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MA 01 - SCLC: Research Perspectives (ID 650)
- Event: WCLC 2017
- Type: Mini Oral
- Track: SCLC/Neuroendocrine Tumors
- Presentations: 1
- Moderators:John V Heymach, Eun Kyung Cho
- Coordinates: 10/16/2017, 11:00 - 12:30, Room 503
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MA 01.09 - Treatment Patterns in Extensive Disease Small Cell Lung Cancer Across the United States, Europe, and Japan (ID 8479)
11:00 - 12:30 | Author(s): K. Higginbottom
- Abstract
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Background:
Small cell lung cancer (SCLC) comprises ~10-15% of lung cancers. The majority of patients with SCLC present with extensive disease (ED) and have extremely poor outcomes; <5% survive 2 years. Although first-line (1L) treatment is typically platinum-based, many patients are platinum-resistant with few effective options after relapse. The study objective was to compare treatment patterns across regions and by platinum resistance/sensitivity.
Method:
This study used data from the Oncology Monitor (Ipsos Healthcare), a global clinical database of oncology patients collected through retrospective medical chart reviews. Treating physicians were invited to submit information on their patients with SCLC treated from January 2014 through December 2016 in the United States (US), the European Union 5 (EU5; France, Germany, Italy, Spain, and the United Kingdom), or Japan.
Result:
A total of 5849 patients with SCLC were included (2605 in the US, 2203 in the EU5, and 1041 in Japan). Mean age was 65.6 years (standard deviation: 8.8); 66.3% were male and 94.0% diagnosed with ED. In all, 73.4% of patients were receiving 1L, 19.8% second-line (2L), and 6.8% third-or-later-line therapy. Platinum/etoposide was the most frequently prescribed 1L therapy, although it was significantly more common in the US (87.0%) than the EU5 (82.1%) or Japan (73.3%) (P<0.05). Cisplatin/etoposide was prescribed more often in 1L in the EU5 (40.8%) than in the US (26.6%) or Japan (23.7%) (P<0.0001). Platinum/irinotecan was an uncommon 1L treatment in the US (2.0%) and EU5 (0.5%) but common in Japan (22.7%; P<0.0001). Platinum-resistance (relapse within ≤3 months of 1L treatment completion) was observed in >40% of patients (US: 45.4%, EU5: 40.9%, Japan: 56.1%). Regardless of platinum-resistance versus sensitivity, the most common 2L treatment in the US and EU5 was topotecan (42.3% vs 47.6%) and (59.5% vs 56.1%), and amrubicin in Japan (52.1% vs 53.1%). Among platinum-resistant patients in the US, EU5, and Japan, 27.3%, 10.8%, and 36.4% received a platinum-based 2L therapy. Additionally, 52.3%, 66.7%, and 44.9% of platinum-sensitive patients did not receive 2L platinum re-challenge.
Conclusion:
Current NCCN and ESMO guidelines (endorsed by JSMO) recommend platinum-resistant patients receive non–platinum-based 2L therapies. The guidelines also recommend that platinum-sensitive patients (relapse >6 months) receive the original 1L regimen as a 2L re-challenge. However, this real-world study found that a significant proportion of platinum-resistant patients were re-challenged with a 2L platinum-based therapy. Conversely, in patients where platinum re-challenge is recommended, a large proportion did not receive platinum-based therapies in 2L.
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