Quality of life with cemiplimab plus chemotherapy for first-line treatment of advanced non-small cell lung cancer : Patient-reported outcomes from phase 3 EMPOWER-Lung 3

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BACKGROUND: EMPOWER-Lung 3, a randomized 2:1 phase 3 trial, showed clinically meaningful and statistically significant overall survival improvement with cemiplimab plus platinum-doublet chemotherapy versus placebo plus chemotherapy for first-line treatment of advanced non-small cell lung cancer. This study evaluated patient-reported outcomes (PROs).

METHODS: PROs were assessed at day 1 (baseline), the start of each treatment cycle (every 3 weeks) for the first six doses, and then at start of every three cycles, using the European Organisation for Research and Treatment of Cancer (EORTC) Quality of Life-Core 30 (QLQ-C30) and Quality of Life-Lung Cancer Module (QLQ-LC13) questionnaires. Prespecified analyses included a longitudinal mixed-effect model comparing treatment arms and a time to definitive clinically meaningful deterioration (TTD) analysis performed for global health status/quality of life (GHS/QoL) and all scales from the questionnaires. Between-arm TTD comparisons were made using a stratified log-rank test and proportional hazards model.

RESULTS: A total of 312 patients were assigned to receive cemiplimab plus platinum-doublet chemotherapy and 154 to receive placebo plus chemotherapy; 391 (83.9%) were male and the median age was 63.0 years (range, 25-84). For pain symptoms (EORTC QLQ-C30), a statistically significant overall improvement from baseline (-4.98, 95% confidence interval [CI] -8.36 to -1.60, p = .004) and a statistically significant delay in TTD (hazard ratio, 0.39; 95% CI, 0.26-0.60, p < .0001) favoring cemiplimab plus chemotherapy were observed. Statistically significant delays in TTD, all favoring cemiplimab plus chemotherapy, were also observed in functioning and symptom scales. A significant overall improvement from baseline in GHS/QoL was seen for cemiplimab plus chemotherapy compared with nonsignificant overall change from baseline for placebo plus chemotherapy (1.69, 95% CI, 0.20-3.19 vs. 1.08, 95% CI, -1.34 to 3.51; between arms, p = .673). No analyses yielded statistically significant PRO results favoring placebo plus chemotherapy for any QLQ-C30 or QLQ-LC13 scale.

CONCLUSION: Cemiplimab plus chemotherapy resulted in significant overall improvement in pain symptoms and delayed TTD in cancer-related and lung cancer-specific symptoms and functions.

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E-Artikel

Erscheinungsjahr:

2023

Erschienen:

2023

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Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:129

Enthalten in:

Cancer - 129(2023), 14 vom: 15. Juli, Seite 2256-2265

Sprache:

Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

Makharadze, Tamta [VerfasserIn]
Quek, Ruben G W [VerfasserIn]
Melkadze, Tamar [VerfasserIn]
Gogishvili, Miranda [VerfasserIn]
Ivanescu, Cristina [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]
Konidaris, Gerasimos [VerfasserIn]
Rietschel, Petra [VerfasserIn]
Gullo, Giuseppe [VerfasserIn]

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49DFR088MY
6QVL057INT
Advanced non-small cell lung cancer
Cemiplimab
Clinical Trial, Phase III
Journal Article
Non-small cell lung cancer
Patient-reported outcome
Platinum
Quality of life
Randomized Controlled Trial
Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

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Date Completed 23.06.2023

Date Revised 25.06.2023

published: Print-Electronic

Citation Status MEDLINE

doi:

10.1002/cncr.34687

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NLM356542564