Efficacy and Safety of PD-1 Inhibitors Monotherapy for Elderly Patients with Advanced Non-small Cell Lung Cancer

Background Immunotherapy represented by programmed death protein-1 (PD-1) inhibitors has gradually become the standard treatment of advanced non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) in recent years, changing the treatment landscape of advanced NSCLC. However, most PD-1-related studies excluded patients with NSCLC more than 70 or 75 years, resulting in relatively limited data about the efficacy and safety of PD-1 inhibitors in elderly patients. Objective This study aims to evaluate the efficacy and safety of PD-1 inhibitors in elderly patients with advanced NSCCL. Methods This study selected elderly patients with advanced NSCLC over 65 years who received PD-1 inhibitors monotherapy in Department of Thoracic Surgery and Oncology of the Fourth Affiliated Hospital of Gansu University of Traditional Chinese Medicine from October 2018 to November 2021. A total of 63 elderly patients with NSCLC were included. The PD-1 inhibitors of the study were approved in Chinese market, including camrelizumab, sintilimab and pembroliz