IMR Press / CEOG / Volume 51 / Issue 7 / DOI: 10.31083/j.ceog5107155
Open Access Review
Immunotherapy for Recurrent and Metastatic Cervical Cancer: A Review
Yuke Wu1,2Xiang He1,2,*
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Affiliation
1 Department of Gynecology and Obstetrics, West China Second University Hospital, Sichuan University, 610041 Chengdu, Sichuan, China
2 Key Laboratory of Birth Defects and Related Diseases of Women and Children (Sichuan University), Ministry of Education, 610041 Chengdu, Sichuan, China
*Correspondence: popxiang@163.com (Xiang He)
Clin. Exp. Obstet. Gynecol. 2024, 51(7), 155; https://doi.org/10.31083/j.ceog5107155
Submitted: 15 January 2024 | Revised: 13 March 2024 | Accepted: 29 March 2024 | Published: 11 July 2024
Copyright: © 2024 The Author(s). Published by IMR Press.
This is an open access article under the CC BY 4.0 license.
Abstract

Objectives: This review aims to summarize the current literature on recurrent and metastatic (r/m) cervical cancer, especially first-line and second-line immunotherapy. Clinical benefits including efficacy and safety of new therapeutic options are also reviewed. Mechanism: The published relevant articles were searched from multiple databases, including PubMed, Ovid, and Scopus. The key terms included recurrent cervical cancer, advanced cervical cancer, metastatic cervical cancer, and immunotherapy. The data of the latest clinical trials was retrieved from ClinicalTrials.gov (https://clinicaltrials.gov). Findings in Brief: In late 2021, pembrolizumab in combination with chemotherapy with or without bevacizumab was approved as the first-line treatment for recurrent and metastatic cervical cancer. Also tisotumab vedotin was approved as the second-line immunotherapy for r/m cervical cancer. Moreover, a plethora of clinical immunotherapy trials were approved in different countries, and some received as breakthrough therapy designations. Pembrolizumab, cemiplimab, atezolizumab, cadonilimab, zimberelimab, balstilimab and zalifrelimab, nivolumab, and tisotumab vedotin were reviewed with overall survival, progression-free survival, rate of objective response and adverse effects in order to review the efficacy and safety of different therapeutic option. Conclusions: The majority of trials indicated that immunotherapy can significantly improve the overall survival (OS) and progression-free survival (PFS) of r/m cervical cancer patients without negatively affecting health-related quality-of-life (HRQoL), and demonstrated that immunotherapy is an effective and safe treatment for r/m cervical cancer.

Keywords
recurrent and metastatic cervical cancer
advanced cervical cancer
first-line immunotherapy
second-line immunotherapy
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