Dermatology and Therapy (Sep 2023)

Five-year Maintenance of Clinical Response and Consistent Safety Profile for Guselkumab in Asian patients with Psoriasis from VOYAGE 1 and VOYAGE 2

  • Byung Soo Kim,
  • Seong Jin Jo,
  • SangWoong Youn,
  • Kristian Reich,
  • Carine Saadoun,
  • Chia-Ling Chang,
  • Ya-Wen Yang,
  • Yu-Huei Huang,
  • Tsen-Fang Tsai

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/s13555-023-01026-7
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 13, no. 11
pp. 2721 – 2737

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Abstract Introduction Guselkumab is a human monoclonal antibody against IL-23 used in the treatment of moderate-to-severe psoriasis. This post-hoc analysis evaluated the efficacy and safety of guselkumab in the Asian subpopulation of VOYAGE 1 and VOYAGE 2 through 5 years. Methods The proportions of guselkumab-treated Asian patients (VOYAGE 1 and 2) achieving Psoriasis Area and Severity Index (PASI) 90 and PASI 100, Investigator’s Global Assessment (IGA) scores of 0/1 and 0, and Dermatology Life Quality Index (DLQI) scores of 0/1 (week 100 through week 252) were assessed. Non-responders were patients who met the treatment failure rules. Efficacy endpoints were analyzed using the as-observed methodology (no missing data imputation) for both studies and using non-responder imputation (for patients with any missing data) in VOYAGE 1. Safety outcomes were based on pooled data through week 252. Results Response rates through week 252 for 199 Asian patients in the guselkumab group in VOYAGE 1 and VOYAGE 2, respectively, were 76.8% and 80.6% (PASI 90), 26.8% and 38.7% (PASI 100), 64.3% and 87.1% (IGA 0/1), and 26.8% and 45.2% (IGA 0). DLQI (0/1) at week 252 was achieved by 52.7% of patients in VOYAGE 1 and 61.3% in VOYAGE 2, while DLQI (0) at week 252 was achieved by 32.7% of patients in VOYAGE 1 and 40.3% in VOYAGE 2. The safety profile was similar to the global population and remained consistent through 5 years. Asian patients were followed for a total of 814 patient-years (PY). Over 85% of the guselkumab-treated patients continued treatment through week 264. The rate of serious adverse events (AEs) at week 252 was 3.07/100 PY. Rates of AEs of interest were low: serious infections, 0.74/100 PY; nonmelanoma skin cancer (NMSC), no patients; malignancies other than NMSC, 0.12/100 PY; and no major adverse cardiovascular events (MACE). Conclusion These analyses confirm a continuous response over 5 years, indicating that guselkumab shows therapeutic longevity in Asian patients requiring long-term treatment for moderate-to-severe psoriasis. Trial Registration ClinicalTrials.gov identifiers: VOYAGE 1 [NCT02207231] and VOYAGE 2 [NCT02207244].

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