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Trial reportBMJ open2024

Sabatolimab in combination with spartalizumab in patients with non-small cell lung cancer or melanoma who received prior treatment with anti-PD-1/PD-L1 therapy: a phase 2 multicentre study.

Chia-Chi Lin, Giuseppe Curigliano, Armando Santoro, Dong-Wan Kim, David Tai, F Stephen Hodi, Sofie Wilgenhof, Toshihiko Doi, Catherine Sabatos-Peyton, Sebastian Szpakowski and 5 more

Registry-linked trialAbstract readMulticenter StudyClinical Trial, Phase II
In one paragraph

Trial report in BMJ open, 2024. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. It is linked to trial NCT02608268 (Phase I-Ib/II Open-label Multi-center Study of the Safety and Efficacy of MBG453 as Single Agent and in Combination With PDR001 in Adult Patients With Advanced Malignancies), which is not on this map. Cited by 13 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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13citing papers in PubMed, 1 pooled it
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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

NCT02608268 phase1 / phase2terminatednot on this map

Phase I-Ib/II Open-label Multi-center Study of the Safety and Efficacy of MBG453 as Single Agent and in Combination With PDR001 in Adult Patients With Advanced Malignancies

TypeinterventionalSponsorNovartis PharmaceuticalsRan2015 to 2022Enrolled252ConditionsAdvanced MalignanciesArmsMBG453, PDR001, Decitabine
3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

13 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

15 authors.

Chia-Chi LinDepartment of Oncology, National Taiwan University Hospital, Taipei, Taiwan cclin1@ntu.edu.tw.
Giuseppe CuriglianoDepartment of Oncology and Hemato-Oncology, University of Milan, Milano, Italy.
Armando SantoroIRCCS Humanitas Research Hospital, Rozzano Humanitas University, Pieve Emanuele, Italy.
Dong-Wan KimDepartment of Internal Medicine, Seoul National University Hospital, Seoul, Korea (the Republic of).
David TaiDivision of Medical Oncology, National Cancer Centre Singapore, Singapore.
F Stephen HodiMelanoma Center and Center for Immuno-Oncology, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Boston, Massachusetts, USA.
Sofie WilgenhofDepartment of Medical Oncology, Antoni van Leeuwenhoek Hospital, Amsterdam, Netherlands.
Toshihiko DoiDepartment of Experimental Therapeutics, National Cancer Center-Hospital East, Kashiwa, Japan.
Catherine Sabatos-PeytonLarkspur Biosciences, Washington, District of Columbia, USA.
Sebastian SzpakowskiNovartis Institutes for BioMedical Research, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA.
Shripad ChitnisNovartis Institutes for BioMedical Research, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA.
Alexandros XyrafasNovartis Pharma AG, Basel, Switzerland.
Sabine GutzwillerNovartis Pharma AG, Basel, Switzerland.
Alessandro PastoreNovartis Institutes for BioMedical Research, East Hanover, New Jersey, USA.
Nicolas MachSwiss Cancer Center Leman, Geneva University Hospitals Oncology Division, Geneva, Switzerland.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

objectiveThis study evaluates the safety/efficacy of sabatolimab plus spartalizumab in patients with melanoma or non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC). DESIGN, SETTING AND

participantsThis is a phase 1-1b/2, open-label, multinational, multicentre study of patients with advanced/metastatic melanoma or NSCLC with ≥1 measurable lesion.

interventionsPatients were given sabatolimab 800 mg every 4 weeks plus spartalizumab 400 mg every 4 weeks until unacceptable toxicity, disease progression and/or treatment discontinuation. OUTCOME MEASURES: The phase 2 primary outcome measure was overall response rate and secondary objectives included evaluation of the safety, tolerability, efficacy and pharmacokinetics of sabatolimab in combination with spartalizumab.

results33 patients (melanoma n=16, NSCLC n=17) received sabatolimab plus spartalizumab. 31 (94%) experienced ≥1 adverse event (AE); 15 (46%) experienced grade 3/4 events. The most frequent grade ≥3 AEs for NSCLC were anaemia, dyspnoea and pneumonia (each n=2, 12%); for patients with melanoma, the most frequent grade ≥3 AEs were physical health deterioration, hypokalaemia, hypophosphataemia, pathological fracture and tumour invasion (each n=1; 6%). One (3%) patient discontinued treatment due to AE. Stable disease was seen in three patients with melanoma (19%) and six patients with NSCLC (35%). Median progression-free survival was 1.8 (90% CI 1.7 to 1.9) and 1.7 (90% CI 1.1 to 3.4) months for patients with melanoma and NSCLC, respectively. Patients with stable disease had higher expression levels of CD8, LAG3, programmed death-ligand 1 and anti-T-cell immunoglobulin and mucin-domain containing-3 at baseline. The pharmacokinetics profile of sabatolimab was consistent with the phase 1 study.

conclusionsSabatolimab plus spartalizumab was well tolerated in patients with advanced/metastatic melanoma or NSCLC who had progressed following antiprogrammed death-1/antiprogrammed death-ligand 1 treatment. Limited antitumour activity was observed. The tolerability of sabatolimab administration supports the potential to explore treatment with sabatolimab in various combination regimens and across a spectrum of tumour types. TRIAL REGISTRATION NUMBER: NCT02608268.

Indexed as

Antibodies, Monoclonal, HumanizedAntineoplastic Combined Chemotherapy ProtocolsCarcinoma, Non-Small-Cell LungLung NeoplasmsMelanomaAdultAgedAged, 80 and overFemaleHumansImmune Checkpoint InhibitorsMaleMiddle AgedAntibodies, Monoclonal, HumanizedImmune Checkpoint InhibitorsspartalizumabCLINICAL PHARMACOLOGYDermatological tumoursONCOLOGYRespiratory tract tumours

Identifiers

PMID39209782
PMCPMC11367382

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