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Published on: September 25, 2018
Atezolizumab for First-Line Treatment of PD-L1-Selected Patients with NSCLC
Roy S Herbst1, Giuseppe Giaccone1, Filippo de Marinis1
1From the Yale School of Medicine, New Haven, CT (R.S.H.); Weill Cornell Medical Center, New York (G.G.); the European Institute of Oncology, IRCCS, Milan (F.M.); Asklepios Lung Clinic, Munich-Gauting, Germany (N.R.); University Hospital Limoges, Limoges, France (A.V.); Centro de Pesquisa Clínica, Hospital São Lucas, Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio Grande do Sul, Porto Alegre, Brazil (C.H.B.); Nagoya University Graduate School of Medicine, Aichi, Japan (M. Morise); Vall d'Hebron University Hospital, Barcelona (E.F.); Clinical Hospital Center Bezanijska Kosa, Belgrade, Serbia (Z.A.); Prince of Songkla University-Hat Yai, Songkhla, Thailand (S.G.); Istanbul University-Cerrahpaşa, Cerrahpaşa Faculty of Medicine, Istanbul, Turkey (M.O.); Genentech, South San Francisco, CA (W.Z., A.S., I.E., K.K., Y.D., H.K., X.W., M. McCleland, S.M.); the Medical University of Gdańsk, Gdansk, Poland (J.J.); and the Sarah Cannon Research Institute at Tennessee Oncology, Nashville (D.R.S.).
Background:
The efficacy and safety of the anti-programmed death ligand 1 (PD-L1) monoclonal antibody atezolizumab, as compared with those of platinum-based chemotherapy, as first-line treatment for patients with metastatic non-small-cell lung cancer (NSCLC) with PD-L1 expression are not known.
Methods:
We conducted a randomized, open-label, phase 3 trial involving patients with metastatic nonsquamous or squamous NSCLC who had not previously received chemotherapy and who had PD-L1 expression on at least 1% of tumor cells or at least 1% of tumor-infiltrating immune cells as assessed by the SP142 immunohistochemical assay. Patients were assigned in a 1:1 ratio to receive atezolizumab or chemotherapy. Overall survival (primary end point) was tested hierarchically according to PD-L1 expression status among patients in the intention-to-treat population whose tumors were wild-type with respect to EGFR mutations or ALK translocations. Within the population with EGFR and ALK wild-type tumors, overall survival and progression-free survival were also prospectively assessed in subgroups defined according to findings on two PD-L1 assays as well as by blood-based tumor mutational burden.
Results:
Overall, 572 patients were enrolled. In the subgroup of patients with EGFR and ALK wild-type tumors who had the highest expression of PD-L1 (205 patients), the median overall survival was longer by 7.1 months in the atezolizumab group than in the chemotherapy group (20.2 months vs. 13.1 months; hazard ratio for death, 0.59; P = 0.01). Among all the patients who could be evaluated for safety, adverse events occurred in 90.2% of the patients in the atezolizumab group and in 94.7% of those in the chemotherapy group; grade 3 or 4 adverse events occurred in 30.1% and 52.5% of the patients in the respective groups. Overall and progression-free survival favored atezolizumab in the subgroups with a high blood-based tumor mutational burden.
Conclusions:
Atezolizumab treatment resulted in significantly longer overall survival than platinum-based chemotherapy among patients with NSCLC with high PD-L1 expression, regardless of histologic type. (Funded by F. Hoffmann-La Roche/Genentech; IMpower110 ClinicalTrials.gov number, NCT02409342.).
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