A Prospective, Single-center, One-arm Clinical Study of Apatinib Combined With Chemotherapy for Pretreated Patients With Advanced Small Cell Lung Cancer

Summary

At present, with the increasing intensities of the tobacco industry and air pollution in China, the incidence and mortality of lung cancer have become the most important issue that threatens human health.Over the past two decades, the treatment of SCLC still stays in the mode of treatment based on radiotherapy and chemotherapy. This is a prospective, single-center, one-arm clinical study designed to evaluate the efficacy and safety of apatinib plus chemotherapy for second-line and above treatment of advanced SCLC. 30 patients will receive apatinib 500mg qd orally, if the patient has a grade 3/4 adverse reaction during apatinib treatment, it can be reduced to apatinib 250mg qd orally.The dose was later reduced from 500 mg to 250 mg per day based on a recommendation of the principal investigator to reduce the adverse events. Chemotherapeutic agents are limited to irinotecan or docetaxel alone.The primary outcome endpoint was progression-free survival

Timeline

Start

2018-05-31

Primary completion

2019-10-25

Completion

2020-09-01

Publications

• Background Li J, Qin S, Xu J, Xiong J, Wu C, Bai Y, Liu W, Tong J, Liu Y, Xu R, Wang Z, Wang Q, Ouyang X, Yang Y, Ba Y, Liang J, Lin X, Luo D, Zheng R, Wang X, Sun G, Wang L, Zheng L, Guo H, Wu J, Xu N, Yang J, Zhang H, Cheng Y, Wang N, Chen L, Fan Z, Sun P, Yu H. Randomized, Double-Blind, Placebo-Controlled Phase III Trial of Apatinib in Patients With Chemotherapy-Refractory Advanced or Metastatic Adenocarcinoma of the Stomach or Gastroesophageal Junction. J Clin Oncol. 2016 May 1;34(13):1448-54. doi: 10.1200/JCO.2015.63.5995. Epub 2016 Feb 16.
• Background Huang L, Wei Y, Shen S, Shi Q, Bai J, Li J, Qin S, Yu H, Chen F. Therapeutic effect of apatinib on overall survival is mediated by prolonged progression-free survival in advanced gastric cancer patients. Oncotarget. 2017 Apr 25;8(17):29346-29354. doi: 10.18632/oncotarget.12897.
• Background Kim KL, Suh W. Apatinib, an Inhibitor of Vascular Endothelial Growth Factor Receptor 2, Suppresses Pathologic Ocular Neovascularization in Mice. Invest Ophthalmol Vis Sci. 2017 Jul 1;58(9):3592-3599. doi: 10.1167/iovs.17-21416.
• Background Li F, Zhu T, Cao B, Wang J, Liang L. Apatinib enhances antitumour activity of EGFR-TKIs in non-small cell lung cancer with EGFR-TKI resistance. Eur J Cancer. 2017 Oct;84:184-192. doi: 10.1016/j.ejca.2017.07.037. Epub 2017 Aug 17.
• Background Wu F, Zhang S, Gao G, Zhao J, Ren S, Zhou C. Successful treatment using apatinib with or without docetaxel in heavily pretreated advanced non-squamous non-small cell lung cancer: A case report and literature review. Cancer Biol Ther. 2018 Mar 4;19(3):141-144. doi: 10.1080/15384047.2017.1414757. Epub 2018 Jan 15.

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