Table 2.
Clinical parameter | TIM-3 decr. (n=9) | TIM-3 incr. (n=6) | Total (n=15) | Significance* (decr. vs incr.) | ||
Treatment outcome | Patient, n (% of total) | P value | ||||
Marker response† | CR | 1 (11.1) | 0 (0.0) | 1 (6.7) | ns | |
PR | 0 (0.0) | 2 (33.3) | 2 (13.3) | ns | ||
MR | 2 (22.2) | 0 (0.0) | 2 (13.3) | ns | ||
SD | 2 (22.2) | 0 (0.0) | 2 (13.3) | ns | ||
PD | 2 (22.2) | 3 (50.0) | 5 (33.3) | ns | ||
N/A | 2 (22.2) | 1 (16.7) | 3 (20.0) | ns | ||
Imaging response† | CR | 0 (0.0) | 0 (0.0) | 0 (0.0) | ns | |
PR | 0 (0.0) | 0 (0.0) | 0 (0.0) | ns | ||
MR | 3 (33.3) | 1 (16.7) | 4 (26.7) | ns | ||
SD | 2 (22.2) | 1 (16.7) | 3 (20.0) | ns | ||
PD | 2 (22.2) | 1 (16.7) | 3 (20.0) | ns | ||
N/A | 2 (22.2) | 3 (50.0) | 5 (33.3) | ns | ||
Overall survival | Median | 204 days | 64 days | 143 days | ‡ | (0.0036) |
95% CI | (116 to 292 days) | (0 to 144 days) | (89 to 197 d) |
*Patients were stratified into TIM-3 decr. and TIM-3 incr. groups based on direction of TIM-3 expression change. Fisher’s exact test was used for categorical response variables between TIM-3 groups, while log-rank test was used for overall survival.
†PET criteria were used to assess results of PET-CT imaging and tumor markers were measured from blood samples, both scored with the same percentage cutoffs, as described in the Materials and Methods section and online supplemental table S1.
‡P<0.01.
CR, complete response; decr., decrease; incr., increase; MR, minor response; ns, not significant; PD, progressive disease; PET, positron emission tomography; PR, partial response; SD, stable disease; TIM-3, T-cell immunoglobulin and mucin domain-3.