Thanks. From the Lancet oncology article, there does appear to be a a slight survival advantage of the 10 mg/kg over 3 mg/kg. This must have made it easy to "turf" the gp100 + 3 mg/kg ipi trial.
Excerpt: Table 2 shows effi cacy data for every treatment group. As the dose of ipilimumab increased, best overall response rate rose (p=0·0015, trend test). Survival data are presented in table 2 and fi gure 2. Hazard ratios for comparisons of median overall survival between groups were as follows: 10 mg/kg versus 0·3 mg/kg, 0·770 (95% CI 0·525–1·130); 10 mg/kg versus 3 mg/kg, 0·875 (0·593–1·291); and 3 mg/kg versus 0·3 mg/kg, 0·879 (0·604–1·279). Subgroup analyses of best overall response rate and overall survival, according to stratifi cation criteria, were consistent with the main analyses (data not shown).
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The final population pharmacokinetic analysis provided an adequate description of ipilimumab serum concentration–time profi les (fi gure 3A). Model-based simulation to assess achievement of the target trough concentration of 20 µg/mL before the fourth (and last) dose in the induction phase indicated that the target concentration was expected to be exceeded by about 95% of patients in the 10 mg/kg group, but by only 30% and 0% in the 3 mg/kg and 0·3 mg/kg groups, respectively (fi gure 3B).