Tumor-Immune Signatures of Treatment Resistance to Brentuximab Vedotin with Ipilimumab and/or Nivolumab in

  • Edgar Gonzalez-Kozlova
  • , Hsin Hui Huang
  • , Opeyemi A. Jagede
  • , Kevin Tuballes
  • , Diane M. Del Valle
  • , Geoffrey Kelly
  • , Manishkumar Patel
  • , Hui Xie
  • , Jocelyn Harris
  • , Kimberly Argueta
  • , Kai Nie
  • , Vanessa Barcessat
  • , Radim Moravec
  • , Jennifer Altreuter
  • , Dzifa Y. Duose
  • , Brad S. Kahl
  • , Stephen M. Ansell
  • , Joyce Yu
  • , Ethan Cerami
  • , James R. Lindsay
  • Ignacio I. Wistuba, Seunghee Kim-Schulze, Catherine S. Diefenbach, Sacha Gnjatic

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Abstract

To investigate the cellular and molecular mechanisms associated with targeting CD30-expressing Hodgkin lymphoma (HL) and immune checkpoint modulation induced by combination therapies of CTLA4 and PD1, we leveraged Phase 1/2 multicenter open-label trial NCT01896999 that enrolled patients with refractory or relapsed HL (R/R HL). Using peripheral blood, we assessed soluble proteins, cell composition, T-cell clonality, and tumor antigen-specific antibodies in 54 patients enrolled in the phase 1 component of the trial. NCT01896999 reported high (>75%) overall objective response rates with brentuximab vedotin (BV) in combination with ipilimumab (I) and/or nivolumab (N) in patients with R/R HL. We observed a durable increase in soluble PD1 and plasmacytoid dendritic cells as well as decreases in plasma CCL17, ANGPT2, MMP12, IL13, and CXCL13 in N-containing regimens (BV + N and BV + I + N) compared with BV + I (P < 0.05). Nonresponders and patients with short progression-free survival showed elevated CXCL9, CXCL13, CD5, CCL17, adenosine–deaminase, and MUC16 at baseline or after one treatment cycle and a higher prevalence of NY-ESO-1-specific autoantibodies (P < 0.05). The results suggest a circulating tumor-immune-derived signature of BV ± I ± N treatment resistance that may be useful for patient stratification in combination checkpoint therapy.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)1726-1737
Number of pages12
JournalCancer research communications
Volume4
Issue number7
DOIs
StatePublished - Jul 2024

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