Toxicity profiles of immune checkpoint inhibitors for recurrent or metastatic head and neck squamous cell carcinoma : A systematic review and meta-analysis

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BACKGROUND: Immune checkpoint inhibitors (ICIs) are widely used in recurrent or metastatic head and neck squamous cell carcinoma (R/M HNSCC); however, the toxicity profiles are inconclusive.

METHODS: Clinical trials evaluating ICIs for R/M HNSCC were searched from online databases. The characteristics of the studies and the results of incidences of any grade treatment-related adverse events (trAEs), grade three or more trAEs, treatment-related deaths, trAEs leading to discontinuation of treatment, and specific trAEs were extracted.

RESULTS: Twenty studies with 3756 patients were included. The pooled incidences of any grade trAEs, grade three or more trAEs, treatment-related deaths, trAEs leading to discontinuation of treatment for overall population were 62.07% (95% CI, 59.07%-65.02%), 13.82% (95% CI, 11.23%-16.62%), 0.39% (95% CI, 0.15%-0.71%), 3.99% (95% CI, 2.36%-5.95%), respectively. Programmed cell death protein 1 (PD-1) inhibitors monotherapy and ICIs combination therapy had significantly higher incidences of any grade trAEs (odds ratio [OR], 1.25, 95% CI, 1.05-1.49 and 1.36, 95% CI, 1.15-1.60, respectively), grade three or more trAEs (OR, 1.41, 95% CI, 1.08-1.84 and 1.79, 95% CI, 1.39-2.30, respectively), trAEs leading to discontinuation of treatment (OR, 3.98, 95% CI, 2.06-7.70 and 10.14, 95% CI, 5.49-18.70, respectively) compared with programmed death-ligand 1 (PD-L1) inhibitors monotherapy. ICIs combination therapy had a significantly higher incidence of grade three or more trAEs compared with PD-1 inhibitors monotherapy (OR, 1.27, 95% CI, 1.03-1.55); however, the incidences of any grade trAEs and trAEs leading to discontinuation of treatment were not significant different.

CONCLUSIONS: Our study suggests that the incidences of grade three or more trAEs, treatment-related deaths, and trAEs leading to discontinuation of treatment are low in R/M HNSCC patients treated with ICIs. PD-L1 inhibitors monotherapy may be safer compared with PD-1 inhibitors monotherapy and ICIs combination therapy.

Medienart:

E-Artikel

Erscheinungsjahr:

2024

Erschienen:

2024

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Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:13

Enthalten in:

Cancer medicine - 13(2024), 7 vom: 29. Apr., Seite e7119

Sprache:

Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

Dang, Shoutao [VerfasserIn]
Li, Xinyu [VerfasserIn]
Liu, Heshu [VerfasserIn]
Zhang, Shuyang [VerfasserIn]
Li, Wei [VerfasserIn]

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Themen:

B7-H1 Antigen
Head and neck squamous cell carcinoma
Immune Checkpoint Inhibitors
Immune checkpoint inhibitors
Journal Article
Meta‐analysis
Meta-Analysis
Systematic Review
Treatment‐related adverse events

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Date Completed 01.04.2024

Date Revised 09.04.2024

published: Print

Citation Status MEDLINE

doi:

10.1002/cam4.7119

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PPN (Katalog-ID):

NLM370434676