Efficacy and safety of nivolumab alone or in combination with ipilimumab in patients with mucosal melanoma: A pooled analysis Journal Article
| Authors: | D'Angelo, S. P.; Larkin, J.; Sosman, J. A.; Lebbé, C.; Brady, B.; Neyns, B.; Schmidt, H.; Hassel, J. C.; Hodi, F. S.; Lorigan, P.; Savage, K. J.; Miller, W. H. Jr; Mohr, P.; Marquez-Rodas, I.; Charles, J.; Kaatz, M.; Sznol, M.; Weber, J. S.; Shoushtari, A. N.; Ruisi, M.; Jiang, J.; Wolchok, J. D. |
| Article Title: | Efficacy and safety of nivolumab alone or in combination with ipilimumab in patients with mucosal melanoma: A pooled analysis |
| Abstract: | Purpose Mucosal melanoma is an aggressive malignancy with a poor response to conventional therapies. The efficacy and safety of nivolumab (a programmed death-1 checkpoint inhibitor), alone or combined with ipilimumab (a cytotoxic T-lymphocyte antigen-4 checkpoint inhibitor), have not been reported in this rare melanoma subtype. Patients and Methods Data were pooled from 889 patients who received nivolumab monotherapy in clinical studies, including phase III trials; 86 (10%) had mucosal melanoma and 665 (75%) had cutaneous melanoma. Data were also pooled for patients who received nivolumab combined with ipilimumab (n = 35, mucosal melanoma; n = 326, cutaneous melanoma). Results Among patients who received nivolumab monotherapy, median progression-free survival was 3.0 months (95% CI, 2.2 to 5.4 months) and 6.2 months (95% CI, 5.1 to 7.5 months) for mucosal and cutaneous melanoma, with objective response rates of 23.3% (95% CI, 14.8% to 33.6%) and 40.9% (95% CI, 37.1% to 44.7%), respectively. Median progression-free survival in patients treated with nivolumab combined with ipilimumab was 5.9 months (95% CI, 2.8 months to not reached) and 11.7 months (95% CI, 8.9 to 16.7 months) for mucosal and cutaneous melanoma, with objective response rates of 37.1% (95% CI, 21.5% to 55.1%) and 60.4% (95% CI, 54.9% to 65.8%), respectively. For mucosal and cutaneous melanoma, respectively, the incidence of grade 3 or 4 treatment-related adverse events was 8.1% and 12.5% for nivolumab monotherapy and 40.0% and 54.9% for combination therapy. Conclusion To our knowledge, this is the largest analysis of data for anti-programmed death-1 therapy in mucosal melanoma to date. Nivolumab combined with ipilimumab seemed to have greater efficacy than either agent alone, and although the activity was lower in mucosal melanoma, the safety profile was similar between subtypes. © 2016 by American Society of Clinical Oncology. |
| Journal Title: | Journal of Clinical Oncology |
| Volume: | 35 |
| Issue: | 2 |
| ISSN: | 0732-183X |
| Publisher: | American Society of Clinical Oncology |
| Date Published: | 2017-01-10 |
| Start Page: | 226 |
| End Page: | 235 |
| Language: | English |
| DOI: | 10.1200/jco.2016.67.9258 |
| PROVIDER: | scopus |
| PUBMED: | 28056206 |
| PMCID: | PMC5559888 |
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| Notes: | Article -- Presented at the 12th International Congress of the Society for Melanoma Research which took place November 18-21, 2015 in San Francisco, CA -- Export Date: 2 February 2017 -- Source: Scopus |
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