Yoon-Koo Kang, Masanori Terashima, Young-Woo Kim, Narikazu Boku, Hyun Cheol Chung, Jen-Shi Chen, Jiafu Ji, Ta-Sen Yeh, Li-Tzong Chen, Min-Hee Ryu, Jong Gwang Kim, Takeshi Omori, Sun Young Rha, Tae Yong Kim, Keun Won Ryu, Shinichi Sakuramoto, Yasunori Nishida, Norimasa Fukushima, Takanobu Yamada, Li-Yuan Bai, Yoshinori Hirashima, Shunsuke Hagihara, Takashi Nakada, Mitsuru Sasako
{"title":"Adjuvant nivolumab plus chemotherapy versus placebo plus chemotherapy for stage III gastric or gastro-oesophageal junction cancer after gastrectomy with D2 or more extensive lymph-node dissection (ATTRACTION-5): a randomised, multicentre, double-blind, placebo-controlled, phase 3 trial.","authors":"Yoon-Koo Kang, Masanori Terashima, Young-Woo Kim, Narikazu Boku, Hyun Cheol Chung, Jen-Shi Chen, Jiafu Ji, Ta-Sen Yeh, Li-Tzong Chen, Min-Hee Ryu, Jong Gwang Kim, Takeshi Omori, Sun Young Rha, Tae Yong Kim, Keun Won Ryu, Shinichi Sakuramoto, Yasunori Nishida, Norimasa Fukushima, Takanobu Yamada, Li-Yuan Bai, Yoshinori Hirashima, Shunsuke Hagihara, Takashi Nakada, Mitsuru Sasako","doi":"10.1016/S2468-1253(24)00156-0","DOIUrl":"10.1016/S2468-1253(24)00156-0","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Background: </strong>In Asia, adjuvant chemotherapy after gastrectomy with D2 or more extensive lymph-node dissection is standard treatment for people with pathological stage III gastric or gastro-oesophageal junction (GEJ) cancer. We aimed to assess the efficacy and safety of adjuvant nivolumab plus chemotherapy versus placebo plus chemotherapy administered in this setting.</p><p><strong>Methods: </strong>ATTRACTION-5 was a randomised, multicentre, double-blind, placebo-controlled, phase 3 trial conducted at 96 hospitals in Japan, South Korea, Taiwan, and China. Eligible patients were aged between 20 years and 80 years with histologically confirmed pathological stage IIIA-C gastric or GEJ adenocarcinoma after gastrectomy with D2 or more extensive lymph-node dissection, with an Eastern Cooperative Oncology Group (ECOG) performance status score of 0 or 1 and available tumour tissue for PD-L1 expression analysis. Patients were randomly assigned (1:1) to receive either nivolumab plus chemotherapy or placebo plus chemotherapy via an interactive web-response system with block sizes of four. Investigational treatment, either nivolumab 360 mg or placebo, was administered intravenously for 30 min once every 3 weeks. Adjuvant chemotherapy was administered as either tegafur-gimeracil-oteracil (S-1) at an initial dose of 40 mg/m<sup>2</sup> per dose orally twice per day for 28 consecutive days, followed by 14 days off per cycle, or capecitabine plus oxaliplatin consisting of an initial dose of intravenous oxaliplatin 130 mg/m<sup>2</sup> for 2 h every 21 days and capecitabine 1000 mg/m<sup>2</sup> per dose orally twice per day for 14 consecutive days, followed by 7 days off treatment. The primary endpoint was relapse-free survival by central assessment. The intention-to-treat population, consisting of all randomly assigned patients, was used for analysis of efficacy endpoints. The safety population, defined as patients who received at least one dose of trial drug, was used for analysis of safety endpoints. This trial is registered with ClinicalTrials.gov (NCT03006705) and is closed.</p><p><strong>Findings: </strong>Between Feb 1, 2017, and Aug 15, 2019, 755 patients were randomly assigned to receive either adjuvant nivolumab plus chemotherapy (n=377) or adjuvant placebo plus chemotherapy (n=378). 267 (71%) of 377 patients in the nivolumab group and 263 (70%) of 378 patients in the placebo group were male; 110 (29%) of 377 patients in the nivolumab group and 115 (31%) of 378 patients in the placebo group were female. 745 patients received assigned treatment (371 in the nivolumab plus chemotherapy group; 374 in the placebo plus chemotherapy group), which was the safety population. Median time from first dose to data cutoff was 49·1 months (IQR 43·1-56·7). 