Checkpoint inhibitor treatment in patients with isolated in-transit melanoma metastases.

Authors

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Lucy Storey

Christie NHS Foundation Trust, Manchester, United Kingdom

Lucy Storey , Mohammed Abdul-Latif , Sophia Kreft , Emma Barrett , Lisa M Pickering , Maartje W. Rohaan , Sobia Ahmed , Thomas K. Eigentler , Jessica Cecile Hassel , Sebastian Haferkamp , Frank Meiss , Theresa Steeb , Heather May Shaw , Christian U. Blank , Alexander Christopher Jonathan Van Akkooi , James M. G. Larkin , Bastian Schilling , Paul Lorigan , Paul D. Nathan

Organizations

Christie NHS Foundation Trust, Manchester, United Kingdom, Mount Vernon Cancer Center, Northwood, United Kingdom, Department of Dermatology, University Hospital Würzburg, Germany, Germany, Manchester Foundation Trust, Education and Research Centre, Wythenshawe Hospital, Manchester, United Kingdom, Royal Marsden Hospital, London, United Kingdom, Netherlands Cancer Institute, Antoni van Leeuwenhoek Hospital, Amsterdam, Netherlands, University of Manchester, Manchester, United Kingdom, Department of Dermatology, Center for Dermatooncology, University Medical Center Tübingen, Tübingen, Germany, Department of Dermatology and National Center for Tumor Diseases (NCT), Heidelberg University Hospital, Heidelberg, Germany, Department of Dermatology, University Hospital Regensburg, Regensburg, Germany, Deparment of Dermatology and Venereology, University of Freiburg, Freiburg, Germany, Department of Dermatology, University Hospital Erlangen, Erlangen, Germany, University College London Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, London, United Kingdom, Netherlands Cancer Institute, Amsterdam, Netherlands, University Hospital Würtzburg, Munich, Germany, University of Manchester, The Christie NHS Foundation Trust, Manchester, United Kingdom, Mount Vernon Cancer Centre, Northwood, United Kingdom

Research Funding

No funding received
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Background: In the context of multiple in-transit melanoma metastases without nodal involvement, a variety of treatment modalities have historically been employed including surgery, laser, isolated limb perfusion/infusion, intralesional interleukin-2, T-VEC and electrochemotherapy. Unfortunately, most patients treated with these modalities experience subsequent disease progression. While checkpoint inhibitors (CPI) are a standard of care for bulky unresectable stage III and for stage IV melanoma, patients with isolated in-transit metastases were rarely included in registration studies. There are anecdotal reports of lower response rates in these patients despite them having disease characteristics that would usually be associated with a good response. Methods: We report data from 11 retrospective patient cohorts treated at cancer centres across Europe who received CPI between 2016 and April 2019. All patients had multiple in-transit metastases without clinical or radiological evidence of nodal or distant disease. Disease response was assessed using CT, PET-CT or MRI depending on clinical indication. All patients had at least one prior resection of loco-regional relapsed disease and were deemed not curable by further surgery. Results: Sixty three patients meeting criteria were identified, 40 females and 23 males. Median age was 72 years and 54 (86%) patients had a normal lactate dehydrogenase (LDH). 19 (30%) patients had a BRAF mutation. At treatment initiation, the majority 55 (87.3%) received single agent PD-1 inhibitor, 7 (11.1%) combination ipilimumab + nivolumab and 1 (1.6%) received single agent anti-CTLA 4. The overall response rate was 62% for the full population. The response rate with anti-PD1 monotherapy was 59%. With a median FU of 23 months, the median PFS was 26 months, median OS not reached. OS estimates with 95% CI: 12 month - 93% (87-100%), 24 month - 88% (80-98%), 36 month - 80% (67-95%). Conclusions: The results show a high response rate to CPI in patients with in-transit metastases and support early treatment with CPI following identification of in-transit metastases not curable with surgery whilst disease characteristics remain favourable.

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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

Local-Regional Disease

Citation

J Clin Oncol 38: 2020 (suppl; abstr 10070)

DOI

10.1200/JCO.2020.38.15_suppl.10070

Abstract #

10070

Poster Bd #

419

Abstract Disclosures