Flora Mazerolle

Background: The Penn Parkinson's Daily Activities Questionnaire‐27 (PDAQ‐27) is a 27‐item measure of cognitive instrumental activities of daily living (IADLs) for Parkinson's disease (PD) patients developed by integrating 12 additional items with the original 15‐item PDAQ‐15 via mixed‐methods research with the goal of creating a more balanced and sensitive instrument. Objectives: To evaluate the psychometric properties of the PDAQ‐27 in a PD cohort using both patient and knowledgeable informant (KI) responses. Methods: A cross‐sectional study of 114 PD participants was conducted. Participants and, when available, KIs completed the PDAQ‐27. Psychometric properties were evaluated using Rasch Measurement Theory (RMT) and Classical Test Theory (CTT). Consistency between patient‐ and KI‐reported versions was assessed using RMT framework. Results: The PDAQ‐27 demonstrated strong reliability (Cronbach's alpha = 0.95; Person Separation Index = 0.93) and good Rasch model fit, with no significant local dependency or differential item functioning. The PDAQ‐27 total score correlated moderately with cognitive tests (eg, DRS‐2 total: r = 0.37; MoCA: r = 0.30), and health‐related quality of life (HRQoL) measures (eg, PDQ‐39 cognition domain: r = 0.65), supporting construct validity. Compared with the PDAQ‐15, the PDAQ‐27 marginally improved coverage of mild cognitive IADL impairments, though low‐end discrimination remained limited. Patient and KI scores were highly correlated and largely equivalent, despite differing response patterns reflecting the different perspectives of patients and KIs. Conclusion: The PDAQ‐27 is a promising measure of cognition‐related IADLs in patients with PD, with solid cross‐sectional psychometric performance. Further research on its longitudinal properties will be needed to recommend its future use in PD studies.

Introduction Accurate measurement of myasthenia gravis (MG) severity is required for appropriate clinical monitoring of patients with MG and assessment of the benefit of new treatments in clinical trials. Our objective was to explore how MG severity can be measured and to determine how the newly developed MG Symptoms Patient-Reported Outcome (PRO) instrument complements the available measures of MG severity. Methods The conceptual coverage of the Quantitative MG (QMG), MG Composite (MGC), MG-Activities of Daily Living (MG-ADL), and MG Symptoms PRO was scrutinized against core symptoms of MG: muscle weakness in three muscle groups (ocular, bulbar, and respiratory), muscle weakness fatigability, and physical fatigue. Post hoc analyses of the MG0002 study, a Phase 2a clinical trial of rozanolixizumab in adults with moderate to severe generalized MG, included correlation and Rasch model analyses. Results The qualitative appraisal highlighted that only the MG Symptoms PRO captured physical fatigue. Data from 541 assessments (43 unique patients) were used for the analyses. Correlations ranged between 0.56 and 0.74 for the MG-ADL, QMG, MGC, and MG Symptoms PRO Muscle Weakness Fatigability score, and between 0.20 and 0.71 for the MG Symptoms PRO scores focusing on independent muscle groups. Analyses with the Rasch model estimated a meaningful continuum of severity of MG, including all items, except ocular muscles, from the four instruments. The QMG and MG Symptoms PRO had the broadest coverage of the MG severity continuum. Muscle fatigability and physical fatigue were more characteristic of low severity while bulbar weakness indicated more severe MG. Conclusion The severity of MG can be reflected in a meaningful continuum underpinned by the MG-specific outcome measures. Only ocular muscle manifestations were shown to reflect a possibly different facet of MG severity. With its modular nature and comprehensive content, the MG Symptoms PRO provides complementary information to the outcome measures widely used in MG. Trial Registration ClinicalTrials.gov identifier: NCT03052751.

