Combination Chemotherapy Compared With No Treatment Following Surgery in Treating Patients With Non-small Cell Lung Cancer

Summary

RATIONALE: Drugs used in chemotherapy use different ways to stop tumor cells from dividing so they stop growing or die. It is not yet known if combination chemotherapy given after surgery is more effective than surgery alone for non-small cell lung cancer. PURPOSE: Randomized phase III trial to compare the effectiveness of combination chemotherapy following surgery with that of surgery alone in treating patients who have stage I, stage II, or stage IIIA non-small cell lung cancer.

Timeline

Start

1995-02

Primary completion

2001-01

Completion

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Outcome

Met primary endpoint

paper Patients assigned to chemotherapy had a significantly higher survival rate than those assigned to observation PMID 14736927 ↗

paper hazard ratio for death, 0.86; 95 percent confidence interval, 0.76 to 0.98; P<0.03 PMID 14736927 ↗

Publications

• Background Reiman T, Lai R, Veillard AS, Paris E, Soria JC, Rosell R, Taron M, Graziano S, Kratzke R, Seymour L, Shepherd FA, Pignon JP, Seve P. Cross-validation study of class III beta-tubulin as a predictive marker for benefit from adjuvant chemotherapy in resected non-small-cell lung cancer: analysis of four randomized trials. Ann Oncol. 2012 Jan;23(1):86-93. doi: 10.1093/annonc/mdr033. Epub 2011 Apr 6.
• Background Hotta K, Matsuo K, Kiura K, Ueoka H, Tanimoto M. Advances in our understanding of postoperative adjuvant chemotherapy in resectable non-small-cell lung cancer. Curr Opin Oncol. 2006 Mar;18(2):144-50. doi: 10.1097/01.cco.0000208787.91947.a2.
• Background Pignon JP, Tribodet H, Scagliotti GV, et al.: Lung Adjuvant Cisplatin Evaluation (LACE): a pooled analysis of five randomized clinical trials including 4,584 patients. [Abstract] J Clin Oncol 24 (Suppl 18): A-7008, 2006.
• Background Wakelee HA, Schiller JH, Gandara DR. Current status of adjuvant chemotherapy for stage IB non-small-cell lung cancer: implications for the New Intergroup Trial. Clin Lung Cancer. 2006 Jul;8(1):18-21. doi: 10.3816/CLC.2006.n.028.
• Results Bepler G, Olaussen KA, Vataire AL, Soria JC, Zheng Z, Dunant A, Pignon JP, Schell MJ, Fouret P, Pirker R, Filipits M, Brambilla E. ERCC1 and RRM1 in the international adjuvant lung trial by automated quantitative in situ analysis. Am J Pathol. 2011 Jan;178(1):69-78. doi: 10.1016/j.ajpath.2010.11.029. Epub 2010 Dec 23.
• Results Arriagada R, Dunant A, Pignon JP, Bergman B, Chabowski M, Grunenwald D, Kozlowski M, Le Pechoux C, Pirker R, Pinel MI, Tarayre M, Le Chevalier T. Long-term results of the international adjuvant lung cancer trial evaluating adjuvant Cisplatin-based chemotherapy in resected lung cancer. J Clin Oncol. 2010 Jan 1;28(1):35-42. doi: 10.1200/JCO.2009.23.2272. Epub 2009 Nov 23.
• Results Voortman J, Goto A, Mendiboure J, Sohn JJ, Schetter AJ, Saito M, Dunant A, Pham TC, Petrini I, Lee A, Khan MA, Hainaut P, Pignon JP, Brambilla E, Popper HH, Filipits M, Harris CC, Giaccone G. MicroRNA expression and clinical outcomes in patients treated with adjuvant chemotherapy after complete resection of non-small cell lung carcinoma. Cancer Res. 2010 Nov 1;70(21):8288-98. doi: 10.1158/0008-5472.CAN-10-1348. Epub 2010 Oct 26.
• Results Filipits M, Pirker R, Dunant A, Lantuejoul S, Schmid K, Huynh A, Haddad V, Andre F, Stahel R, Pignon JP, Soria JC, Popper HH, Le Chevalier T, Brambilla E. Cell cycle regulators and outcome of adjuvant cisplatin-based chemotherapy in completely resected non-small-cell lung cancer: the International Adjuvant Lung Cancer Trial Biologic Program. J Clin Oncol. 2007 Jul 1;25(19):2735-40. doi: 10.1200/JCO.2006.08.2867.
• Results Olaussen KA, Dunant A, Fouret P, Brambilla E, Andre F, Haddad V, Taranchon E, Filipits M, Pirker R, Popper HH, Stahel R, Sabatier L, Pignon JP, Tursz T, Le Chevalier T, Soria JC; IALT Bio Investigators. DNA repair by ERCC1 in non-small-cell lung cancer and cisplatin-based adjuvant chemotherapy. N Engl J Med. 2006 Sep 7;355(10):983-91. doi: 10.1056/NEJMoa060570.
• Results Brambilla E, Dunant A, Filipits M, et al.: Prognostic and predictive role of alterations of the P53-bax-bcl2 pathway of apoptosis in the IALT (International Adjuvant Lung Cancer Trial). [Abstract] Lung Cancer 50 (Suppl 2): A-O-021, S10, 2005.
• Results Arriagada R, Bergman B, Dunant A, Le Chevalier T, Pignon JP, Vansteenkiste J; International Adjuvant Lung Cancer Trial Collaborative Group. Cisplatin-based adjuvant chemotherapy in patients with completely resected non-small-cell lung cancer. N Engl J Med. 2004 Jan 22;350(4):351-60. doi: 10.1056/NEJMoa031644.
• Results Le Chevalier T: Results of the Randomized International Adjuvant Lung Cancer Trial (IALT): cisplatin-based chemotherapy (CT) vs no CT in 1867 patients (pts) with resected non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC). [Abstract] Proceedings of the American Society of Clinical Oncology 22: A-6, 2, 2003.

Drugs

Evaluation	Drug	Modality	Dose	Route
Subject	Cisplatin	Other / unclassified	—	—
Subject	Etoposide	Small molecule	—	—
Subject	Vinblastine	Small molecule	—	—
Subject	Vindesine	Small molecule	—	—
Subject	Vinorelbine	Small molecule	—	—

Indications