Survival rates of Bio treatments for psoriasis

[Fred]

This study evaluated the long term trends of biologic use outside the realm of clinical trials. The following Bio's were used.
Enbrel (etanercept)
Humira (adalimumab)
Remicade (infliximab)
Stelara (ustekinumab)

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Background/Objectives:
Data on biologic drug survival in real-world psoriasis treatment are limited. There is a need to evaluate long-term trends of biologic use outside the realm of clinical trials.

Methods:
A multicentre chart review was conducted with patients' data from September 2005 to September 2014. Kaplan–Meier plot analysis was used to determine 5-year drug survival rates. A log–rank test was used to compare the rates of drug survival between the studied biologics.

Results:
For the 398 patients and 545 treatment series analysed, 1, 2, 3, 4 and 5-year survival rates were 0.826, 0.687, 0.563, 0.475 and 0.420 with etanercept; 0.804, 0.648, 0.553, 0.508 and 0.508 with adalimumab; 0.838, 0.664, 0.554, 0.485 and 0.382 with infliximab; and 0.914, 0.856, 0.800, 0.755 and 0.755 with ustekinumab, respectively. A statistically significant difference was seen between ustekinumab and the other three biologics.

Conclusion:
A progressive decrease in treatment adherence was seen with all four biologics, as expected, but the survival rate of ustekinumab was highest.

Source: onlinelibrary.wiley.com

*Early view funding unknown.

[Turnedlight]

Are we talking how long the drug continues working or survival of the patient

[jiml]

I hope they are talking about the survival of the treatment   and not the patient TL

And it certainly looks as if stelara has the best staying power of the bunch

[Fred]

Are we talking how long the drug continues working or survival of the patient        

As far as I understand it it's a way of saying how long a drug was used by a number of patients for a length of time. So it's given a survival rate probably based on it's efficacy over a period of time.

But no it's not about the survival of the patients.