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ArticleCPT: pharmacometrics & systems pharmacology2021

Prediction of overall survival in patients across solid tumors following atezolizumab treatments: A tumor growth inhibition-overall survival modeling framework.

Phyllis Chan, Mathilde Marchand, Kenta Yoshida, Shweta Vadhavkar, Nina Wang, Alyse Lin, Benjamin Wu, Marcus Ballinger, Nitzan Sternheim, Jin Y Jin and 1 more

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Article in CPT: pharmacometrics & systems pharmacology, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 30 papers.

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30citing papers in PubMed
2.2field-weighted citation impact, top 9% of its field
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2 · The registry

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3 · Its place in the literature

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30 citing papers in PubMed, 33 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

11 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Phyllis ChanDepartment of Clinical Pharmacology, Genentech, Inc., South San Francisco, California, USA.ORCID 0000-0003-1509-1526
Mathilde MarchandCertara, Marseille, France.
Kenta YoshidaDepartment of Clinical Pharmacology, Genentech, Inc., South San Francisco, California, USA.ORCID 0000-0003-4967-3831
Shweta VadhavkarDepartment of Clinical Pharmacology, Genentech, Inc., South San Francisco, California, USA.
Nina WangDepartment of Clinical Pharmacology, Genentech, Inc., South San Francisco, California, USA.
Alyse LinDepartment of Clinical Pharmacology, Genentech, Inc., South San Francisco, California, USA.
Benjamin WuDepartment of Clinical Pharmacology, Genentech, Inc., South San Francisco, California, USA.
Marcus BallingerDepartment of Clinical Science, Genentech, Inc., South San Francisco, California, USA.
Nitzan SternheimDepartment of Product Development, Genentech, Inc., South San Francisco, California, USA.
Jin Y JinDepartment of Clinical Pharmacology, Genentech, Inc., South San Francisco, California, USA.
René BrunoDepartment of Clinical Pharmacology, Genentech/Roche, Marseille, France.ORCID 0000-0003-0200-039X
Roche (France) · FR

Funding

F. Hoffmann-La Roche, Ltd
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The objectives of the study were to use tumor size data from 10 phase II/III atezolizumab studies across five solid tumor types to estimate tumor growth inhibition (TGI) metrics and assess the impact of TGI metrics and baseline prognostic factors on overall survival (OS) for each tumor type. TGI metrics were estimated from biexponential models and posttreatment longitudinal data of 6699 patients. TGI-OS full models were built using parametric survival regression by including all significant baseline covariates from the Cox univariate analysis followed by a backward elimination step. The model performance was evaluated for each trial by 1000 simulations of the OS distributions and hazard ratios (HR) of the atezolizumab-containing arms versus the respective controls. The tumor growth rate estimate was the most significant predictor of OS across all tumor types. Several baseline prognostic factors, such as inflammatory status (C-reactive protein, albumin, and/or neutrophil-to-lymphocyte ratio), tumor burden (sum of longest diameters, number of metastatic sites, and/or presence of liver metastases), Eastern Cooperative Oncology Group performance status, and lactate dehydrogenase were also highly significant across multiple studies in the final multivariate models. TGI-OS models adequately described the OS distribution. The model-predicted HRs indicated good model performance across the 10 studies, with observed HRs within the 95% prediction intervals for all study arms versus controls. Multivariate TGI-OS models developed for different solid tumor types were able to predict treatment effect with various atezolizumab monotherapy or combination regimens and could be used to support design and analysis of future studies.

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Antibodies, Monoclonal, HumanizedAntineoplastic Combined Chemotherapy ProtocolsClinical Trials, Phase II as TopicClinical Trials, Phase III as TopicC-Reactive ProteinHumansImmune Checkpoint InhibitorsLeukocyte CountL-Lactate DehydrogenaseLymphocyte CountNeoplasmsNeutrophilsProportional Hazards ModelsSerum AlbuminSurvival RateTumor BurdenAntibodies, Monoclonal, HumanizedatezolizumabC-Reactive ProteinImmune Checkpoint InhibitorsL-Lactate DehydrogenaseSerum Albumin

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PMID34270868
PMCPMC8520743
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