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SynthesisOncoimmunology2020

Dose dependence of treatment-related adverse events for immune checkpoint inhibitor therapies: a model-based meta-analysis.

Boris Shulgin, Yuri Kosinsky, Andrey Omelchenko, Lulu Chu, Ganesh Mugundu, Sergey Aksenov, Rodrigo Pimentel, Garrett DeYulia, Geoffrey Kim, Kirill Peskov and 1 more

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Synthesis in Oncoimmunology, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 34 papers, 2 of them syntheses that pooled it.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

34 citing papers in PubMed, 2 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

11 authors.

Boris ShulginM&S Decisions LLC, Moscow, Russia.
Yuri KosinskyM&S Decisions LLC, Moscow, Russia.
Andrey OmelchenkoM&S Decisions LLC, Moscow, Russia.
Lulu ChuPK Sciences Modeling & Simulation, Novartis Institutes of BioMedical Research, Cambridge, MA, USA.
Ganesh MugunduClinical Pharmacology & Quantitative Pharmacology, R&D BioPharmaceuticals, AstraZeneca, Waltham, MA, USA.
Sergey AksenovClinical Pharmacology & Quantitative Pharmacology, R&D BioPharmaceuticals, AstraZeneca, Waltham, MA, USA.
Rodrigo PimentelMedical Affairs, AstraZeneca, Gaithersburg, MD, USA.
Garrett DeYuliaMedical Affairs, AstraZeneca, Gaithersburg, MD, USA.
Geoffrey KimApplied Innovation, BeiGene, Cambridge, MA, USA.
Kirill PeskovM&S Decisions LLC, Moscow, Russia.ORCID 0000-0003-0678-5729
Gabriel HelmlingerClinical Pharmacology & Toxicology, Obsidian Therapeutics, Cambridge, MA, USA.ORCID 0000-0003-4925-2463

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Programmed cell death-1 (PD-1) and/or cytotoxic T lymphocyte-associated antigen 4 (CTLA-4) immune checkpoint inhibitor (ICI) treatments are associated with adverse events (AEs), which may be dependent on ICI dose. Applying a model-based meta-analysis to evaluate safety data from published clinical trials from 2005 to 2018, we analyzed the dose/exposure dependence of ICI treatment-related AE (trAE) and immune-mediated AE (imAE) rates. Unlike with PD-1 inhibitor monotherapy, CTLA-4 inhibitor monotherapy exhibited a dose/exposure dependence on most AE types evaluated. Furthermore, combination therapy with PD-1 inhibitor significantly strengthened the dependence of trAE and imAE rates on CTLA-4 inhibitor dose/exposure.

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Immune Checkpoint InhibitorsNeoplasmsAntineoplastic Combined Chemotherapy ProtocolsB7-H1 AntigenClinical Trials as TopicCombined Modality TherapyCTLA-4 AntigenDose-Response Relationship, ImmunologicHumansB7-H1 AntigenCD274 protein, humanCTLA-4 AntigenCTLA4 protein, humanImmune Checkpoint InhibitorsAdverse eventsimmune checkpoint inhibitormeta-analysis

Identifiers

PMID32934874
PMCPMC7466858

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