FDA analysis of treatment-free survival in frontline advanced immuno-oncology–VEGF TKI renal cell carcinoma trials.

Authors

Elaine Chang

Elaine Chang

US Food and Drug Administration, Silver Spring, MD

Elaine Chang , Jiaxi Zhou , Chi Song , Haley Gittleman , Laura L. Fernandes , Chana Weinstock , Michael B. Atkins , Sundeep Agrawal , Rajeshwari Sridhara , Nicole Gormley , Laleh Amiri-Kordestani , Shenghui Tang , Paul Kluetz , Daniel L. Suzman , Richard Pazdur , Brian I. Rini , David F. McDermott , Meredith M. Regan

Organizations

US Food and Drug Administration, Silver Spring, MD, BeiGene, Fulton, MD, U.S. Food and Drug Administration, Silver Spring, MD, COTA Healthcare Inc., Silver Spring, MD, US Food and Drug Administration, Baltimore, MD, NRB 501E, Washington, DC, FDA, Silver Spring, MD, Retired from Food and Drug Administration Center for Drug Evaluation and Research, Ellicott City, MD, Oncology Center of Excellence, U.S. Food and Drug Administration, Silver Spring, MD, Oncology Center of Excellence, U.S. Food and Drug Administration; Office of Oncologic Diseases, Office of New Drugs, Center for Drug Evaluation and Research, U.S. Food and Drug Administration, Silver Spring, MD, Department of Medicine, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, TN, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Boston, MA, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Boston, MA

Research Funding

No funding received
None.

Background: Treatment-free survival (TFS) with and without (w/o) toxicity are outcome measures that describe health states where patients are experiencing clinically stable disease while off anti-cancer treatment, a clinically meaningful attribute seen with some immune-oncology (IO) regimens. We sought to characterize TFS with and w/o ongoing toxicity in addition to time on protocol therapy (combination and monotherapy) in trials of frontline IO-VEGF tyrosine kinase inhibitor (TKI) combinations in pts with advanced renal cell carcinoma (aRCC). Methods: We pooled randomized trials submitted to FDA evaluating IO-TKI combination in treatment-naïve aRCC with at least 30 months (mos) of median follow-up. OS was partitioned into health states, including TFS, defined as area between Kaplan-Meier curves for 2 time-to-event endpoints originating at randomization: 1) time to all protocol therapy cessation and 2) time to subsequent systemic therapy initiation or death. Health state areas under the curve were estimated by 30-mo restricted mean times. We pooled data by treatment arm. Results: Three trials (KEYNOTE-426, JAVELIN Renal 100, CheckMate 9ER) met criteria for analysis; in total, 1183 pts received IO-TKI vs. 1184 on control arms receiving sunitinib (SUN). IO-TKI and SUN groups spent 9% (2.7 mos [95% confidence interval (CI): 1.8, 3.5]) and 10% (2.9 mos [95% CI: 2.1, 3.8]) of the 30-mo period alive and treatment-free. Mean TFS with grade ≥3 toxicity were 1 and 0.6 mos in the IO-TKI and SUN groups, respectively. Mean TFS w/o grade ≥3 toxicity were 1.7 and 2.3 mos in IO-TKI and SUN groups, respectively. In IO-TKI group, the 30-mo mean time on combination therapy was 13.7 mos (46% of 30-mo period) and 3.9 mos on monotherapy (13% of 30-mo period). Following cessation of one drug in IO-TKI arm, monotherapy duration of TKI was longer than IO: 2.9 and 1 mos, respectively. Conclusions: In this descriptive, exploratory analysis, TFS and TFS w/o toxicity were similar in IO-TKI group compared to SUN group, in contrast to improved TFS in IO-IO vs. SUN seen in published literature. Among pts on IO-TKI, more time was spent on TKI monotherapy than IO monotherapy. These findings may reflect continuation of TKI until progression per protocol design in all trials and discontinuation of IO after 2 years in 2 trials, and may inform individual pt choice of IO-IO vs. IO-TKI.

Estimates of 30-month restricted-mean times of endpoints, time on IO-TKI combination, and time on monotherapy, and percentage of 30 month mean times.

IO-TKI (N=1183)Sunitinib (N=1184)
Mean time (Months)% of 30-mo periodMean time (Months)% of 30-mo period
OS24.98322.976
Time to all protocol therapy cessation18.06012.742
Time on combination therapy13.746--
Time on monotherapy3.913--
Time on TKI monotherapy2.910--
Time on IO monotherapy1.03--
TFS2.792.910
Survival after subsequent therapy initiation4.2147.324

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Abstract Details

Meeting

2023 ASCO Annual Meeting

Session Type

Publication Only

Session Title

Publication Only: Care Delivery and Regulatory Policy

Track

Care Delivery and Quality Care

Sub Track

Clinical Research Design

Citation

J Clin Oncol 41, 2023 (suppl 16; abstr e13602)

DOI

10.1200/JCO.2023.41.16_suppl.e13602

Abstract #

e13602

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