1. NEPTUNE China cohort: First-line durvalumab plus tremelimumab in Chinese patients with metastatic non-small-cell lung cancer.
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Cheng, Ying, Zhou, Qing, Han, Baohui, Fan, Yun, Shan, Li, Chang, Jianhua, Sun, Si, Fang, Jian, Chen, Yuan, Sun, Jianguo, Wu, Gang, Mann, Helen, Naicker, Kirsha, Shire, Norah, Mok, Tony, and de Castro, Gilberto
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NON-small-cell lung carcinoma , *CHINESE people , *ADVERSE health care events , *SURVIVAL analysis (Biometry) , *PROGRAMMED death-ligand 1 - Abstract
• We report prespecified exploratory analyses of an mNSCLC cohort in China (NEPTUNE). 85 chars. • First-line durvalumab + tremelimumab showed a trend of improved OS vs chemotherapy. 85 chars. • This trend was observed in all patients and those with low tumor PD-L1 expression. 84 chars. • 24-month OS and 12-month PFS rates indicated benefit in the survival curve tails. 83 chars. • Durvalumab + tremelimumab was well tolerated with no new safety signals. 74 chars. The phase 3 NEPTUNE study (NCT02542293) evaluated first-line durvalumab plus tremelimumab (DT) versus chemotherapy for metastatic NSCLC. Prespecified exploratory analyses were conducted in an extended cohort enrolled in China. Patients were randomized (1:1) to DT or standard chemotherapy, stratified by PD-L1 tumor cell (TC) expression (≥25 % vs < 25 %), histology, and smoking history. The primary analysis for this cohort was overall survival (OS) in patients with PD-L1 TC < 1 %. Secondary analyses included OS and progression-free survival (PFS) in the ITT population and PD-L1 subgroups, and safety. No alpha was allocated to these cohort analyses (data cut-off, 21-September-2020). 78 and 82 patients were randomized to DT and chemotherapy, respectively; 26 and 29 had PD-L1 TC < 1 % (median follow-up, 31.2 and 29.7 months [censored patients]). Among patients with PD-L1 TC < 1 %, OS favored DT versus chemotherapy (HR 0.60; 95 % CI, 0.32–1.11), with medians of 15.0 months (95 % CI, 10.5–27.4) and 11.7 months (95 % CI, 8.6–20.5), respectively; 24-month rates were 36.0 % (95 % CI, 18.2–54.2) and 17.9 % (95 % CI, 6.5–33.7). In the ITT population, OS was prolonged with DT versus chemotherapy (HR 0.70; 95 % CI, 0.48–1.02); medians were 20.0 and 14.1 months and 24-month rates were 44.2 % and 30.4 %. PFS was similar in the PD-L1 TC < 1 % (HR 1.13; 95 % CI, 0.59–2.14) and ITT (HR 0.95; 95 % CI, 0.66–1.36) populations; 12-month rates were 15.6 % versus 11.3 % and 23.9 % versus 16.6 %. Grade 3/4 treatment-related adverse events (TRAEs) occurred in 31.2 % with DT and 52.6 % with chemotherapy; 3.9 % versus 10.3 % discontinued due to TRAEs. In exploratory analyses, first-line DT showed a trend towards improved OS versus chemotherapy among Chinese patients in the PD-L1 TC < 1 % population and ITT population, with 24-month OS and 12-month PFS rates indicating benefit in survival curve tails. DT was well tolerated with no new safety signals. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2023
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