Francesco Tovoli, Dante Pio Pallotta, Caterina Vivaldi, Claudia Campani, Piera Federico, Andrea Palloni, Andrea Dalbeni, Caterina Soldà, Lorenzo Lani, Gianluca Svegliati-Baroni, Ingrid Garajova, Luca Ielasi, Stefania De Lorenzo, Alessandro Granito, Bernardo Stefanini, Gianluca Masi, Fabio Marra, Sara Lonardi, Giovanni Brandi, Bruno Daniele, Alessandra Auriemma, Laura Schiadà, Rusi Chen, Fabio Piscaglia
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Abstract
Background: Most patients receiving atezolizumab-bevacizumab (AB) for hepatocellular carcinoma will eventually experience disease progression. Randomized clinical trials (RCTs) are undergoing to identify second-line treatments. Where RCTs are unavailable or patients are non-eligible, sorafenib is often prescribed based on approval and reimbursement policies. However, evidence supporting this approach is minimal.
Objective: To assess the efficacy and safety of sorafenib in patients who permanently discontinued AB.
Methods: The ARTE database prospectively collects patients treated with AB in a real-life setting. We analysed the outcome of patients who received sorafenib as second-line treatment.
Results: Amongst 213 patients, 130 (61.0 %) permanently discontinued AB. Of them, 54 received second- line treatments, and sorafenib was prescribed in 40 patients. The disease control rate (DCR) was 10.0 %. The median progression-free (PFS) and overall survival were 3.3 (95 % confidence interval [CI] 2.7-3.9) and 6.9 months (95 % CI 2.7-11.1), respectively.
Conclusions: In patients progressing under AB, the efficacy of sorafenib on different outcomes is limited.
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Digestive and Liver Disease is an international journal of Gastroenterology and Hepatology. It is the official journal of Italian Association for the Study of the Liver (AISF); Italian Association for the Study of the Pancreas (AISP); Italian Association for Digestive Endoscopy (SIED); Italian Association for Hospital Gastroenterologists and Digestive Endoscopists (AIGO); Italian Society of Gastroenterology (SIGE); Italian Society of Pediatric Gastroenterology and Hepatology (SIGENP) and Italian Group for the Study of Inflammatory Bowel Disease (IG-IBD).
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