Apatinib for Extensive Stage Small Cell Lung Cancer After Second/Third Line Chemotherapy.

Summary

Although fist-line therapy with Cisplatin and etoposide(EP)or Carboplatin and etoposide(CE)and second-line therapy with topotecan has been given, patients with extensive small cell lung cancer(ED-SCLC) still relapse and 2-year survival is less than 10%. There is no standard treatment recommendation for this group of patients who failed to second-line therapy and had good performance status. Apatinib has been approved as a second-line treatment for advanced gastric cancer. Several phase III clinical studies of non small cell lung cancer, liver cancer, colorectal cancer and other tumors also showed apatinib has less toxic side effects and better patient tolerance. However, the clinical application of apatinib in small cell lung cancer is still lack of evidence-based medicine. And this clinical trial is designed to prospectively investigate the efficacy and safety of apatinib in refractory or recurrent ED-SCLC patients in our center.

Timeline

Start

2016-10

Primary completion

2018-11-15

Completion

2019-05-26

Publications

• Xu Y, Huang Z, Lu H, Yu X, Li Y, Li W, Chen J, Chen M, Gong L, Chen K, Qin J, Xu X, Jin Y, Zhao J, Shi X, Han N, Xie F, Zhang P, Xu W, Fan Y. Apatinib in patients with extensive-stage small-cell lung cancer after second-line or third-line chemotherapy: a phase II, single-arm, multicentre, prospective study. Br J Cancer. 2019 Oct;121(8):640-646. doi: 10.1038/s41416-019-0583-6. Epub 2019 Sep 16.

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