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Dixon AJ, Kyrgidis A, Steinman HK, Dixon JB, Sladden M, Garbe C, Lallas A, Zachary CB, Leiter-Stöppke U, Smith H, Nirenberg A, Zouboulis CC, Longo C, Argenziano G, Apalla Z, Popescu C, Tzellos T, Anderson S, Nanz L, Cleaver L, Thomas JM. Sentinel lymph node biopsy is unreliable in predicting melanoma mortality for both younger and older patients. J Eur Acad Dermatol Venereol 2024; 38:741-751. [PMID: 38168748 DOI: 10.1111/jdv.19772] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/28/2023] [Accepted: 11/13/2023] [Indexed: 01/05/2024]
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BACKGROUND Melanoma disease patterns vary with patient age. AIM To evaluate sentinel lymph node biopsy (SLNB) in managing melanoma at differing patient ages. METHODS Online prediction tools were applied to compare SLNB positivity (SLNB+) and survival risk at patient ages 20-80. Tübingen melanoma data were used to determine variations in the hazard ratio of SLNB+ for mortality at different patient ages. RESULTS Regardless of tumour thickness, predicted SLNB+ rates were markedly higher than mortality rates for 20-year-old patients. For 80-year-old patients, it is the opposite. DISCUSSION If 1000 20-year-olds with a 0.4 mm thickness non-ulcerated melanoma underwent SLNB, 100 would likely be positive. If all 100 were to be offered adjuvant drug therapy (ADT), fewer than three more melanoma deaths in those 1000 patients would be avoided. In total, 97 patients would have received medication they may never have needed. If 1000 80-year-olds with a 3 mm thickness non-ulcerated melanoma underwent SLNB, only 40 would likely be positive. In total, 274 patients would be predicted to die of melanoma, 245 being SLNB negative and 29 SLNB+. ADT linked to SLNB+ could deny treatment to 89% of these high-risk patients. LIMITATIONS The authors relied on published risk data. CONCLUSION SLNB has poor specificity at predicting mortality in young melanoma patients and poor sensitivity in older patients. SLNB is not indicated in managing cutaneous melanoma for patients under 40 or over 60 years of age. Many such patients could be managed with wide local excision alone in their clinician's office-based practice. For all cutaneous melanoma patients at all ages, linking ADT to BAUSSS biomarker, (an algorithm of Breslow thickness, age, ulceration, subtype, sex and Site) rather than SLNB+ is likely more appropriate. BAUSSS provides a more accurate melanoma-specific mortality risk assessment for patients without burdening them with added surgery, hospitalization, costs or morbidity risk.
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- Anthony J Dixon
- Australasian College of Cutaneous Oncology, Docklands, Victoria, Australia
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- Iverson Health Innovation Research Institute, Swinburne University of Technology, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
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- Center for Dermatooncology, Department of Dermatology, Eberhard Karls University, Tuebingen, Germany
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- Center for Dermatooncology, Department of Dermatology, Eberhard Karls University, Tuebingen, Germany
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- Oxford Dermatology, Perth, Western Australia, Australia
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- Departments of Dermatology, Venereology, Allergology and Immunology, Staedtisches Klinikum Dessau, Brandenburg Medical School Theodor Fontane, Dessau, Germany
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- Department of Dermatology, University of Modena and Reggio Emilia, Modena, Italy
- Skin Cancer Center, Azienda Unità Sanitaria Locale - IRCCS di Reggio Emilia, Reggio Emilia, Italy
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- Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Thessaloniki, Greece
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- Carol Davila University of Medicine and Pharmacy, Bucharest, Romania
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- Center for Dermatooncology, Department of Dermatology, Eberhard Karls University, Tuebingen, Germany
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Carbone DP, Ciuleanu TE, Schenker M, Cobo M, Bordenave S, Juan-Vidal O, Menezes J, Reinmuth N, Richardet E, Cheng Y, Mizutani H, Felip E, Zurawski B, Alexandru A, Paz-Ares L, Lu S, John T, Zhang X, Mahmood J, Hu N, De T, Santi I, Penrod JR, Yuan Y, Lee A, Reck M. Four-year clinical update and treatment switching-adjusted outcomes with first-line nivolumab plus ipilimumab with chemotherapy for metastatic non-small cell lung cancer in the CheckMate 9LA randomized trial. J Immunother Cancer 2024; 12:e008189. [PMID: 38346853 PMCID: PMC10862253 DOI: 10.1136/jitc-2023-008189] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Accepted: 12/27/2023] [Indexed: 02/15/2024] Open
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BACKGROUND In CheckMate 9LA, nivolumab plus ipilimumab with chemotherapy prolonged overall survival (OS) versus chemotherapy regardless of tumor PD-L1 expression or histology. We report updated efficacy and safety in all randomized patients with a minimum 4-year follow-up and an exploratory treatment-switching adjustment analysis in all treated patients who received chemotherapy and subsequent immunotherapy. METHODS Adults with stage IV/recurrent non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC), no sensitizing EGFR/ALK alterations, and ECOG performance status ≤1 were randomized 1:1 to nivolumab 360 mg every 3 weeks plus ipilimumab 1 mg/kg every 6 weeks with chemotherapy (two cycles) or chemotherapy (four cycles, with optional maintenance pemetrexed for the nonsquamous population). Assessments included OS, progression-free survival, and objective response rate. Exploratory analyses included efficacy by tumor PD-L1 expression and histology and in patients who discontinued nivolumab plus ipilimumab with chemotherapy due to treatment-related adverse events (TRAEs), and a treatment-switching adjustment analysis using inverse probability of censoring weighting. RESULTS With a 47.9-month minimum follow-up for OS, nivolumab plus ipilimumab with chemotherapy continued to prolong OS over chemotherapy in all randomized patients (HR 0.74, 95% CI 0.63 to 0.87; 4-year OS rate: 21% versus 16%), regardless of tumor PD-L1 expression (HR (95% CI): PD-L1<1%, 0.66 (0.50 to 0.86) and ≥1%, 0.74 (0.60 to 0.92)) or histology (squamous, 0.64 (0.48 to 0.84) and non-squamous, 0.80 (0.66 to 0.97)). In patients who discontinued all components of nivolumab plus ipilimumab with chemotherapy due to TRAEs (n=61), the 4-year OS rate was 41%. With treatment-switching adjustment for the 36% of patients receiving subsequent immunotherapy in the chemotherapy arm, the estimated HR of nivolumab plus ipilimumab with chemotherapy versus chemotherapy was 0.66 (95% CI 0.55 to 0.80). No new safety signals were observed. CONCLUSIONS In this 4-year update, patients treated with nivolumab plus ipilimumab with chemotherapy continued to have long-term, durable efficacy benefit over chemotherapy regardless of tumor PD-L1 expression and/or histology. A greater estimated relative OS benefit was observed after adjustment for subsequent immunotherapy use in the chemotherapy arm. These results further support nivolumab plus ipilimumab with chemotherapy as a first-line treatment for patients with metastatic/recurrent NSCLC, including those with tumor PD-L1<1% or squamous histology, populations with high unmet needs.
