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  P3.11 - Poster Session 3 - NSCLC Novel Therapies (ID 211)

  • Event: WCLC 2013
  • Type: Poster Session
  • Track: Medical Oncology
  • Presentations: 1
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  • Coordinates: 10/30/2013, 09:30 - 16:30, Exhibit Hall, Ground Level

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    P3.11-043 - Survival of patients with advanced lung adenocarcinoma before and after approved use of Gefitinib in China: a comparative clinical study in a single center (ID 2973)

    09:30 - 09:30  |  Author(s): X. Zhang
    • Abstract

    Background
    Since approved use of Gefitinib in March 2005 in China, more patients with lung cancer, especially those with lung adenocarcinoma, have chosen it for treatment. It is of clinical significance to compare survival of lung adenocarcinoma patients who received Gefitinib treatment after March 2005 and that of those who did not receive it so as to provide clinical clues for selection of Gefitinib in Chinese lung adenocarcinoma patients.

    Methods
    Clinical data of 558 patients with advanced lung adenocarcinoma who received palliative chemotherapy from January 2002 throughout December 2010 were reviewed retrospectively. According to the matched-pair case-control study design, 255 patients who only received palliative chemotherapyand 255 patients who received Gefitinib treatment after approved use of Gefitinib were stringently matched by age, sex and smoking history and finally enrolled in this study. Clinical factors including age, sex, smoking history, Eastern Cooperative Oncology Group performance status (ECOG PS), tumor stage, organ metastasis and the number of prior cytotoxic chemotherapies were analyzed to determine their correlations with OS.

    Results
    The median survival time (MST) of the 510 enrolled patients with advanced lung adenocarcinoma was 22.8 months. MST of the patients who received Gefitinib treatment was significantly longer than that of the patients without (33.5 months vs. 14.1 months, p<0.001). OS in patients who received Gefitinib treatment was significantly longer than that in patients without receiving Gefitinib treatment in almost all clinical factor-based subgroups, including age, sex ,smoking history, ECOG PS 0-1, tumor stage, the presence or absence of lung, pleural, bone, brain, adrenal gland and liver metastasis, and the number of prior cytotoxic chemotherapies (all p<0.001), except in ECOG PS ≥2 subgroup.

    Conclusion
    Gefitinib treatment significantly improved the survival of patients with advanced lung adenocarcinoma in China.