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    FP02 - Health Services Research/Health Economics (ID 120)

    • Event: WCLC 2020
    • Type: Posters (Featured)
    • Track: Health Services Research/Health Economics
    • Presentations: 1
    • Moderators:
    • Coordinates: 1/28/2021, 00:00 - 00:00, ePoster Hall
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      FP02.03 - Changing Survival and Treatment Patterns in Patients Aged 80 or Older with Stage IV Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer (NSCLC) (ID 3739)

      00:00 - 00:00  |  Author(s): Roxana Tudor

      • Abstract
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      Introduction

      NSCLC is a disease of the elderly, with a median age at diagnosis of 70 years old. Yet elderly patients with NSCLC are under-represented in clinical trials, and studies of real-world treatment patterns have consistently identified lower rates of systemic therapy administration in this patient population. However there are clinical trial data to suggest that even the very elderly (age 80+) with advanced NSCLC can benefit from system therapy. We therefore looked at real-world patterns of treatment and survival in a cohort of patients aged 80 or older with metastatic NSCLC.

      Methods

      We performed a retrospective analysis of a cohort of 721 patients aged 80 or older diagnosed with de novo stage IV NSCLC in Alberta, Canada between 2011-2016 using the Glans-Look database. Data was derived from the provincial cancer registry and supplemented with additional chart review for a subset of cases. Univariate survival analysis used the Log-Rank method, and multivariate analysis Cox Regression. All other tests were Chi-Squared. Median overall survival (OS) in months is shown with 95% confidence intervals. The number of patients included for specific tests is indicated where the full cohort population is not included.

      Results

      Over the study period, an increasing proportion of patients were treated with systemic therapy (9.5% in 2011-2012, 21.6% in 2015-2016; P < 0.001), and the proportion of patients treated with 1st line targeted therapy also increased (N = 54; 43.8% in 2011-2012, 79.2% in 2015-2016; P < 0.029). Receiving systemic therapy was associated with improved OS (17.53 (14.01 – 21.06) vs 3.67 (3.30 – 4.04) months; P < 0.001). While there was a trend towards improved OS for the entire population over time (median 3.63 (2.99 – 4.27) months in 2011-2012 vs 5.33 (4.36 – 6.30) months in 2015-216; P = 0.19), survival improved significantly for those who received systemic therapy over the study period (median 7.10 (5.087 – 9.11) months in 2011-2012 vs 20.80 (17.09 – 24.51) months in 2015-2016; P = 0.02). There was no significant difference in OS for those who received chemotherapy vs targeted therapy (N=54; 15.97 (7.84 – 24.09) months vs 18.50 (13.05 – 23.95) months; P = 0.74), suggesting that improved access to systemic therapy rather than the intrinsic nature of the therapies themselves underlie improving survival amongst treated patients.

      Conclusion

      We identified increasing rates of systemic therapy use in patients aged 80 or older with de novo metastatic NSCLC, and improving OS amongst treated patients over the study period. While we cannot account for all potentially relevant changes to the management of NSCLC over that time, the improvement in increasing rates of systemic therapy use and survival in treated patients are potentially driven by availability and increasing use of targeted therapies. This suggests that elderly patients with NSCLC have benefited significantly from the use of these medications.

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    FP07 - Pathology (ID 109)

    • Event: WCLC 2020
    • Type: Posters (Featured)
    • Track: Pathology, Molecular Pathology and Diagnostic Biomarkers
    • Presentations: 1
    • Moderators:
    • Coordinates: 1/28/2021, 00:00 - 00:00, ePoster Hall
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      FP07.07 - Value of the Lung Immune Prognostic Index (LIPI) As a Prognostic Tool for Real-World Patients Treated for Mutation-Positive Metastatic NSCLC (ID 3683)

      00:00 - 00:00  |  Author(s): Roxana Tudor

      • Abstract
      • Presentation

      Introduction

      LIPI is a prognostic index which has demonstrated strong utility in metastatic NSCLC (mNSCLC) patients when treated with immune checkpoint inhibitors (ICIs). Recent pooled analysis using clinical trial data suggests that LIPI scores may also be prognostic of outcome in patients with mNSCLC treated with non-ICI systemic therapies such as tyrosine kinase inhibitors (TKIs) and cytotoxic chemotherapy (CTx).

