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ArticleInternational journal of molecular sciences2026

Immune Checkpoint Inhibitor Data in Metastatic Melanoma with Pre-Existing Autoimmune Disease: A Real World Experience.

Maria Grazia Vitale, Domenico Mallardo, Francesca Sparano, Lucia Festino, Vito Vanella, Claudia Trojaniello, Margaret Ottaviano, Eleonora Cioli, Mario Mallardo, Bianca Arianna Facchini and 2 more

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Article in International journal of molecular sciences, 2026. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Not yet cited in PubMed.

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Maria Grazia VitaleMelanoma, Cancer Immunotherapy and Development Therapeutics Unit, Istituto Nazionale Tumori-IRCCS-Fondazione "G. Pascale", 80131 Naples, Italy.
Domenico MallardoMelanoma, Cancer Immunotherapy and Development Therapeutics Unit, Istituto Nazionale Tumori-IRCCS-Fondazione "G. Pascale", 80131 Naples, Italy.ORCID 0000-0002-1081-5313
Francesca SparanoMelanoma, Cancer Immunotherapy and Development Therapeutics Unit, Istituto Nazionale Tumori-IRCCS-Fondazione "G. Pascale", 80131 Naples, Italy.
Lucia FestinoMelanoma, Cancer Immunotherapy and Development Therapeutics Unit, Istituto Nazionale Tumori-IRCCS-Fondazione "G. Pascale", 80131 Naples, Italy.
Vito VanellaMelanoma, Cancer Immunotherapy and Development Therapeutics Unit, Istituto Nazionale Tumori-IRCCS-Fondazione "G. Pascale", 80131 Naples, Italy.
Claudia TrojanielloMelanoma, Cancer Immunotherapy and Development Therapeutics Unit, Istituto Nazionale Tumori-IRCCS-Fondazione "G. Pascale", 80131 Naples, Italy.
Margaret OttavianoMelanoma, Cancer Immunotherapy and Development Therapeutics Unit, Istituto Nazionale Tumori-IRCCS-Fondazione "G. Pascale", 80131 Naples, Italy.
Eleonora CioliMelanoma, Cancer Immunotherapy and Development Therapeutics Unit, Istituto Nazionale Tumori-IRCCS-Fondazione "G. Pascale", 80131 Naples, Italy.ORCID 0000-0002-8788-6574
Mario MallardoMelanoma, Cancer Immunotherapy and Development Therapeutics Unit, Istituto Nazionale Tumori-IRCCS-Fondazione "G. Pascale", 80131 Naples, Italy.
Bianca Arianna FacchiniMelanoma, Cancer Immunotherapy and Development Therapeutics Unit, Istituto Nazionale Tumori-IRCCS-Fondazione "G. Pascale", 80131 Naples, Italy.
Ester SimeoneMelanoma, Cancer Immunotherapy and Development Therapeutics Unit, Istituto Nazionale Tumori-IRCCS-Fondazione "G. Pascale", 80131 Naples, Italy.
Paolo Antonio AsciertoMelanoma, Cancer Immunotherapy and Development Therapeutics Unit, Istituto Nazionale Tumori-IRCCS-Fondazione "G. Pascale", 80131 Naples, Italy.ORCID 0000-0002-8322-475X

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Patients with pre-existing autoimmune disease (AID) are underrepresented in trials of immune checkpoint inhibitors (ICIs). We retrospectively compared 41 patients with stage IV melanoma and pre-existing AID with 162 contemporaneous controls without AID who received ICI treatment between November 2016 and April 2023. In the AID and control cohorts, respectively, the objective response rates were 46.3% and 32.7%, and the disease control rates were 80.5% and 51.2%. Treatment interruption attributed to worsening of the baseline AID was recorded in 11/41 patients, while 13/41 interrupted treatment because of toxicity distinct from the baseline AID. The full cohort contributed 114 progression-free survival (PFS) events and 92 deaths. In models adjusted for age, sex, ICI regimen and M category, AID was associated with PFS (adjusted hazard ratio [HR] 0.48, 95% confidence interval [CI] 0.24-0.99;

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Autoimmune DiseasesImmune Checkpoint InhibitorsMelanomaSkin NeoplasmsAdultAgedAged, 80 and overFemaleHumansMaleMiddle AgedNeoplasm MetastasisProgression-Free SurvivalRetrospective StudiesImmune Checkpoint Inhibitorsautoimmune diseaseimmune checkpoint inhibitorsimmune-related adverse eventsmelanomaPD-1real-world evidence

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PMID42884075
PMCPMC13665204

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