3-year relapse-free survival was 68·4% (95% CI 63·0-73·2) in the nivolumab plus chemotherapy group and 65·3% (59·9-70·2) in the placebo plus chemotherapy group; the hazard ratio for relapse-free s","PeriodicalId":56028,"journal":{"name":"Lancet Gastroenterology & Hepatology","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":30.9,"publicationDate":"2024-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141437855","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Considerations for treating autistic individuals in gastroenterology clinics.","authors":"Timothy Buie, Kara Margolis","doi":"10.1016/S2468-1253(24)00153-5","DOIUrl":"10.1016/S2468-1253(24)00153-5","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":56028,"journal":{"name":"Lancet Gastroenterology & Hepatology","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":30.9,"publicationDate":"2024-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141186925","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Immune-checkpoint blockade in surgical management of gastric or gastro-oesophageal junction adenocarcinoma.","authors":"Maeve A Lowery","doi":"10.1016/S2468-1253(24)00196-1","DOIUrl":"10.1016/S2468-1253(24)00196-1","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":56028,"journal":{"name":"Lancet Gastroenterology & Hepatology","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":30.9,"publicationDate":"2024-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141437856","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Angela Dalia Ricci, Alessandro Rizzo, Claudio Lotesoriere
{"title":"Immunotherapy in biliary tract cancer: are we finally on the right path?","authors":"Angela Dalia Ricci, Alessandro Rizzo, Claudio Lotesoriere","doi":"10.1016/S2468-1253(24)00118-3","DOIUrl":"10.1016/S2468-1253(24)00118-3","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":56028,"journal":{"name":"Lancet Gastroenterology & Hepatology","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":30.9,"publicationDate":"2024-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141186930","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Salvatore Piano, Chalermrat Bunchorntavakul, Sebastian Marciano, K Rajender Reddy
{"title":"Infections in cirrhosis.","authors":"Salvatore Piano, Chalermrat Bunchorntavakul, Sebastian Marciano, K Rajender Reddy","doi":"10.1016/S2468-1253(24)00078-5","DOIUrl":"10.1016/S2468-1253(24)00078-5","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Cirrhosis is an immune dysfunction state, and as such, patients with cirrhosis are susceptible to bacterial, fungal, and viral infections. Because of infection, these patients have a propensity to develop multiorgan failure, which is associated with high mortality. Bacterial infections are the most prevalent type of infection in patients with cirrhosis, with the prevalence of bacterial infections in patients admitted for an acute decompensating event ranging from 24% to 29%. Together with invasive fungal infections, bacterial infections are the most severe. Multidrug-resistant organisms have been evolving at a rapid and alarming rate around the world, which presents enormous challenges. The development of effective measures for the prevention, early detection, and treatment of infections in patients with cirrhosis is challenging, given the rising incidence of infections in this patient population.</p>","PeriodicalId":56028,"journal":{"name":"Lancet Gastroenterology & Hepatology","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":30.9,"publicationDate":"2024-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140961128","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Harry L A Janssen, Young-Suk Lim, Pietro Lampertico, Jeong Heo, Chi-Yi Chen, Claire Fournier, Tak Yin Owen Tsang, Ho Bae, Chien-Hung Chen, Carla S Coffin, Sang Hoon Ahn, Huy Trinh, John F Flaherty, Frida Abramov, Yang Zhao, Yang Liu, Audrey Lau, Polina German, Wan-Long Chuang, Kosh Agarwal, Edward Gane
