Paired Phase II Studies of Erlotinib/Bevacizumab for Advanced Bronchioloalveolar Carcinoma or Never Smokers With Advanced Non-Small-cell Lung Cancer: SWOG S0635 and S0636 Trials - PubMed (original) (raw)

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doi: 10.1016/j.cllc.2017.06.016. Epub 2017 Jul 6.

James Moon 2, Antoinette J Wozniak 3, Philip Mack 4, Fred R Hirsch 5, Martin J Bury 6, Myron Kwong 7, Dorothy D Nguyen 8, Dennis F Moore 9, Jieling Miao 2, Mary Redman 2, Karen Kelly 4, David R Gandara 4

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Paired Phase II Studies of Erlotinib/Bevacizumab for Advanced Bronchioloalveolar Carcinoma or Never Smokers With Advanced Non-Small-cell Lung Cancer: SWOG S0635 and S0636 Trials

Howard L West et al. Clin Lung Cancer. 2018 Jan.

Abstract

Background: Before mutation testing of the epidermal growth factor receptor (EGFR) gene was recognized as highly associated with the activity of EGFR tyrosine kinase inhibitors (TKIs), clinically defined patient populations with bronchioloalveolar carcinoma (BAC) and never smokers were identified as likely to benefit from EGFR TKIs. From preclinical and clinical data suggesting potentially improved efficacy with a combination of an EGFR TKI and the antiangiogenic agent bevacizumab, the Southwestern Oncology Group (SWOG) initiated paired phase II trials to evaluate the combination of erlotinib/bevacizumab in patients with advanced BAC (SWOG S0635) or never smokers with advanced lung adenocarcinoma (SWOG S0636).

Materials and methods: Eligible patients with BAC or adenocarcinoma with BAC features (SWOG S0635) or never smokers with advanced lung adenocarcinoma (SWOG S0636) received erlotinib 150 mg/day with bevacizumab 15 mg/kg until progression or prohibitive toxicity. Never smokers with BAC were preferentially enrolled to SWOG S0636. The primary endpoint for both trials was overall survival.

Results: A total of 84 patients were enrolled in the SWOG S0635 trial and 85 in the SWOG S0636 trial. The objective response rate was 22% (3% complete response) in the SWOG S0635 trial and 50% (38% confirmed; 3% complete response) in the SWOG S0636 trial. The median progression-free survival was 5 and 7.4 months in the S0635 and S0636 trials, respectively. The median overall survival was 21 and 29.8 months, respectively. Toxicity consisted mainly of rash and diarrhea in both trials.

Conclusion: Although the field has moved toward molecular, rather than clinical, selection of patients as optimal candidates for EGFR TKI therapy, these results support the hypothesis that a subset of patients in whom erlotinib is particularly active could receive an incremental benefit from the addition of bevacizumab.

Keywords: Antiangiogenesis; BAC; Bronchioloalveolar; EGFR; Lepidic; Never-smoker.

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Progression-Free Survival Kaplan-Meier curves for progression-free survival on S0635 (panel A) and S0636 (panel B)

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Overall Survival Kaplan-Meier curves for overall survival on S0635 (panel A) and S0636 (panel B)

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Waterfall plots for measurable response Waterfall plots for objective tumor response on S0635 (panel A) and S0636 (panel B)

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