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Table 1 Demographic and treatment characteristics

From: Autoimmune PaneLs as PrEdictors of Toxicity in Patients TReated with Immune Checkpoint InhibiTors (ALERT)

Covariate

All patients

Patients without irAEs G ≥ 2

Patients with irAES G ≥ 2

Healthy Controls

p-value*

Total

114

77

37

14

 

Median Age

61 (21–81)

59 (21–81)

65 (24–81)

31 (18–58)

0.070

Sex

 Male

58 (51)

34 (44)

24 (65)

5 (36)

0.017

 Female

56 (49)

43 (56)

13 (35)

9 (64)

 

History of prior autoimmune disease

 Yes

8 (7)

5 (6)

3 (8)

NA

0.90

 No

106 (93)

72 (94)

34 (92)

NA

 

Type of immunotherapy

 

 Anti-PD1

102 (89)

74 (96)

28 (76)

NA

 

 Anti-PD1 +  Anti-CTLA4

12 (11)

3 (4)

9 (24)

NA

 

Tumor type

0.022

 HNSCC

33 (29)

20 (26)

13 (35)

NA

 

 Melanoma

25 (22)

9 (12)

16 (43)

NA

 

 TNBC

22 (19)

21 (27)

1 (3)

NA

 

 Others

34 (30)

27 (35)

7 (19)

NA

 

N of prior lines

0.012

 0

33 (29)

13 (17)

19 (51)

NA

 

 1

38 (33)

26 (34)

14 (38)

NA

 

 2

25 (22)

20 (26)

4 (11)

NA

 

 ≥ 3

18 (16)

18 (24)

0 (0)

NA

 

Prior Immunotherapy

0.42

 No

109 (96)

74 (96)

34 (92)

NA

 

 Yes

5 (4)

3 (4)

3 (8)

NA

 

Study

0.039

 INSPIRE

84 (74)

65 (84)

19 (51)

NA

 

 MET4

30 (26)

12 (16)

18 (49)

NA

 
  1. HNSCC head and neck squamous cell cancer, irAEs immune-related adverse events, NA not applicable, TNBC triple negative breast cancer
  2. *P-values from Cochran-Mantel–Haenszel test stratified by monotherapy (anti-PD1 alone) vs. combination therapy (anti-PD1 + anti-CTLA4) for categorical characteristics, and from logistic regression models adjusting for mono vs. combination therapy for continuous characteristics