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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2017 Oct 5.
Published in final edited form as: Nat Rev Endocrinol. 2017 Jan 20;13(4):195–207. doi: 10.1038/nrendo.2016.205

Table 3.

Endocrine IRAEs with PD1 and PDL1 antibodies

PD1 antibodies
Study Antibody Cohort Endocrinopathy
Age (range) n Hypothyroidism Hyperthyroidism Adrenal insufficency Hypophysitis Other thyroid# T1DM
Topalian, et al(2012)12 Nivolumab 63 (29–85) 296 7ǂ 3 NR 2§ NR NR
Topalian, et al(2014)11 Nivolumab 61 (29–85) 107 6ǂ 2 NR 1 1 NR
Motzer, et al(2015)109|| Nivolumab 61 (SD 9) 168 10ǂ NR NR NR NR NR
Gettinger, et al(2015)67## Nivolumab 65 (38–85) 129 NR NR NR NR NR NR
Rizvi, et al(2015)113 Nivolumab 65 (57–71) 117 3ǂ NR 1ǂ NR 1 NR
Brahmer, et al(2015)114 Nivolumab 62 (39–85) 135 5ǂ NR NR NR NR NR
Robert, et al(2015)107 Nivolumab 64 (18–86) 210 9ǂ 7ǂ NR 1 NR 1
Larkin, et al(2015)132 Nivolumab 59 (25–90) 316 27ǂ 13ǂ NR 2 NR NR
Robert, et al(2014)66 Pembrolizumab 59 (18–88) 173 7ǂ 3ǂ NR 2 NR NR
Robert, et al(2015)115 Pembrolizumab 61–63 (18–89) 556 52ǂ 27ǂ NR 3 NR 2
Garon, et al(2015)116 Pembrolizumab 64 (28–93) 495 34ǂ 9ǂ NR NR NR NR
Total 2702 160 (5.9%) 71 (3.3%) 2 (1.7%) 10 (0.6%) 1 (1.3%) 2 (0.4%)
Event/Totalǂǂ 160/2573 71/2153 2/117 10/1658 3/224 3/766
PDL1 antibodies
Study Antibody Cohort Endocrinopathy
Age (range) n Hypothyroidism Hyperthyroidism Adrenal insufficency Hypophysitis Other thyroid# T1DM
Brahmer, et al(2012) MDX-1105 63 (29–83) 207 6ǂ NR 2ǂ NR 2 NR
McDermott, et al(2016) Atezolizumab 61 (33–81) 70 6ǂ NR NR NR NR NR
Total 277 12 (4.3%) NA 2 (1.0%) NA 2 (1.0%) NA
Event/Totalǂǂ 12/277 NA 2/207 NA 2/207 NA
#

Includes autoimmune thyroiditis, unspecified thyroid disorders.

ǂ

Unspecified cause.

§

Reported as <1% of 296 patients, but exact number of event not reported;

||

18 endocrinopathies reported by no specifics given other than 10 hypothyroidism.

##

Eight endocrinopathies reported but no specifics given.

ǂǂ

Percentage determined by total number of events divided from total number of patients only from studies reporting event. IRAE, immune-related adverse event; NA, not applicable; NR, none reported; T1DM, type 1 diabetes mellitus