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CHICAGO — Adjuvant ipilimumab therapy for resected high-risk melanoma at a dose of 10 mg/kg is associated with significantly more toxicity than a dose of 3 mg/kg and does not improve recurrence-free survival (RFS), according to study findings presented at the 2017 American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO) Annual Meeting.
In a phase III randomized trial (E1609), the ipilimumab 10 mg/kg dose (ipi10) was associated with higher rates of treatment-related adverse events (AEs) and discontinuation of treatment, lead investigator Ahmad A. Tarhini, MD, PhD, of the University of Pittsburgh Cancer Institute, told listeners.
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Investigators randomly assigned 1670 patients to receive ipilimumab 3 mg/kg (ipi3; 523 patients), ipilimumab 10 mg/kg (ipi10; 511 patients), or high-dose interferon-alfa (636 patients). Treatment-related adverse events (AEs) were reported among 503 and 516 patients in the ipi10 and ipi3 groups, respectively. Grade 3 or higher treatment-related AEs were experienced by 57% of the ipi10 patients compared with 36.4% of the ipi3 patients. AEs led to discontinuation of treatment in 271 (53.8%) of 503 ipi10 patients vs 180 (35.2%) of 512 ipi3 patients during the initial 4-dose induction phase. At a median follow-up of 3.1 years, an unplanned exploratory analysis of concurrently randomized patients revealed no significant difference in RFS for ipi10 and ipi3, Dr Tarhini told attendees. The 3-year RFS rate was 54% (95% CI, 49-60) with ipi10 and 56% (95% CI, 50-61) with ipi3.
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Tarhini AA, Lee SJ, Hodi FS, et al. A phase III randomized study of adjuvant ipilimumab (3 or 10 mg/kg) versus high-dose interferon alfa-2b for resected high-risk melanoma (U.S. Intergroup E1609): preliminary safety and efficacy of the ipilimumab arms. Oral presentation at: 2017 American Society of Clinical Oncology Annual Meeting; June 2-6, 2017; Chicago, IL.
