Neurological outcomes in immune checkpoint inhibitor-related neurotoxicity

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Farina, Antonio | Birzu, Cristina | Elsensohn, Mad-Hélénie | Picca, Alberto | Muñiz-Castrillo, Sergio | Vogrig, Alberto | Villagrán-García, Macarena | Ciano-Petersen, Nicolás Lundahl | Massacesi, Luca | Hervier, Baptiste | Guégan, Sarah | Kramkimel, Nora | Vano, Yann | Salem, Joe Elie | Allenbach, Yves | Maisonobe, Thierry | Assaad, Souad | Maureille, Aurélien | Devic, Perrine | Weiss, Nicolas | Pegat, Antoine | Maucort-Boulch, Delphine | Ricard, Damien | Honnorat, Jérôme | Psimaras, Dimitri | Joubert, Bastien

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International audience. Abstract While the spectrum of neurological immune checkpoint inhibitor-related adverse events is expanding, patients’ outcomes are not well documented. This study aimed to assess outcomes of neurological immune-related adverse events and to identify prognostic factors. All patients experiencing grade ≥2 neurological immune-related adverse events identified at two clinical networks (French Reference Center for Paraneoplastic Neurological Syndromes, Lyon; and OncoNeuroTox, Paris) over five years were included. Modified Rankin scores were assessed at onset, 6, 12, 18 months, and last visit. A multi-state Markov model was used to estimate the transition rates between minor disability (mRS <3), severe disability (mRS 3-5), and death (mRS 6), over the study period. The state-to-state transition rates were estimated using maximum likelihood and variables were introduced into the different transitions to study their effects. A total of 147 patients were included out of 205 patients with a suspicion of neurological immune-related adverse events. The median age was 65 years (range 20–87) and 87/147 patients (59.2%) were male. Neurological immune-related adverse events involved the peripheral nervous system in 87/147 patients (59.2%), the central nervous system in 51/147 (34.7%), and both systems in 9/147 (6.1%). Paraneoplastic-like syndromes were observed in 30/147 patients (20.4%). Cancers included lung cancers (36.1%), melanoma (30.6%), urological cancers (15.6%), and others (17.8%). Patients were treated with programmed cell death protein (ligan) 1 (PD(L)1) inhibitors (70.1%), CTLA4 inhibitors (3.4%) or both (25.9%). Severe disability was reported in 108/144 patients (75.0%) at onset and in 33/146 patients (22.6%) at last visit (median follow-up duration: 12 months, range 0.5–50); 48/147 (32.7%) patients died, from cancer progression (17/48, 35.4%), neurological toxicity (15/48, 31.2%), other causes (10/48, 20.8%) or unknown causes (6/48, 12.5%). The rate of transition from severe to minor disability independently increased with melanoma [compared to lung cancer, hazard ratio = 3.26, 95%CI (1.27; 8.41)] and myositis/neuromuscular junction disorders [hazard ratio = 8.26, 95%CI (2.90; 23.58)], and decreased with older age [hazard ratio = 0.68, 95%CI (0.47; 0.99)] and paraneoplastic-like syndromes [hazard ratio = 0.29, 95%CI (0.09; 0.98)]. In patients with neurological immune-related adverse events, myositis/neuromuscular junction disorders and melanoma increase the transition rate from severe to minor disability, while older age and paraneoplastic-like syndromes result in poorer neurological outcomes; future studies are needed to optimize the management of such patients.

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