The anti–PD-1 antibody spartalizumab in combination with dabrafenib and trametinib in advanced BRAF V600–mutant melanoma: Efficacy and safety findings from parts 1 and 2 of the Phase III COMBI-i trial.

Authors

Georgina Long

Georgina V. Long

Melanoma Institute Australia, The University of Sydney, and Royal North Shore and Mater Hospitals, Sydney, NSW, Australia

Georgina V. Long , Celeste Lebbe , Victoria Atkinson , Mario Mandalà , Paul D. Nathan , Ana Arance , Erika Richtig , Naoya Yamazaki , Caroline Robert , Dirk Schadendorf , Hussein Abdul-Hassan Tawbi , Paolo Antonio Ascierto , Antoni Ribas , Keith Flaherty , Neha Pakhle , Aisha Masood , Eduard Gasal , Reinhard Dummer

Organizations

Melanoma Institute Australia, The University of Sydney, and Royal North Shore and Mater Hospitals, Sydney, NSW, Australia, APHP Dermatology and CIC, U976, Université de Paris, Paris, France, Greenslopes Private Hospital, Gallipoli Medical Research Foundation, University of Queensland, Greenslopes, QLD, Australia, Papa Giovanni XXIII Cancer Center Hospital, Bergamo, Italy, Mount Vernon Cancer Centre, Northwood, United Kingdom, Hospital Clinic of Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain, Medical University of Graz, Graz, Austria, National Cancer Center Hospital, Tokyo, Japan, Gustave Roussy and Paris-Sud-Paris-Saclay University, Villejuif, France, University Hospital Essen, Essen, and German Cancer Consortium, Heidelberg, Germany, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX, Istituto Nazionale Tumori IRCCS Fondazione “G. Pascale", Naples, Italy, University of California, Los Angeles, CA, Massachusetts General Hospital Cancer Center and Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, Novartis Healthcare Private Limited, Hyderabad, India, Novartis Pharmaceuticals Corporation, East Hanover, NJ, University Hospital Zürich Skin Cancer Center, Zürich, Switzerland

Research Funding

Pharmaceutical/Biotech Company
Novartis Pharmaceuticals Corporation

Background: Treatment (tx) with checkpoint inhibitors or targeted therapy improves outcomes in patients (pts) with BRAF V600–mutant advanced melanoma; however, many pts subsequently progress and die. Preliminary evidence suggests that targeted therapy may enhance the impact of checkpoint inhibitors and improve efficacy compared with either treatment alone. Methods: COMBI-i is investigating first-line spartalizumab 400 mg every 4 wk + dabrafenib 150 mg twice daily + trametinib 2 mg once daily in pts with unresectable or metastatic BRAF V600–mutant melanoma (NCT02967692). We report efficacy and safety data from parts 1 (run-in cohort) and 2 (biomarker cohort), with a median follow-up of 24.3 mo. Response was assessed per RECIST v1.1. The randomized part 3 is ongoing. Results: 36 pts were enrolled (part 1: n = 9; part 2: n = 27); 20 (56%) had stage IV M1c disease and 15 (42%) had elevated lactate dehydrogenase (LDH) levels (≥ upper limit of normal). At the data cutoff (August 19, 2019), tx was ongoing in 10 pts (28%). The confirmed investigator-assessed objective response rate (ORR) was 78% (n = 28), with 16 complete responses (CRs; 44%) and 12 partial responses (33%). Median duration of response (DOR; 10/28 responders with events) was not reached (NR); 24-mo DOR rate was 53.4% (95% CI, 29%-73%). Median progression-free survival (PFS) was 22.7 mo; 24-mo PFS rate was 41.4% (95% CI, 23%-59%). At the cutoff, median overall survival (OS) was NR, with a 24-mo OS rate of 74.1% (95% CI, 56%-86%). In pts with elevated LDH, ORR was 67%, with 4 CRs (27%); median PFS was 10.7 mo (95% CI, 4.6-19.1 mo), and median OS was NR. The estimated 24-mo PFS and OS rates in these pts were 26.7% and 52.5%, respectively. All pts had ≥ 1 tx-related adverse event (TRAEs); 26 (72%) had grade ≥ 3 TRAEs. The most common grade ≥ 3 TRAEs were pyrexia (17%), increased lipase (11%), neutropenia (11%), increased blood creatine phosphokinase (8%), and increased γ-glutamyltransferase (8%). AEs leading to discontinuation of all 3 study drugs occurred in 6 pts (17%). All-causality grade ≥ 3 AEs requiring immunosuppressive medication occurred in 19 pts (53%). One pt died of cardiac arrest that was not considered tx related. Conclusions: The combination of spartalizumab + dabrafenib + trametinib resulted in high ORR and CR rates, with a high frequency of durable responses, including in patients with poor prognostic factors. Clinical trial information: NCT02967692

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Abstract Details

Meeting

2020 ASCO Virtual Scientific Program

Session Type

Poster Session

Session Title

Melanoma/Skin Cancers

Track

Melanoma/Skin Cancers

Sub Track

Advanced/Metastatic Disease

Clinical Trial Registration Number

NCT02967692

Citation

J Clin Oncol 38: 2020 (suppl; abstr 10028)

DOI

10.1200/JCO.2020.38.15_suppl.10028

Abstract #

10028

Poster Bd #

377

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