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Cisplatin-Based First-Line Treatment of Elderly Patients With Advanced Non–Small-Cell Lung Cancer: Joint Analysis of MILES-3 and MILES-4 Phase III Trials

2018; Lippincott Williams & Wilkins; Volume: 36; Issue: 25 Linguagem: Inglês

10.1200/jco.2017.76.8390

1527-7755

Cesare Gridelli, Alessandro Morabito, Luigi Cavanna, Andrea Luciani, Paolo Maione, Laura Bonanno, V. Filipazzi, Silvana Leo, Saverio Cinieri, Fortunato Ciardiello, Marco Angelo Burgio, Domenico Bilancia, Diego Cortinovis, Francesco Rosetti, Roberto Bianco, Vittorio Gebbia, Fabrizio Artioli, Roberto Bordonaro, Vittorio Fregoni, Manlio Mencoboni, Fabrizio Nelli, Ferdinando Riccardi, G di Isernia, Raffaele Costanzo, Gaetano Rocco, Gennaro Daniele, Simona Signoriello, Maria Carmela Piccirillo, Ciro Gallo, Francesco Perrone,

Lung Cancer Research Studies

Purpose To test the efficacy of adding cisplatin to first-line treatment for elderly patients with advanced non–small-cell lung cancer (NSCLC) within a combined analysis of two parallel phase III trials, MILES-3 and MILES-4. Patients and Methods Patients with advanced NSCLC who were older than age 70 years with Eastern Cooperative Oncology Group performance status 0 to 1 were randomly assigned to gemcitabine or pemetrexed, without or with cisplatin. In each trial, 382 events were required to detect a hazard ratio (HR) of death of 0.75, with 80% power and two-tailed α of .05. Trials were closed prematurely because of slow accrual, but the joint database allowed us to analyze the efficacy of cisplatin on the basis of intention-to-treat and adjusted by trial, histotype, non-platinum companion drug, stage, performance status, sex, age, and size of the study center. Results From March 2011 to August 2016, 531 patients (MILES-3, 299; MILES-4, 232) were assigned to gemcitabine or pemetrexed without (n = 268) or with cisplatin (n = 263). Median age was 75 years, 79% were male, and 70% had nonsquamous histology. At a median 2-year follow-up, 384 deaths and 448 progression-free survival events were recorded. Overall survival was not significantly prolonged with cisplatin (HR, 0.86; 95% CI, 0.70 to 1.05; P = .14) and global health status score of quality of life was not improved, whereas progression-free survival (HR, 0.76; 95% CI, 0.63 to 0.92; P = .005) and objective response rate (15.5% v 8.5%; P = .02) were significantly better. Significantly more severe hematologic toxicity, fatigue, and anorexia were found with cisplatin. Conclusion The addition of cisplatin to single-agent chemotherapy does not significantly prolong overall survival, and it does not improve global health status score of quality of life in elderly patients with advanced NSCLC.