2015: The Year of Anti-PD-1/PD-L1s Against Melanoma and Beyond.
2015: The Year of Anti-PD-1/PD-L1s Against Melanoma and Beyond.
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DOI:
10.1016/j.ebiom.2015.01.011
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发表时间:
2015
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影响因子:
11.1
通讯作者:
Marincola, Francesco M.
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作者:
Ascierto, Paolo A.;Marincola, Francesco M.
The history of clinical oncology has witnessed several revolutionary therapeutic advances that have significantly improved cancer care. These have included the introduction of cisplatin in the 1970s for testicular and ovarian cancers, the taxanes in the 1990s for breast and other solid tumors, targeted therapy with anti-HER2 for breast cancer and c-Kit inhibitors for chronic myeloid leukemia and other cancers at the start of this millennium. Each of these treatments has revolutionized outcomes for patients with various types of cancer. Today, we are at the start of a new era in cancer care—that of immunotherapy. The approval of sipuleucel-T for the treatment of prostate cancer in 2010 and ipilimumab (anti-CTLA-4) for advanced melanoma in 2011 was the first notable success in the immunotherapy of cancer. After almost three years from the approval of the first checkpoint inhibitor (ipilimumab), the good news is not over. Quite the contrary, we are only at the beginning and, notably, these advances do not relate just to the treatment of melanoma. Immunotherapy has become the fourth pillar of cancer treatment alongside surgery, radiotherapy and chemotherapy (including targeted therapy). This can be attributed primarily to the impact that another group of checkpoint inhibitors, the anti-PD-1/PD-L1 agents, is having on the treatment of various malignancies. As with anti-CTLA-4, the anti-PD-1/PD-L1 story starts with melanoma. Data from a large phase I study with pembrolizumab (Robert et al., 2014a, b) led to its approval by the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) in September 2014 for the treatment of patients with unresectable or metastatic melanoma and disease progression following ipilimumab and, if BRAF V600 mutation positive, a BRAF inhibitor. This study of 411 patients showed that pembrolizumab resulted in an overall response rate (ORR) of 34%, a median progression-free survival (PFS) of 5.5 months, and overall survival (OS) rates of 69% at one year and 62% at 18 months. Moreover, a randomized phase II trial with pembrolizumab at two different dosages (2 mg/kg or 10 mg/kg every three weeks) in advanced melanoma refractory to previous ipilimumab therapy showed that both doses improved PFS compared with investigator choice chemotherapy (Ribas et al., 2014). In fact, the 6-month PFS was 34% with pembrolizumab 2 mg/kg, 38% with pembrolizumab 10 mg/kg and 16% with chemotherapy, while the 9-month PFS was 24%, 29% and 8% respectively. The ORR in the three groups was 21%, 25% and 4%, respectively.More recently, in December 2014, another anti-PD-1, nivolumab, was approved by the FDA for patients with advanced melanoma with the same indication as pembrolizumab. Data from a large phase I trial with nivolumab showed an ORR of 32% and 1, 2, 3, and 4-year OS rates of 63%, 48%, 42%, and 32%, respectively. In addition, data from a phase III study in patients with metastatic melanoma previously treated with ipilimumab reported that nivolumab had an ORR of 32% compared with 11% with the chemotherapy control arm (D'Angelo et al., 2014). Nivolumab was also compared to chemotherapy in another randomized phase III trial in which untreated patients with advanced BRAF wildtype melanoma received either nivolumab or dacarbazine. The ORR was 40.0% in the nivolumab group versus 13.9% in the dacarbazine group. At 1 year, the OS was 73.0% in the nivolumab group compared with 42.1% in the dacarbazine group. Median PFS was 5.1 months in the nivolumab group versus 2.2 months in the dacarbazine group (Robert et al., 2014a, b).
影响因子:
168.9
作者:
Robert, Caroline;Ribas, Antoni;Daud, Adil
通讯作者:
Daud, Adil
影响因子:
64.8
作者:
Powles, Thomas;Eder, Joseph Paul;Vogelzang, Nicholas J.
通讯作者:
Vogelzang, Nicholas J.