TY - JOUR AU - Herz, Andreas AU - Guberina, Maja AU - Pöttgen, Christoph AU - Gauler, Thomas AU - Ton, That Truong Mike AU - Fischedick, Gerrit AU - Kiwitt, Lars Oliver AU - Lübcke, Wolfgang AU - Hoffmann, Christian AU - Schuler, Martin AU - Metzenmacher, Martin AU - Schaarschmidt, Benedikt M AU - Bos, Denise AU - Opitz, Marcel AU - Hautzel, Hubertus AU - Darwiche, Kaid AU - Bölükbas, Servet AU - Grapatsas, Konstantinos AU - Jendrossek, Verena AU - Gockeln, Lena AU - Wirsdörfer, Florian AU - Hetzel, Mario AU - Mladenov, Emil AU - Stuschke, Martin AU - Guberina, Nika TI - 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. JO - Translational Lung Cancer Research VL - 14 IS - 6 SN - 2218-6751 CY - [Erscheinungsort nicht ermittelbar] PB - [Verlag nicht ermittelbar] M1 - DKFZ-2025-01434 SP - 2074 - 2088 PY - 2025 AB - 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 KW - Pneumonitis (Other) KW - durvalumab consolidation (Other) KW - immunotherapy (Other) KW - lung cancer (Other) KW - radiation therapy (Other) LB - PUB:(DE-HGF)16 C6 - pmid:40673077 C2 - pmc:PMC12261351 DO - DOI:10.21037/tlcr-2024-1284 UR - https://inrepo02.dkfz.de/record/302987 ER -