{"title":"Switching to tenofovir alafenamide in patients with virologically suppressed chronic hepatitis B and renal or hepatic impairment: final week 96 results from an open-label, multicentre, phase 2 study.","authors":"Harry L A Janssen, Young-Suk Lim, Pietro Lampertico, Jeong Heo, Chi-Yi Chen, Claire Fournier, Tak Yin Owen Tsang, Ho Bae, Chien-Hung Chen, Carla S Coffin, Sang Hoon Ahn, Huy Trinh, John F Flaherty, Frida Abramov, Yang Zhao, Yang Liu, Audrey Lau, Polina German, Wan-Long Chuang, Kosh Agarwal, Edward Gane","doi":"10.1016/S2468-1253(24)00096-7","DOIUrl":"10.1016/S2468-1253(24)00096-7","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Background: </strong>Phase 3 studies in patients with chronic hepatitis B have shown tenofovir alafenamide to have non-inferior efficacy to tenofovir disoproxil fumarate, with improved renal and bone safety. We conducted this study to evaluate the safety and efficacy of switching to tenofovir alafenamide in participants with chronic hepatitis B and renal or hepatic impairment.</p><p><strong>Methods: </strong>This open-label, multicentre, phase 2 study was done in eight countries or territories at 30 sites. We recruited adults (≥18 years) with chronic hepatitis B who were virally suppressed on nucleoside or nucleotide analogues and had renal impairment (part A: moderate or severe in cohort 1 [estimated glomerular filtration rate by the Cockcroft-Gault formula (eGFR<sub>CG</sub>) 15-59 mL/min] or end-stage renal disease [eGFR<sub>CG</sub> <15 mL/min] on haemodialysis in cohort 2) or hepatic impairment including decompensation (part B: Child-Turcotte-Pugh score 7-12). Participants switched to 25 mg of tenofovir alafenamide given orally once daily for 96 weeks. The primary endpoint was the proportion of participants with viral suppression (HBV DNA <20 IU/mL) at week 24 by missing-equals-failure analysis. Efficacy (full analysis set) and safety (safety analysis set) analyses included all enrolled participants who received at least one dose of the study drug. Week 96 safety was assessed, including renal and bone parameters. This trial is registered at ClinicalTrials.gov, NCT03180619, and is completed.</p><p><strong>Findings: </strong>124 participants (93 in part A [78 in cohort 1 and 15 in cohort 2] and 31 in part B) were enrolled between Aug 11, 2017, and Oct 17, 2018, and included in the full and safety analysis sets. 106 (85%) participants completed the study. There were 69 (74%) men and 24 (26%) women in part A and 21 (68%) men and ten (32%) women in part B. At week 24, 91 (97·8%, 95% CI 92·4 to 99·7) of 93 individuals in part A (76 [97·4%, 91·0 to 99·7] of 78 in cohort 1 and 15 [100·0%, 78·2 to 100·0] of 15 in cohort 2) and 31 (100·0%, 88·8 to 100·0) in part B had HBV DNA of less than 20 IU/mL. By week 96, the most common adverse event was upper respiratory tract infection, which occurred in 14 (15%) participants in part A and in six (19%) participants in part B. Serious adverse events occurred in 20 (22%) part A participants and in ten (32%) part B participants; none were related to treatment. No treatment-related deaths occurred. At week 96, median change in estimated glomerular filtration rate (Cockcroft-Gault method) was 1·0 mL/min (IQR -2·8 to 4·5) in cohort 1 and -2·4 mL/min (-11·4 to 10·7) in part B. Mean changes in spine and hip bone mineral density were 1·02% (SD 4·44) and 0·20% (3·25) in part A and -0·25% (3·91) and 0·28% (3·25) in part B.</p><p><strong>Interpretation: </strong>Tenofovir alafenamide might offer continued antiviral efficacy and a favourable safety profile for patients with renal or hepatic impairment and chroni","PeriodicalId":56028,"journal":{"name":"Lancet Gastroenterology & Hepatology","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":30.9,"publicationDate":"2024-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141433543","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Durgesh Wankhede, Tanwei Yuan, Matthias Kloor, Niels Halama, Hermann Brenner, Michael Hoffmeister
