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Neoplasma Vol.62, No.2, p.302-307, 2015

Title: Gefitinib maintenance therapy in Chinese advanced-stage lung adenocarcinoma patients with EGFR mutations treated with prior chemotherapy
Author: K. C. CAI, D. G. LIU, Y. Y. WANG, H. WU, Z. Y. HUANG, R. J. CAI, H. F. WANG, G. XIONG, Z. L. ZHANG

Abstract:

The aim of this study was to determine the response of advanced-stage non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) patients with or without EGFR mutations to platinum-based chemotherapy with or without gefitinib maintenance.

Patients were treated with four cycles of platinum-based chemotherapy. Patients with wild-type EGFR were observed (group 1; n=15).

EGFR mutation-positive patients were randomly assigned to observation (group 2; n=7) or gefitinib maintenance (group 3; n=7).

The median patient age was 59 years. The 1-year progression-free survival rates in groups 1, 2, and 3 were 6.7%, 28.6%, and 57.1%, respectively (p = 0.049); the 1-year overall survival rates were 53.3%, 57.1 %, and 100%, respectively (p = 0.111). The results indicate that patients with advanced-stage NSCLC with EGFR mutations have a better response to chemotherapy followed by gefitinib than chemotherapy alone and a better response to chemotherapy than wild-type patients.



Keywords: chemotherapy, gefitinib, NSCLC, tyrosine kinase inhibitors
Published online: 14-Jan-2015
Year: 2015, Volume: 62, Issue: 2 Page From: 302, Page To: 307
doi:10.4149/neo_2015_036


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