First-Line Nivolumab in Stage IV or Recurrent Non-Small-Cell Lung Cancer

Background Nivolumab has been associated with longer overall survival than docetaxel among patients with previously treated non-small-cell lung cancer (NSCLC). In an open-label phase 3 trial, we compared first-line nivolumab with chemotherapy in patients with programmed death ligand 1 (PD-L1)-positive NSCLC. Methods We randomly assigned, in a 1:1 ratio, patients with untreated stage IV or recurrent NSCLC and a PD-L1 tumor-expression level of 1% or more to receive nivolumab (administered intravenously at a dose of 3 mg per kilogram of body weight once every 2 weeks) or platinum-based chemotherapy (administered once every 3 weeks for up to six cycles). Patients receiving chemotherapy could cross over to receive nivolumab at the time of disease progression. The primary end point was progression-free survival, as assessed by means of blinded independent central review, among patients with a PD-L1 expression level of 5% or more. Results Among the 423 patients with a PD-L1 expression level of 5% or more, the median progression-free survival was 4.2 months with nivolumab versus 5.9 months with chemotherapy (hazard ratio for disease progression or death, 1.15; 95% confidence interval [CI], 0.91 to 1.45; P=0.25), and the median overall survival was 14.4 months versus 13.2 months (hazard ratio for death, 1.02; 95% CI, 0.80 to 1.30). A total of 128 of 212 patients (60%) in the chemotherapy group received nivolumab as subsequent therapy. Treatment-related adverse events of any grade occurred in 71% of the patients who received nivolumab and in 92% of those who received chemotherapy. Treatment-related adverse events of grade 3 or 4 occurred in 18% of the patients who received nivolumab and in 51% of those who received chemotherapy. Conclusions Nivolumab was not associated with significantly longer progression-free survival than chemotherapy among patients with previously untreated stage IV or recurrent NSCLC with a PD-L1 expression level of 5% or more. Overall survival was similar between groups. Nivolumab had a favorable safety profile, as compared with chemotherapy, with no new or unexpected safety signals. (Funded by Bristol-Myers Squibb and others; CheckMate 026 ClinicalTrials.gov number, NCT02041533.).

Medienart:

Artikel

Erscheinungsjahr:

2017

Erschienen:

2017

Enthalten in:

Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:376

Enthalten in:

The New England journal of medicine - 376(2017), 25, Seite 2415

Sprache:

Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

David P Carbone [VerfasserIn]
Martin Reck [Sonstige Person]
Luis Paz-Ares [Sonstige Person]
Benjamin Creelan [Sonstige Person]
Leora Horn [Sonstige Person]
Martin Steins [Sonstige Person]
Enriqueta Felip [Sonstige Person]
Michel M van den Heuvel [Sonstige Person]
Tudor-Eliade Ciuleanu [Sonstige Person]
Firas Badin [Sonstige Person]
Neal Ready [Sonstige Person]
T Jeroen N Hiltermann [Sonstige Person]
Suresh Nair [Sonstige Person]
Rosalyn Juergens [Sonstige Person]
Solange Peters [Sonstige Person]
Elisa Minenza [Sonstige Person]
John M Wrangle [Sonstige Person]
Delvys Rodriguez-Abreu [Sonstige Person]
Hossein Borghaei [Sonstige Person]
George R Blumenschein Jr [Sonstige Person]
Liza C Villaruz [Sonstige Person]
Libor Havel [Sonstige Person]
Jana Krejci [Sonstige Person]
Jesus Corral Jaime [Sonstige Person]
Han Chang [Sonstige Person]
William J Geese [Sonstige Person]
Prabhu Bhagavatheeswaran [Sonstige Person]
Allen C Chen [Sonstige Person]
Mark A Socinski [Sonstige Person]

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Themen:

Allografts
Apoptosis
Body weight
Cancer therapies
Cell survival
Chemotherapy
Clinical trials
Death
Ligands
Lung
Lung cancer
Metastasis
Mutation
Oncology
PD-L1 protein
Platinum
Survival

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