Real-World Treatment Patterns, Overall Survival, and Occurrence and Costs of Adverse Events Associated With First-line Therapies for Medicare Patients 65 Years and Older With Advanced Non-small-cell Lung Cancer : A Retrospective Study

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PURPOSE: This study sought to better understand real-world treatment patterns, overall and non-small-cell lung cancer (NSCLC)-specific survival, adverse event (AE) occurrence, and economic impact of first-line cancer therapies in Medicare patients.

PATIENTS AND METHODS: This retrospective cohort study identified patients ≥ 65 years in the Surveillance, Epidemiology, and End Results (SEER)-Medicare linked database who received a first-time advanced (stage IV) NSCLC diagnosis from 2007 to 2011, and who received first-line platinum-based chemotherapy from 2007 through mid-2013. First-line regimens, healthcare resource use, occurrence of AEs, and associated costs (2013 US dollars) were analyzed. Median survival was determined using the Kaplan-Meier method.

RESULTS: Surprisingly, only 46% of patients (n = 13,472) with stage IIIB/IV NSCLC received systemic therapy, and 5931 received platinum-based therapy. The mean age was 73 years, with 3354 (57%) males; 1489 (25%) had squamous and 4442 (75%) nonsquamous histology. The most common regimens were carboplatin doublets (70%), including carboplatin/paclitaxel (38%), carboplatin/pemetrexed (12%), carboplatin/gemcitabine (11%), and carboplatin/docetaxel (7%). The median overall survival from first-line therapy initiation was 7.2 months (95% confidence interval, 7.0-7.5 months). Dyspnea and anemia were the most common AEs of interest, whereas atypical pneumonia was associated with the greatest AE-related costs (mean, $5044). The mean total per-patient-per-month cost was $11,909, with AE-related costs comprising 9% of total costs. The highest costs and survival were observed for patients treated with carboplatin/pemetrexed and bevacizumab/carboplatin/paclitaxel.

CONCLUSIONS: These real-world data illustrate the most common first-line regimens by histology, overall survival, AEs, and some of the high AE-related costs of therapy for advanced NSCLC, and provides extremely useful information for clinicians.

Medienart:

E-Artikel

Erscheinungsjahr:

2018

Erschienen:

2018

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Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:19

Enthalten in:

Clinical lung cancer - 19(2018), 5 vom: 01. Sept., Seite e629-e645

Sprache:

Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

Bittoni, Marisa A [VerfasserIn]
Arunachalam, Ashwini [VerfasserIn]
Li, Haojie [VerfasserIn]
Camacho, Ramon [VerfasserIn]
He, Jinghua [VerfasserIn]
Zhong, Yichen [VerfasserIn]
Lubiniecki, Gregory M [VerfasserIn]
Carbone, David P [VerfasserIn]

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Journal Article
NSCLC
Observational
Observational Study
Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't
SEER-Medicare database
Treatment costs
Utilization patterns

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Date Completed 18.03.2019

Date Revised 18.03.2019

published: Print-Electronic

Citation Status MEDLINE

doi:

10.1016/j.cllc.2018.04.017

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PPN (Katalog-ID):

NLM28530562X