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    EP1.16 - Treatment in the Real World - Support, Survivorship, Systems Research (ID 206)

    • Event: WCLC 2019
    • Type: E-Poster Viewing in the Exhibit Hall
    • Track: Treatment in the Real World - Support, Survivorship, Systems Research
    • Presentations: 1
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    • Coordinates: 9/08/2019, 08:00 - 18:00, Exhibit Hall
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      EP1.16-04 - Real World Clinical Outcomes for Metastatic Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer (mNSCLC) at IRST Italy (Now Available) (ID 2307)

      08:00 - 18:00  |  Author(s): William Balzi

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      Background

      This study sought to evaluate the real word clinical outcomes concerning overall survival (OS) for patients in first-line treatment for metastatic non-small cell lung cancer (mNSCLC) prior to the availability of immunotherapies in any line.

      Method

      Patients who received systemic anti-cancer treatment for mNSCLC at IRST between Jan2014-Jun2017 with a minimum follow-up of six months were included. The clinical dataset was obtained from data registered in electronic health records maintained during clinical practice. OS was defined as the interval from start of first-line therapy until death or follow-up end, whichever occurred first. Death information was detected from mortality register. OS was estimated using the Kaplan-Meier method stratified by type of first-line treatment.

      Result

      Among the 428 first-line patients analyzed, 64.5% were over 65 years old and 62.6% were men (Table 1). A total of 79.0% patients had non-squamous histology whereas 15.0% had squamous histology, with the remaining 6% other histologies. EGFR mutation was detected in 15.7% and ALK translocation in 8.4% of patients. In the first-line the majority (57.0%) of patients received platinum-doublet (mainly platinum+pemetrexed) while single agent chemotherapy was administered in 23.8%, whereas 10.0% received targeted therapy. Conversely overall 9.0% were enrolled in clinical trials, while 0.2% received Immunotherapies. Median OS was 19.9 months (95%CI:9.2-21.7) with targeted therapy, 8.5 months (95%CI:4.8-13.6) for patients enrolled in clinical trials, 6.4 months (95%CI:5.8-7.6) with platinum-doublet and 4.4 months (95%CI:3.7-5.7) with single agent chemotherapy. A total of 34.5% of first-line patients continued to receive second-line treatment.

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      Conclusion

      In this analysis prior to the introduction of immunotherapies for NSCLC, OS was similar to real world OS in the published literature. The survival was worse in the single agent chemotherapy group while it is superior in platinum doublets group. Overall survival was longest in patients treated with targeted therapy.

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