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- David P Carbone
- Division of Medical Oncology and the Pelotonia Institute for Immuno-Oncology, The Ohio State University Comprehensive Cancer Center, Columbus, Ohio, USA
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- Department of Medical Oncology, Institutul Oncologic Prof Dr Ion Chiricută and University of Medicine and Pharmacy Iuliu Haţieganu, Cluj-Napoca, Romania
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- Department of Medical Oncology, SF Nectarie Oncology Center, Craiova, Romania
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- Department of Medical Oncology, Unidad de Gestión Clínica Intercentros de Oncología Médica, Hospitales Universitarios Regional y Virgen de la Victoria, IBIMA, Málaga, Spain
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- Department of Medical Oncology, Hospital Universitario La Fe, Valencia, Spain
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- Department of Oncology, Hospital Nossa Senhora da Conceição, Porto Alegre, Brazil
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- Department of Oncology, Asklepios Lung Clinic, German Center for Lung Research, Munich-Gauting, Germany
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- Department of Clinical Oncology, IONC Instituto Oncológico de Córdoba, Córdoba, Argentina
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- Department of Oncology, Jilin Cancer Hospital, Changchun, Jilin, China
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- Department of Thoracic Oncology, Saitama Cancer Center, Saitama, Japan
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- Medical Oncology Service, Vall d'Hebron University Hospital, Vall d'Hebron Institute of Oncology, Barcelona, Spain
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- Chemotherapy Department, Ambulatorium Chemioterapii, Bydgoszcz, Poland
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- Department of Oncology, Institute of Oncology Prof Dr Alexandru Trestioreanu Bucha, Bucharest, Romania
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- Medical Oncology Department, Hospital Universitario 12 de Octubre, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Madrid, Spain
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- Department of Medical Oncology, Shanghai Lung Cancer Center, Shanghai Chest Hospital, Shanghai JiaoTong University, Shanghai, China
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- Medical Oncology Department, Austin Hospital, Heidelberg, Victoria, Australia
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- Global Drug Development, Oncology Clinical Development, Bristol Myers Squibb, Princeton, New Jersey, USA
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- Global Drug Development, Oncology Clinical Development, Bristol Myers Squibb, Princeton, New Jersey, USA
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- Global Biometrics and Data Sciences, Bristol Myers Squibb, Princeton, New Jersey, USA
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- Parexel, Billerica, Massachusetts, USA
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- Global Drug Development, Oncology Clinical Development, Bristol Myers Squibb, Princeton, New Jersey, USA
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- Global Drug Development, Oncology Clinical Development, Bristol Myers Squibb, Princeton, New Jersey, USA
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- Global Drug Development, Oncology Clinical Development, Bristol Myers Squibb, Princeton, New Jersey, USA
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- Department of Thoracic Oncology, Airway Research Center North, German Center for Lung Research, Lung Clinic, Grosshansdorf, Germany
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Lallement A, Lamoureux A, Hummelsberger M, Maria A, Meunier L. Combination immune checkpoint therapy carried on despite grade 4 immune-related hepatotoxicity during treatment of metastatic melanoma: Case report and review of literature. Clin Res Hepatol Gastroenterol 2023; 47:102192. [PMID: 37567465 DOI: 10.1016/j.clinre.2023.102192] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/26/2023] [Accepted: 08/06/2023] [Indexed: 08/13/2023]
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We report the case of a 63-year-old patient with recurrence of acral malignant melanoma after adjuvant immune checkpoint inhibitors (ICI) treatment by PEMBROLIZUMAB complicated with immune-related grade II hepatitis. Rechallenge by combination immune checkpoint (NIVOLUMAB + IPILIMUMAB) led to a relapse of the immune-related hepatitis up to a grade 3. Combination ICI therapy was carried on after introduction of corticosteroid therapy. Here, we present the outcomes of this immune-related adverse event (irAE) and a review of literature on the subject.
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- Angèle Lallement
- Département de Dermatologie, CHU Saint-Eloi, Université de Montpellier, Montpellier, France
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- Département de Dermatologie, CHU Saint-Eloi, Université de Montpellier, Montpellier, France
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- Département de Médecine Interne & Immuno-Oncologie (MedI²O), CHU Saint Eloi, Université de Montpellier, Montpellier, France
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- Département d'Hépato gastro entérologie et Transplantation, CHU Saint Eloi, Université de Montpellier, Montpellier, France.
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