Correlation of survival with tumor histology, age, and prognostic risk group for previously untreated patients with advanced renal cell carcinoma (adv RCC) receiving temsirolimus (TEMSR) or interferon-alpha (IFN)
5033 Background: Temsirolimus is a novel mTOR inhibitor and has demonstrated significantly longer overall survival (OS, P=0.0069) and progression-free survival (PFS, P=0.0001) vs IFN for patients (pts) with previously untreated adv RCC with poor-risk features (Hudes et al. ASCO 2006). Planned and post-hoc analyses were performed to assess the influence of tumor histology (clear- cell vs other), age (<65 y vs =65 y), and prognostic-risk groups (intermediate vs poor; Motzer et al. JCO 20:289) on survival in pts treated with TEMSR or IFN. Methods: Pts received IFN 3 million units [MU] subcutaneously 3x weekly, escalating to 18 MU; TEMSR 25-mg intravenous infusion weekly; or TEMSR 15-mg infusion plus IFN 6 MU. Kaplan-Meier analysis and a Cox proportional hazards model were used to analyze OS and PFS for pt subsets. Histologies were reported by investigators. Results: The proportion of pts with different histologies was balanced across the 2 arms (81% clear-cell; 13% indeterminate, 6% non-clear-cell). Of those with additional subtype data, 75% were papillary. For pts with clear-cell tumors, median OS and PFS were longer for TEMSR vs IFN with hazard ratios (HR) of 0.82 and 0.76, respectively ( Table ). For pts with other tumor histologies, median OS and PFS also were longer for TEMSR vs IFN with HR of 0.49 and 0.38, respectively. Among pts <65 y, median OS and PFS were longer for TEMSR than for IFN (OS: TEMSR [n=145] 12.0 mo; IFN [n=142] 6.9 mo; HR=0.62 [95% CI, 0.47, 0.82]; PFS: TEMSR 5.6 mo; IFN 3.1 mo; HR=0.61 [0.47, 0.79]). There was no difference in OS or PFS for pts =65 y treated with TEMSR or IFN but TEMSR had a better side effect profile than IFN. OS and PFS for pts with intermediate- or poor-risk features will be reported. Conclusions: TEMSR benefits pts with clear-cell RCC and other histologies as well as younger and older pts. [Table: see text] No significant financial relationships to disclose.