アブストラクト | Recent studies suggest that combining nivolumab with ipilimumab is a more effective treatment for melanoma patients, compared to using ipilimumab or nivolumab alone. However, treatment with these immunotherapeutic agents is frequently associated with increased risk of toxicity, and (auto-) immune-related adverse events. The precise pathophysiologic mechanisms of these events are not yet clear, and evidence from clinical trials and translational studies remains limited. Our retrospective analysis of ~7700 metastatic melanoma patients treated with ipilimumab and/or nivolumab from the FDA Adverse Event Reporting System (FAERS) demonstrates that the identified immune-related reactions are specific to ipilimumab and/or nivolumab, and that when the two agents are administered together, their safety profile combines reactions from each drug alone. While more prospective studies are needed to characterize the safety of ipilimumab and nivolumab, the present work constitutes perhaps the first effort to examine the safety of these drugs and their combination based on computational evidence from real world post marketing data. |
ジャーナル名 | Diagnostics (Basel, Switzerland) |
Pubmed追加日 | 2018/11/6 |
投稿者 | Soldatos, Theodoros G; Dimitrakopoulou-Strauss, Antonia; Larribere, Lionel; Hassel, Jessica C; Sachpekidis, Christos |
組織名 | Molecular Health GmbH, 69115 Heidelberg, Germany. soldatos@molecularhealth.com.;Clinical Cooperation Unit Nuclear Medicine, German Cancer Research Center, 69120;Heidelberg, Germany. a.dimitrakopoulou-strauss@dkfz.de.;Skin Cancer Unit, German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ), 69120 Heidelberg,;Germany. l.larribere@dkfz.de.;Department of Dermatology and National Center for Tumor Diseases, University;Hospital Heidelberg, 69120 Heidelberg, Germany.;Jessica.Hassel@med.uni-heidelberg.de.;Heidelberg, Germany. christos_saxpe@yahoo.gr. |
Pubmed リンク | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30384507/ |