Outcome of patients with advanced upper tract urothelial carcinoma treated with immune checkpoint inhibitors: A systematic review and meta-analysis.

Immune checkpoint inhibitors Immunogenicity Renal pelvis UTUC Upper tract urothelial cancer Urothelial cancer

Journal

Critical reviews in oncology/hematology
ISSN: 1879-0461
Titre abrégé: Crit Rev Oncol Hematol
Pays: Netherlands
ID NLM: 8916049

Informations de publication

Date de publication:
Mar 2021
Historique:
received: 12 10 2020
revised: 06 01 2021
accepted: 20 01 2021
pubmed: 6 2 2021
medline: 9 3 2021
entrez: 5 2 2021
Statut: ppublish

Résumé

Advanced upper tract urothelial carcinoma (UTUC) has different molecular and genetic features from the commonest carcinoma of the bladder, suggesting a possible different sensitivity to immune-checkpoint inhibitors (ICI). A systematic review and meta-analysis of all relevant clinical studies including advanced UTUC patients treated with ICI was conducted according to PRISMA guidelines. Six prospective trials for a total 2537 patients, including 396 (15.6 %) with advanced UTUC, were eligible for the analysis. In UTUC patients, the pooled ORR was 21.2 % (95 % CI, 12.5 %-33.7 %); the risk of death was reduced by 24 % over the standard platinum-based chemotherapy, but this was not statistically significant (hazard ratio = 0.76; 95 % confidence interval, 0.41-1.40; p = 0.37, χ2 = 3.28, p = 0.07; I2 = 70 %). The current evidence does not support a statistically significant effect from ICI over the standard treatment for advanced UTUC patients. Properly performed pre-planned subgroup analyses from randomized clinical trials are eagerly awaited.

Sections du résumé

BACKGROUND BACKGROUND
Advanced upper tract urothelial carcinoma (UTUC) has different molecular and genetic features from the commonest carcinoma of the bladder, suggesting a possible different sensitivity to immune-checkpoint inhibitors (ICI).
METHODS METHODS
A systematic review and meta-analysis of all relevant clinical studies including advanced UTUC patients treated with ICI was conducted according to PRISMA guidelines.
RESULTS RESULTS
Six prospective trials for a total 2537 patients, including 396 (15.6 %) with advanced UTUC, were eligible for the analysis. In UTUC patients, the pooled ORR was 21.2 % (95 % CI, 12.5 %-33.7 %); the risk of death was reduced by 24 % over the standard platinum-based chemotherapy, but this was not statistically significant (hazard ratio = 0.76; 95 % confidence interval, 0.41-1.40; p = 0.37, χ2 = 3.28, p = 0.07; I2 = 70 %).
CONCLUSIONS CONCLUSIONS
The current evidence does not support a statistically significant effect from ICI over the standard treatment for advanced UTUC patients. Properly performed pre-planned subgroup analyses from randomized clinical trials are eagerly awaited.

Identifiants

pubmed: 33545355
pii: S1040-8428(21)00029-9
doi: 10.1016/j.critrevonc.2021.103241
pii:
doi:

Substances chimiques

Immune Checkpoint Inhibitors 0

Types de publication

Journal Article Meta-Analysis Review Systematic Review

Langues

eng

Sous-ensembles de citation

IM

Pagination

103241

Informations de copyright

Copyright © 2021. Published by Elsevier B.V.

Auteurs

Melissa Bersanelli (M)

Medicine and Surgery Department, University of Parma, Parma, Italy; Medical Oncology Unit, University Hospital of Parma, Parma, Italy. Electronic address: bersamel@libero.it.

Sebastiano Buti (S)

Medical Oncology Unit, University Hospital of Parma, Parma, Italy.

Patrizia Giannatempo (P)

Fondazione IRCCS Istituto Nazionale dei Tumori, Milan, Italy.

Daniele Raggi (D)

Fondazione IRCCS Istituto Nazionale dei Tumori, Milan, Italy.

Andrea Necchi (A)

Fondazione IRCCS Istituto Nazionale dei Tumori, Milan, Italy.

Alessandro Leonetti (A)

Medicine and Surgery Department, University of Parma, Parma, Italy; Medical Oncology Unit, University Hospital of Parma, Parma, Italy.

Giuseppe Luigi Banna (GL)

Portsmouth Hospitals NHS Trust, Portsmouth, UK.

Fausto Petrelli (F)

Medical Oncology Unit, ASST Bergamo Ovest, Treviglio, BG, Italy.

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