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Oncol Ther (2017) 5:181–185 DOI 10.1007/s40487-017-0053-3 BRIEF REPORT Clinical Course After Initiation of Nivolumab Therapy in Patients with EGFR-Mutated Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer With or Without Pd-L1 Expression . . . Minehiko Inomata Hiroaki Tanaka Kotaro Tokui . . . . Chihiro Taka Seisuke Okazawa Kenta Kambara Shingo Imanishi . . . Toru Yamada Toshiro Miwa Ryuji Hayashi Kazuyuki Tobe Received: August 23, 2017 / Published online: October 20, 2017 The Author(s) 2017. This article is an open access publication who had received nivolumab treatment based ABSTRACT on clinical judgment were analyzed retrospec- tively. Tumor PD-L1 expression was evaluated Introduction: Nivolumab has been reported to by measurement of the tumor proportion score be more effective in the subset of non-squa- (TPS) using a rabbit antihuman PD-L1 antibody mous non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) (clone 22C3). patients with tumors harboring wild-type epi- Results: Three patients received the treatment dermal growth factor receptor (EGFR) and/or with nivolumab as second line treatment, and expressing programmed death ligand-1 (PD-L1). two patients received the treatment as third line However, it is unclear whether PD-L1 expres- treatment. One out of five patients had a sion influences the efficacy of nivolumab in response with treatment with
Oncology and Therapy – Springer Journals
Published: Oct 20, 2017
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