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Table 1 Safety and efficacy of HIV positive patients treated with immune checkpoint inhibitors

From: Complete response to ipilimumab and nivolumab therapy in a patient with extensive extrapulmonary high-grade small cell carcinoma of the pancreas and HIV infection

Study

No of patients with HIV

Disease

Viral response

Disease response

Rai et al. 2017 [20]

11

8 Melanoma, 1 HCC, 1 RCC, 1 BC

No pt. had loss in viral control or immune reconstitution inflammatory syndrome

2 CR, 1 PR, 4 SD, 4PD

Heppt et al. 2017 [19]

10

Melanoma

No increase in viral load, no effect on CD4 count

 

Wightman et al. 2015 [18]

1

Melanoma

Improved CD4 count and decrease in Viral load

NA

Burke et al. 2011 [9]

1

Melanoma

Stable CD 4 count and viral load

PR

Morris et al. 2017 [14]

2

Anal cancer

Stable CD4 count and viral load

NA

Sandoval-Sus et al. 2017 [16]

1

Hodgkin lymphoma

Stable CD4 count and viral load

PR

Tomsitz et al. 2017 [17]

1

Melanoma

Stable CD4 count and viral load

PR

Ruzevick et al. 2013 [15]

1

Melanoma

Stable CD4 count and viral load

PR

Davar et al. 2015 [10]

1

Melanoma

Stable CD4 count and viral load

PD

Le Garff et al. 2017 [12]

1

NSCLC

CD4 count increased with stable viral load

PD

Guihot et al. 2017 [6]

1

NSCLC

Stable CD4 count and viral load

PR

Samri et al. 2017 [7]

12

NSCLC

Stable CD4 count and viral load

3 PR, 4 SD, 5 PD

Hentrich et al. 2017 [11]

1

NSCLC

CD4 count decreased but viral load remained stable

PD

McCullar et al. 2017 [13]

1

NSCLC

CD4 count decreased but viral load remained stable

CR

Uldrick et al. 2017 (NCT02595866)

17

Mix

Increase in CD4 count, viral load remained suppressed

NA

  1. Abbreviations: HCC hepatocellular carcinoma, RCC renal cell carcinoma; BC bladder carcinoma, CR complete response, PR partial response, SD stable disease, PD progressive disease, NSCLC non-small cell lung cancer