• Sai-Hong Ignatius Ou, Jin Seok Ahn, Luigi De Petris, Ramaswamy Govindan, James Chih-Hsin Yang, Brett Hughes, Hervé Lena, Denis Moro-Sibilot, Alessandra Bearz, Santiago Viteri Ramirez, Tarek Mekhail, Alexander Spira, Walter Bordogna, Bogdana Balas, Peter N Morcos, Annabelle Monnet, Ali Zeaiter, and Dong-Wan Kim.
• Sai-Hong Ignatius Ou, University of California Irvine School of Medicine, Orange, CA; Jin Seok Ahn, Sungkyunkwan University School of Medicine; Luigi De Petris, Karolinska Institute and Karolinska University Hospital, Stockholm, Sweden; Ramaswamy Govindan, Washington University School of Medicine, St Louis, MO; James Chih-Hsin Yang, National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan; Brett Hughes, The Prince Charles Hospital, Chermside, and University of Queensland, Queensland, Australia; Hervé Lena, Centre Hospitalier Universitaire de Rennes, Rennes; Denis Moro-Sibilot, Centre Hospitalier Universitaire de Grenoble, Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale U823, Grenoble, France; Alessandra Bearz, National Cancer Institute, Aviano, Italy; Santiago Viteri Ramirez, Quiron-Dexeus University Hospital, Barcelona, Spain; Tarek Mekhail, Florida Hospital Cancer Institute, Orlando, FL; Alexander Spira, Virginia Cancer Specialists, Fairfax, VA; and Walter Bordogna, Bogdana Balas, Peter N. Morcos, Annabelle Monnet, and Ali Zeaiter, F. Hoffmann-La Roche, Basel, Switzerland; Dong-Wan Kim, Seoul National University Hospital, Seoul, South Korea. ignatius.ou@uci.edu.
• J. Clin. Oncol. 2016 Mar 1; 34 (7): 661-8.

PurposeCrizotinib confers improved progression-free survival compared with chemotherapy in anaplastic lymphoma kinase (ALK)-rearranged non-small-cell lung cancer (NSCLC), but progression invariably occurs. We investigated the efficacy and safety of alectinib, a potent and selective ALK inhibitor with excellent CNS penetration, in patients with crizotinib-refractory ALK-positive NSCLC.Patients And MethodsAlectinib 600 mg was administered orally twice daily. The primary end point was objective response rate (ORR) by central independent review committee (IRC).ResultsOf the 138 patients treated, 84 patients (61%) had CNS metastases at baseline, and 122 were response evaluable (RE) by IRC. ORR by IRC was 50% (95% CI, 41% to 59%), and the median duration of response (DOR) was 11.2 months (95% CI, 9.6 months to not reached). In 96 patients (79%) previously treated with chemotherapy, the ORR was 45% (95% CI, 35% to 55%). Median IRC-assessed progression-free survival for all 138 patients was 8.9 months (95% CI, 5.6 to 11.3 months). CNS disease control rate was 83% (95% CI, 74% to 91%), and the median CNS DOR was 10.3 months (95% CI, 7.6 to 11.2 months). CNS ORR in 35 patients with baseline measurable CNS lesions was 57% (95% CI, 39% to 74%). Of the 23 patients with baseline CNS metastases (measurable or nonmeasurable) and no prior radiation, 10 (43%) had a complete CNS response. At 12 months, the cumulative CNS progression rate (24.8%) was lower than the cumulative non-CNS progression rate (33.2%) for all patients. Common adverse events were constipation (33%), fatigue (26%), and peripheral edema (25%); most were grade 1 to 2.ConclusionAlectinib is highly active and well tolerated in patients with advanced, crizotinib-refractory ALK-positive NSCLC, including those with CNS metastases.© 2015 by American Society of Clinical Oncology.

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