Utility of Established Prognostic Scoring Systems for Patients with Advanced Pancreatic Adenocarcinoma Enrolled in Immunotherapy-Based Early-Phase Clinical Trials.

Clinical trials Immunotherapy Outcomes Pancreatic cancer Prognostic scores

Journal

Journal of gastrointestinal cancer
ISSN: 1941-6636
Titre abrégé: J Gastrointest Cancer
Pays: United States
ID NLM: 101479627

Informations de publication

Date de publication:
29 Apr 2023
Historique:
accepted: 19 03 2023
medline: 29 4 2023
pubmed: 29 4 2023
entrez: 29 4 2023
Statut: aheadofprint

Résumé

Pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma (PDAC) is a lethal malignancy for which multiagent chemotherapy is the mainstay of treatment resulting in limited survival and symptomatic benefit. Treatment with immune checkpoint inhibitors (ICI) has proven effective in a growing number of solid tumors but has yet to show clinical benefit in patients with PDAC. Given the growing number of ICI-based clinical trials in development for patients with PDAC and lack of clinical benefit thus far with ICI-based therapies in these patients, we sought to (1) determine the outcomes of patients with PDAC treated with ICI-based therapies as part of an early phase clinical trial, (2) validate the utility of established prognostic scoring systems, and (3) identify novel prognostic factors in an attempt to better identify patients that would benefit from enrollment onto an ICI-based early phase clinical trial. We conducted a single-center retrospective analysis of patients with advanced PDAC who were treated with ICI-based therapy as part of an early-phase clinical trial. Patients were only able to stay on study for a limited time due to disease progression and/or a change in performance status and had a poor overall survival. Established prognostic scoring systems were not effective in predicting outcomes in this patient population, but factors such as pre-treatment albumin neutrophil to lymphocyte ratio (NLC) may be helpful in patient selection. This study underscores the need for larger studies to help identify patient and tumor intrinsic factors that predict response to ICI-based therapies in patients with PDAC.

Sections du résumé

BACKGROUND BACKGROUND
Pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma (PDAC) is a lethal malignancy for which multiagent chemotherapy is the mainstay of treatment resulting in limited survival and symptomatic benefit. Treatment with immune checkpoint inhibitors (ICI) has proven effective in a growing number of solid tumors but has yet to show clinical benefit in patients with PDAC. Given the growing number of ICI-based clinical trials in development for patients with PDAC and lack of clinical benefit thus far with ICI-based therapies in these patients, we sought to (1) determine the outcomes of patients with PDAC treated with ICI-based therapies as part of an early phase clinical trial, (2) validate the utility of established prognostic scoring systems, and (3) identify novel prognostic factors in an attempt to better identify patients that would benefit from enrollment onto an ICI-based early phase clinical trial.
METHODS METHODS
We conducted a single-center retrospective analysis of patients with advanced PDAC who were treated with ICI-based therapy as part of an early-phase clinical trial.
RESULTS RESULTS
Patients were only able to stay on study for a limited time due to disease progression and/or a change in performance status and had a poor overall survival. Established prognostic scoring systems were not effective in predicting outcomes in this patient population, but factors such as pre-treatment albumin neutrophil to lymphocyte ratio (NLC) may be helpful in patient selection.
CONCLUSIONS CONCLUSIONS
This study underscores the need for larger studies to help identify patient and tumor intrinsic factors that predict response to ICI-based therapies in patients with PDAC.

Identifiants

pubmed: 37119430
doi: 10.1007/s12029-023-00930-7
pii: 10.1007/s12029-023-00930-7
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Types de publication

Journal Article

Langues

eng

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© 2023. The Author(s), under exclusive licence to Springer Science+Business Media, LLC, part of Springer Nature.

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Auteurs

Rishi Surana (R)

Department of Medical Oncology, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Boston, MA, USA.

Graciela Nogueras Gonzalez (GN)

Department of Biostatistics, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX, USA.

Jane Rogers (J)

Pharmacy Clinical Programs, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX, USA.

David S Hong (DS)

Department of Investigational Cancer Therapeutics, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX, USA.

Timothy A Yap (TA)

Department of Investigational Cancer Therapeutics, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX, USA.

Jordi Rodon (J)

Department of Investigational Cancer Therapeutics, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX, USA.

Aung Naing (A)

Department of Investigational Cancer Therapeutics, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX, USA.

Robert A Wolff (RA)

Department of Gastrointestinal Medical Oncology, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX, USA.

Brandon G Smaglo (BG)

Department of Gastrointestinal Medical Oncology, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX, USA.

Funda Meric Bernstam (FM)

Department of Investigational Cancer Therapeutics, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX, USA.

Vivek Subbiah (V)

Department of Investigational Cancer Therapeutics, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX, USA.

Shubham Pant (S)

Department of Investigational Cancer Therapeutics, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX, USA. SPant@mdanderson.org.
Department of Gastrointestinal Medical Oncology, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX, USA. SPant@mdanderson.org.

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