      Recognizing both the increasing number of patients with mNSCLC who possess mutation-positive tumours and the potential differences between clinical trial and real-world patient populations, we sought to explore the prognostic ability of the LIPI among real-world mutation-positive mNSCLC patients in receipt of palliative-intent systemic therapy.

      Methods

      Alberta patients diagnosed 2015-2019 with mutation-positive (KRAS, ROS1, EGFR or ALK) mNSCLC, in receipt of palliative-intent first-line TKI, CTx or ICI systemic therapy were identified. Demographic, clinical, treatment and outcome data were extracted from the institutional Glans-Look Lung Cancer Database. LIPI scores were calculated using blood component values taken ≤30 days prior to first-line systemic therapy initiation. Kaplan-Meier analysis assessed the impact of LIPI score on progression-free survival (PFS) and overall survival (OS), and Cox Proportional Hazards models were constructed to control for potential confounders and identify factors which had prognostic value.

      Results

      158 patients were identified (Table 1):

      lipi impact_table1.jpg

      Survival analysis revealed that LIPI was not significantly associated with outcome (PFS and OS) in the pooled cohort or by individual mutation, and only showed an association with outcome among the cohort of ICI-treated patients (all PD-L1 > 50%) where a previously established inverse relationship between LIPI score and median PFS/OS has been previously observed. ECOG was revealed to have better association with outcome, whereby ‘good’ ECOG (0 or 1) patients, when compared to ‘poor’ ECOG (2+) experienced significantly longer PFS (19.2 vs. 11.4 months p<0.001) and OS (34.4 vs. 12.1 months, p<0.001) in the pooled cohort, with this similar pattern observed within the ALK, EGFR and KRAS mutant populations.

      A Cox proportional hazards model, constructed for the pooled cohort and controlling for known confounders (age, sex, treatment, smoking history and mutation type) revealed that poor ECOG is prognostic of reduced PFS (HR: 3.6, p<0.001) and OS (HR: 3.6, p<0.001), while never-smoking history (HR: 0.26, p<0.001) and female sex (HR: 0.5, p=0.03) were prognostic of increased OS.

      Conclusion

      Among real-world mutation-positive mNSCLC, ECOG serves as a better prognosticator of outcome than LIPI score. The utility of LIPI in this population remains limited to those treated with ICI therapy.

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    P09 - Health Services Research/Health Economics - Real World Outcomes (ID 121)

    • Event: WCLC 2020
    • Type: Posters
    • Track: Health Services Research/Health Economics
    • Presentations: 1
    • Moderators:
    • Coordinates: 1/28/2021, 00:00 - 00:00, ePoster Hall
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      P09.04 - Changing Survival and Treatment Patterns in Patients with Stage IV Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer (NSCLC) in Alberta, Canada (ID 3737)

      00:00 - 00:00  |  Author(s): Roxana Tudor

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      Introduction

      We have previously reported that rapid physical decline and poor performance status means that only a minority of patient with metastatic NSCLC receive systemic treatment. Over the last decade, treatment advances in the form of maintenance chemotherapy, targeted therapies and immunotherapy for advanced disease have shown benefit in randomized phase III trials and been adopted as standard of care. Nevertheless, there are conflicting reports of trends in overall survival. We therefore looked at real-world patterns of treatment and survival in a cohort of patients with metastatic NSCLC.

      Methods

      We performed a retrospective analysis of a cohort of 4400 patients diagnosed with de novo stage IV NSCLC in Alberta, Canada between 2011-2016 using the Glans-Look database. Data was derived from the provincial cancer registry and supplemented with additional chart review for a subset of cases. Univariate survival analysis used the Log-Rank method, and multivariate analysis Cox Regression. All other tests were Chi-Squared. Median survival in months is shown with 95% confidence intervals. The number of patients included for specific tests is indicated in cases where there was missing data.