{"title":"Clinical significance of combined tumour-infiltrating lymphocytes and microsatellite instability status in colorectal cancer: a systematic review and network meta-analysis.","authors":"Durgesh Wankhede, Tanwei Yuan, Matthias Kloor, Niels Halama, Hermann Brenner, Michael Hoffmeister","doi":"10.1016/S2468-1253(24)00091-8","DOIUrl":"10.1016/S2468-1253(24)00091-8","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Background: </strong>Microsatellite instability (MSI) status and tumour-infiltrating lymphocytes (TIL) are established prognostic factors in colorectal cancer. Previous studies evaluating the combination of TIL and MSI status identified distinct colorectal cancer subtypes with unique prognostic associations. However, these studies were often limited by sample size, particularly for MSI-high (MSI-H) tumours, and there is no comprehensive summary of the available evidence. We aimed to review the literature to compare the survival outcomes associated with the subtypes derived from the integrated MSI-TIL classification in patients with colorectal cancer.</p><p><strong>Methods: </strong>In this systematic review and network meta-analysis, we searched PubMed, Embase, Scopus, and the Cochrane Library without language restrictions, for articles published between Jan 1, 1990, and March 13, 2024. Patient cohorts comparing different combinations of TIL (high or low) and MSI status (MSI or microsatellite stable [MSS]) in patients with surgically resected colorectal cancer were included. Studies were excluded if they focused on neoadjuvant therapy or on other immune markers such as B cells or macrophages. Methodological quality assessment was done with the Newcastle-Ottawa scale; data appraisal and extraction was done independently by two reviewers. Summary estimates were extracted from published reports. The primary outcomes were overall survival, disease-free survival, and cancer-specific survival. A frequentist network meta-analysis was done to compare hazard ratios (HRs) and 95% CI for each outcome. The MSI-TIL subgroups were prognostically ranked based on P-score, bias, magnitude, and precision of associations with each outcome. The protocol is registered with PROSPERO (CRD42023461108).</p><p><strong>Findings: </strong>Of 302 studies initially identified, 21 studies (comprising 14 028 patients) were included in the systematic review and 19 (13 029 patients) in the meta-analysis. Nine studies were identified with a low risk of bias and the remaining ten had a moderate risk of bias. The MSI-TIL-high (MSI-TIL-H) subtype exhibited longer overall survival (HR 0·45, 95% CI 0·34-0·61; I<sup>2</sup>=77·7%), disease-free survival (0·43, 0·32-0·58; I<sup>2</sup>=61·6%), and cancer-specific survival (0·53, 0·43-0·66; I<sup>2</sup>=0%), followed by the MSS-TIL-H subtype for overall survival (HR 0·53, 0·41-0·69; I<sup>2</sup>=77·7%), disease-free survival (0·52, 0·41-0·64; I<sup>2</sup>=61·6%), and cancer-specific survival (0·55, 0·47-0·64; I<sup>2</sup>=0%) than did patients with MSS-TIL-low tumours (MSS-TIL-L). Patients with the MSI-TIL-L subtype had similar overall survival (0·88, 0·66-1·18; I<sup>2</sup>=77·7%) and disease-free survival (0·93, 0·69-1·26; I<sup>2</sup>=61·6%), but a modestly longer cancer-specific survival (0·72, 0·57-0·90; I<sup>2</sup>=0%) than did the MSS-TIL-L subtype. Results from the direct and indirect evidence were strongly cong","PeriodicalId":56028,"journal":{"name":"Lancet Gastroenterology & Hepatology","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":35.7,"publicationDate":"2024-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140909621","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}