SynthesisOncoimmunology2021
Efficacy of immune-checkpoint inhibitors in PD-L1 selected or unselected patients vs. control group in patients with advanced or metastatic urothelial carcinoma.
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- The efficacy of immune checkpoint inhibitors therapy versus chemotherapy in the treatment of advanced and metastatic urothelial carcinoma: a meta-analysis.Journal of cancer research and clinical oncology · 2024Pooled it
- MTHFD1L in muscle invasive bladder cancer: a multi-cohort study on prognosis and therapeutic response.World journal of surgical oncology · 2026Article
- Immunoproteasome subunits are novel signatures for predicting efficacy of immunotherapy in muscle invasive bladder cancer.Journal of translational medicine · 2025Article
- Epidemiology, treatments, and related biomarkers of locally advanced or metastatic urothelial carcinoma in Chinese population: A scoping review.Cancer medicine · 2023Article
- Genetic Interference of FGFR3 Impedes Invasion of Upper Tract Urothelial Carcinoma Cells by Alleviating RAS/MAPK Signal Activity.International journal of molecular sciences · 2023Article
- Trial watch: Dendritic cell (DC)-based immunotherapy for cancer.Oncoimmunology · 2022Article
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Abstract
Most patients with advanced or metastatic urothelial carcinoma do not benefit significantly from Immune checkpoint inhibitors (ICIs) use. A systematic review and meta-analysis of randomized controlled trials to assess the efficacy and activity of ICIs, in terms of Overall Survival (OS), Progression-free survival (PFS), and Objective Response Rate (ORR). We systematically searched for articles from PubMed, Cochrane Library, Embase, and Web of science from their inception to December 1, 2020 with no language restrictions. The search was performed to identify all clinical trials (phase I, phase II, phase III) of ICIs for treating urothelial carcinoma. The endpoints of the meta-analysis were OS, PFS, and ORR, compared unselected patients and in the subgroup of patients characterized by high expression of PD-L1 (PD-L1 selected patients). Sixteen studies comprising 5559 patients were identified, of which data for OS comparison were available from 4 RCTs (2342 patients), two studies for PFS (649 patients), and four RCTs were eligible for ORR analysis (2921 patients). Both pembrolizumab and atezolizumab have showed to improve OS compared to chemotherapy in unselected patients (HR 0.86, 95% CI 0.80-0.93,
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