| Literature DB >> 29293874 |
Y Yamada1, T Denda2, M Gamoh3, I Iwanaga4, S Yuki5, H Shimodaira6, M Nakamura7, T Yamaguchi8, H Ohori9, K Kobayashi10, M Tsuda11, Y Kobayashi12, Y Miyamoto13, M Kotake14, K Shimada15, A Sato16, S Morita17, S Takahashi6, Y Komatsu18, C Ishioka6.
Abstract
Background: Combination therapy with oral fluoropyrimidine and irinotecan has not yet been established as first-line treatment of metastatic colorectal cancer (mCRC). We carried out a randomized, open-label, phase III trial to determine whether S-1 and irinotecan plus bevacizumab is noninferior to mFOLFOX6 or CapeOX plus bevacizumab in terms of progression-free survival (PFS). Patients and methods: Patients from 53 institutions who had previously untreated mCRC were randomly assigned (1 : 1) to receive either mFOLFOX6 or CapeOX plus bevacizumab (control group) or S-1 and irinotecan plus bevacizumab (experimental group; a 3-week regimen: intravenous infusions of irinotecan 150 mg/m2 and bevacizumab 7.5 mg/kg on day 1, oral S-1 80 mg/m2 twice daily for 2 weeks, followed by a 1-week rest; or a 4-week regimen: irinotecan 100 mg/m2 and bevacizumab 5 mg/kg on days 1 and 15, S-1 80 mg/m2 twice daily for 2 weeks, followed by a 2-week rest). The primary end point was PFS. The noninferiority margin was 1.25; noninferiority would be established if the upper limit of the 95% confidence interval (CI) for the hazard ratio (HR) of the control group versus the experimental group was less than this margin. Result: Between June 2012 and September 2014, 487 patients underwent randomization. Two hundred and forty-three patients assigned to the control group and 241 assigned to the experimental group were included in the primary analysis. Median PFS was 10.8 months (95% CI 9.6-11.6) in the control group and 14.0 months (95% CI 12.4-15.5) in the experimental group (HR 0.84, 95% CI 0.70-1.02; P < 0.0001 for noninferiority, P = 0.0815 for superiority). One hundred and fifty-seven patients (64.9%) in the control group and 140 (58.6%) in the experimental group had adverse events of grade 3 or higher.Entities:
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Year: 2018 PMID: 29293874 PMCID: PMC5889030 DOI: 10.1093/annonc/mdx816
Source DB: PubMed Journal: Ann Oncol ISSN: 0923-7534 Impact factor: 32.976
Baseline characteristics
| mFOLFOX6 or CapeOX plus bevacizumab | S-1 and irinotecan plus bevacizumab | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| ( | ( | |||
| (%) | (%) | |||
| Sex | ||||
| Male | 143 | (58.8) | 151 | (62.7) |
| Female | 100 | (41.2) | 90 | (37.3) |
| PS (ECOG) | ||||
| 0 | 205 | (84.4) | 204 | (84.6) |
| 1 | 38 | (15.6) | 37 | (15.4) |
| Age | ||||
| Median [range] | 65 [29–85] | 64 [22–87] | ||
| ≥65 | 134 | (55.1) | 118 | (49.0) |
| CCr at enrollment | ||||
| Median [range] | 80.9 [60.0–153.1] | 82.7 [60.0–182.8] | ||
| ≥70 | 181 | (74.5) | 185 | (76.8) |
| Complications | ||||
| Yes | 107 | (44.0) | 108 | (44.8) |
| No | 136 | (56.0) | 133 | (52.2) |
| Adjuvant chemotherapy for colorectal cancer | ||||
| Yes | 31 | (12.8) | 32 | (13.3) |
| No | 212 | (87.2) | 209 | (86.7) |
| Differentiation assessed by histology | ||||
| Well or moderate | 212 | (87.2) | 209 | (86.7) |
| Poorly | 14 | (5.8) | 14 | (5.8) |
| Other | 17 | (7.0) | 18 | (7.5) |
| Primary lesion | ||||
| Colon | 122 | (50.2) | 130 | (53.9) |
| Rectosigmoid | 39 | (16.0) | 32 | (13.3) |
| Rectum | 82 | (33.7) | 79 | (32.8) |
| Primary lesion resection | ||||
| Yes | 164 | (67.5) | 156 | (64.7) |
| No | 79 | (32.5) | 85 | (35.3) |
| Metastatic organs | ||||
| 0–1 | 124 | (51.0) | 127 | (52.7) |
| ≥2 | 119 | (49.0) | 114 | (47.3) |
| Target lesion | ||||
| Yes | 221 | (90.9) | 214 | (88.8) |
| No | 22 | (9.1) | 27 | (11.2) |
| RAS status | ||||
| Wild type | 99 | (40.7) | 105 | (43.6) |
| Mutant type | 65 | (26.7) | 58 | (24.1) |
| Not definable | 6 | (2.5) | 3 | (1.2) |
| Missing data | 73 | (30.0) | 75 | (31.1) |
CCr, creatinine clearance.
