Giancarlo Agnelli1, Cecilia Becattini1, Guy Meyer1, Andres Muñoz1, Menno V Huisman1, Jean M Connors1, Alexander Cohen1, Rupert Bauersachs1, Benjamin Brenner1, Adam Torbicki1, Maria R Sueiro1, Catherine Lambert1, Gualberto Gussoni1, Mauro Campanini1, Andrea Fontanella1, Giorgio Vescovo1, Melina Verso1. 1. From the Internal Vascular and Emergency Medicine-Stroke Unit, University of Perugia, Perugia (G.A., C.B., M.V.), Federazione delle Associazioni dei Dirigenti Ospedalieri Internisti (FADOI) Research Center, Milan (G.G.), the Department of Medicine, Azienda Ospedaliero-Universitaria Maggiore della Carità, Novara (M.C.), the Department of Medicine, Buon Consiglio-Fatebenefratelli Hospital, Naples (A.F.), and Internal Medicine, Azienda Ospedale-Università, Padua (G.V.) - all in Italy; Hôpital Européen Georges Pompidou, Assistance Publique-Hôpitaux de Paris, Université Paris Descartes, Sorbonne Paris Cité, Paris, and INNOVTE, Saint-Etienne (G.M.) - both in France; Instituto de Investigatión Sanitaria Gregorio Marañon, Universidad Complûtense, Madrid (A.M.); the Department of Thrombosis and Hemostasis, Leiden University Medical Center, Leiden, the Netherlands (M.V.H.); the Hematology Division, Brigham and Women's Hospital, and Harvard Medical School, Boston (J.M.C.); Guy's and St. Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust Hospital, King's College London, London (A.C.); the Department of Vascular Medicine, Darmstadt, and Center for Thrombosis and Hemostasis, University of Mainz, Mainz (R.B.) - both in Germany; the Institute of Hematology and Bone Marrow Transplantation Unit, Rambam Health Care Campus Technion, Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa (B.B.); the Departments of Pulmonary Circulation, Thromboembolic Diseases, and Cardiology, Center for Postgraduate Medical Education, Europejskie Centrum Zdrowia, Otwock, Poland (A.T.); the Surgical Oncology Department, Institut Português de Oncologia do Porto, Porto, Portugal (M.R.S.); and Cliniques Universitaires Saint-Luc, Brussels (C.L.).
Abstract
BACKGROUND: Recent guidelines recommend consideration of the use of oral edoxaban or rivaroxaban for the treatment of venous thromboembolism in patients with cancer. However, the benefit of these oral agents is limited by the increased risk of bleeding associated with their use. METHODS: This was a multinational, randomized, investigator-initiated, open-label, noninferiority trial with blinded central outcome adjudication. We randomly assigned consecutive patients with cancer who had symptomatic or incidental acute proximal deep-vein thrombosis or pulmonary embolism to receive oral apixaban (at a dose of 10 mg twice daily for the first 7 days, followed by 5 mg twice daily) or subcutaneous dalteparin (at a dose of 200 IU per kilogram of body weight once daily for the first month, followed by 150 IU per kilogram once daily). The treatments were administered for 6 months. The primary outcome was objectively confirmed recurrent venous thromboembolism during the trial period. The principal safety outcome was major bleeding. RESULTS: Recurrent venous thromboembolism occurred in 32 of 576 patients (5.6%) in the apixaban group and in 46 of 579 patients (7.9%) in the dalteparin group (hazard ratio, 0.63; 95% confidence interval [CI], 0.37 to 1.07; P<0.001 for noninferiority). Major bleeding occurred in 22 patients (3.8%) in the apixaban group and in 23 patients (4.0%) in the dalteparin group (hazard ratio, 0.82; 95% CI, 0.40 to 1.69; P = 0.60). CONCLUSIONS: Oral apixaban was noninferior to subcutaneous dalteparin for the treatment of cancer-associated venous thromboembolism without an increased risk of major bleeding. (Funded by the Bristol-Myers Squibb-Pfizer Alliance; Caravaggio ClinicalTrials.gov number, NCT03045406.).
BACKGROUND: Recent guidelines recommend consideration of the use of oral edoxaban or rivaroxaban for the treatment of venous thromboembolism in patients with cancer. However, the benefit of these oral agents is limited by the increased risk of bleeding associated with their use. METHODS: This was a multinational, randomized, investigator-initiated, open-label, noninferiority trial with blinded central outcome adjudication. We randomly assigned consecutive patients with cancer who had symptomatic or incidental acute proximal deep-vein thrombosis or pulmonary embolism to receive oral apixaban (at a dose of 10 mg twice daily for the first 7 days, followed by 5 mg twice daily) or subcutaneous dalteparin (at a dose of 200 IU per kilogram of body weight once daily for the first month, followed by 150 IU per kilogram once daily). The treatments were administered for 6 months. The primary outcome was objectively confirmed recurrent venous thromboembolism during the trial period. The principal safety outcome was major bleeding. RESULTS: Recurrent venous thromboembolism occurred in 32 of 576 patients (5.6%) in the apixaban group and in 46 of 579 patients (7.9%) in the dalteparin group (hazard ratio, 0.63; 95% confidence interval [CI], 0.37 to 1.07; P<0.001 for noninferiority). Major bleeding occurred in 22 patients (3.8%) in the apixaban group and in 23 patients (4.0%) in the dalteparin group (hazard ratio, 0.82; 95% CI, 0.40 to 1.69; P = 0.60). CONCLUSIONS: Oral apixaban was noninferior to subcutaneous dalteparin for the treatment of cancer-associated venous thromboembolism without an increased risk of major bleeding. (Funded by the Bristol-Myers Squibb-Pfizer Alliance; Caravaggio ClinicalTrials.gov number, NCT03045406.).
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