%0 Journal Article %A Herz, Andreas %A Guberina, Maja %A Pöttgen, Christoph %A Gauler, Thomas %A Ton, That Truong Mike %A Fischedick, Gerrit %A Kiwitt, Lars Oliver %A Lübcke, Wolfgang %A Hoffmann, Christian %A Schuler, Martin %A Metzenmacher, Martin %A Schaarschmidt, Benedikt M %A Bos, Denise %A Opitz, Marcel %A Hautzel, Hubertus %A Darwiche, Kaid %A Bölükbas, Servet %A Grapatsas, Konstantinos %A Jendrossek, Verena %A Gockeln, Lena %A Wirsdörfer, Florian %A Hetzel, Mario %A Mladenov, Emil %A Stuschke, Martin %A Guberina, Nika %T The effect of durvalumab consolidation after definitive radiochemotherapy for non-operable stage III non-small cell lung cancer on the dose effect relation for therapy related pulmonary infiltrates as a risk factor for pneumonitis. %J Translational Lung Cancer Research %V 14 %N 6 %@ 2218-6751 %C [Erscheinungsort nicht ermittelbar] %I [Verlag nicht ermittelbar] %M DKFZ-2025-01434 %P 2074 - 2088 %D 2025 %X Consolidation therapy with the anti-programmed death-ligand 1 (PD-L1) antibody durvalumab, or other immune checkpoint inhibitors, has been associated with improved progression-free and overall survival in patients with stage III non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) as demonstrated in randomized clinical trials. The purpose of the present study is to evaluate the dose-response relationship for partial lung infiltrate volumes per dose bin after definitive radiochemotherapy as a sensitive end point to detect a durvalumab effect on the lung parenchyma in patients with subclinical or grade ≤2 pneumonitis.Consecutive patients from a prospective registry with inoperable NSCLC stage III who developed no or pneumonitis grade ≤2 after definitive radiochemotherapy with or without durvalumab consolidation were included. Pulmonary infiltrates outside the planning target volumes were contoured in the follow-up computed tomography (CT) at the time of maximum infiltrate expression. Partial lung infiltrate volumes per dose bin were determined over the entire dose range. A mixed random and fixed effect model was used to fit dose response curves stepwise in dose bins of 5 Gy. The Akaike information criterion (AIC) was used for model comparison.Sixty patients with and 44 without durvalumab consolidation were analysed. The step model showed a significant dose response relationship for the pulmonary infiltrates (P<0.001, F-test) that was modified by the durvalumab effect (P<0.001, F-test). There was a significant dependence of the durvalumab effect on radiation dose (P=0.003). The durvalumab effect increased with dose from 0 %K Pneumonitis (Other) %K durvalumab consolidation (Other) %K immunotherapy (Other) %K lung cancer (Other) %K radiation therapy (Other) %F PUB:(DE-HGF)16 %9 Journal Article %$ pmid:40673077 %2 pmc:PMC12261351 %R 10.21037/tlcr-2024-1284 %U https://inrepo02.dkfz.de/record/302987