Data from Putative Biomarkers of Clinical Benefit With Pembrolizumab in Advanced Urothelial Cancer: Results from the KEYNOTE-045 and KEYNOTE-052 Landmark Trials

Autor: Petros Grivas, Blanca Homet Moreno, James Luke Godwin, Mohini Rajasagi, Junshui Ma, Andrey Loboda, Assieh Saadatpour, Jared Lunceford, Razvan Cristescu, Nicholas J. Vogelzang, Jacqueline Vuky, David I. Quinn, Howard Gurney, Winald Gerritsen, Stephane Culine, Toni K. Choueiri, Daniel Castellano, Arjun V. Balar, Dean F. Bajorin, Elizabeth R. Plimack, Thomas Powles, Peter H. O'Donnell, Cora N. Sternberg, Andrea Necchi, Lawrence Fong, Jae-Lyun Lee, Daniel P. Petrylak, Miguel A. Climent, Yves Fradet, Ronald de Wit, Joaquim Bellmunt
Rok vydání: 2023
DOI: 10.1158/1078-0432.c.6532491
Popis: Purpose:In an exploratory analysis, we investigated the association between programmed death ligand 1 (PD-L1), tumor mutational burden (TMB), T-cell–inflamed gene expression profile (TcellinfGEP), and stromal signature with outcomes of pembrolizumab in urothelial carcinoma (UC).Patients and Methods:Patients with advanced UC received first-line pembrolizumab 200 mg every 3 weeks in the single-arm phase II KEYNOTE-052 trial (NCT02335424) and salvage pembrolizumab 200 mg every 3 weeks or chemotherapy (paclitaxel/docetaxel/vinflunine) in the randomized phase III KEYNOTE-045 trial (NCT02256436). The association of each biomarker (continuous variable) with objective response rate (ORR), progression-free survival (PFS), and overall survival (OS) was evaluated using logistic regression (ORR) and Cox PH (PFS, OS), adjusted for ECOG PS; nominal P values were calculated without multiplicity adjustment (one-sided, pembrolizumab; two-sided, chemotherapy). Significance was prespecified at α = 0.05.Results:In KEYNOTE-052, PD-L1, TMB, and TcellinfGEP were significantly associated with improved outcomes; stromal signature was significantly associated with worse outcomes. In KEYNOTE-045, although findings for TMB and TcellinfGEP with pembrolizumab were consistent with those of KEYNOTE-052, PD-L1 was not significantly associated with improved outcomes, nor was stromal signature associated with worse outcomes with pembrolizumab; chemotherapy was not associated with outcomes in a consistent manner for any of the biomarkers. Hazard ratio (HR) estimates at prespecified cutoffs showed an advantage for pembrolizumab versus chemotherapy regardless of PD-L1 or TMB, with a trend toward lower HRs in the combined positive score ≥10 and the TMB ≥175 mutation/exome subgroup. For TcellinfGEP, PFS and OS HRs were lower in the TcellinfGEP-nonlow subgroup regardless of treatment.Conclusions:Multiple biomarkers characterizing the tumor microenvironment may help predict response to pembrolizumab monotherapy in UC, and potential clinical utility of these biomarkers may be context-dependent.
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