Trial reportCancer immunology research2018
Treatment-Related Adverse Events Predict Improved Clinical Outcome in NSCLC Patients on KEYNOTE-001 at a Single Center.
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66 citing papers in PubMed, 12 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.
- The association of PD-L1 expression status and the PD-1/PD-L1 inhibitor-related toxicity profile in non-small cell lung cancer.BMC cancer · 2025Pooled it
- Immune-related adverse events and their effects on survival outcomes in patients with non-small cell lung cancer treated with immune checkpoint inhibitors: a systematic review and meta-analysis.Frontiers in oncology · 2024Pooled it
- Association between immune-related adverse events and immunotherapy efficacy in non-small-cell lung cancer: a meta-analysis.Frontiers in pharmacology · 2023Pooled it
- Associations between immune-related thyroid dysfunction and efficacy of immune checkpoint inhibitors: a systematic review and meta-analysis.Cancer immunology, immunotherapy : CII · 2022Pooled it
- Correlation between immune-related adverse events and the efficacy of PD-1/PD-L1 inhibitors in the treatment of non-small cell lung cancer: systematic review and meta-analysis.Cancer chemotherapy and pharmacology · 2022Pooled it
- Immune-related adverse events: promising predictors for efficacy of immune checkpoint inhibitors.Cancer immunology, immunotherapy : CII · 2021Pooled it
- Safety and Efficacy of PD-1/PD-L1 inhibitors combined with radiotherapy in patients with non-small-cell lung cancer: a systematic review and meta-analysis.Cancer medicine · 2021Pooled it
- Immune-Related Adverse Events Associated With Outcomes in Patients With NSCLC Treated With Anti-PD-1 Inhibitors: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis.Frontiers in oncology · 2021Pooled it
- Anti-PD-1/L1-associated immune-related adverse events as harbinger of favorable clinical outcome: systematic review and meta-analysis.Clinical & translational oncology : official publication of the Federation of Spanish Oncology Societies and of the National Cancer Institute of Mexico · 2021Pooled it
- Association of Immune Related Adverse Events With Efficacy of Immune Checkpoint Inhibitors and Overall Survival in Cancers: A Systemic Review and Meta-analysis.Frontiers in oncology · 2021Pooled it
- Immune-Related Adverse Events Predict the Efficacy of Immune Checkpoint Inhibitors in Lung Cancer Patients: A Meta-Analysis.Frontiers in oncology · 2021Pooled it
- Are immune-related adverse events associated with the efficacy of immune checkpoint inhibitors in patients with cancer? A systematic review and meta-analysis.BMC medicine · 2020Pooled it
- Entinostat plus Pembrolizumab in Patients with Metastatic NSCLC Previously Treated with Anti-PD-(L)1 Therapy.Clinical cancer research : an official journal of the American Association for Cancer Research · 2021Trial
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- Combined immune checkpoint inhibitor-induced type 1 diabetes: a rare but serious endocrinopathy.JCEM case reports · 2026Article
- Associations between Immune-related Adverse Events and Prognosis in Cancer Patients Receiving Immune Checkpoint Inhibitor Therapy.Internal medicine (Tokyo, Japan) · 2026Review
- Early endocrine diagnoses and subsequent survival after immune checkpoint inhibitor initiation in non-small cell lung cancer: a 180-day landmark cohort study.Frontiers in oncology · 2026Article
- Postoperative immune checkpoint inhibitors plus anti-angiogenesis for hepatitis B virus-associated hepatocellular carcinoma: Analyzing the evidence and future prospects.World journal of gastrointestinal oncology · 2025Article
- Thyroid dysfunction as a predictor of PD- 1/PD-L1 inhibitor efficacy in advanced lung cancer.BMC cancer · 2025Article
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Abstract
We retrospectively analyzed non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) patients from a single center treated with pembrolizumab on the KEYNOTE-001 trial and evaluated the association between treatment-related adverse events (trAEs) and clinical outcomes. Investigators reported AEs on trial and graded them according to Common Terminology Criteria for Adverse Events v4.0, labeling them as unlikely, possibly, or probably treatment-related. AEs labeled as possibly/probably related were considered trAEs for this analysis. The relationship between the incidence of a trAE and clinical outcomes was evaluated. Ninety-seven NSCLC patients treated on KEYNOTE-001 at the University of California, Los Angeles were evaluated. Ten percent (85/826) of AEs were trAEs, occurring in 40% (39/97) of patients. The most frequent trAEs were rash (21% patients), fatigue (6% patients), and hypothyroidism (6% patients). The 39 patients that experienced a trAE had increased objective response rate (ORR, 38.5%), progression-free survival (PFS: median, 248 days), and overall survival (OS: median, 493 days), compared with the 58 patients that did not (ORR: 8.9%, PFS: median 60 days, OS: median 144.5 days). The observed association between trAEs and improved clinical outcome persisted when using Cox proportional hazards regression models to assess the confounding effect of covariates and mitigate guarantee-time bias. The association also remained when data were substratified by grade, degree of association, and treatment-related select AE designation. This single-center analysis revealed that trAEs predicted for improved clinical outcome with pembrolizumab, and when controlling for guarantee-time bias and plausible confounders, this association remained. This observed relationship adds to our understanding of anti-PD-1 therapy and could aid clinicians in identifying patients most likely to benefit from therapy.
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