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    MINI 05 - EGFR Mutant Lung Cancer 1 (ID 103)

    • Event: WCLC 2015
    • Type: Mini Oral
    • Track: Treatment of Advanced Diseases - NSCLC
    • Presentations: 1
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      MINI05.10 - EGFR-TKI Alone or with Concomitant Radiotherapy for Brain Metastases in Lung Adenocarcinoma Patients with EGFR Gene Mutations (ID 1566)

      17:40 - 17:45  |  Author(s): Y. Yang

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      Background:
      Radiotherapy is the principal treatment modality for patients with brain metastases (BM), however, tyrosine kinase inhibitor (TKI) of epidermal growth factor receptor (EGFR) shows therapeutic efficacy for brain metastases in patients with EGFR-mutant lung adenocarcinoma. This study was conducted to compare the outcome of TKI alone with TKI plus concomitant radiotherapy in treatment of BM from EGFR-mutated lung adenocarcinoma patients.

      Methods:
      The inclusion criteria were as following: patients newly diagnosed with EGFR-mutant lung adenocarcinoma, presented with BM, TKI as first-line therapy, and ECOG PS 0-2.

      Results:
      From January 1, 2009 to September 1, 2014 at Zhengzhou University Affiliated Cancer Hospital, 516 lung adenocarcinoma patients with EGFR gene mutations were reviewed, and 132 cases (25.6%) with newly diagnosed BM were enrolled for the analysis. Among the 132 patients, more than half of them (n = 72; 54.5%) harbored a deletion in exon 19, 97 patients (73.5%) showed multiple intracranial lesions, and 50.8% (n = 67) had asymptomatic BM. 79 patients (59.8%) were treated with TKI alone, 53 with TKI plus concomitant radiotherapy (45 with whole brain radiotherapy, and 8 with stereotactic radiosurgery). The objective response rate of BM was significantly higher in TKI plus radiotherapy group (67.9%) compared with TKI alone group (27.8%, P<0.001). The median time to intracranial progression was 22.3 months. The median intracranial progression-free survival in patients who received TKI plus radiotherapy was 24.7 months, much longer than those treated with TKI alone which was 19.0 months, P = 0.005. Multivariate analysis showed brain radiotherapy (P = 0.012) and intracranial lesion number (P = 0.070) as important prognostic factors for intracranial progression-free survival. In addition, the data of overall survival will be presented at the conference.

      Conclusion:
      For EGFR-mutated lung adenocarcinoma patients with BM, TKI plus concomitant radiotherapy achieved higher response rate of BM and significant improvement in intracranial progression-free survival compared with TKI alone. Figure 1



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