      Results

      There was a trend towards improving overall survival over the study period (4.67 (4.24 – 5.10) months in 2011, and 5.90 (5.22 – 6.58) months in 2016; univariate P = 0.092). We observed an increasing proportion of patients with no smoking history (N = 1257; 11.2% in 2011 vs 31.6% in 2016; P < 0.001), an increasing proportion of patients receiving systemic therapy (29.1% in 2011 vs 38.0% in 2016; P < 0.001), and an increasing proportion of patients treated with systemic therapy that received 1st line targeted therapy (N = 541; 20.3% in 2011 vs 39.1% in 2016; P < 0.001). These factors were also associated with improved overall survival in univariate analysis: never smoker vs ever smoker (N = 541; 17.47 (14.61 – 20.33) months vs 6.33 (5.47 – 7.19) months; P < 0.001); receipt of systemic therapy (12.00 (11.30 – 12.70) months vs 3.10 (2.94 – 3.26) months; P < 0.001) targeted therapy vs chemotherapy (N = 541 ; 19.30 (16.06 – 22.54) months vs 15.98 (14.37 – 17.56) months; P = 0.015). Younger age at diagnosis, female gender, receiving systemic therapy, and use of 1st line targeted therapy vs chemotherapy were all significantly associated with improved survival in multivariate models (smoking status excluded from analysis due to number of cases with missing data).

      Conclusion

      We observed a trend towards improving survival from 2011 to 2016 in patient with stage IV NSCLC in Alberta, Canada. While we cannot account for all potentially relevant changes to the management of NSCLC over that time, we observed increasing rates of systemic therapy administration and use of 1st line targeted therapy, which may be in part responsible for improving survival.

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    P76 - Targeted Therapy - Clinically Focused - EGFR (ID 253)

    • Event: WCLC 2020
    • Type: Posters
    • Track: Targeted Therapy - Clinically Focused
    • Presentations: 1
    • Moderators:
    • Coordinates: 1/28/2021, 00:00 - 00:00, ePoster Hall
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      P76.17 - Prognostic Role of the Systemic Immune-Inflammatory Index (SII) in Driver-Mutation Positive NSCLC: Real-World EGFR-Mutant Disease (ID 1186)

      00:00 - 00:00  |  Author(s): Roxana Tudor

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      Introduction

      The role of the tumour microenvironment is recognized as playing a significant role in cancer progression and patient survival. Prognostic indices derived from peripheral blood components are employed as an indicator of tumour microenvironment, and have shown prognostic utility in a number of solid tumors. Within non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC), haematologically derived prognostic indices have shown an association with outcome in advanced disease treated with immune checkpoint inhibitors and in early-stage resected tumors, but few studies have sought to evaluate the predictive ability of prognostic markers in advanced NSCLC on targeted therapy, aside from a recognized association between elevated lactose dehydrogenase (LDH) and poor prognosis in this population. In response, we aimed to evaluate the potential of an innovative and inexpensive marker, the systemic immune-inflammatory index (SII), as a prognostic tool in metastatic EGFR-mutant NSCLC receiving first-line tyrosine kinase inhibitor therapy (EGFR-TKI) in the real-world setting.

      Methods

      Alberta patients with a diagnosis of de novo metastatic EGFR-mutant NSCLC and receiving frontline EGFR-TKI between 2010 and 2018 were identified, and their demographic, clinical, treatment and outcome data were extracted from the institutional Glans-Look Lung Cancer Database. SII was calculated as pre-treatment (≤ 30 days prior to EGFR-TKI initiation) platelet count multiplied by neutrophil count, divided by lymphocyte count. Receiver operator characteristic (ROC) curves were constructed to identify optimal cut-off points for SII, and patients were stratified by this factor. Univariate analysis was performed to assess differences between high and low SII groups, and Kaplan-Meier survival analysis employing the log-rank test was conducted to estimate overall survival (OS) and progression-free survival (PFS).

