4 Research Abstracts Use Concerto HealthAI RWD to Study Cancer Patients with Autoimmune Disease Frequently Excluded from Clinical Trials
The research is being presented at 2019 ASCO Annual Meeting; application of Concerto HealthAI's unique tech-enabled structured and abstracted datasets derived from ASCO's CancerLinQ Discovery
BOSTON, May 30, 2019 /PRNewswire-PRWeb/ -- Concerto HealthAI announced today that it is a first author and co-author in a series of four Real-World Evidence research abstracts on cancer patients with autoimmune disease which will be presented between June 1-3, at the 2019 ASCO Annual Meeting, in Chicago. This RWE research seeks to better understand real-world uses of immune checkpoint inhibitors (ICIs) and outcomes and effects of the current treatment landscape for this patient population which is frequently excluded from clinical trials. Concerto HealthAI provided RWD and analysis to ASCO's CancerLinQ to support the research collaboration between ASCO and FDA.
Concerto HealthAI provided its definitive oncology RWD – a set of structured, tech-enabled and deeply abstracted data products – for this body of research that looked at the real-world outcomes of cancer patients with autoimmune disorders who are being treated with ICIs. This RWE research will help advance clinical trial design and post-approval studies.
These research abstracts demonstrate the utility of Concerto HealthAI's technology-enabled RWD – using machine learning, natural language-processing and machine-assisted human abstraction to create robust, rapid query datasets – for powerful RWE solutions that bring an understanding of patients to clinical researchers at a speed not possible with traditional methods.
"By combining Concerto's analytic capabilities with FDA's vision and CancerLinQ's medical informatics expertise, we help address deficits in the external validity of clinical trials by revealing how ICIs have been used since their introduction in 2011 in patients with a wide variety of cancers, and show the interplay between autoimmune disease, immune-related adverse events and efficacy," said Wendy Rubinstein, M.D., Ph.D., CancerLinQ's Deputy Medical Director, who is a lead author on these studies and a driving force in forming this collaboration.
The four abstracts feature a retrospective observational analysis of a de-identified CancerLinQ Discovery dataset of more than 12,000 patients who have been treated with ICIs and a subset of patients with advanced NSCLC. The analysis details patient characteristics, demographics and outcomes among patients stratified by autoimmune disease status; these patients are excluded from prospective randomized controlled trials. The data provide an opportunity to better understand the real-world patient population receiving these treatments as well as analyze any potential variances in outcomes among patients with a pre-existing autoimmune disease.
"Examination of treatment patterns with real world data found that a large number of patients treated with new immuno-oncology agents had a history of autoimmune disease," said Edward Stepanski, Ph.D., a co-author on all four abstracts and Chief Operating Officer of Concerto HealthAI's Outcomes Science group. "We are able to evaluate the effectiveness and safety of these IO agents in this sub-population and fill a gap in what has been learned from prospective clinical trials."
"The significance of this research to clinical researchers, regulators and patients cannot be understated," said Jeff Elton, Ph.D. and CEO of Concerto HealthAI. "As the study of cancer becomes more specialized, clinically-validated, highly-precise RWE insights are becoming ever more necessary. Concerto HealthAI is honored to be a part of this research effort with CancerLinQ and bring our highly precise, rapid-query RWD to bear on RWE research that will ultimately improve outcomes by getting patients into the right clinical trials and by bringing more effective therapies to market faster."
Abstract and Session Details:
- Clinical Science Symposium
- Track: Using Real-World Data to Advance Research and Care
- First Author: Sean Khozin, MD, MPH; The U.S. Food and Drug Administration
- Date/Time: June 3, 10:33-10:45AM
- Location: McCormick Place, Hall D1
- Abstract: #110
2. Characteristics of patients receiving immune checkpoint inhibitors (ICI) in ASCO's CancerLinQ.
- Poster Session, Poster Board #210
- Track: Developmental Immunotherapy and Tumor Immunobiology
- First Author: Wendy S. Rubinstein, MD, PHD; ASCO CancerLinQ
- Date/Time: Sat, June 1, 8:00 AM - 11:00 AM
- Location: McCormick Place, Hall A
- Abstract: #2566
- Poster Session, Poster Board #274
- Track: Health Services Research, Clinical Informatics, and Quality of Care
- First Author: Li Chen; Concerto HealthAI
- Date/Time: Sat, June 1, 1:15 PM – 4:15 PM
- Location: McCormick Place, Hall A
- Abstract: #6583
- Poster Session, Poster Board #433
- Track: Lung Cancer—Non-Small Cell Metastatic
- First Author: Sean Khozin, MD, MPH; FDA
- Date/Time: Sun, Jun 2, 8:00 AM - 11:00 AM
- Location: McCormick Place, Hall A
- Abstract: #9110
About Concerto HealthAI
Concerto HealthAI is a technology leader in Definitive Real-world Data (RWD) and AI solutions for precision oncology. Our mission is to bring together unique data assets, leading AI-based technologies, and the world's top outcomes research and data science talent. Our focus is to revolutionize clinical and outcomes research to accelerate the insights and outcomes benefitting patient treatment. Concerto HealthAI is a SymphonyAI company. For more information, visit us at http://www.concertohealthai.com.
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