Impact of previous corticosteroid exposure on outcomes of patients receiving immune checkpoint inhibitors for advanced non-small cell lung cancer: a retrospective observational study.
Fabrizio NelliA VirtuosoJ R Giron BerriosD GiannarelliA FabbriE MarrucciE M RuggeriPublished in: Cancer chemotherapy and pharmacology (2022)
These findings imply that immunosuppressive corticosteroid dosing before ICIs, even of short duration, might affect survival. The constraints of this study and lack of reliable comparisons suggest a hypothesis-generating value of these results.