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. 2025 Feb 20;15:1526931. doi: 10.3389/fonc.2025.1526931

Table 4.

Demographics and clinical characteristics of retreated patients following index nivolumab discontinuation according to their type of retreatment.

CT and/or TKI subgroup
(n = 1,604)
Rechallenge
(n = 110)
Resumption
(n = 102)
Switch
(n = 14)
Median (Q1–Q3) age at nivolumab initiation, years 63.2 (56.6–69.5) 61.5 (54.6–69.0) 66.3 (59.3–72.2) 59.1 (52.9–64.1)
Age ≥75 years at nivolumab initiation, n (%) 146 (9.1) 7 (6.4) 15 (14.7) 1 (7.1)
Male sex, % 66.7 63.6 71.6 71.4
LAM NSCLC diagnosis type, %
De novo 82.2 81.8 68.6 85.7
NSCLC histological subtype, n (%)
Adenocarcinoma 1,076 (67.1) 75 (68.2) 71 (69.6) 11 (78.6)
PD-L1 screening,* % 34.5 37.3 40.2 64.3
PD-L1 screening test result
Positive, % 36.3 43.9 53.7 66.7
If positive (≥1%), category of tumor-activated cells
1% to 49% expression, n (%) 122 (65.6) 9 (60.0) 9 (45.0) 4 (80.0)
≥50% expression, n (%) 64 (34.4) 6 (40.0) 11 (55.0) 1 (20.0)
TNM stage at initial diagnosis, n 1,577 110 100 13
I–III, % 31.8 34.4 38.2 21.4
IV, % 66.6 65.4 59.8 71.4
Not available, % 1.7 0 2 7.1
ECOG performance status at nivolumab initiation, n 901 64 58 7
0, % 24.1 37.5 32.8 28.6
1, % 64.8 54.7 50 57.1
≥2, % 11.1 7.8 17.2 14.3
Location of metastases, %
Brain 37.3 31.3 30.9 53.8

2L+, second line or later; CT, chemotherapy; ECOG, Eastern Cooperative Oncology Group; LAM, locally advanced or metastatic; NSCLC, non-small cell lung cancer; PD-L1, programmed death ligand 1; Q, quartile; TNM, tumor, node, metastasis; TKI, tyrosine kinase inhibitor.

*Any time during the course of the disease.