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    Voice of China|Toripalimab may become a new treatment option for dMMR/MSI-H colorectal cancer

    • Last Update: 2022-03-09
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    Preface Led by Chinese scholar Professor Deng Yanhong from the Sixth Affiliated Hospital of Sun Yat-sen University, "Toripalimab (PD-1 inhibitor) combined with or without celecoxib (COX-2 inhibitor) neoadjuvant therapy mismatch repair.
    The short-term efficacy results of a single-center, parallel, non-controlled, randomized, phase II clinical trial (PICC) in locally advanced colorectal cancer (CRC) with protein deficiency (dMMR) or microsatellite high instability (MSI-H) are in The Lancet.
    Gastroenterology & hepatology (2020 IF: 18.
    486) is published online
    .

    Background Colorectal cancer is the second most common cancer in the world, with more than 1.
    9 million new cases and 935,000 deaths in 2020
    .

    Previous studies have demonstrated the efficacy of PD-1 inhibitors in dMMR/MSI-H metastatic CRC, but the role of PD-1 inhibitors in neoadjuvant therapy in patients with resectable dMMR/MSI-H CRC is unclear
    .

    The aim of this study was to evaluate the efficacy and safety of the PD-1 inhibitor toripalimab with or without the COX-2 inhibitor celecoxib as neoadjuvant therapy in patients with dMMR/MSI-H locally advanced CRC
    .

    Research Methods The PICC study is a single-center, open-label, parallel-group, non-comparative, randomized phase II clinical trial
    .

    Enrolled patients were 18-75 years old, ECOG score 0/1, clinical stage T3-T4 or any T stage with positive lymph node, and histopathologically confirmed dMMR/MSI-H CRC patients
    .

    The enrolled patients were randomly (1:1) divided into toripalimab + celecoxib group (T+A) group (T, 3 mg/kg, D1, q2w; C, 200 mg, bid, q2w) or special treatment group.
    Ripilimumab (T) group (T, 3mg/kg, D1, q2w)
    .

    The primary endpoint of the study was pathological complete response rate (pCR)
    .

    Study Design Study Results From May 1, 2019 to April 1, 2021, a total of 53 patients were screened, of whom 34 were randomly assigned to T+A (n=17) or T (n=17)
    .

    The median age was 49 years (IQR 41-58 years), 11 women (32%) and 23 men (68%) were Asian
    .

    Of the 34 patients, 28 (82%) had colon cancer, 4 (12%) rectal cancer, and 2 (6%) both colon and rectal primary cancers
    .

    Nine (26%) patients had previously received neoadjuvant chemotherapy, of which one (11%) patient discontinued chemotherapy due to intolerable toxicity, two (22%) patients refused to continue chemotherapy, and six (67%) patients had disease progress
    .

    All 34 (100%) patients underwent R0 resection (ie, the resection margin was >1 mm)
    .

    Fifteen patients (88%; 95% CI 64%-99%) in the T+A arm achieved pCR and 16 (94%; 95% CI 71%-100%) patients in the T arm achieved pCR
    .

    The median follow-up time was 14.
    9 months (IQR 8.
    8-17.
    0), and all patients were alive and relapse-free, i.
    e.
    1-year event-free survival (EFS), disease-free survival (DFS) and overall survival (OS) were all in both groups.
    is 100% (95% CI 81-100)
    .

    During the study period, 26 of 34 patients (76%) experienced at least one treatment-related adverse event (TRAE)
    .

    During the neoadjuvant phase, 10 (59%) patients in the T+A arm and 10 (59%) in the T arm experienced at least grade 1-2 TRAEs
    .

    In the adjuvant phase, 7 (41%) patients in the T+A arm and 6 (35%) in the T arm experienced grade 1-2 TRAEs
    .

     Summary This study is the first in the world to report the prospective use of anti-PD-1 monoclonal antibody-based, monoclonal or combined COX-2 inhibitor, preoperative neoadjuvant immunotherapy in patients with locally advanced CRC with dMMR/MSI-H.
    clinical trials
    .

    The results of the study showed that the pCR rate of patients in the toripalimab plus celecoxib group was as high as 88%, and the pCR rate of the toripalimab monotherapy group was 65%
    .

    This breakthrough achievement fills the gap in the field of neoadjuvant anti-PD-1 single-agent immunotherapy for dMMR/MSI-H locally advanced CRC, and was invited to fast track publication
    .

    References: Hu, H.
    , Kang, L.
    , Zhang, J.
    , Wu, Z.
    , Wang, H.
    , Huang, M.
    , Lan, P.
    , Wu, X.
    , Wang, C.
    , Cao, W.
    , Hu, J.
    , Huang, Y.
    , Huang, L.
    , Wang, H.
    , Shi, L.
    , Cai, Y.
    , Shen, C.
    , Ling, J.
    , Xie, X.
    , Cai, Y.
    , … Deng, Y.
    (2022).
    Neoadjuvant PD-1 blockade with toripalimab, with or without celecoxib, in mismatch repair-deficient or microsatellite instability-high, locally advanced, colorectal cancer (PICC): a single-centre, parallel-group, non-comparative, randomised, phase 2 trial.
    The lancet.
    Gastroenterology & hepatology, 7(1), 38–48.
    https://doi.
    org/10.
    1016/S2468-1253(21)00348-4
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