A Study of Tarceva (Erlotinib) or Placebo in Combination With Platinum-Based Therapy as First Line Treatment in Patients With Advanced or Recurrent Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer

Summary

This 2 arm study will compare the efficacy and safety of sequential treatment with Tarceva or placebo, plus platinum-based therapy, as first line treatment in patients with advanced or recurrent non-small cell lung cancer. Patients will be randomized to receive gemcitabine (1250mg/m2 iv) on days 1 and 8, and cisplatin (75mg/m2) or carboplatin (5xAUC)on day 1, followed by Tarceva 150mg/day or placebo from day 15 to day 28 of each 4 week cycle for a total of 6 cycles,then followed by Tarceva or placebo monotherapy.The anticipated time on study treatment is until disease progression, and the target sample size is 100-500 individuals.

Timeline

Start

2009-04

Primary completion

2014-12

Completion

2014-12

Outcome

Met primary endpoint

registry MEDIAN Placebo: 6.0 (6.0 to 7.0) months MEDIAN Erlotinib: 7.6 (7.0 to 8.0) months NCT00883779 ↗

registry analysis (superiority or other test); Placebo vs Erlotinib; p <0.0001; Hazard Ratio (HR) 0.57 (95% CI 0.46 to 0.70); Log Rank NCT00883779 ↗

Publications

• Wu YL, Lee JS, Thongprasert S, Yu CJ, Zhang L, Ladrera G, Srimuninnimit V, Sriuranpong V, Sandoval-Tan J, Zhu Y, Liao M, Zhou C, Pan H, Lee V, Chen YM, Sun Y, Margono B, Fuerte F, Chang GC, Seetalarom K, Wang J, Cheng A, Syahruddin E, Qian X, Ho J, Kurnianda J, Liu HE, Jin K, Truman M, Bara I, Mok T. Intercalated combination of chemotherapy and erlotinib for patients with advanced stage non-small-cell lung cancer (FASTACT-2): a randomised, double-blind trial. Lancet Oncol. 2013 Jul;14(8):777-86. doi: 10.1016/S1470-2045(13)70254-7. Epub 2013 Jun 17.

Drugs

Evaluation	Drug	Modality	Dose	Route
Subject	Erlotinib	Small molecule	150 mg	Oral
Background	Carboplatin	Small molecule	5 unknown	Intravenous
Background	Cisplatin	Other / unclassified	75 mg/m2	Intravenous
Background	Gemcitabine	Small molecule	1250 mg/m2	Intravenous

Indications