Efficacy of TIP (paclitaxel, ifosfamide and cisplatin) as salvage chemotherapy for relapsed germ cell cancer patients stratified by the modified International Prognostic Factors Study Group (IPFSG) score: The Northern Ireland (NI) Experience.

Authors

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Adam Uprichard

Belfast City Hospital, Belfast, United Kingdom

Adam Uprichard , Julie-Anne Scott , James Mcaleer , Judith Carser , Olabode Oladipo

Organizations

Belfast City Hospital, Belfast, United Kingdom

Research Funding

No funding received
None

Background: Salvage therapy for relapsed or refractory germ cell tumours (GCTs) after first-line treatment (1LT) failure remain controversial. The ongoing TIGER trial aims to compare conventional-dose chemotherapy (CDCT) using TIP with high-dose chemotherapy (HDCT) and to validate a modified version of the IPFSG stratification system as a secondary objective. We retrospectively analysed data from patients treated with TIP at our institution and stratified by the modified IPFSG (mIPFSG) groupings, correlating this with clinical outcomes. Methods: Data from all GCT patients who received TIP in NI between 2005 and 2014 was collected. Patients were scored using known IPFSG factors including progression-free interval (0-1), metastasis site (0-3), response to 1LT (0-2), primary tumour site (0-3), HCG (0-1), AFP (0-2), and histology (-1 to 0), and categorised into the modified strata. Descriptive and inferential statistics using SPSS compared survival measure outcomes and the favourable response rate (FRR) i.e the proportion of patients achieving either a complete response or partial response with normal serum tumour markers, according to mIPFSG group. Results: Thirty patients were identified, all of whom received 4 cycles of TIP. The median age was 37 years (range 17-57), 28 patients were non-seminoma histology with 2 patients seminoma. The cohort comprised predominantly of patients with more adverse mIPFSG features and the FRR of the group was 30%, with a median progression-free survival (PFS) of 9 months and 2-year overall survival (OS) of 50%. Clinical outcomes differed by mIPFSG score as shown below. Conclusions: Our study shows TIP efficacy comparable to published data, and to our knowledge is the first to show correlation between clinical outcomes with the regimen and the new mIPFSG model. The differences in outcomes to CDCT using TIP across risk groups in real world practice shows potential for a stratified approach to patient selection for salvage therapy, as is under investigation by the TIGER study.

mIPFSG point score
FRR
2-year OS
Low (-1 to 0), n= 580%80%

P <0.05
Intermediate (1-2), n= 1136.4%72.7%
High (3+), n= 147.1%21.4%

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Abstract Details

Meeting

2021 ASCO Annual Meeting

Session Type

Poster Session

Session Title

Genitourinary Cancer—Prostate, Testicular, and Penile

Track

Genitourinary Cancer—Prostate, Testicular, and Penile

Sub Track

Germ Cell/Testicular Cancer

Citation

J Clin Oncol 39, 2021 (suppl 15; abstr 5028)

DOI

10.1200/JCO.2021.39.15_suppl.5028

Abstract #

5028

Poster Bd #

Online Only

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