Study of TAS-102 or Placebo Plus BSC in Patients With Metastatic Gastric Cancer

Summary

The purpose of this trial is to compare the effects of TAS-102 and best supportive care (BSC) with Placebo (an inactive drug) and best supportive care on metastatic gastric cancer.

Timeline

Start

2016-02-24

Primary completion

2018-04-30

Completion

2019-12-19

Outcome

Met primary endpoint

registry analysis (other test); TAS-102+BSC vs Placebo+BSC; p = 0.0003; Hazard Ratio (HR) 0.6917 (95% CI 0.5597 to 0.8548); Log Rank; note: One-sided P-Value. NCT02500043 ↗

release “the global, randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled TAGS trial, which demonstrated clinically meaningful and statistically significant improvement in overall survival (OS)” taihooncology.com ↗

Publications

• Ying T, Xia R, Zhang Y, Dai J, Wang Y, Xie X. Cost-effectiveness analysis of trifluridine/tipiracil in the treatment of heavily pretreated metastatic gastric cancer from the perspective of Chinese healthcare system. BMJ Open. 2024 Nov 7;14(11):e080846. doi: 10.1136/bmjopen-2023-080846.
• Shitara K, George B, Taieb J, Sundar R, Fakih MG, Makris L, Benhadji KA, Ghidini M. Effects of prior therapies on outcomes with trifluridine/tipiracil in patients with metastatic gastric/gastroesophageal junction cancer in a randomized phase III trial (TAGS). J Cancer Res Clin Oncol. 2023 Sep;149(11):9361-9374. doi: 10.1007/s00432-023-04813-z. Epub 2023 May 22.
• Tabernero J, Alsina M, Shitara K, Doi T, Dvorkin M, Mansoor W, Arkenau HT, Prokharau A, Ghidini M, Faustino C, Gorbunova V, Zhavrid E, Nishikawa K, Ando T, Yalcin S, Van Cutsem E, Sabater J, Skanji D, Leger C, Amellal N, Ilson DH. Health-related quality of life associated with trifluridine/tipiracil in heavily pretreated metastatic gastric cancer: results from TAGS. Gastric Cancer. 2020 Jul;23(4):689-698. doi: 10.1007/s10120-020-01053-9. Epub 2020 Mar 4.
• Ilson DH, Tabernero J, Prokharau A, Arkenau HT, Ghidini M, Fujitani K, Van Cutsem E, Thuss-Patience P, Beretta GD, Mansoor W, Zhavrid E, Alsina M, George B, Catenacci D, McGuigan S, Makris L, Doi T, Shitara K. Efficacy and Safety of Trifluridine/Tipiracil Treatment in Patients With Metastatic Gastric Cancer Who Had Undergone Gastrectomy: Subgroup Analyses of a Randomized Clinical Trial. JAMA Oncol. 2020 Jan 1;6(1):e193531. doi: 10.1001/jamaoncol.2019.3531. Epub 2020 Jan 9.
• Shitara K, Doi T, Dvorkin M, Mansoor W, Arkenau HT, Prokharau A, Alsina M, Ghidini M, Faustino C, Gorbunova V, Zhavrid E, Nishikawa K, Hosokawa A, Yalcin S, Fujitani K, Beretta GD, Cutsem EV, Winkler RE, Makris L, Ilson DH, Tabernero J. Trifluridine/tipiracil versus placebo in patients with heavily pretreated metastatic gastric cancer (TAGS): a randomised, double-blind, placebo-controlled, phase 3 trial. Lancet Oncol. 2018 Nov;19(11):1437-1448. doi: 10.1016/S1470-2045(18)30739-3. Epub 2018 Oct 21.
• Bando H, Doi T, Muro K, Yasui H, Nishina T, Yamaguchi K, Takahashi S, Nomura S, Kuno H, Shitara K, Sato A, Ohtsu A. A multicenter phase II study of TAS-102 monotherapy in patients with pre-treated advanced gastric cancer (EPOC1201). Eur J Cancer. 2016 Jul;62:46-53. doi: 10.1016/j.ejca.2016.04.009. Epub 2016 May 19.

Drugs

Evaluation	Drug	Modality	Dose	Route
Subject	TAS-102	Small molecule	35 mg/m2	Oral

Indications

No indication recorded.