Figure 1.Kaplan–Meier curves for (A) progression-free survival, (B) time to treatment failure, and (C) overall survival.
Adverse events
| mFOLFOX6 or CapeOX plus bevacizumab | S-1 and irinotecan plus bevacizumab | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| ( | ( | ||||||||
| Any | ≥Grade 3 | Any | ≥Grade 3 | ||||||
| (%) | (%) | (%) | (%) | ||||||
| Patients with at least 1 AE | 242 | (100.0) | 157 | (64.9) | 236 | (98.7) | 140 | (58.6) | 0.16 |
| Laboratory findings | |||||||||
| Leukopenia | 154 | (63.6) | 6 | (2.5) | 157 | (65.7) | 21 | (8.8) | <0.01 |
| Neutropenia | 139 | (57.4) | 33 | (13.6) | 150 | (62.8) | 58 | (24.3) | <0.01 |
| Thrombocytopenia | 151 | (62.4) | 4 | (1.7) | 74 | (31.0) | 2 | (0.8) | 0.69 |
| Anemia | 92 | (38.0) | 5 | (2.1) | 121 | (50.6) | 12 | (5.0) | 0.09 |
| Bilirubin | 80 | (33.1) | 6 | (2.5) | 104 | (43.5) | 8 | (3.3) | 0.60 |
| AST | 119 | (49.2) | 8 | (3.3) | 80 | (33.5) | 5 | (2.1) | 0.58 |
| ALT | 82 | (33.9) | 6 | (2.5) | 84 | (35.1) | 5 | (2.1) | 1.00 |
| Creatinine | 30 | (12.4) | 2 | (0.8) | 30 | (12.6) | 2 | (0.8) | 1.00 |
| Proteinuria | 107 | (44.2) | 7 | (2.9) | 103 | (43.1) | 6 | (2.5) | 1.00 |
| Clinical findings | |||||||||
| Mucositis/stomatitis | 104 | (43.0) | 4 | (1.7) | 128 | (53.6) | 7 | (2.9) | 0.38 |
| Anorexia | 149 | (61.6) | 16 | (6.6) | 143 | (59.8) | 16 | (6.7) | 1.00 |
| Nausea | 119 | (49.2) | 9 | (3.7) | 136 | (56.9) | 8 | (3.3) | 1.00 |
| Vomiting | 37 | (15.3) | 4 | (1.7) | 59 | (24.7) | 5 | (2.1) | 0.75 |
| Diarrhea | 109 | (45.0) | 16 | (6.6) | 149 | (62.3) | 32 | (13.4) | 0.02 |
| Rash/desquamation | 39 | (16.1) | 1 | (0.4) | 50 | (20.9) | 0 | (0.0) | 1.00 |
| Hyperpigmentation | 99 | (40.9) | – | – | 100 | (41.8) | – | – | – |
| Hand–foot syndrome | 125 | (51.7) | 15 | (6.2) | 59 | (24.7) | 2 | (0.8) | <0.01 |
| Fatigue | 149 | (61.6) | 12 | (5.0) | 142 | (59.4) | 9 | (3.8) | 0.66 |
| Peripheral sensory neuropathy | 223 | (92.1) | 53 | (21.9) | 47 | (19.7) | 0 | (0.0) | <0.01 |
| Alopecia | 30 | (12.4) | – | – | 143 | (59.8) | – | – | – |
| Watery eye | 2 | (0.8) | 0 | (0.0) | 18 | (7.5) | 3 | (1.3) | 0.12 |
| Hypertension | 86 | (35.5) | 29 | (12.0) | 76 | (31.8) | 20 | (8.4) | 0.23 |
| Paralytic ileus | 8 | (3.3) | 7 | (2.9) | 2 | (0.8) | 0 | (0.0) | 0.02 |
| Febrile neutropenia | 0 | (0.0) | 0 | (0.0) | 8 | (3.3) | 8 | (3.3) | <0.01 |
| Thromboembolism | 5 | (2.1) | 2 | (0.8) | 10 | (4.2) | 9 | (3.8) | 0.04 |
| Hemorrhage, nose | 28 | (11.6) | 0 | (0.0) | 40 | (16.7) | 0 | (0.0) | – |
| Gastrointestinal perforation | 3 | (1.2) | 3 | (1.2) | 0 | (0.0) | 0 | (0.0) | 0.25 |
Comparison of the frequency of adverse events of grade 3 or higher in the two groups.
AE, adverse events; AST, aspartate aminotransferase; ALT, alanine aminotransferase.
Figure 2.Quality of life assessed by (A) FACT-C TOI and (B) FACT/GOG-Ntx. The line on the graph is a straight line drawn from average values using a mixed-effects model. FACT-C TOI, the Functional Assessment of Cancer Therapy-Colorectal Trial Outcome Index scale; FACT/GOG-Ntx, the neurotoxicity subscale of the FACT/Gynecology Oncology Group-Neurotoxicity.