Cemiplimab plus chemotherapy versus chemotherapy alone in non-small cell lung cancer : a randomized, controlled, double-blind phase 3 trial

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First-line cemiplimab (anti-programmed cell death-1 (PD-1)) monotherapy has previously shown significant improvement in overall survival (OS) and progression-free survival (PFS) versus chemotherapy in patients with advanced non-small cell lung cancer (aNSCLC) and PD-ligand 1 (PD-L1) expression ≥50%. EMPOWER-Lung 3 ( NCT03409614 ), a double-blind, placebo-controlled, phase 3 study, examined cemiplimab plus platinum-doublet chemotherapy as first-line treatment for aNSCLC, irrespective of PD-L1 expression or histology. In this study, 466 patients with stage III/IV aNSCLC without EGFR, ALK or ROS1 genomic tumor aberrations were randomized (2:1) to receive cemiplimab 350 mg (n = 312) or placebo (n = 154) every 3 weeks for up to 108 weeks in combination with four cycles of platinum-doublet chemotherapy (followed by pemetrexed maintenance as indicated). In total, 57.1% (266/466 patients) had non-squamous NSCLC, and 85.2% (397/466 patients) had stage IV disease. The primary endpoint was OS. The trial was stopped early per recommendation of the independent data monitoring committee, based on meeting preset OS efficacy criteria: median OS was 21.9 months (95% confidence interval (CI), 15.5-not evaluable) with cemiplimab plus chemotherapy versus 13.0 months (95% CI, 11.9-16.1) with placebo plus chemotherapy (hazard ratio (HR) = 0.71; 95% CI, 0.53-0.93; P = 0.014). Grade ≥3 adverse events occurred with cemiplimab plus chemotherapy (43.6%, 136/312 patients) and placebo plus chemotherapy (31.4%, 48/153 patients). Cemiplimab is only the second anti-PD-1/PD-L1 agent to show efficacy in aNSCLC as both monotherapy and in combination with chemotherapy for both squamous and non-squamous histologies.

Medienart:

E-Artikel

Erscheinungsjahr:

2022

Erschienen:

2022

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Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:28

Enthalten in:

Nature medicine - 28(2022), 11 vom: 25. Nov., Seite 2374-2380

Sprache:

Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

Gogishvili, Miranda [VerfasserIn]
Melkadze, Tamar [VerfasserIn]
Makharadze, Tamta [VerfasserIn]
Giorgadze, Davit [VerfasserIn]
Dvorkin, Mikhail [VerfasserIn]
Penkov, Konstantin [VerfasserIn]
Laktionov, Konstantin [VerfasserIn]
Nemsadze, Gia [VerfasserIn]
Nechaeva, Marina [VerfasserIn]
Rozhkova, Irina [VerfasserIn]
Kalinka, Ewa [VerfasserIn]
Gessner, Christian [VerfasserIn]
Moreno-Jaime, Brizio [VerfasserIn]
Passalacqua, Rodolfo [VerfasserIn]
Li, Siyu [VerfasserIn]
McGuire, Kristina [VerfasserIn]
Kaul, Manika [VerfasserIn]
Paccaly, Anne [VerfasserIn]
Quek, Ruben G W [VerfasserIn]
Gao, Bo [VerfasserIn]
Seebach, Frank [VerfasserIn]
Weinreich, David M [VerfasserIn]
Yancopoulos, George D [VerfasserIn]
Lowy, Israel [VerfasserIn]
Gullo, Giuseppe [VerfasserIn]
Rietschel, Petra [VerfasserIn]

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Themen:

49DFR088MY
6QVL057INT
B7-H1 Antigen
Cemiplimab
Clinical Trial, Phase III
EC 2.7.10.1
Journal Article
Platinum
Protein-Tyrosine Kinases
Proto-Oncogene Proteins
Randomized Controlled Trial
Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

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Date Completed 21.11.2022

Date Revised 12.01.2023

published: Print-Electronic

ClinicalTrials.gov: NCT03409614

Citation Status MEDLINE

doi:

10.1038/s41591-022-01977-y

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PPN (Katalog-ID):

NLM345271211