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Table 1 Baseline patient characteristics

From: Baseline antibody profiles predict toxicity in melanoma patients treated with immune checkpoint inhibitors

  

Anti-CTLA-4

Anti-PD-1

Combination

Fisher’s test

 

(n = 37)

(n = 27)

(n = 11)

p value

 

No. (%)

No. (%)

No. (%)

Gender

 Female

12 (32)

11 (41)

4 (36)

0.848

 

 Male

25 (68)

16 (59)

7 (64)

 

Age at treatment initiation

 Mean (SD)

66.2 (13)

69.9 (14)

59.9 (13)

1

 

 Median

67.4

71

61.1

 

ECOG PS (pretreatment)

 0

28 (76)

19 (70)

7 (64)

0.736

 

 > 1

9 (24)

8 (30)

4 (36)

 

LDH (pretreatment)

 Normal

31 (91)

19 (70)

9 (82)

0.114

 

 Elevated

0 (9)

8 (30)

2 (18)

 
 

 Unknown

3

0

0

 

Response to treatment

 POD

22 (59)

10 (37)

4 (36)

0.01

 

 SD

10 (27)

5 (19)

1 (9)

 
 

 PR

5 (14)

8 (30)

2 (18)

 
 

 CR

0

2 (7)

4 (36)

 
 

 UNC

0

2 (7)

0

 

Toxicity

 None

8 (22)

4 (15)

0

 
 

 Mild

20 (54)

15 (55)

4 (36)

0.16

 

 Severe

9 (24)

8 (30)

7 (64)

 

GI toxicity

 Mild

9 (23.1)

12 (42.9)

3 (27.3)

0.08

 

 Severe

6 (15.4)

3 (10.7)

6 (54.5)

 

Skin toxicity

 Mild

15 (38.5)

17 (60.7)

5 (45.5)

0.43

 

 Severe

0

1 (3.6)

1 (9.1)

 

Endocrine toxicity

 Mild

5 (12.8)

11 (39.2)

4 (36.4)

0.71

 

 Severe

0

1 (3.6)

1 (9.1)

 

Required treatment termination

 Yes

4 (11)

3 (11)

6 (54)

0.006

 

 No

33 (89)

24 (89)

5 (46)

 
  1. Summary of clinical features from 75 melanoma patients treated with anti-CTLA-4 (n = 37), anti-PD-1 (n = 27), or anti-CTLA-4 and anti-PD-1 (n = 11). LDH lactate dehydrogenase, POD progression of disease, SD stable disease, PR partial response, CR complete response, UNC unclassified. Fisher’s exact test was used to examine the significance of the association between patient characteristics and treatment type. Two anti-CTLA-4 patients were sampled twice (11-311, in 2011 and 2013; 12-071, in 2012 and 2013), and one anti-PD-1 patient was sampled twice (13-185, in 2015 and 2016)