A Study Of Lorlatinib Versus Crizotinib In First Line Treatment Of Patients With ALK-Positive NSCLC

Summary

A phase 3 study to demonstrate whether lorlatinib given as monotherapy is superior to crizotinib alone in prolonging the progression-free survival in advanced ALK-positive NSCLC patients who are treatment naïve and to compare lorlatinib to crizotinib with respect to overall survival in the same population

Timeline

Start

2017-04-27

Primary completion

2020-03-20

Completion

2028-12-31

Publications

• Liu G, Solomon BJ, Mazieres J, Kim DW, Cortinovis D, Inoue T, Sharma R, Thurm H, Polli A, Bauer TM. Kinetics and management of adverse events associated with lorlatinib after 5 years of follow-up in the CROWN study. Oncologist. 2025 Oct 1;30(10):oyaf287. doi: 10.1093/oncolo/oyaf287.
• Wu YL, Kim HR, Soo RA, Zhou Q, Akamatsu H, Chang GC, Chiu CH, Hayashi H, Kim SW, Goto Y, Kato T, Zhou J, Lee VH, Nishio M, Han B, Kim DW, Lu S, Polli A, Martini JF, Toffalorio F, Wong CH, Mok T. First-Line Lorlatinib Versus Crizotinib in Asian Patients With Advanced ALK-Positive NSCLC: Five-Year Outcomes From the CROWN Study. J Thorac Oncol. 2025 Jul;20(7):955-968. doi: 10.1016/j.jtho.2025.02.021. Epub 2025 Feb 28.
• Solomon BJ, Liu G, Felip E, K Mok TS, Soo RA, Mazieres J, Shaw AT, Marinis F, Goto Y, Wu YL, Kim DW, Martini JF, Messina R, Paolini J, Polli A, Thomaidou D, Toffalorio F, Bauer TM. Plain language summary: 5-year results from the CROWN study of lorlatinib vs crizotinib in non-small-cell lung cancer. Future Oncol. 2024 Dec;20(40):3377-3387. doi: 10.1080/14796694.2024.2406117. Epub 2024 Oct 3.
• Solomon BJ, Liu G, Felip E, Mok TSK, Soo RA, Mazieres J, Shaw AT, de Marinis F, Goto Y, Wu YL, Kim DW, Martini JF, Messina R, Paolini J, Polli A, Thomaidou D, Toffalorio F, Bauer TM. Lorlatinib Versus Crizotinib in Patients With Advanced ALK-Positive Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer: 5-Year Outcomes From the Phase III CROWN Study. J Clin Oncol. 2024 Oct 10;42(29):3400-3409. doi: 10.1200/JCO.24.00581. Epub 2024 May 31.
• Soo RA, Martini JF, van der Wekken AJ, Teraoka S, Ferrara R, Shaw AT, Shepard D, Calella AM, Polli A, Toffalorio F, Tomasini P, Chiu CH, Kowalski DM, Kim HR, Solomon BJ. Early Circulating Tumor DNA Dynamics and Efficacy of Lorlatinib in Patients With Treatment-Naive, Advanced, ALK-Positive NSCLC. J Thorac Oncol. 2023 Nov;18(11):1568-1580. doi: 10.1016/j.jtho.2023.05.021. Epub 2023 Jun 7.
• Solomon BJ, Bauer TM, Mok TSK, Liu G, Mazieres J, de Marinis F, Goto Y, Kim DW, Wu YL, Jassem J, Lopez FL, Soo RA, Shaw AT, Polli A, Messina R, Iadeluca L, Toffalorio F, Felip E. Efficacy and safety of first-line lorlatinib versus crizotinib in patients with advanced, ALK-positive non-small-cell lung cancer: updated analysis of data from the phase 3, randomised, open-label CROWN study. Lancet Respir Med. 2023 Apr;11(4):354-366. doi: 10.1016/S2213-2600(22)00437-4. Epub 2022 Dec 16.
• Solomon BJ, Bauer TM, Ignatius Ou SH, Liu G, Hayashi H, Bearz A, Penkov K, Wu YL, Arrieta O, Jassem J, Calella AM, Peltz G, Polli A, Thurm H, Mok T. Post Hoc Analysis of Lorlatinib Intracranial Efficacy and Safety in Patients With ALK-Positive Advanced Non-Small-Cell Lung Cancer From the Phase III CROWN Study. J Clin Oncol. 2022 Nov 1;40(31):3593-3602. doi: 10.1200/JCO.21.02278. Epub 2022 May 23.
• Solomon BJ, Bauer TM, de Marinis F, Felip E, Goto Y, Liu G, Mazieres J, Kim DW, Mok T, Polli A, Thurm H, Calella AM, Peltz G, Shaw AT. Plain language summary of the CROWN study comparing lorlatinib with crizotinib for people with untreated non-small cell lung cancer. Future Oncol. 2021 Dec 1;17(34):4649-4656. doi: 10.2217/fon-2021-0904. Epub 2021 Sep 29.
• Shaw AT, Bauer TM, de Marinis F, Felip E, Goto Y, Liu G, Mazieres J, Kim DW, Mok T, Polli A, Thurm H, Calella AM, Peltz G, Solomon BJ; CROWN Trial Investigators. First-Line Lorlatinib or Crizotinib in Advanced ALK-Positive Lung Cancer. N Engl J Med. 2020 Nov 19;383(21):2018-2029. doi: 10.1056/NEJMoa2027187.
• Shaw AT, Felip E, Bauer TM, Besse B, Navarro A, Postel-Vinay S, Gainor JF, Johnson M, Dietrich J, James LP, Clancy JS, Chen J, Martini JF, Abbattista A, Solomon BJ. Lorlatinib in non-small-cell lung cancer with ALK or ROS1 rearrangement: an international, multicentre, open-label, single-arm first-in-man phase 1 trial. Lancet Oncol. 2017 Dec;18(12):1590-1599. doi: 10.1016/S1470-2045(17)30680-0. Epub 2017 Oct 23.
• Gainor JF, Shaw AT. J-ALEX: alectinib versus crizotinib in ALK-positive lung cancer. Lancet. 2017 Jul 1;390(10089):3-4. doi: 10.1016/S0140-6736(17)31074-7. Epub 2017 May 10. No abstract available.

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