A protocol of a single arm, prospective, open-label, multicenter, phase II study of ramucirumab and erlotinib in treatment-naïve non-small cell lung cancer patients with EGFR mutation and brain metastases (SPIRAL-BRAIN study)

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Background: The combination of erlotinib, a first-generation epidermal growth factor receptor tyrosine kinase inhibitor (EGFR-TKI), and ramucirumab, an anti-vascular endothelial growth factor receptor (VEGFR) antibody, is one of the most effective treatments for patients with non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) and EGFR mutation. However, little is known about the safety and efficacy of this combination treatment for patients with brain metastases.

Methods: This single arm, prospective, open-label, multicenter, phase II study will recruit 32 NSCLC patients with EGFR mutation (except for T790M mutation) and brain metastases (asymptomatic or mild symptoms). Patients will be treated with erlotinib at a dose of 150 mg/body once daily and ramucirumab at a dose of 10 mg/kg once every 2 weeks. The primary endpoint is intracranial overall response rate (iORR) and the secondary endpoints are intracranial disease control rate, intracranial progression-free survival (iPFS), extracranial ORR, extracranial PFS, ORR, overall PFS, overall survival (OS), and safety. The planned number of enrollments was calculated based on a one-sample binomial test (normal approximation) with a two-sided α level of 5% and 80% power, assuming that the expected iORR is 65% and the iORR threshold is 40%.

Discussion: A prospective study to confirm the safety and efficacy of the combined erlotinib plus ramucirumab treatment for NSCLC patients with EGFR mutation and brain metastases is ongoing.

Trial Registration: Japan Registry of Clinical Trials, jRCTs051220059.

Medienart:

E-Artikel

Erscheinungsjahr:

2023

Erschienen:

2023

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Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:12

Enthalten in:

Translational lung cancer research - 12(2023), 8 vom: 30. Aug., Seite 1802-1806

Sprache:

Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

Sawada, Ryo [VerfasserIn]
Nishioka, Naoya [VerfasserIn]
Kim, Young Hak [VerfasserIn]
Kiyomi, Fumiaki [VerfasserIn]
Uchino, Junji [VerfasserIn]
Takayama, Koichi [VerfasserIn]

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Brain metastasis
Epidermal growth factor receptor mutation (EGFR mutation)
Epidermal growth factor receptor tyrosine kinase inhibitor (EGFR-TKI)
Journal Article
Non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC)
Vascular endothelial growth factor or vascular endothelial growth factor receptor inhibitor (VEGF or VEGFR inhibitor)

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Date Revised 13.09.2023

published: Print-Electronic

Citation Status PubMed-not-MEDLINE

doi:

10.21037/tlcr-23-109

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PPN (Katalog-ID):

NLM361893272