Agents
Arthritis
Biological Products
Biological therapy
Comparative Study
Immune Checkpoint Inhibitors
Interleukin-6 Inhibitors
Journal Article
Methotrexate
Multicenter Study
Observational Study
Outcome assessment, health care
Research Support, N.I.H., Extramural
Tumor Necrosis Factor Inhibitors
Tumor Necrosis Factor-alpha
Tumor necrosis factor inhibitors
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Date Completed 22.06.2023

Date Revised 12.07.2023

published: Print-Electronic

Citation Status MEDLINE

doi:

10.1136/ard-2023-223885

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PPN (Katalog-ID):

NLM355243202