Department of Respiratory Medicine, Saitama Cardiovascular and Respiratory Center, Saitama, Japan.
Thorac Cancer. 2021 May;12(9):1387-1397. doi: 10.1111/1759-7714.13915. Epub 2021 Mar 12.
Although clinical trials have investigated the addition of pembrolizumab to chemotherapy for non-small cell lung cancer, none have investigated the addition of chemotherapy to pembrolizumab.
We conducted a retrospective study of 71 NSCLC patients including 33 treated with pembrolizumab plus chemotherapy (combination therapy group) and 38 treated with pembrolizumab monotherapy (monotherapy group) from 1 May 2016 to 31 August 2020.
Eleven of 33 (33.3%) patients in the combination therapy group and 37 of 38 (97.4%) patients in the monotherapy group had programmed cell death ligand-1 (PD-L1) tumor proportion score (TPS) ≥50%. Objective response rate (ORR) and median overall survival (OS) were not significantly different between the combination therapy group and monotherapy group (54.5% vs. 47.4, p = 0.637 and 16.6 vs. 27.0 months, p = 0.463). In patients with PD-L1 TPS ≥50%, ORR and median OS were not different between the combination therapy group and the monotherapy group (63.6% vs. 48.6%, p = 0.499 and not reached vs. 27.0 months, p = 0.976). Thirty-three (100%) patients experienced adverse events (AEs) in the combination therapy group and 32 (84.2%) in the monotherapy group. Treatment discontinuation at 1 year due to AEs occurred more frequently in the combination therapy group (45.2%) than in the monotherapy group (21.1%).
There was no significant difference in ORR and OS between the two groups, and treatment discontinuation was more frequent in the combination group. A randomized controlled trial is needed to evaluate the addition of chemotherapy to pembrolizumab for first-line treatment in patients with PD-L1 TPS ≥50%.
尽管临床试验已经研究了将 pembrolizumab 与化疗联合用于非小细胞肺癌,但没有研究将化疗与 pembrolizumab 联合用于治疗。
我们对 2016 年 5 月 1 日至 2020 年 8 月 31 日期间收治的 71 例 NSCLC 患者进行了回顾性研究,其中 33 例患者接受 pembrolizumab 联合化疗(联合治疗组),38 例患者接受 pembrolizumab 单药治疗(单药治疗组)。
联合治疗组中有 11 例(33.3%)患者和单药治疗组中有 37 例(97.4%)患者的程序性死亡配体-1(PD-L1)肿瘤比例评分(TPS)≥50%。联合治疗组和单药治疗组的客观缓解率(ORR)和中位总生存期(OS)无显著差异(54.5% vs. 47.4%,p=0.637 和 16.6 vs. 27.0 个月,p=0.463)。在 PD-L1 TPS≥50%的患者中,联合治疗组和单药治疗组的 ORR 和中位 OS 也无差异(63.6% vs. 48.6%,p=0.499 和未达到 vs. 27.0 个月,p=0.976)。联合治疗组 33 例(100%)患者和单药治疗组 32 例(84.2%)患者均出现不良事件(AEs)。联合治疗组中有 14 例(42.4%)患者因 AEs 而在 1 年内停止治疗,而单药治疗组仅有 7 例(18.4%)患者。
两组间 ORR 和 OS 无显著差异,联合组停药率更高。需要进行随机对照试验来评估在 PD-L1 TPS≥50%的患者中,将化疗与 pembrolizumab 联合用于一线治疗的效果。