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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2019 Oct 22.
Published in final edited form as: Nat Med. 2019 Apr 22;25(5):744–750. doi: 10.1038/s41591-019-0407-5

Table 3.

Factors associated with prolongation of progression-free survival (PFS) by 30% or greater in later lines of therapy.

Univariable Multivariable

Parameters Patients with PFS2/PFS1≥1.3 (%)6 OR (95% CI) P7 OR (95% CI) P7
Evaluable patients1 (N=53) 24/53=45.3% --- --- --- ---

Age2
  < 62 years old (N=24) 9/24=37.5% 0.56 (0.19–1.69) 0.302 --- ---
  ≥ 62 years old (N=29) 15/29=51.7%

Gender
  Women (N=36) 15/36=41.7% 0.64 (0.20–2.03) 0.443 --- ---
  Men (N=17) 9/17=52.9%

Patients with1 matched therapy administered
  YES (N=46) 22/46=47.8% 2.29 (0.40–13.04) 0.350 --- ---
  NO (N=7) 2/7=28.6%

Matching Score3
  >50% (N=12) 9/12=75.0% 5.20 (1.22–22.23) 0.026 8.18 (1.50–44.77) 0.015
  ≤50% (N=41) 15/41=36.6%

Gastrointestinal cancer (includes hepatopancreatobiliary cancer)
  YES (N=23) 10/23=43.5% 0.88 (0.30–2.62) 0.817 --- ---
  NO (N=30) 14/30=46.7%

Gynecologic cancer
  YES (N=10) 3/10=30.0% 0.45 (0.10–1.97) 0.289 0.20 (0.03–1.42) 0.108
  NO (N=43) 21/43=48.8%

Combination therapy4
  YES (N=38) 18/38=47.4% 1.35 (0.40–4.54) 0.628 --- ---
  NO (N=15) 6/15=40.0%

Prior lines of therapy5
  ≤2 (N=20) 7/20=35.0% 0.51 (0.16–1.59) 0.245 0.48 (0.13–1.73) 0.262
  >2 (N=33) 17/33=51.5%
1

N=53 patients were evaluable for this analysis. Patients were inevaluable mainly because the PFS1 was in the adjuvant/neoadjuvant setting or was a matched therapy.

2

Age cut-off chosen corresponds to the median age.

3

The cut-off of 50% for the Matching Score was chosen according to the minimum P-value criteria.19

4

Combination therapy refers to administrations of molecularly matched multi-drug regimens.

5

Cut-off chosen was the median line of therapy administered.

6

PFS2 refers to progression-free survival on the I-PREDICT protocol; PFS1 refers to progression-free survival on the prior unmatched therapy (in a metastatic or an unresectable setting).

7

P-values by Kaplan-Meier method [two-sided log-rank test (univariable analysis); Cox regression (multivariate analysis)]; variables with P<0.3 in univariable analysis were included in the Cox regression model (multivariable analysis).