Refining patient selection for next-generation immunotherapeutic early-phase clinical trials with a novel and externally validated prognostic nomogram

Copyright © 2024 Losurdo, Dipasquale, Giordano, Persico, Lorenzi, Di Muzio, Barigazzi, Korolewicz, Mehan, Mohammed, Scheiner, Pinato, Santoro and Simonelli..

Introduction: Identifying which patient may benefit from immunotherapeutic early-phase clinical trials is an unmet need in drug development. Among several proposed prognostic scores, none has been validated in patients receiving immunomodulating agents (IMAs)-based combinations.

Patients and methods: We retrospectively collected data of 208 patients enrolled in early-phase clinical trials investigating IMAs at our Institution, correlating clinical and blood-based variables with overall survival (OS). A retrospective cohort of 50 patients treated with IMAs at Imperial College (Hammersmith Hospital, London, UK) was used for validation.

Results: A total of 173 subjects were selected for analyses. Most frequent cancers included non-small cell lung cancer (26%), hepatocellular carcinoma (21.5%) and glioblastoma (13%). Multivariate analysis (MVA) revealed 3 factors to be independently associated with OS: line of treatment (second and third vs subsequent, HR 0.61, 95% CI 0.40-0.93, p 0.02), serum albumin as continuous variable (HR 0.57, 95% CI 0.36-0.91, p 0.02) and number of metastatic sites (<3 vs ≥3, HR 0.68, 95% CI 0.48-0.98, p 0.04). After splitting albumin value at the median (3.84 g/dL), a score system was capable of stratifying patients in 3 groups with significantly different OS (p<0.0001). Relationship with OS reproduced in the external cohort (p=0.008). Then, from these factors we built a nomogram.

Conclusions: Prior treatment, serum albumin and number of metastatic sites are readily available prognostic traits in patients with advanced malignancies participating into immunotherapy early-phase trials. Combination of these factors can optimize patient selection at study enrollment, maximizing therapeutic intent.

Medienart:

E-Artikel

Erscheinungsjahr:

2024

Erschienen:

2024

Enthalten in:

Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:15

Enthalten in:

Frontiers in immunology - 15(2024) vom: 01., Seite 1323151

Sprache:

Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

Losurdo, Agnese [VerfasserIn]
Dipasquale, Angelo [VerfasserIn]
Giordano, Laura [VerfasserIn]
Persico, Pasquale [VerfasserIn]
Lorenzi, Elena [VerfasserIn]
Di Muzio, Antonio [VerfasserIn]
Barigazzi, Chiara [VerfasserIn]
Korolewicz, James [VerfasserIn]
Mehan, Aman [VerfasserIn]
Mohammed, Oreoluwa [VerfasserIn]
Scheiner, Benhard [VerfasserIn]
Pinato, David J [VerfasserIn]
Santoro, Armando [VerfasserIn]
Simonelli, Matteo [VerfasserIn]

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Themen:

Early-phases clinical trials
Immune-related adverse events
Immunotherapy
Journal Article
Next-generations immunotherapies
Prognostic scores
Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't
Serum Albumin

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Date Completed 02.02.2024

Date Revised 04.04.2024

published: Electronic-eCollection

Citation Status MEDLINE

doi:

10.3389/fimmu.2024.1323151

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PPN (Katalog-ID):

NLM367874962