Effect on outcomes of toxicity-related dose reduction in TKI monotherapy or TKI-IO combination therapy for advanced renal cell carcinoma.

4528 Background: Tyrosine kinase inhibitors (TKI) in monotherapy or TKI in combination with immunotherapeutic agents (IO) are standard of care fist-line treatment for advanced or metastatic renal cell carcinoma (RCC). Dose reduction due to toxicity is extremely frequently and represents an important clinical management issue, with frequent dose reduction, treatment suspension and change of schedule. We examined the outcomes of patient treated with TKI in monotherapy and in combination with immunotherapy (TKI-IO). Methods: We performed a retrospective analysis of clinical outcomes in patients with RCC treated with TKI (cohort 1) or TKI-IO (cohort 2) in Italian and Spanish institutions. A descriptive analysis was performed. Univariate logistic regression models were carried out to estimate the association between best response (CR or PR vs SD or PD) and type of TKI (monotherapy or combination therapy). Survival curves were estimated using the Kaplan-Meier method and were compared by the log-rank test. Cox proportional-hazard models were used to obtain hazard ratios (HRs) with 95%. Median follow-up was calculated using the reverse Kaplan-Meier method. Results: A total of 401 patients were divided in cohort 1 (329 patients) and cohort 2 (72 patients). Median Follow-up was 81.22 months in cohort 1 and 19.02 months in cohort 2. Most frequent toxicities that lead to dose reduction were mucositis (20.13%), Asthenia (16.88%) and Hand-foot syndrome (15.58%). Overall Response Rate was higher in patients that reduced dose, both in cohort 1 (48% vs 29%, p<0.01) and cohort 2 (81% vs 40%, p<0.01). In cohort 1 Progression Free Survival (PFS) was longer in patients with dose reduction (27.14 months vs 16.59 months) (HR 0.77 [0.6; 0.98]; p=0.04). Overall Survival (OS) was also improved (55 months vs 34.17) (HR 0.71 [0.53; 0.93]; p=0.01). In cohort 2, both PFS (39.13 months vs 41.3 months) (HR 0.63 [0.27; 1.48]; p=0.29) and OS (39.13 months vs 55.85 months) (HR 0.65 [0.26; 1.63]; p=0.29) did not statistically differ between patients that reduced dose and patients that did not reduce dose. Conclusions: TKI dose reduction due to toxicity seems to be related to improved outcomes, both in ORR and PFS/OS. ORR was statistically improved in both cohort 1 and cohort 2. PFS and OS in cohort 1 favoured patients that experienced dose reduction. PFS and OS in cohort 2 did not show a statistically significant difference, probably due to the short follow-up and small number of patients. However, outcomes seem to show a trend toward favouring patients that reduce dose.