• Yoshikazu Hasegawa, Masahiko Ando, Makoto Maemondo, Satomi Yamamoto, Shun-Ichi Isa, Hideo Saka, Akihito Kubo, Tomoya Kawaguchi, Minoru Takada, Rafael Rosell, Takayasu Kurata, and Sai-Hong Ignatius Ou.
• Izumi Municipal Hospital, Osaka, Japan; Nagoya University Hospital, Nagoya, Aichi, Japan; Miyagi Cancer Center, Miyagi, Japan; University of Kansas Cancer Center, Kansas City, Kansas, USA; National Hospital Organization Kinki-Chuo Chest Medical Center, Osaka, Japan; National Hospital Organization Nagoya Medical Center, Aichi, Japan; Aichi Medical University School of Medicine, Nagoya, Aichi, Japan; Graduate School of Medicine, Osaka City University, Osaka, Japan; Koyo Hospital, Wakayama, Japan; Catalan Institute of Oncology, Barcelona, Spain; Kansai Medical University Hirakata Hospital, Osaka, Japan; Chao Family Comprehensive Cancer Center, University of California Irvine School of Medicine, Orange, California, USA.
• Oncologist. 2015 Mar 1; 20 (3): 307-15.

BackgroundUnivariate analyses from several randomized phase III trials seemed to suggest ever-smokers with advanced mutated epidermal growth factor receptor (EGFRm) non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) did not seem to benefit from EGFR tyrosine kinase inhibitors (TKIs) as first-line treatment when compared with platinum-doublet chemotherapy as measured by progression-free survival (PFS).MethodsA literature-based meta-analysis of PFS outcomes as measured by log-transformed pooled hazard ratio (HR) was performed using a random-effect model. Pooled HRs for smoking status, age, gender, ethnicity, type of EGFR mutation, and EGFR TKI were obtained. Comparison of the pooled HR was performed by metaregression analysis.ResultsAmong the 1,649 EGFRm NSCLC patients analyzed from 7 prospective randomized trials (WJTOG3405, NEJ002, EURTAC, OPTIMAL, LUX Lung-3, LUX Lung-6, and ENSURE), 83.7% were Asians, and 30.0% were ever-smokers. An equal percentage of ever-smokers received doublet chemotherapy (30.2%) or EGFR TKI (30.0%). The pooled HR for PFS was 0.29 (95% confidence interval [CI]: 0.21-0.39) for never-smokers and 0.54 (95% CI: 0.38-0.76) for ever-smokers (p < .007 by metaregression). The pooled PFS HR for exon 19 deletion was 0.25 (95% CI: 0.19-0.31) and 0.44 for exon 21 substitution (95% CI: 0.34-0.57) (p < .001 by metaregression analysis). The pooled PFS HR was 0.33 (95% CI: 0.24-0.46) for Asians and 0.48 for non-Asians (95% CI: 0.28-0.84) (p = .261 by metaregression analysis).ConclusionEGFRm NSCLC patients derived significant PFS benefit from TKI over platinum-doublet chemotherapy as first-line treatment regardless of smoking status; however, PFS benefit is significantly better in never-smokers by metaregression analysis.©AlphaMed Press.

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