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- Title
Immune checkpoint inhibitors therapy in older patients (≥ 70 years) with metastatic melanoma: a multicentre study.
- Authors
Cybulska-Stopa, Bożena; Ługowska, Iwona; Jagodzińska-Mucha, Paulina; Koseła-Paterczyk, Hanna; Kozak, Katarzyna; Klimczak, Anna; Świtaj, Tomasz; Ziobro, Marek; Roman, Agnieszka; Rajczykowski, Marcin; Suwiński, Rafał; Niemiec, Maciej; Zemełka, Tomasz; Falkowski, Sławomir; Rutkowski, Piotr
- Abstract
Introduction: The use of immunotherapy in older patients remains challenging due to very few data on the efficacy and safety of treatment in this group. Aim: To analyse the efficacy and safety of immunotherapy with checkpoint inhibitors in older patients (≥ 70 years) with metastatic melanoma. Material and methods: In the Maria Skłodowska-Curie Institute - Oncology Centre, between 2011 and 2017, 318 non-resectable or metastatic melanoma patients were treated with immune checkpoint inhibitors: anti-CTLA-4 or/ and anti-PD-1. Eighty-two patients were ≥ 70 years (median age: 76 years; range: 70-90 years). Among this group 10% of patients had brain metastases, 24% of patients had BRAF mutant melanoma, and co-morbidities were present in 86% of patients (mainly hypertension, cardiovascular diseases and/or diabetes). Results: Median PFS and OS were similar in patients < 70 years and ≥ 70 years. In the group of patients ≥ 70 years old, the 2-year OS rate (from the start of immunotherapy) was 27%, and in patients aged < 70 it was 28% (p = NS). Two-year progression-free survival was 13.7% in the group of patients ≥ 70 years old and in patients aged < 70 it was 13% (p = NS). Patients ≥ 70 years of age were significantly less likely to have a BRAF mutation (p = 0.020). The presence of co-morbidities was not associated with an increased risk of immunotherapy (p = 0.790). Conclusions: The survival and toxicity profile in the older patients treated with immune checkpoint inhibitors are similar to younger patients. Therefore, the age as a clinical factor should not exclude this population from the most effective therapy used nowadays in melanoma treatment.
- Subjects
METASTASIS; IMMUNOTHERAPY; HYPERTENSION; CARDIOVASCULAR diseases; MELANOMA
- Publication
Advances in Dermatology & Allergology / Postępy Dermatologii i Alergologii, 2019, Vol 36, Issue 5, p566
- ISSN
1642-395X
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.5114/ada.2018.79940