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Table 1 Demographic and clinical characteristics for patients included in the RPA

From: Impact of initial treatment and prognostic factors on postprogression survival in BRAF-mutated metastatic melanoma treated with dacarbazine or vemurafenib ± cobimetinib: a pooled analysis of four clinical trials

Characteristic

All pooled patients N = 1004

Cobimetinib + vemurafenib n = 184

Vemurafenib monotherapy n = 555

Dacarbazine n = 265

Age, n (%)

(n = 1004)

(n = 184)

(n = 555)

(n = 265)

 < 65 y

758 (75.5)

142 (77.2)

405 (73.0)

211 (79.6)

 ≥ 65 y

246 (24.5)

42 (22.8)

150 (27.0)

54 (20.4)

Sex, n (%)

(n = 1004)

(n = 184)

(n = 555)

(n = 265)

 Male

600 (59.8)

117 (63.6)

335 (60.4)

148 (55.8)

 Female

404 (40.2)

67 (36.4)

220 (39.6)

117 (44.2)

Race, n (%)

(n = 1004)

(n = 184)

(n = 555)

(n = 265)

 White

971 (96.7)

167 (90.8)

539 (97.1)

265 (100.0)

 Nonwhite

33 (3.3)

17 (9.2)

16 (2.9)

0

Region, n (%)

(n = 1004)

(n = 184)

(n = 555)

(n = 265)

 North America

270 (26.9)

47 (25.5)

163 (29.4)

60 (22.6)

 Europe

590 (58.8)

108 (58.7)

314 (56.6)

168 (63.4)

 Australia/New Zealand/Others

144 (14.3)

29 (15.8)

78 (14.1)

37 (14.0)

Baseline disease stage, n (%)

(n = 1004)

(n = 184)

(n = 555)

(n = 265)

 Unresectable IIIC, M1a, or M1b

332 (33.1)

57 (31.0)

184 (33.2)

91 (34.3)

 M1c

672 (66.9)

127 (69.0)

371 (66.8)

174 (65.7)

Baseline ECOG PS, n (%)

(n = 1001)

(n = 182)

(n = 554)

(n = 265)

 0

651 (65.0)

129 (70.9)

343 (61.9)

179 (67.5)

 1

350 (35.0)

53 (29.1)

211 (38.1)

86 (32.5)

Baseline LDH, n (%)

(n = 942)

(n = 173)

(n = 523)

(n = 246)

 Normal

495 (52.5)

82 (47.4)

276 (52.8)

137 (55.7)

 Elevated ≤ 2 × ULN

290 (30.8)

61 (35.3)

154 (29.4)

75 (30.5)

 Elevated > 2 × ULN

157 (16.7)

30 (17.3)

93 (17.8)

34 (13.8)

Baseline liver metastasis, n (%)

(n = 1001)

(n = 184)

(n = 552)

(n = 265)

 Yes

375 (35.7)

69 (37.5)

199 (36.1)

89 (33.6)

 No

644 (64.3)

115 (62.5)

353 (63.9)

176 (66.4)

ECOG PS at PD, n (%)

(n = 926)

(n = 166)

(n = 519)

(n = 241)

 0

489 (52.8)

108 (65.1)

266 (51.3)

115 (47.7)

 1

356 (38.4)

50 (30.1)

209 (40.3)

97 (40.2)

 2

55 (5.9)

4 (2.4)

29 (5.6)

22 (9.1)

 3

22 (2.4)

4 (2.4)

13 (2.5)

5 (2.1)

 4

4 (0.4)

0

2 (0.4)

2 (0.8)

Postprogression treatment, n (%)

(n = 1004)

(n = 184)

(n = 555)

(n = 265)

 Immunotherapy

202 (20.1)

39 (21.2)

114 (20.5)

49 (18.5)

 Targeted therapy

58 (5.8)

14 (7.6)

27 (4.9)

17 (6.4)

 Other

744 (74.1)

131 (71.2)

414 (74.6)

199 (75.1)

Baseline SLD, mm

(n = 995)

(n = 184)

(n = 546)

(n = 265)

 Mean (SD)

87.1 (75.2)

86.2 (63.7)

91.2 (85.6)

79.3 (57.2)

 Median (range)

70.0 (9–1310)

72.0 (10–398)

71.5 (9–1310)

66.0 (9–295)

  1. ECOG PS Eastern Cooperative Oncology Group performance status, LDH lactate dehydrogenase, PD progressive disease, ppOS postprogression overall survival, RPA recursive partitioning analysis, SLD sum of longest diameters, ULN upper limit of normal