Intercalating and Maintenance Gefitinib in Combination With Chemotherapy for Advanced EGFR-mutant NSCLC

Summary

Study Title: Intercalating and maintenance Gefitinib in combination with chemotherapy (gemcitabine plus carboplatin) as first-line treatment for patients with advanced EGFR mutation-positive non-small cell lung cancer: A randomized, open-label, multiple-centre study. Target population-Treatment naive EGFR mutant-positive advanced NSCLC patients. Study Objectives - Primary Study Objective: To investigate whether intercalating and maintenance Gefitinib in combination with chemotherapy improve the Progression-Free Survival (PFS) vs. Gefitinib alone in advanced NSCLC with EGFR activating mutation. \- Secondary Study Objective： To evaluate whether intercalating and maintenance Gefitinib in combination with chemotherapy improve the Objective Response Rate (ORR), Disease control rate (DCR), Overall survival (OS), 2-year OS rate, QOL vs. Gefitinib alone. Evaluation the safety of Intercalating and Maintenance Gefitinib in combination with chemotherapy. \- Exploratory objective: PFS of arm A vs. PFS 1 + PFS 2 of arm B Dynamic biomarker analysis using blood sample a: The PFS 1 of arm B is the time from randomization to disease progression of 1st-line therapy or death from any cause, whichever occurs first. The PFS 2 of arm B is the time from the time of PFS 1 to disease progression of 2nd-line therapy or death from any cause, whichever occurs first. Study Design-Prospective, open-label, randomized, multi-center study.

Timeline

Start

2014-12

Primary completion

2017-10

Completion

2017-10

Publications

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