23 Dec Vandetanib Had Antitumor Activity In RET-rearranged NSC Lung Cancer
MedicalResearch.com Interview with:
Dr Kiyotaka Yoh
Department of Thoracic Oncology
National Cancer Center Hospital East
Kashiwa, Japan
MedicalResearch.com: What is the background for this study? What are the main findings?
Response: LURET is multicenter, single-arm, phase II study to evaluate the efficacy and safety of vandetanib as RET inhibitor in patients with advanced RET-rearranged non-small-cell lung cancer (NSCLC). In 2012, RET rearrangements were identified as rare oncogenic alterations for NSCLC.
Among 17 eligible patients included in primary analysis, the objective response rate was 53% (95% CI 28–77), which met the primary endpoint. At the data cutoff, median progression-free survival was 4.7 months (95% CI 2.8–8.5). Overall, vandetanib was tolerated, with an adverse event profile similar to those seen in previous large population studies of vandetanib in patients with unselected NSCLC.
MedicalResearch.com: What should readers take away from your report?
Response: Our study showed that vandetanib exhibited clinical antitumor activity in patients with advanced RET-rearranged NSCLC. Our results define RET rearrangement as a new molecular subgroup of NSCLC suitable for targeted therapy.
MedicalResearch.com: What recommendations do you have for future research as a result of this study?
Response: Interestingly, our results showed differences in vandetanib efficacy according to the type of RET fusion. Patients with CCDC6-RET had a much higher response and a longer survival after vandetanib treatment than did those with KIF5B-RET. Further investigation is needed to elucidate whether sensitivity to RET inhibitor differed among different RET fusions forms.
MedicalResearch.com: Is there anything else you would like to add?
Response: The RET inhibitor vandetanib is effective in RET-rearranged NSCLC patients. Although further large confirmatory studies are warranted, our results have important implications for RET-directed therapy in patients with NSCLC.
Study drug was supported by AstraZeneca and Sanofi and its subsidiary Genzyme.
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Citation:
Vandetanib in patients with previously treated RET-rearranged advanced non-small-cell lung cancer (LURET): an open-label, multicentre phase 2 trial
Yoh, Kiyotaka et al.
The Lancet Respiratory Medicine , Volume 5 , Issue 1 , 42 – 50
DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/S2213-2600(16)30322-8
November 2016
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