Impact of immune-related adverse events on survival in patients with metastastic urothelial carcinoma treated with immune-checkpoint inhibitors.

Abstract

4531 Background: Immune-checkpoints inhibitors (ICIs) represents the standard of care for platinum-pretreated advanced urothelial cancer patients (pts). By enhancing T-cell activation, a unique spectrum of inflammatory side effects has emerged, also known as immune-related adverse events (irAEs). Data regarding the association between irAEs and pts outcomes are conflicting. Here we conducted a retrospective analysis to investigate the association between irAEs profile and disease outcome in metastastic urothelial carcinoma (mUC) pts. Methods: Medical records from pts with mUC included in clinical trials between July 2013 and June 2018 and treated with ICIs were reviewed. Pts previously treated with platinum-based chemotherapy or cisplatin ineligible pts who had not been previously treated with chemotherapy were included. Clinical responses were assessed as complete response (CR), partial response (PR), stable disease (SD), and progressive disease (PD) according to RECIST v1.1. Adverse events were graded based CTCAE v4.03. Overall survival (OS) was calculated from the date of initiation of ICI to the date of death. X2 test was used to determine differences in rates. OS was estimated using Kaplan-Method and long rank test was used to assess differences between groups. All analyses were performed using SPSS v21. Results: From a total of 52 pts, 44 (84.6%) were treated with ICI monotherapy and 8 (15.3%) in combination (anti-CTLA4 or targeted therapy). Median age was 65 years, 42 pts (80.8%) were male, 44 patients (84.6%) had ECOG PS 0-1, 14 pts (26.9%) had liver metastasis. Overall irAEs were observed in 30 pts (57.7%) and 10 pts (19.2%) developed grade 3/4 irAES. Most common grade 3/4 irAEs were diarrhea (6.6%), rash (6.6%) and hepatitis (6.6%). Disease control rate (CR [26%]+PR[33%]+SD[20%]) was higher for patients with irAEs compared to those patients who did not developed irAEs (CR [13.6%]+PR[0%]+SD[22.7%], this difference was statically significant (P = 0.002). Median OS was 11.23 mo (CI 95%, 3.76-18.70) for the overall cohort, while median OS was 21.91 mo for those patients with irAEs compared to 6.47 mo in patients who did not developed irAEs (P = 0.004). Conclusions: In this analysis we found that the development of irAEs was a strong predictor of improved OS in mUC patients treated with ICI.