Study Comparing Bevacizumab + Erlotinib vs Erlotinib Alone as First Line Treatment of Patients With EGFR Mutated Advanced Non Squamous Non Small Cell Lung Cancer

Summary

The purpose of this study is to test whether the combination of bevacizumab and erlotinib can prolong progression free survival as compared with erlotinib alone as first-line treatment in patients with non small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) with activating mutation of EGFR.

Timeline

Start

2016-04

Primary completion

2023-12

Completion

2024-07

Outcome

Met primary endpoint

paper The addition of bevacizumab to first-line erlotinib prolonged PFS in Italian patients with EGFR-mutated NSCLC PMID 35659580 ↗

paper hazard ratio = 0.66, 95% CI: 0.47-0.92 PMID 35659580 ↗

paper Blinded independent centrally reviewed PFS analysis confirmed this result. PMID 35659580 ↗

Publications

• Piccirillo MC, Bonanno L, Garassino MC, Esposito G, Dazzi C, Cavanna L, Burgio MA, Rosetti F, Rizzato S, Morgillo F, Cinieri S, Veccia A, Papi M, Tonini G, Gebbia V, Ricciardi S, Pozzessere D, Ferro A, Proto C, Costanzo R, D'Arcangelo M, Proietto M, Gargiulo P, Di Liello R, Arenare L, De Marinis F, Crino L, Ciardiello F, Normanno N, Gallo C, Perrone F, Gridelli C, Morabito A. Addition of Bevacizumab to Erlotinib as First-Line Treatment of Patients With EGFR-Mutated Advanced Nonsquamous NSCLC: The BEVERLY Multicenter Randomized Phase 3 Trial. J Thorac Oncol. 2022 Sep;17(9):1086-1097. doi: 10.1016/j.jtho.2022.05.008. Epub 2022 Jun 1.
• Deng Z, Qin Y, Liu Y, Zhang Y, Lu Y. Role of Antiangiogenic Agents Combined With EGFR Tyrosine Kinase Inhibitors in Treatment-naive Lung Cancer: A Meta-Analysis. Clin Lung Cancer. 2021 Jan;22(1):e70-e83. doi: 10.1016/j.cllc.2020.08.005. Epub 2020 Sep 18.

Drugs

Evaluation	Drug	Modality	Dose	Route
Subject	Bevacizumab	Monoclonal antibody	15 mg/kg	Intravenous
Subject	Erlotinib	Small molecule	150 mg	Oral

Indications