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• 20203

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  P1.01 - Advanced NSCLC (ID 757)

  • Event: WCLC 2017
  • Type: Poster Session with Presenters Present
  • Track: Advanced NSCLC
  • Presentations: 1
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  • Coordinates: 10/16/2017, 09:30 - 16:00, Exhibit Hall (Hall B + C)

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    P1.01-064 - Efficacy and Tolerability of Nivolumab in Elderly Patients with Advanced Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer (ID 9899)

    09:30 - 09:30  |  Author(s): S. Eiji
    • Abstract

    Background:
    Immune checkpoint inhibitors are a novel group of immunotherapeutic agents. Antibodies to programmed death-1 (PD-1), such as nivolumab, have shown promising clinical activity in patients with advanced non-small-cell lung cancer (NSCLC), but their efficacy and safety in elderly patients with advanced NSCLC are unclear, because available major clinical trials involved a small number of elderly patients.
    
    Method:
    A total of 34 patients received nivolumab for advanced NSCLC from February 2016 to June 2017 in our hospital. We retrospectively reviewed the clinical medical records of these patients. They were divided into two groups; patients aged > 70 and < 70 years. Overall response rates (ORR), progression-free survival (PFS), major adverse effects and discontinuation rate due to adverse effects were compared between in two groups.
    
    Result:
    All of them were included in this study (median age was 64 years). Almost all patients had been previously treated with cytotoxic chemotherapy. They included 10 patients in aged > 70 years and 24 patients in aged < 70 years. There was no significant difference in histological type, performance status (PS), smoking history, line of therapy, and laboratory data between the two groups. Comparison between patients aged > 70 years and aged < 70 years in advanced NSCLC shows no statistically significant difference in median PFS (140 vs. 128, HR: 0.96, 95 % CI, 0.37-2.46, p = 0.93), ORR (40 % vs. 32 %, p = 0.70). The treatment was discontinued in 40 % (4/10) and 13 % (3/24) owing to adverse effect; however, there was no significant difference in two groups, and there was no adverse effect death in both groups.
    
    Conclusion:
    Nivolumab is tolerable and effective treatment for elderly patients with advanced NSCLC.