TY - JOUR
T1 - Malignancy outcomes in patients with rheumatoid arthritis treated with abatacept and other disease-modifying antirheumatic drugs
T2 - Results from a 10-year international post-marketing study
AU - Simon, Teresa A.
AU - Suissa, Samy
AU - Boers, Maarten
AU - Hochberg, Marc C.
AU - Skovron, Mary Lou
AU - Askling, Johan
AU - Michaud, Kaleb
AU - Strangfeld, Anja
AU - Pedro, Sofia
AU - Frisell, Thomas
AU - Meissner, Yvette
AU - Dominique, Alyssa
AU - Gomez, Andres
N1 - Funding Information: This study was funded by Bristol Myers Squibb . The sponsor did not have a role in the study design, collection, analysis and interpretation of the data, writing of the report, and in the decision to submit the article for publication. Publisher Copyright: © 2023
PY - 2024/2
Y1 - 2024/2
N2 - Objective: To evaluate the risk of malignancy (overall, breast, lung, and lymphoma) in patients with rheumatoid arthritis treated with abatacept, conventional synthetic (cs) disease-modifying antirheumatic drugs (DMARDs), and other biologic/targeted synthetic (b/ts)DMARDs in clinical practice. Methods: Four international observational data sources were included: ARTIS (Sweden), RABBIT (Germany), FORWARD (USA), and BC (Canada). Crude incidence rates (IRs) per 1000 patient-years of exposure with 95% confidence intervals (CIs) for a malignancy event were calculated; rate ratios (RRs) were estimated and adjusted for demographics, comorbidities, and other potential confounders. RRs were then pooled in a random-effects model. Results: Across data sources, mean follow-up for patients treated with abatacept (n = 5182), csDMARDs (n = 73,755), and other b/tsDMARDs (n = 37,195) was 3.0–3.7, 2.9–6.2, and 3.1–4.7 years, respectively. IRs per 1000 patient-years for overall malignancy ranged from 7.6–11.4 (abatacept), 8.6–13.2 (csDMARDs), and 5.0–11.8 (other b/tsDMARDs). IRs ranged from: 0–4.4, 0–3.3, and 0–2.5 (breast cancer); 0.1–2.8, 0–3.7, and 0.2–2.9 (lung cancer); and 0–1.1, 0–0.9, and 0–0.6 (lymphoma), respectively, for the three treatment groups. The numbers of individual cancers (breast, lung, and lymphoma) in some registries were low; RRs were not available. There were a few cases of lymphoma in some of the registries; ARTIS observed an RR of 2.8 (95% CI 1.1–6.8) with abatacept versus csDMARDs. The pooled RRs (95% CIs) for overall malignancy with abatacept were 1.1 (0.8–1.5) versus csDMARDs and 1.0 (0.8–1.3) versus b/tsDMARDs. Conclusions: This international, post-marketing observational safety study did not find any statistically significant increase in the risk of overall malignancies in pooled data in patients treated with abatacept compared with csDMARDs or with other b/tsDMARDs. Assessment of larger populations is needed to further evaluate the risks for individual cancers, especially lymphoma.
AB - Objective: To evaluate the risk of malignancy (overall, breast, lung, and lymphoma) in patients with rheumatoid arthritis treated with abatacept, conventional synthetic (cs) disease-modifying antirheumatic drugs (DMARDs), and other biologic/targeted synthetic (b/ts)DMARDs in clinical practice. Methods: Four international observational data sources were included: ARTIS (Sweden), RABBIT (Germany), FORWARD (USA), and BC (Canada). Crude incidence rates (IRs) per 1000 patient-years of exposure with 95% confidence intervals (CIs) for a malignancy event were calculated; rate ratios (RRs) were estimated and adjusted for demographics, comorbidities, and other potential confounders. RRs were then pooled in a random-effects model. Results: Across data sources, mean follow-up for patients treated with abatacept (n = 5182), csDMARDs (n = 73,755), and other b/tsDMARDs (n = 37,195) was 3.0–3.7, 2.9–6.2, and 3.1–4.7 years, respectively. IRs per 1000 patient-years for overall malignancy ranged from 7.6–11.4 (abatacept), 8.6–13.2 (csDMARDs), and 5.0–11.8 (other b/tsDMARDs). IRs ranged from: 0–4.4, 0–3.3, and 0–2.5 (breast cancer); 0.1–2.8, 0–3.7, and 0.2–2.9 (lung cancer); and 0–1.1, 0–0.9, and 0–0.6 (lymphoma), respectively, for the three treatment groups. The numbers of individual cancers (breast, lung, and lymphoma) in some registries were low; RRs were not available. There were a few cases of lymphoma in some of the registries; ARTIS observed an RR of 2.8 (95% CI 1.1–6.8) with abatacept versus csDMARDs. The pooled RRs (95% CIs) for overall malignancy with abatacept were 1.1 (0.8–1.5) versus csDMARDs and 1.0 (0.8–1.3) versus b/tsDMARDs. Conclusions: This international, post-marketing observational safety study did not find any statistically significant increase in the risk of overall malignancies in pooled data in patients treated with abatacept compared with csDMARDs or with other b/tsDMARDs. Assessment of larger populations is needed to further evaluate the risks for individual cancers, especially lymphoma.
KW - Cancer
KW - Clinical practice
KW - Epidemiology
KW - Observational study
KW - Safety
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U2 - https://doi.org/10.1016/j.semarthrit.2023.152240
DO - https://doi.org/10.1016/j.semarthrit.2023.152240
M3 - Article
C2 - 37500379
SN - 0049-0172
VL - 64
JO - Seminars in Arthritis and Rheumatism
JF - Seminars in Arthritis and Rheumatism
M1 - 152240
ER -