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Correlation between immune-related adverse events and response to pembrolizumab in advanced melanoma patients
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  1. Antonio Maria Grimaldi1,
  2. Ester Simeone2,
  3. Lucia Festino2,
  4. Diana Giannarelli3,
  5. Marco Palla1,
  6. Corrado Caracò4,
  7. Marcello Curvietto2,
  8. Assunta Esposito2,
  9. Maria Chiara Grimaldi5,
  10. Nicola Mozzillo4 and
  11. Paolo A Ascierto6
  1. Aff1 Cancer Immunotherapy and Innovative Therapies Istituto Nazionale Tumori di Napoli Fondazione “G. Pascale”O.U. Melanoma Napoli Italy
  2. Aff2 Cancer Immunotherapy and Innovative Therapies Istituto Nazionale Tumori di Napoli FondazioneO.U. Melanoma Napoli Italy
  3. Aff3 grid.417520.50000000417605276Regina Elena National Cancer Institute, Rome Roma Italy
  4. Aff4 O.U. Melanoma and Sarcoma Surgery Istituto Nazionale Tumori di Napoli Fondazione “G. Pascale” Napoli Italy
  5. Aff5 grid.8142.f0000000109413192Catholic University of Sacred Heart Roma Italy
  6. Aff6 grid.417893.00000000108072568Istituto Nazionale Tumori Fondazione G. Pascale Naples Italy

https://doi.org/10.1186/2051-1426-3-S2-P186

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    Meeting abstracts

    Background

    Immunomodulation with pembrolizumab (anti-PD-1) has been shown to reach significant objective response (RR) and extend overall survival (OS) both in ipilimumab pre-treated and naive patients with metastatic melanoma. While this immunotherapy gives OS and OR benefits, it can also result in immune-related adverse events (irAEs) which are generally of low grade and easily manageable. We retrospectively evaluated if there was a correlation between occurrence of irAEs with OR and disease control rate (DCR).

    Methods

    Inside the expanded access program, pembrolizumab was given in patients progressing after ipilimumab at dosage of 2 mg/kg every 3 weeks until PD or unacceptable toxicity. At our Institution 47 patients (25M, 22F) were treated. The median age was 49 years (range 28-70). All patients were stage M1c. The median duration of treatment was of 4.5 months (range 1-8).

    Results

    At a median follow up of 3 months (range 1 – 8+), 11 (23.4%) pts had OR and 21 (44.7%) pts achieved DCR. In pts with grade 0/1 irAEs OR was 19.2% while in pts with grade ≥ 2 irAEs was 28.6%. OR was slightly higher among pts who experienced irAEs but the difference was not statistically significant (p = 0.45). Also DCR was slightly higher but not significant among those patients who experienced an irAEs (11/21, 52.4%) compared with those who did not (10/26, 38.5%) (p = 0.34). Among patients with grade 0/1 irAEs was observed 1 (3.8%) complete response (CR), 4 (15.4%) partial responses (PR), 5 (19.3%) stable disease (SD) and 16 (61.5%) progression of disease (PD), while in the group with irAEs was observed 1 (4.8%) CR, 5 (23.8%) PR, 5 (23.8%) SD and 10 (47.6%) PD.

    Conclusions

    OR and DCR with pembrolizumab are similarly observed among pts who develop irAEs or not. Thus, pts who do not experience an irAE have the same probability to reach clinical benefit with pembrolizumab than those who experienced irAEs