Breakfast Brief Dr. Pall – Related Abstracts

In the third Breakfast Brief, Dr. Georg Pall presented the following abstracts:

Long-term outcomes in patients (pts) with ipilimumab (ipi)-naive advanced melanoma in the phase 3 KEYNOTE-006 study who completed pembrolizumab (pembro) treatment.

Results: A total of 222 pts were randomly assigned (Sep 19 2011 to Apr 24 2014). Baseline characteristics were balanced. At the time of data cutoff, the median duration of treatment was 21.9 months in the G arm, and 4 cycles in the VP arm. The median follow-up period was 36.5 months (range 0.1 to 62.8). G had significantly longer median DFS (28.7 months, 95% confidence interval [CI] 24.9 to 32.5) than VP (18.0 months, 95% CI 13.6 to 22.3; hazard ratio 0.60; 95% CI 0.42 to 0.87; p= 0.005). 3-year DFS was significantly better with G (34.0% vs 27.0%; p= 0.013). The number of overall survival events was 76 (34.2%). In the subgroup analysis of patients treated with G, lymph node status (pN1/N2) demonstrated significant correlation with DFS (p< 0.05). Grade 3 or higher adverse events were less common with G than with VP (12.3% vs 48.3%; p< 0.001). No interstitial lung disease was observed with G.