Sex differences on multikinase inhibitors toxicity in patients with advanced gastroenteropancreatic neuroendocrine tumours

PURPOSE: There is an increasing interest in the role of sex and gender in cancer patients. The impact of sex differences in oncological systemic therapies is still unknown, and there is a lack of evidence specially in uncommon neoplasms like neuroendocrine tumours (NET). In the present study, we com...

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Autores: Hernando, Jorge, Roca-Herrera, Maria, García-Álvarez, Alejandro, Raymond, Eric, Ruszniewski, Philippe, Kulke, Matthew H, Grande, Enrique, García-Carbonero, Rocio, Castellano, Daniel, Salazar, Ramón, Ibrahim, Toni, Teule, Alex, Alonso, Vicente, Fazio, Nicola, Valle, Juan W, Tafuto, Salvatore, Carmona, Ana, Navarro, Victor, Capdevila, Jaume
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Fecha de publicación:2023
País:España
Institución:Instituto de Salud Carlos III (ISCIII)
Repositorio:Repisalud
Idioma:inglés
OAI Identifier:oai:repisalud.isciii.es:20.500.12105/23114
Acceso en línea:https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12105/23114
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palabra clave:Neuroendocrine Tumors
Humans
Female
Male
Sex Characteristics
Sunitinib
Sorafenib
Bevacizumab
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Sumario:PURPOSE: There is an increasing interest in the role of sex and gender in cancer patients. The impact of sex differences in oncological systemic therapies is still unknown, and there is a lack of evidence specially in uncommon neoplasms like neuroendocrine tumours (NET). In the present study, we combine the differential toxicities by sex in five published clinical trials with multikinase inhibitors (MKI) in gastroenteropancreatic (GEP) NET. METHODS: We performed a pooled univariate analysis of reported toxicity in patients treated in five phase 2 and phase 3 clinical trials with MKI in the GEP NET setting: sunitinib (SU11248, SUN1111), Pazopanib (PAZONET), sorafenib-bevacizumab (GETNE0801) and Lenvatinib (TALENT). Differential toxicities between male and female patients were evaluated considering relationship with study drug and different weights of each trial by random effect adjustment. RESULTS: We found nine toxicities which were more frequent in female patients (leukopenia, alopecia, vomiting, headache, bleeding, nausea, dysgeusia, neutrophil count decreased and dry mouth) and two toxicities being more frequent in male patients (Anal Symptoms and Insomnia). Asthenia and diarrhoea were the only severe (Grade 3-4) toxicities more frequent in female patients. CONCLUSIONS: Sex-related differences in toxicity with the MKI treatment require targeted information and individualised management of patients with NET. Differential reporting of toxicity should be promoted when clinical trials are published.