Active and latent tuberculosis infections in patients treated with immune checkpoint inhibitors in a non-endemic tuberculosis area.
Gregory R StrohTobias PeikertPatricio EscalantePublished in: Cancer immunology, immunotherapy : CII (2021)
Despite recent reports of TB in patients taking ICI, we found no patients developing TB during ICI therapy in our large retrospective cohort of ICI-treated cancer patients in a non-endemic TB area. The high rate of indeterminate IGRA results suggests the need for prospective research with better diagnostics to quantify the actual risk of TB in this patient population.