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ABSTRACT: Purpose
REACH investigated second-line ramucirumab therapy for advanced hepatocellular carcinoma.Results
Median overall survival was 8.2 months for ramucirumab and 6.9 months for placebo (HR, 0.835; 95% CI, 0.634-1.100; p = 0.2046) for East Asians, and 10.1 months for ramucirumab and 8.0 months for placebo (HR, 0.895; 95% CI, 0.690-1.161; p = 0.4023) for non-East Asians. Median overall survival in patients with baseline alpha-fetoprotein ≥ 400 ng/mL was 7.8 months for ramucirumab and 4.2 months for placebo (HR, 0.749; 95% CI, 0.519-1.082; p = 0.1213) for East Asians (n = 139), and 8.2 months for ramucirumab and 4.5 months for placebo (HR, 0.579; 95% CI, 0.371-0.904; p = 0.0149) for non-East Asians (n = 111). The most common grade ≥ 3 treatment-emergent adverse events in East Asians and non-East Asians included hypertension and malignant neoplasm progression.Materials and methods
A post-hoc analysis of East Asians (N = 252) and non-East Asians (N = 313) in the intent-to-treat population was performed.Conclusions
In East Asians and non-East Asians, ramucirumab did not significantly prolong overall survival. In patients with baseline alpha-fetoprotein ≥ 400 ng/mL, a potentially larger survival benefit was observed in both subgroups. Safety for East Asians was similar to non-East Asians.
SUBMITTER: Park JO
PROVIDER: S-EPMC5342754 | biostudies-literature | 2016 Nov
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Park Joon Oh JO Ryoo Baek-Yeol BY Yen Chia-Jui CJ Kudo Masatoshi M Yang Ling L Abada Paolo B PB Cheng Rebecca R Orlando Mauro M Zhu Andrew X AX Okusaka Takuji T
Oncotarget 20161101 46
<h4>Purpose</h4>REACH investigated second-line ramucirumab therapy for advanced hepatocellular carcinoma.<h4>Results</h4>Median overall survival was 8.2 months for ramucirumab and 6.9 months for placebo (HR, 0.835; 95% CI, 0.634-1.100; p = 0.2046) for East Asians, and 10.1 months for ramucirumab and 8.0 months for placebo (HR, 0.895; 95% CI, 0.690-1.161; p = 0.4023) for non-East Asians. Median overall survival in patients with baseline alpha-fetoprotein ≥ 400 ng/mL was 7.8 months for ramucirumab ...[more]