Table 1 Baseline characteristics and outcomes of patients with advanced metastatic cancer who had prolonged response to immunotherapy

From: Prolonged response to dual immune checkpoint blockade in patients with advanced solid tumors: a case series

 

Case 1

Case 2

Case 3

Case 4

Case 5

Age at diagnosis

20s

50s

30s

70s

50s

Sex

Female

Male

Female

Male

Female

Diagnosis

Rectal adenocarcinoma

Neuroendocrine carcinoma

Colon adenocarcinoma

Prostate adenocarcinoma

Neuroendocrine carcinoma

Prior therapies

- Low anterior resection

- FOLFIRINOX

- Lung wedge resection

- Capecitabine/bevacizumab

- Carboplatin/

- etopsoide

- Right hemicolectomy

- FOLFIRINOX

- Total colectomy

- FOLFOX

- Abdominal mass resection

- FOLFOX/bevacizumab

- FOLFIRI/bevacizumab

- CRS + HIPEC

- Irinotecan

- CRS + HIPEC

- FOLFIRI/bevacizumab

- Anti-Globo H monoclonal antibody

- 4-1BB agonist, cetuximab and irinotecan

- Androgen deprivation therapy

- Sipuleucel-T

- Abiraterone acetate/apalutamide/prednisone (clinical trial)

- Cabazitaxel/carboplatin

- Total abdominal hysterectomy/bilateral salpingo-oophrectomy, node dissection, and appendectomy

- Vincristine and doxorubicin

- Radiation therapy

- Carboplatin/etoposide

- Temozolomide

- Everolimus

- Peptide-drug conjugate

- Carboplatin/etoposide

Time (diagnosis to start of anti-CTLA4/ PD1), years

3

1.5

3.5

4.5

11

ECOG PS

0

1

1

1

1

LDH

Normal

Elevated

Not evaluated

Normal

Elevated

Genetic mutations

FBXW7 G423R, KRAS G12D, TP53 R282W, APC N942fs, and APC E1309*

KRAS G12D and RAD50 E995fs*2

KRAS G12D, PIK3CA E545K, and CHEK2 T367fs*15

PIK3CA N1044K

PIK3CA Y1021H

Microsatellite/mismatch repair status

MSS

MSS

MSS

dMMR

ND

PD-L1 status

Negative

Negative

Negative

ND

ND

TMB

ND

2.6 mutations/mb

3.2 mutations/mb

ND

ND

No. of cycles with CTLA4/PD1

11

4

4

1

7

No. of cycles of PD1 maintenance

6

2

4

0

35

Best response per CT scans

PR

PR

PR

PR

PR

Best response per PET/CT

CR

CR

PR

Not done

CR

Grade 3-4 irAEs

Pneumonitis, colitis, esophagitis

Gastritis/duodenitis

Colitis

Transaminitis

None

Tumor markers

CEA at baseline: 59.9

CEA at end of treatment: 3.2

ND

CEA at baseline: 6.4

CEA at end of treatment: 4.1

PSA at baseline: 19.1

PSA at end of treatment: 0.1

ND

PFS

34+ months

68 months

38+ months

68+ months

69+ months

  1. CEA Carcinoembryonic antigen, CR Complete response, CRS Cytoreductive surgery, CT Computed tomography, CTLA4 Cytotoxic T-lymphocyte associated protein 4, dMMR Deficient mismatch repair, ECOG Eastern Cooperative Oncology Group, FOLFIRI Folinic acid, fluorouracil, and irinotecan, FOLFIRINOX Folinic acid, fluorouracil, irinotecan, and oxaliplatin, FOLFOX Folinic acid, fluorouracil, and oxaliplatin, HIPEC Hyperthermic intraperitoneal chemotherapy, irAEs Immune-related adverse events, LDH Lactate dehydrogenase, mb Megabase, MSS Microsatellite stable, ND Not done, PD1 Programmed cell death protein 1, PD-L1 Programmed death ligand 1, PET/CT Positron emission tomography/computed tomography, PFS Progression-free survival, PR Partial response, PS Performance status, PSA Prostate specific antigen, TMB Tumor mutational burden.