Clinical Outcomes of Patients with Advanced Cancer and Pre‐Existing Autoimmune Diseases Treated with Anti‐Programmed Death‐1 Immunotherapy: A Real‐World Transverse Study

AbstractBackground.Patients with a history of autoimmune diseases (AIDs) have not usually been included in clinical trials with immune checkpoint inhibitors.Materials and Methods.Consecutive patients with advanced cancer, treated with anti‐programmed death‐1 (PD‐1) agents, were evaluated according to the presence of pre‐existing AIDs. The incidence of immune‐related adverse events (irAEs) and clinical outcomes were compared among subgroups.Results.A total of 751 patients were enrolled; median age was 69 years. Primary tumors were as follows: non‐small cell lung cancer, 492 (65.5%); melanoma, 159 (21.2%); kidney cancer, 94 (12.5%); and others, 6 (0.8%). Male/female ratio was 499/252. Eighty‐five patients (11.3%) had pre‐existing AIDs, further differentiated in clinically active (17.6%) and inactive (82.4%). Among patients with pre‐existing AIDs, incidence of irAEs of any grade was significantly higher when compared with patients without AIDs (65.9% vs. 39.9%). At multivariate analysis, both inactive (p = .0005) and active pre‐existing AIDs (p = .0162), female sex (p = .0004), and Eastern Cooperative Oncology Group Performance Status

Source: The Oncologist - June 17, 2019 Category: Cancer & Oncology Authors: Alessio Cortellini, Sebastiano Buti, Daniele Santini, Fabiana Perrone, Raffaele Giusti, Marcello Tiseo, Melissa Bersanelli, Maria Michiara, Antonino Grassadonia, Davide Brocco, Nicola Tinari, Michele De Tursi, Federica Zoratto, Enzo Veltri, Riccardo Marco Tags: Precision Medicine Clinic: Molecular Tumor Board Immuno ‐ Oncology Source Type: research