Surrogate endpoints in immunotherapy trials for solid tumors

Autor: Valentina Rampulla, Antonio Costanzo, Gianluca Tomasello, Michele Ghidini, Antonio Varricchio, Fausto Petrelli
Rok vydání: 2019
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Zdroj: Annals of translational medicine. 7(7)
ISSN: 2305-5839
Popis: We aimed to assess whether the Response Evaluation Criteria in Solid Tumors (RECIST) criteria-based objective response rate (ORR), disease control rate (DCR) and progression-free survival (PFS) could be valid surrogate end-points for overall survival (OS) in anti-programmed death-1 (PD-1)/programmed death ligand 1 (PD-L1) trials.We systematically reviewed phase 2 and phase 3 trials of anti-PD-1/PD-L1 drug trials of advanced or recurrent solid tumours that reported OS and at least one of the RECIST criteria-based end-points. We used Spearman rank correlation to evaluate the strength of the association between these end-points and OS and a linear regression model, weighted by the sample size, to assess the association between the treatment effect on these end-points and OS. We also performed sensitivity analyses and a leave-one-out cross-validation approach to evaluate the robustness of our findings.Forty-three qualifying trails comprising 15,088 patients were eligible. PFS showed good correlation with OS (squared Spearman rank correlation coefficient [rNo RECIST criteria-based end-points could be a valid surrogate for OS. At present, we proposed to set OS as the primary end-point in anti-PD-1/PD-L1 drug trials of advanced or recurrent solid tumours.
Databáze: OpenAIRE