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  P3.01 - Poster Session/ Treatment of Advanced Diseases – NSCLC (ID 208)

  • Event: WCLC 2015
  • Type: Poster
  • Track: Treatment of Advanced Diseases - NSCLC
  • Presentations: 1
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  • Coordinates: 9/09/2015, 09:30 - 17:00, Exhibit Hall (Hall B+C)

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    P3.01-055 - Carboplatin-Pemetrexed Combination in Elderly Patients with Advanced Non-Squamous Non Small Cell Lung Cancer (NS-NSCLC) (ID 1595)

    09:30 - 09:30  |  Author(s): S. Vazquez
    • Abstract

    Background:
    The standard treatment for elderly patients in advanced NS-NSCLC is not defined. The aim of this study was to evaluate the efficacy and safety profile of the combination of carboplatin and pemetrexed in this population.
    
    Methods:
    Elegibility criteria included, histologically or citologically confirmed NS-NSCLC clinical stage IIIB vs IV, evaluable disease, no prior cytotoxic chemotherapy, an Eastern Cooperative Oncology Group (ECOG) performance status of 0 or 1, an adequate organ function and ³ 70 years old. Patients received carboplatin at an area under the concentration time curve (AUC) of 5 and pemetrexed 500 mg/m2 for four cycles on day 1 every 3 weeks. In non-progressing patients, maintenance therapy with pemetrexed every 3 weeks was optional to continue at the discretion of the investigator, until either disease progression or unacceptable toxicity. The primary endpoint was progression-free survival (PFS). The secundary endpoints were the response rate (RR), disease control rate (DCR), overall survival (OS) and the rates of adverse events.
    
    Results:
    A total of thirty-six patients were included in a phase II clinical trial from 6 different centers. The patients demographics were: median age 76 years (range 70-82), 8 female and 28 male; 33 patients adenocarcinoma and 3 large-cell lung carcinoma; tumor EGFR status wild type in all patients. 51% went to manteinance. Among 32 patients evaluated, the RR was 31,3%, disease stabilization 31,3%, disease progression 28,1% and non-evaluable 9,3%. The DCR was 62.5%. In non-manteinance group the PFS was 4.1 months and OS 8.6 months. In the manteinance group instead, the PFS was 9.5 months and OS 11.9 months. Most common attributable adverse events were fatigue and anemia. Each of the toxicities were controllable and there were no treatment-related deaths.
    
    Conclusion:
    These data provided that Carboplatin and pemetrexed combination is effective and well tolerated in elderly patients with advanced NS-NSCLC