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Trial reportJournal of clinical oncology : official journal of the American Society of Clinical Oncology2024

First-Line Nivolumab and Relatlimab Plus Chemotherapy for Gastric or Gastroesophageal Junction Adenocarcinoma: The Phase II RELATIVITY-060 Study.

Susanna Hegewisch-Becker, Guillermo Mendez, Joseph Chao, Radim Nemecek, Kynan Feeney, Eric Van Cutsem, Salah-Eddin Al-Batran, Wasat Mansoor, Nicholas Maisey, Roberto Pazo Cid and 9 more

Abstract readClinical Trial, Phase IIRandomized Controlled TrialMulticenter Study
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Trial report in Journal of clinical oncology : official journal of the American Society of Clinical Oncology, 2024. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 53 papers, 4 of them syntheses that pooled it.

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1 · What the graph read from it

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2 · The registry

The trial behind it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

53 citing papers in PubMed, 4 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.

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  5. Anti-LAG-3 Antibody LBL-007 plus Tislelizumab and Chemotherapy as First-Line Therapy for Advanced Nasopharyngeal Carcinoma: A Multicenter Phase 2 Trial.Clinical cancer research : an official journal of the American Association for Cancer Research · 2026
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  10. Intratumoral PD-1Medical oncology (Northwood, London, England) · 2026
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  11. Diagnostic performance of staging laparoscopy after chemotherapy and the prognostic impact of peritoneal disease resolution in advanced gastric cancer.Gastric cancer : official journal of the International Gastric Cancer Association and the Japanese Gastric Cancer Association · 2026
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  19. Safety, survival outcomes, and prognostic factors in conversion surgery for advanced gastric cancer: a sub-analysis of Japanese patients in the CONVO-GC-1 study.Gastric cancer : official journal of the International Gastric Cancer Association and the Japanese Gastric Cancer Association · 2026
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  20. Overcoming resistance to anti-PD-1/PD-L1 therapy in cancer.Cancer drug resistance (Alhambra, Calif.) · 2026
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

19 authors.

Susanna Hegewisch-BeckerHematology-Oncology Practice Eppendorf (HOPE), Hamburg, Germany.ORCID 0000-0001-6925-2327
Guillermo MendezHospital Universitario Fundacion Favaloro, Buenos Aires, Argentina.
Joseph ChaoCity of Hope Comprehensive Cancer Center, Duarte, CA.ORCID 0000-0002-1809-504X
Radim NemecekDepartment of Comprehensive Cancer Care, Masaryk Memorial Cancer Institute and Faculty of Medicine, Masaryk University, Brno, Czech Republic.
Kynan FeeneySt John of God Murdoch Hospital, Murdoch, WA, Australia.
Eric Van CutsemUniversity Hospitals Gasthuisberg and University of Leuven (KUL), Leuven, Belgium.ORCID 0000-0002-6372-1230
Salah-Eddin Al-BatranKrankenhaus Nordwest University Cancer Center Frankfurt, and Institut für Klinische Krebsforschung IKF am Krankenhaus Nordwest, Frankfurt, Germany.
Wasat MansoorThe Christie NHS Foundation Trust, Manchester, United Kingdom.ORCID 0000-0002-1477-4934
Nicholas MaiseyGuy's and St Thomas's NHS Foundation Trust, London, United Kingdom.ORCID 0000-0001-8943-2691
Roberto Pazo CidHospital Miguel Servet, Zaragoza, Spain.ORCID 0000-0002-8026-7391
Matthew BurgeRoyal Brisbane & Womens Hospital, Herston, QLD, Australia.ORCID 0000-0003-2562-7806
David Perez-CallejoBristol Myers Squibb, Boudry, Switzerland.
R William HipkinBristol Myers Squibb, Princeton, NJ.
Sourav MukherjeeBristol Myers Squibb, Princeton, NJ.ORCID 0000-0003-1647-7324
Ming LeiBristol Myers Squibb, Princeton, NJ.
Hao TangBristol Myers Squibb, Princeton, NJ.
Satyendra SuryawanshiBristol Myers Squibb, Princeton, NJ.
Ronan J KellyBaylor University Medical Center, Dallas, TX.
Niall C TebbuttAustin Health, Heidelberg, VIC, Australia.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

purposeOpen-label phase II study (RELATIVITY-060) to investigate the efficacy and safety of first-line nivolumab, a PD-1-blocking antibody, plus relatlimab, a lymphocyte-activation gene 3 (LAG-3)-blocking antibody, plus chemotherapy in patients with previously untreated advanced gastric cancer (GC) or gastroesophageal junction cancer (GEJC).

methodsPatients with unresectable, locally advanced or metastatic GC/GEJC were randomly assigned 1:1 to nivolumab + relatlimab (fixed-dose combination) + chemotherapy or nivolumab + chemotherapy. The primary end point was objective response rate (ORR; per RECIST v1.1 by blinded independent central review [BICR]) in patients whose tumors had LAG-3 expression ≥1%.

resultsOf 274 patients, 138 were randomly assigned to nivolumab + relatlimab + chemotherapy and 136 to nivolumab + chemotherapy. Median follow-up was 11.9 months. In patients with LAG-3 expression ≥1%, BICR-assessed ORR (95% CI) was 48% (38 to 59) in the nivolumab + relatlimab + chemotherapy arm and 61% (51 to 71) in the nivolumab + chemotherapy arm; median progression-free survival (95% CI) by BICR was 7.0 months (5.8 to 8.4) versus 8.3 months (6.9 to 12.1; hazard ratio [HR], 1.41 [95% CI, 0.97 to 2.05]), and median overall survival (95% CI) was 13.5 months (11.9 to 19.1) versus 16.0 months (10.9 to not estimable; HR, 1.04 [95% CI, 0.70 to 1.54]), respectively. Grade 3 or 4 treatment-related adverse events (TRAEs) occurred in 69% and 61% of all treated patients, and 42% and 36% of patients discontinued because of any-grade TRAEs in the nivolumab + relatlimab + chemotherapy and nivolumab + chemotherapy arms, respectively.

conclusionRELATIVITY-060 did not meet its primary end point of improved ORR in patients with LAG-3 expression ≥1% when relatlimab was added to nivolumab + chemotherapy compared with nivolumab + chemotherapy. Further studies are needed to address whether adding anti-LAG-3 to anti-PD-1 plus chemotherapy can benefit specific GC/GEJC patient subgroups.

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AdenocarcinomaAntineoplastic Combined Chemotherapy ProtocolsEsophageal NeoplasmsEsophagogastric JunctionLymphocyte Activation Gene 3 ProteinNivolumabStomach NeoplasmsAdultAgedAged, 80 and overFemaleHumansMaleMiddle AgedProgression-Free SurvivalLag3 protein, humanLymphocyte Activation Gene 3 ProteinNivolumab

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PMID38723227
PMCPMC11191068

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