Pembrolizumab shrank tumours in about a third of patients with mismatch repair-deficient cancers of many different organs, with responses that often lasted years; the pancreatic cancer group responded less often than most. It is the trial behind the tissue-agnostic approval for MSI-high cancer.
Phase 2 basket study of pembrolizumab 200 mg every three weeks in 233 patients with previously treated advanced non-colorectal MSI-high or mismatch repair-deficient cancer across 27 tumour types, endometrial, gastric, cholangiocarcinoma and pancreatic cancer among the largest cohorts.
The objective response rate was about 34 percent with a median duration of response not reached, median progression-free survival 4.1 months and median overall survival 23.5 months. In the 22 patients with pancreatic cancer the response rate was about 18 percent and median overall survival about 4 months, the lowest of the major cohorts. The data supported the FDA's tissue-agnostic approval of pembrolizumab for MSI-high cancer.
Every pancreatic cancer should be tested for mismatch repair deficiency because the 1 percent who have it can receive pembrolizumab, but responses in pancreatic cancer are less frequent and less durable than in other MSI-high cancers.
Shares KEYNOTE-158, dMMR (mismatch repair deficiency by IHC), MSI-high (microsatellite instability by PCR or sequencing), Mismatch repair deficient (MSI-high) pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma.
Shares KEYNOTE-158, dMMR (mismatch repair deficiency by IHC), MSI-high (microsatellite instability by PCR or sequencing), Mismatch repair deficient (MSI-high) pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma.
Shares dMMR (mismatch repair deficiency by IHC), MSI-high (microsatellite instability by PCR or sequencing), Mismatch repair proteins (MLH1, MSH2, MSH6, PMS2), Microsatellite instability (MSI-H) / mismatch repair deficiency (dMMR).
Shares dMMR (mismatch repair deficiency by IHC), MSI-high (microsatellite instability by PCR or sequencing), Mismatch repair proteins (MLH1, MSH2, MSH6, PMS2), Microsatellite instability (MSI-H) / mismatch repair deficiency (dMMR).
Shares dMMR (mismatch repair deficiency by IHC), MSI-high (microsatellite instability by PCR or sequencing), Mismatch repair proteins (MLH1, MSH2, MSH6, PMS2), Tumour-agnostic (tissue-agnostic) approval.
Shares dMMR (mismatch repair deficiency by IHC), MSI-high (microsatellite instability by PCR or sequencing), Mismatch repair proteins (MLH1, MSH2, MSH6, PMS2), Tumour-agnostic (tissue-agnostic) approval.
Shares Dung T. Le, Le 2017: mismatch-repair deficiency predicts response to PD-1 blockade across twelve tumour types, leading to the first tissue-agnostic drug approval, dMMR (mismatch repair deficiency by IHC), MSI-high (microsatellite instability by PCR or sequencing).
Shares Dung T. Le, dMMR (mismatch repair deficiency by IHC), MSI-high (microsatellite instability by PCR or sequencing), Mismatch repair proteins (MLH1, MSH2, MSH6, PMS2).