First Line IRESSA™ Versus Carboplatin/Paclitaxel in Asia

Summary

The purpose of this study is to compare gefitinib with carboplatin / paclitaxel doublet chemotherapy given as first line treatment in terms of progression free survival in selected NSCLC patients with the objective of demonstrating non-inferiority.

Timeline

Start

2006-03

Primary completion

2008-04

Completion

2010-06

Publications

• Nagase M, Aksenov S, Yan H, Dunyak J, Al-Huniti N. Modeling Tumor Growth and Treatment Resistance Dynamics Characterizes Different Response to Gefitinib or Chemotherapy in Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer. CPT Pharmacometrics Syst Pharmacol. 2020 Mar;9(3):143-152. doi: 10.1002/psp4.12490. Epub 2020 Feb 7.
• Wu YL, Saijo N, Thongprasert S, Yang JC, Han B, Margono B, Chewaskulyong B, Sunpaweravong P, Ohe Y, Ichinose Y, Yang JJ, Mok TS, Young H, Haddad V, Rukazenkov Y, Fukuoka M. Efficacy according to blind independent central review: Post-hoc analyses from the phase III, randomized, multicenter, IPASS study of first-line gefitinib versus carboplatin/paclitaxel in Asian patients with EGFR mutation-positive advanced NSCLC. Lung Cancer. 2017 Feb;104:119-125. doi: 10.1016/j.lungcan.2016.11.022. Epub 2016 Nov 30.
• Yang JC, Wu YL, Chan V, Kurnianda J, Nakagawa K, Saijo N, Fukuoka M, McWalter G, McCormack R, Mok TS. Epidermal growth factor receptor mutation analysis in previously unanalyzed histology samples and cytology samples from the phase III Iressa Pan-ASia Study (IPASS). Lung Cancer. 2014 Feb;83(2):174-81. doi: 10.1016/j.lungcan.2013.11.021. Epub 2013 Dec 1.
• Wu YL, Fukuoka M, Mok TS, Saijo N, Thongprasert S, Yang JC, Chu DT, Yang JJ, Rukazenkov Y. Tumor response and health-related quality of life in clinically selected patients from Asia with advanced non-small-cell lung cancer treated with first-line gefitinib: post hoc analyses from the IPASS study. Lung Cancer. 2013 Aug;81(2):280-7. doi: 10.1016/j.lungcan.2013.03.004. Epub 2013 Mar 26.
• Wu YL, Chu DT, Han B, Liu X, Zhang L, Zhou C, Liao M, Mok T, Jiang H, Duffield E, Fukuoka M. Phase III, randomized, open-label, first-line study in Asia of gefitinib versus carboplatin/paclitaxel in clinically selected patients with advanced non-small-cell lung cancer: evaluation of patients recruited from mainland China. Asia Pac J Clin Oncol. 2012 Sep;8(3):232-43. doi: 10.1111/j.1743-7563.2012.01518.x. Epub 2012 Apr 23.
• Mok TS, Wu YL, Thongprasert S, Yang CH, Chu DT, Saijo N, Sunpaweravong P, Han B, Margono B, Ichinose Y, Nishiwaki Y, Ohe Y, Yang JJ, Chewaskulyong B, Jiang H, Duffield EL, Watkins CL, Armour AA, Fukuoka M. Gefitinib or carboplatin-paclitaxel in pulmonary adenocarcinoma. N Engl J Med. 2009 Sep 3;361(10):947-57. doi: 10.1056/NEJMoa0810699. Epub 2009 Aug 19.

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