• Immunotherapy · Jan 2015

    Meta Analysis

    Risk of gastrointestinal complications in cancer patients treated with immune checkpoint inhibitors: a meta-analysis.

    • Omar Abdel-Rahman, Hesham ElHalawani, and Mona Fouad.
    • Clinical Oncology Department, Faculty of Medicine, Ain Shams University, Cairo, Egypt.
    • Immunotherapy. 2015 Jan 1; 7 (11): 1213-27.

    AimWe performed a meta-analysis of the risk of selected gastrointestinal toxicities associated with immune checkpoint inhibitors.Patients & MethodsEligible studies included randomized trials of patients with solid tumors on ipilimumab, nivolumab, pembrolizumab, tremelimumab, pidilizumab and atezolizumab, describing events of diarrhea, vomiting or colitis.ResultsAfter exclusion of ineligible studies, a total of ten clinical trials were considered eligible for the meta-analysis. The relative risk of all-grade diarrhea, vomiting and colitis was 1.64 (95% CI: 1.19-2.26; p = 0.002), 0.72 (95% CI: 0.49-1.07; p = 0.1), 10.35 (95% CI: 5.78-18.53; p < 0.00001), respectively.ConclusionOur meta-analysis has demonstrated that immune checkpoint inhibitors are associated with a significantly increased risk of all grade and high-grade colitis.

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