Comprehensive nationwide study on the prescription of experimental anticancer therapies for compassionate use in children and adolescents in France.

Authors

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Pablo Berlanga

Gustave Roussy Cancer Campus, Villejuif, France

Pablo Berlanga , Liora Brunel , Isabelle Aerts , Lee Aymar Ndounga-Diakou , Marie Gadeyne , Nadège Corradini , Stephane Ducassou , Marion Strullu , Emilie De Carli , Nicolas André , Natacha Entz-Werle , Sandra Raimbault , Dominique Plantaz , Samuel Abbou , Marianne Roumy , Marjolaine Renouard , Virginie Gandemer , Salim Laghouati , Isabelle Yoldjian , Gilles Vassal

Organizations

Gustave Roussy Cancer Campus, Villejuif, France, French National Authority for Health, Saint Denis, France, Institut Curie, PSL Research University, Oncology Center SIREDO, Paris, France, IHOPe-CLB, Lyon, France, Paediatric Haematology-Oncology Department, Centre Hospitalier Universitaire, Bordeaux, France, Paediatric Haematology-Oncology Department, Hôpital Robert-Debré Ap-Hp, Paris, France, CHU Angers, Angers, France, Hôpital Pour Enfants De La Timone, Marseille, France, Pédiatrie Onco-Hématologie - Pédiatrie III - CHRU Hautepierre, Strasbourg, France, Department of Pediatric Oncology, Oscar Lambret Cancer Center, Lille, France, Hospital Pediatric Hematology, Grenoble, France, Department of Pediatric and Adolescent Oncology, Gustave Roussy Cancer Campus, Université Paris-Saclay, Villejuif, France, Department of Pediatric Oncology, University Hospital, Angers, France, Institut Curie, Paris, France, Hospital Pediatric Hematology, Rennes, France, Pharmacovigilance Unit, Clinical Research Direction, Gustave Roussy Cancer Campus, Université Paris-Saclay, Villejuif, France, Gustave Roussy Cancer Centre, Villejuif, France

Research Funding

Other
Imagine for Margo, Association Hubert Gouin, Fondation du LEEM and the SFCE.

Background: Compassionate use prescriptions of innovative anticancer therapies are common in pediatric oncology, although rarely reported and activity/safety information mainly based on single/limited institutional retrospective experiences. Methods: In France, early drug access before marketing authorization is granted by the French National Agency for the Safety of Medicines and Health Products (ANSM) in case on unmet need, positive benefit/risk balance of preliminary data and no access within clinical trials. All anticancer prescriptions approved by the ANSM from 01/01/2020 to 31/12/2022 for patients < 18 years-old were analyzed. Patients safety and activity data were collected through the SACHA France study (NCT04477681) in the 2020-2021 period. 2022 data analysis is currently ongoing and will be included in the presentation at ASCO. Results: In the study period, 1022 anticancer compassionate use prescriptions were authorized by ANSM. The most frequently prescribed drug was methotrexate drinkable solution (n = 526) and 383 prescriptions were within the inclusion criteria of the SACHA study (anti-cancer innovative therapies not approved in Europe or new formulation of an already approved drug after 2007). In the 2020-2021 period, 28 different therapies were prescribed to 188 patients in a French Society of Pediatric Oncology (SFCE) center. Of them, 14 patients never received the prescribed drug, mainly due to early death. 107 of 174 (61%) eligible patients from 21 SFCE centers were included in the SACHA study (56% in 2020 and 67% in 2021). Median age at inclusion was 6.0 years (range: 0.3 -17.3). Main cancer types were central nervous system (CNS) tumors (69), followed by non-CNS tumors (24) and leukemia/lymphoma (14). Main prescribed therapies targeted MEK/BRAF (66), EZH2 (11), BLC2 (7) and ALK/ROS1/MET (5). In 40/107 patients (37%) at least a grade ≥2 clinical and/or grade ≥3 biological adverse drug reaction (ADR) was reported, leading to delayed therapy in 15 % of patients. Overall, 10 serious ADRs were reported in 10 patients. At last news, 53/107 patients had stopped their drug, mainly due to disease progression (33), followed by physician decision (11) and toxicity ± physician decision (8). 12-months PFS was 49% (95 IC: 38-60 %), with a median of 334 days of follow-up for patients on therapy. Conclusions: To our knowledge, this is the first comprehensive nation-wide study on compassionate use prescriptions of experimental anticancer therapies to children and adolescents with cancer with prospective safety/activity information in more than 60% of patients. This study underscores the importance, and feasibility, of the close collaboration between academia and regulatory authorities to ensure adequate real-life monitoring of these prescriptions. Supported by Imagine for Margo, Association Hubert Gouin, Fondation du LEEM and the SFCE.

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Abstract Details

Meeting

2023 ASCO Annual Meeting

Session Type

Poster Discussion Session

Session Title

Pediatric Oncology

Track

Pediatric Oncology

Sub Track

Pediatric Solid Tumors

Citation

J Clin Oncol 41, 2023 (suppl 16; abstr 10019)

DOI

10.1200/JCO.2023.41.16_suppl.10019

Abstract #

10019

Poster Bd #

325

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