      Results

      220 patients were identified. Median age was 65.6 years, 59% never-smokers, 64% female, 85% Exon 19 or 21 mutation. 75% were treated with gefitinib, 25% afatinib in the first-line setting.

      An optimal cut-off value for SII of 1200 was identified using ROC and applied; 55% of patients had ‘high’ SII. Compared to patients with low-SII, patients with high-SII had significantly shorter PFS (15.6 vs 10.8 months, p < 0.001) and OS (30.4 vs 20.1 months, p < 0.001).

      Low-SII and high-SII patients were clinicopathologically similar, apart from an association between high-SII and elevated lactate dehydrogenase (LDH).

      LDH was elevated, according to laboratory derived cut-off values (> 235 U/L), in 56% of patients; we combined LDH value with SII to create a risk factor count, identifying the number of elevated markers (LDH and SII) present (none, one or two). Patients were then stratified according to number of risk factors, and OS and PFS investigated: 26% of patients had no elevated markers, 37% one elevated marker, 37% two elevated markers, with median PFS of 15.7, 13.9, 9.5 months, respectively (p< 0.001), and median OS of 32.8, 26.3, and 17.6 months, respectively (p<0.001).

      Conclusion

      This study demonstrates that elevated SII is a strong prognostic indicator, associated with shortened PFS and reduced OS in metastatic EGFR-mutant NSCLC on first-line EGFR-TKI. Enumerating the presence of elevated SII and LDH can create a simple and cost-effective indicator of outcome within this real-world population.

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    P89 - Targeted Therapy - Clinically Focused - Translational (ID 266)

    • Event: WCLC 2020
    • Type: Posters
    • Track: Targeted Therapy - Clinically Focused
    • Presentations: 1
    • Moderators:
    • Coordinates: 1/28/2021, 00:00 - 00:00, ePoster Hall
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      P89.12 - Real World Outcomes in EGFR-Mutant Relapsed and De Novo Stage IV Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer (NSCLC) (ID 1184)

      00:00 - 00:00  |  Author(s): Roxana Tudor

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      Introduction

      Differences in post-metastatic disease survival has been previously established in NLCLC, whereby patients with ‘de novo’ disease (metastases at diagnosis) show significantly poorer prognosis than ‘relapsed’ patients (initial early stage disease with subsequent development of metastatic disease after curative-intent therapy). We used a real-world population to investigate if this phenomenon also exists within biomarker positive EGFR-mutant patients.

      Methods

      Alberta NSCLC patients with an EGFR mutation detected 2010-2017 were identified, and classified as either ‘relapsed’ or ‘de novo’. Demographic, clinical, treatment and outcome data were extracted from the institutional Glans-Look Lung Cancer Database. Univariate methods were used to assess differences in clinicopathological features and median overall survival (mOS), the interval from diagnosis to death, and median post-metastatic disease survival (mPMDS), the interval from the date of metastatic disease discovery to death.

      Results

      324 patients with metastatic disease were identified. 85% de novo metastatic disease, 65% female, 60% < 70 years at treatment initiation for metastatic disease, 54% never smokers, 94% with a single EGFR mutation. 93% received tyrosine-kinase inhibitor therapy, 15% of which received subsequent osimeritinib therapy for T790M resistance acquisition.

      De novo and relapsed patients did not differ significantly in terms of demographic or clinicopathological factors.

      83% were deceased at the time of analysis; mOS of the entire cohort was 24.0 months [95% CI: 21 to 26 months] and mPMDS was 23.2 months [95%CI: 18.0 to 24.6 months]. Relapsed patients showed significantly superior survival times, both in terms of mOS [56 months vs. 21 months, log rank p<0.001] as well as mPMDS [30.1 vs. 21.6 months, log rank p < 0.001].

      Conclusion

      Among EGFR-mutant NSCLC patients, relapsed patients demonstrate a distinct survival advantage, while appearing clinically indistinguishable from de novo patients. This information reinforces the importance of considering the timing of onset of metastatic disease as a clinically useful variable when determining prognosis, and suggests consideration of this factor an important potential addition to clinical trial design.

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