• Lung Cancer · Aug 2012

    Randomized Controlled Trial Multicenter Study

    Randomized phase II trial of first-line treatment with pemetrexed-cisplatin, followed sequentially by gefitinib or pemetrexed, in East Asian, never-smoker patients with advanced non-small cell lung cancer.

    • Myung-Ju Ahn, James Chih-Hsin Yang, Jun Liang, Jin-Hyoung Kang, Qingyu Xiu, Yuh-Min Chen, Julie Michelle Blair, Guangbin Peng, Carlos Linn, and Mauro Orlando.
    • Samsung Medical Center, Sungkyunkwan University School of Medicine, Seoul, Republic of Korea. silk.ahn@samsung.com
    • Lung Cancer. 2012 Aug 1;77(2):346-52.

    IntroductionTreatment with epidermal growth factor receptor (EGFR)-tyrosine kinase inhibitors or chemotherapy have shown improved survival outcomes in East Asian, never-smoker patients with non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC). However, treatment sequence has not been optimized in patients with unknown EGFR mutation status. This trial compared first-line chemotherapy with pemetrexed (P)-cisplatin (C), followed by either gefitinib (G) or P maintenance.MethodsEast Asian, never-smoker, chemo-naïve patients with stage IIIB/IV NSCLC, performance status ≤1 and unknown EGFR mutation status were randomized 1:1 to receive 4 cycles of pemetrexed [500 mg/m(2)]+cisplatin [75 mg/m(2)] q3 weeks, followed by maintenance with either gefitinib [250 mg/d] (PC/G) or pemetrexed [500 mg/m(2)] q3 weeks and ≤2 optional cycles of cisplatin (PC/P). The primary endpoint, progression-free survival (PFS), was calculated from randomization date.ResultsBetween Feb and Nov 2007, 70 patients from China, Korea, and Taiwan were randomized and treated, among whom 59 patients (84.3%) had non-squamous NSCLC. Forty-nine patients (70.0%) completed the full sequential treatment (n=25 G; n=24 P). Median PFS was numerically longer for patients on PC/G (9.95 months) than those on PC/P (6.83 months; hazard ratio [HR]=0.53, 95% confidence interval [CI]=0.27, 1.04). In contrast, median overall survival was numerically higher for patients on PC/P (HR=2.15, 95% CI=0.83, 5.60), though there was a high censoring rate. Response rate was similar in both arms. Treatment arms were similar for grade 3/4/5 toxicities.ConclusionsEast Asian never-smoker patients with advanced NSCLC and unknown EGFR mutation status had improved PFS following treatment with first-line PC and sequential G. Irrespective of subsequent maintenance treatment, induction PC was safe and efficacious, leading to prolonged OS in the Asian patient population.Copyright © 2012 Elsevier Ireland Ltd. All rights reserved.

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