Table 1 Characteristics and quality assessment results of included studies.

From: Concomitant anticoagulants and the survival of cancer patients treated with immune checkpoint inhibitors: a meta-analysis

ID

Time of ACs use

country

cancer type

ICI treatment

ICIs line

ACs type

Sample

size

(Y/N)

Outcome

Median PFS

(Users vs. non-users)

(Month)

Median OS

(Users vs. non-users)

(Month)

Analysis

model

NOS

Cortellini 2020

baseline

Italy

NSCLC

Pembrolizumab

First

New oral anticoagulants

145/1012

PFS/OS

6.3 vs. 10.9

12.4 vs. 18.9

MVA/

UVA

7

Melanoma

Nivolumab

Non-first

Low molecular weight heparin

RCC

Atezolizumab

 

Vitamin K antagonists

Others

Others

  

Johannet

2021

Nichetti

(0, NR)

(0, NR)

America

Italy

Melanoma

anti-CTLA-4

First

Direct thrombin inhibitor

120/948

PFS/OS

PFS/OS

NA

2.3 vs. 4.2

NA

7.8 vs. 10.3

MVA/

UVA

MVA/

7

6

Lung cancer

anti-PD-1 or anti-PD-L1

Non-first

Factor Xa inhibitor

 

Others

anti-PD-1 + anti-CTLA-4

 

Heparin product

 
   

Vitamin K antagonist

 

NSCLC

anti-CTLA-4

NA

NA

47/217

2019

Haist

2021

baseline

German

Melanoma

anti-PD-1 or anti-PD-L1

First

Non-first

Factor Xa inhibitor

Vitamin K antagonist

76/280

PFS/OS

4.0 vs. 4.0

39 vs. 51.0

UVA

MVA/

UVA

7

anti-PD-1 + anti-CTLA-4

anti-PD-1

Sainz

2020

baseline

Spain

NSCLC

Melanoma

RCC

anti-CTLA-4

 

Heparin product

 

OS

  

MVA

6

anti-CTLA-4

First

NA

17/229

NA

NA

anti-PD-1 or anti-PD-L1

     

anti-PD-1 + anti-CTLA-4

     

Others

      
  1. ICIs, immune checkpoint inhibitors; RCC, renal cell carcinoma; NSCLC, non-small cell lung cancer; PD-1/PD-LI, programmed death-1/ligand-1; CTLA4, cytotoxic T-lymphocyte associated protein 4; PFS, progression-free survival; OS, overall survival; MVA, multivariate analysis; UVA, univariate analysis.