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Hung Trinh: Prediction of checkpoint inhibitor immunotherapy efficacy for cancer using routine blood tests and clinical data
Jan 7, 2025, 11:18

Hung Trinh: Prediction of checkpoint inhibitor immunotherapy efficacy for cancer using routine blood tests and clinical data

Hung Trinh, Senior Director of Business Development at OBiO Tech, shared on LinkedIn:

“Nature Medicine: Prediction of checkpoint inhibitor immunotherapy efficacy for cancer using routine blood tests and clinical data

Comprehensive real-world evidence of almost 10,000 patients cross 21 types of cancers.

Predicting whether a patient with cancer will benefit from immune checkpoint inhibitors (ICIs) without resorting to advanced genomic or immunologic assays is an important clinical need. To address this, we developed and evaluated SCORPIO, a machine learning system that utilizes routine blood tests (complete blood count and comprehensive metabolic profile) alongside clinical characteristics from 9,745 ICI-treated patients across 21 cancer types.

SCORPIO was trained on data from 1,628 patients across 17 cancer types from Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center. In two internal test sets comprising 2,511 patients across 19 cancer types, SCORPIO achieved median time-dependent area under the receiver operating characteristic curve (AUC(t)) values of 0.763 and 0.759 for predicting overall survival at 6, 12, 18, 24 and 30 months, outperforming tumor mutational burden (TMB), which showed median AUC(t) values of 0.503 and 0.543. Additionally, SCORPIO demonstrated superior predictive performance for predicting clinical benefit (tumor response or prolonged stability), with AUC values of 0.714 and 0.641, compared to TMB (AUC = 0.546 and 0.573).

External validation was performed using 10 global phase 3 trials (4,447 patients across 6 cancer types) and a real-world cohort from the Mount Sinai Health System (1,159 patients across 18 cancer types). In these external cohorts, SCORPIO maintained robust performance in predicting ICI outcomes, surpassing programmed death-ligand 1 immunostaining. These findings underscore SCORPIO’s reliability and adaptability, highlighting its potential to predict patient outcomes with ICI therapy across diverse cancer types and healthcare settings.”

Prediction of checkpoint inhibitor immunotherapy efficacy for cancer using routine blood tests and clinical data | Nature Medicine

Authors: Seong-Keun Yoo, Conall W. Fitzgerald, Byuri Angela Cho, Bailey G. Fitzgerald, Catherine Han, Elizabeth S. Koh, Abhinav Pandey, Hannah Sfreddo, Fionnuala Crowley, Michelle Rudshteyn Korostin, Neha Debnath, Yan Leyfman, Cristina Valero, Mark Lee, Joris L. Vos, Andrew Sangho Lee, Karena Zhao, Stanley Lam, Ezekiel Olumuyide, Fengshen Kuo, Eric A. Wilson, Pauline Hamon, Clotilde Hennequin, Miriam Saffern, Lynda Vuong, A. Ari Hakimi, Brian Brown, Miriam Merad, Sacha Gnjatic, Nina Bhardwaj, Matthew D. Galsky, Eric E. Schadt, Robert M. Samstein, Thomas U. Marron, Mithat Gönen, Luc G. T. Morris and Diego Chowell.

Hung Trinh: Prediction of checkpoint inhibitor immunotherapy efficacy for cancer using routine blood tests and clinical data