Introduction P-2001, a randomized phase 2 trial (NCT02610777), investigated the efficacy and safety of pevonedistat (P), the first small-molecule inhibitor of the NEDD8-activating enzyme, in combination with azacitidine (A) versus A alone in patients (pts) with higher-risk (Revised International Prognostic Scoring System risk >3, including intermediate [≥5% blasts], high, or very high risk) myelodysplastic syndromes (MDS)/chronic myelomonocytic leukemia (CMML), or low-blast acute myeloid leukemia (LB AML) naïve to hypomethylating agents. The P-2001 trial recently demonstrated median event-free survival of 21.0 vs 16.6 months (HR=0.665; P = .076), and overall response rates (complete remission [CR] + CR with incomplete blood count recovery [CRi] + partial response [PR] + hematologic improvement [HI]) of 71% (n=39/55) vs 60% (n=32/53) with P+A compared with A, respectively. Management of MDS can significantly impact quality of life, and measures of high-symptom burden have been associated with worse clinical outcomes. We set out to explore patient-reported outcomes (PRO) as an exploratory endpoint in the study. Methods The study randomized 120 pts (1:1) to receive P+A or A alone in 28-day treatment cycles. The European Organisation for Research and Treatment of Cancer (EORTC) quality of life questionnaire - core 30 items (QLQ-C30) was administered at the first day of each cycle, at the end of treatment (EOT) visit and post-EOT visits. Physical functioning (PF), fatigue (FA), dyspnea (DY) and global health status/quality of life (QL) were identified as key PRO concepts that deserved specific attention in this population. Analyses were carried out to explore the PRO data: description of available PRO data, longitudinal analyses of change in the key PRO scores with repeated measurement mixed models (RMMM), including comparison between treatment arms, and descriptive analysis of the key PRO scores after clinical response depending on the type of response (PR, CR, CRi, or HI), and before and after transformation to AML for pts with higher-risk MDS, independently from the treatment received. Results There were 112 pts in the PRO population (defined as all pts with a PRO assessment at baseline and at least 1 post-baseline); baseline demographics and disease characteristics are presented in Table 1. At least 90% of pts in the study had a PRO available at each cycle. As expected, the amount of available PRO data decreased over the study due to progression, death, or study discontinuations. The RMMMs of the PRO population did not show any statistically significant difference in the change over time in key QLQ-C30 scores (PF, QL, FA, and DY) between P+A versus A alone. Pts who experienced CR (P+A, 40%; A, 29%) showed a nonsignificant improvement in PF and QL, as well as a nonsignificant decrease of FA after CR than at baseline; no differences were noted in DY. Pts for whom best response was PR had less improvement in the key PROs than pts with CR, and those with HI did not show improvement compared with baseline. Among the 12 pts with higher-risk MDS/CMML progressing to AML during the study with available PRO data (P+A, n=4; A, n=8), 6 showed worsening in PF score (vs 2 improving), 6 showed worsening in QL score (vs 1 improving), 7 showed worsening in FA score (vs 1 improving), and 7 showed worsening in DY score (vs none improving). Conclusions Measurement of QL and symptom burden are integral clinical endpoints in assessing new treatments in higher-risk MDS/CMML and LB AML. There was no evidence to suggest that the addition of P to A led to change in the key PROs identified: QL, PF, FA and DY. Achievement of CR was associated with higher PRO scores compared with baseline independently of the treatment received, and progression to AML was associated with worsening QL scores. Additional analyses are planned with the P-2001 PRO data to further explore the impact of P on PROs by evaluating the impact of dropout during the study, comparing findings according to treatment arm, and better understanding the possible effect of adverse events on PROs. Disclosures: Zeidner: AbbVie: Honoraria, Other: Independent Review Committee; Agios: Honoraria; AROG: Research Funding; AsystBio Laboratories: Consultancy; Sumitomo Dainippon Pharma Oncology, Inc.: Research Funding; Genentech: Honoraria; Daiichi Sankyo: Honoraria; Celgene: Consultancy, Honoraria, Research Funding; Forty-Seven: Other: Travel Reimbursement, Research Funding; Merck: Research Funding; Pfizer: Honoraria; Takeda: Consultancy, Honoraria, Other: Travel Reimbursement, Research Funding. Mazerolle:Takeda Pharmaceutical Company: Other: Granted research funding to Modus Outcomes, my employer; Modus Outcomes: Current Employment. Bell:Millennium Pharmaceuticals, Inc.: Current Employment. Cain:Millennium Pharmaceuticals, Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary of Takeda Pharmaceutical Company Limited: Current Employment. Faller:Phoenicia Biosciences: Consultancy, Current equity holder in private company, Membership on an entity's Board of Directors or advisory committees, Patents & Royalties; Viracta Therapeutics: Consultancy, Current equity holder in private company, Membership on an entity's Board of Directors or advisory committees, Patents & Royalties; Millennium Pharmaceuticals Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary of Takeda Pharmaceutical Company Limited: Current Employment; Briacell Therapeutics: Consultancy, Current equity holder in private company, Membership on an entity's Board of Directors or advisory committees, Patents & Royalties. Dalal:Millennium Pharmaceuticals Inc, a wholly owned subsidiary of Takeda Pharmaceutical International Company, Cambridge, MA: Current Employment, Current equity holder in private company. Regnault:Modus Outcomes: Current Employment. Fram:Teva: Current equity holder in publicly-traded company; Baxter: Current equity holder in publicly-traded company; Gilead: Current equity holder in publicly-traded company; Pfizer:...