Haferkamp, Sebastian and Alter, Mareike and Debus, Dirk and Schilling, Bastian and Pinter, Andreas and Terheyden, Patrick and Utikal, Jochen S. and Sachse, Michael M. and Haalck, Thomas and Wolf, Ingrid H. (2020) Patients withBRAF-Mutant Advanced/Metastatic Melanoma: Original Research on the Treatment Reality in Germany and Austria in the Era of Choice. ADVANCES IN THERAPY, 37 (8). pp. 3619-3629. ISSN 0741-238X, 1865-8652
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Introduction Cutaneous melanoma is one of the most aggressive forms of skin neoplasms and represents a major cause of neoplastic or cancer death in Europe. Without adequate therapy, the 5-year survival rate is 15% when the disease metastasizes to distant organs. The objective of our study was to evaluate the status quo of the current treatment standards in stage IV melanoma and rationale for therapy decisions in Germany and Austria between January 2016 and September 2018. Methods In this retrospective, anonymized registry, data of male and female patients with unresectable advanced/metastaticBRAF-positive cutaneous melanoma treated in the first, second, and third line with registered substances were analyzed using descriptive statistics. Results Ninety-nine patients (50.5% male) received a total of 172 treatment lines. The first (99 patients), second (56 patients), and third (17 patients) treatment lines were documented. Within the 80.8% of patients with stage IV melanoma, targeted therapy (TT) was more frequently administered as a first-line treatment than immunotherapy (IO) with checkpoint inhibitors (59.6% TT vs. 40.4% IO). Across all lines, patients received TT in 54.7% and IO in 43.0% of the cases. As targeted agents, dabrafenib plus trametinib was predominantly prescribed (72.3%), whereas the monotherapy with anti-programmed cell death protein 1 and anti-cytotoxic T lymphocyte-associated protein 4 antibodies or their combination was prescribed similarly often (50.0% vs. 47.3%). Most commonly, the treatment type was switched from TT to IO or vice versa upon disease progression. The most frequent rationales for prescribing either TT or IO were remission pressure (72.9%) or physician's preference (45.0%), respectively. Disease progression was a more frequent cause of treatment discontinuation than undesired events. Conclusion Patients in Germany and Austria with unresectable advanced or metastaticBRAF-mutant melanoma predominantly receive guideline-recommended treatments. TT was more frequently administered than IO while the rationale for prescribing a specific treatment type differed between the two.
| Item Type: | Article |
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| Uncontrolled Keywords: | PD-1; Austria; BRAFmutation; Germany; Immunotherapy; Melanoma; Targeted therapy; Treatment reality |
| Subjects: | 600 Technology > 610 Medical sciences Medicine |
| Divisions: | Medicine > Lehrstuhl für Dermatologie und Venerologie |
| Depositing User: | Dr. Gernot Deinzer |
| Date Deposited: | 18 Mar 2021 09:36 |
| Last Modified: | 18 Mar 2021 09:36 |
| URI: | https://pred.uni-regensburg.de/id/eprint/44227 |
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