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作者: Hu, Mingxiu ; Li, Gaofeng ; Lu, Dongmei ; Mei, Xiaodong ; Zhou, Caicun ; Chen, Jianhua ; Wang, Jinliang ; Zhong, Hua ; Li, Xingya ; Xiong, Anwen ; Cheng, Ying ; Liu, Xuewen ; Zhou, Chengzhi ; Wu, Lin ; Shi, Qin ; Hao, Jiqing ; Yao, Jifang ; Ai, Xiaohong ; Zhao, Yanqiu ; Yang, Jie ; Sun, Daqiang ; Ge, Hui ; Xia, Michelle ; Shan, Jinlu ; Chu, Qian ; Lin, Yu ; Chen, Bolin ; Yao, Jun ; Zhou, Ming ; Chen, Junqiang ; Wang, Jing ; Huang, Dingzhi ; Wang, Lei ; Li, Baiyong ; Liu, Baogang ; Sun, Yulan ; Wang, Zhongmin Maxwell ; Yang, Hongzhong ; Han, Zhengxiang ; Nie, Ligong ; Yu, Xinmin ; Li, Jie ; Ji, Yinghua ; Shang, Yanhong ; Bu, Qing
BACKGROUNDIvonescimab is a bispecific antibody against programmed cell death protein 1 and vascular endothelial growth factor, yielding promising clinical outcomes for patients with advanced non-small cell lung cancer in early-phase studies. We compared the efficacy and safety of ivonescimab with pembrolizumab in patients with programmed cell death ligand-1 (PD-L1)-positive advanced non-small cell lung cancer.METHODSHARMONi-2 is a randomised, double-blind, phase 3 trial across 55 hospitals in China. Eligible patients were aged 18 years or older and had locally advanced or metastatic PD-L1-positive non-small cell lung cancer without sensitising epidermal growth factor receptor mutations or anaplastic lymphoma kinase translocations and an Eastern Cooperative Oncology Group performance-status of 0 or 1. Patients were randomly assigned (1:1) to receive 20 mg/kg ivonescimab or 200 mg pembrolizumab intravenously every 3 weeks. Randomisation was stratified by histology, clinical stage, and PD-L1 expression. The primary endpoint was progression-free survival (PFS) assessed by a masked independent radiographic review committee per RECIST v1.1 in the intention-to-treat population. This study is registered with ClinicalTrials.gov, NCT05499390; recruitment is complete, with the trial ongoing and final analysis to be reported later.FINDINGSBetween Nov 9, 2022, and Aug 26, 2023, 398 (45%) of 879 screened patients were randomly assigned to receive ivonescimab (n=198) or pembrolizumab (n=200). At the preplanned interim analysis, median PFS was significantly longer with ivonescimab than with pembrolizumab (11·1 vs 5·8 months; stratified hazard ratio [HR] 0·51 [95% CI 0·38-0·69]; one-sided p<0·0001). The PFS benefit of ivonescimab over pembrolizumab was broadly consistent within prespecified subgroups, including patients with PD-L1 tumour proportion score (TPS) 1-49% (HR 0·54 [95% CI 0·37-0·78]) and PD-L1 TPS of 50% of higher (HR 0·48 [0·29-0·79]). Grade 3 or higher treatment-related adverse events occurred in 58 (29%) patients with ivonescimab and 31 (16%) patients with pembrolizumab. Immune-related adverse events of grade 3 or higher were observed in 14 (7%) of 197 patients on ivonescimab and 16 (8%) of 199 patients on pembrolizumab. Ivonescimab demonstrated a manageable safety profile in patients with both squamous and non-squamous non-small cell lung cancer. In patients with squamous cell carcinoma, grade 3 or higher treatment-related adverse events were comparable between the two groups.INTERPRETATIONIvonescimab significantly improved PFS compared with pembrolizumab in previously untreated patients with advanced PD-L1 positive non-small cell lung cancer. Therefore, ivonescimab might represent another treatment option in the first-line setting for PD-L1-positive advanced non-small cell lung cancer.FUNDINGAkeso Biopharma.