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Variations in outcome were clearly observed in the phase III Southwest Oncology Group (SWOG) 80405 trial, among the reports highlighted in the 2016 ASCO Annual Meeting (Abstract LBA3).
An in depth retrospective analysis of SWOG 80405 confirmed what have been suspected from earlier clinical trials—tumors from the left side and right side responded differently towards the same drugs, and right-sided colorectal cancer is really a different disease than left-sided colorectal cancer.
Patients in SWOG 80405 received either bevacizumab or cetuximab, both with standard chemotherapy. Overall survival demonstrated no statistically factor backward and forward regimens. But median overall survival of all patients with left-sided tumors was 33.3 several weeks, versus 19.4 for right-sided tumors. The main difference seemed to be significant in progression-free survival: 11.7 several weeks for left-sided tumors versus 8.9 several weeks for right-sided tumors.
“And survival outcomes in patients with KRAS wild-type metastatic colorectal cancer were considerably longer among individuals with tumors originating around the left in comparison to the right side from the colon,” Lenz stated.
More essential was the main difference in overall survival by targeted therapy. Median overall survival with cetuximab was 36. several weeks for left-sided tumor versus 16.7 several weeks for right-sided tumors.
“The 19.3-month difference is a huge difference—sidedness is prognostic,” Lenz described.
The main difference with bevacizumab wasn’t statistically significant, 31.4 several weeks versus 24.2 several weeks, correspondingly. But individuals data were separate from tumor biology, protocol therapy, prior adjuvant chemotherapy- and/or radiotherapy, age, and sex.
“This every point out that for right-sided cancer of the colon we might have to return to enter board” to locate very effective treatments, he stated.
Lenz stated earlier there is an indication of the sidedness trouble in the National Cancer Institute of Canada (NCIC) CO.17 medical trial (Eur J Cancer 201551:1405-1414). That trial demonstrated the result from the epidermal growth factor receptor (EGFR) inhibitor cetuximab was most powerful within the left-sided cancer of the colon. “This makes biological sense since this is in which the path is activated.”
For the reason that trial, there is additionally a hint that reaction to cetuximab very can be not only prognostic but predictive too for targeted agents.
Resourse: http://journals.lww.com/oncology-occasions/Fulltext/2016/09100/
