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作者: Zhang, Jingdong ; Han, Lei ; Wang, Jun ; Wei, Xiaoyong ; Lu, Zheng ; Yu, Zujiang ; Zhuang, Li ; Wu, Guicheng ; Shen, Jie ; Ding, Sijuan ; Liu, Hailong ; Zheng, Zhendong ; Lin, Hailan ; Shen, Liangfang ; Chen, Kehe ; Xing, Baocai ; Liu, Xiuli ; Sun, Hongmei ; Peng, Zhigang ; Xie, Liangzhi ; Wang, Gang ; Su, Huo ; Gai, Wenlin ; Li, Wei ; Yang, Lin ; Wu, Jianbing ; Chen, Shaojun ; Du, Yangfeng ; Chen, Weiqing ; Luo, Zhanxiong ; Chen, Jian ; Liu, Xianling ; Zhao, Chuanhua ; Zheng, Cuiping ; Xu, Aibing ; Zheng, Jinfang ; Gu, Shanzhi ; Wang, Yuwen ; Zhu, Bo ; Yang, Yongsheng ; Wang, Jingran ; Li, Aimin ; Jiang, Ou ; Fu, Ting ; Jin, Chuan ; Lei, Kaijian ; Cao, Bangwei ; Cheng, Ying ; Xu, Jianming ; Zhang, Yanqiao ; Xu, Ximing ; Lv, Jun ; Zhang, Lei ; Zhou, Qiang ; Cai, Lianming ; Wang, Wei ; Zhang, Xiaoman ; Bi, Yanzhi ; Wang, Yu ; Zhang, Chengwu
Abstract:We aimed to assess the tolerability and efficacy of finotonlimab (an anti-programmed cell death protein-1 antibody) in combination with SCT510, a bevacizumab biosimilar, versus sorafenib in unresectable advanced HCC. This randomized phase 2 and 3 study (ClinicalTrials.gov, NCT04560894; Chinadrugtrials.org.cn, CTR20201976 and CTR20201974) was performed at 67 hospitals in China. HCC patients (n = 398) were included between 11 November 2020 and 28 September 2022. In phase 2, patients received intravenous finotonlimab (200 mg every 3 weeks) combined with SCT510 (15 mg/kg every 3 weeks). In phase 3, 346 patients were randomized (2:1) to either the finotonlimab plus SCT510 (dual-agent) group or the sorafenib group. The median follow-up time for the dual-agent therapy and sorafenib groups was 19.9 and 19.0 months, respectively. Median PFS, assessed by BICR according to RECIST 1.1, was significantly longer in the dual-agent group (7.1 months [95% confidence intervals {CI}: 6.1, 8.4]) than in the sorafenib group (2.9 months [95% CI: 2.8, 4.1]; stratified hazard ratio [HR]: 0.5, 95% CI: 0.38, 0.65, p < 0.0001). Median OS was also significantly longer in patients receiving finotonlimab plus SCT510 (22.1 months [18.6, not available]) than in those receiving sorafenib (14.2 months [95% CI: 10.2, 15.8]; HR: 0.60 [95% CI: 0.44, 0.81], p < 0.0008). Finotonlimab in combination with bevacizumab demonstrated favorable efficacy, in comparison to sorafenib, as a first-line treatment for unresectable HCC, with a manageable safety profile.