The lancet oncology
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The lancet oncology · Jun 2015
Randomized Controlled TrialEfficacy of neoadjuvant bevacizumab added to docetaxel followed by fluorouracil, epirubicin, and cyclophosphamide, for women with HER2-negative early breast cancer (ARTemis): an open-label, randomised, phase 3 trial.
The ARTemis trial was developed to assess the efficacy and safety of adding bevacizumab to standard neoadjuvant chemotherapy in HER2-negative early breast cancer. ⋯ Cancer Research UK, Roche, Sanofi-Aventis.
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Until 2010, docetaxel was the only agent with proven survival benefit for castration-resistant prostate cancer. The development of cabazitaxel, abiraterone acetate, enzalutamide, radium-223, and sipuleucel-T has increased the number of treatment options. ⋯ The challenge now is to reach a consensus on the best way to sequence effective treatments, ideally by the use of an approach specific to patient subgroups. However, the absence of robust surrogates of survival and the lack of predictive biomarkers makes data for the sequential use of these agents difficult to obtain and interpret.
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The lancet oncology · Jun 2015
Randomized Controlled TrialStereotactic ablative radiotherapy versus lobectomy for operable stage I non-small-cell lung cancer: a pooled analysis of two randomised trials.
The standard of care for operable, stage I, non-small-cell lung cancer (NSCLC) is lobectomy with mediastinal lymph node dissection or sampling. Stereotactic ablative radiotherapy (SABR) for inoperable stage I NSCLC has shown promising results, but two independent, randomised, phase 3 trials of SABR in patients with operable stage I NSCLC (STARS and ROSEL) closed early due to slow accrual. We aimed to assess overall survival for SABR versus surgery by pooling data from these trials. ⋯ Accuray Inc, Netherlands Organisation for Health Research and Development, NCI Cancer Center Support, NCI Clinical and Translational Science Award.
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The lancet oncology · Jun 2015
Multicenter Study Clinical TrialVismodegib in patients with advanced basal cell carcinoma (STEVIE): a pre-planned interim analysis of an international, open-label trial.
The Hedgehog pathway inhibitor vismodegib has shown clinical benefit in patients with advanced basal cell carcinoma and is approved for treatment of patients with advanced basal cell carcinoma for whom surgery is inappropriate. STEVIE was designed to assess the safety of vismodegib in a situation similar to routine practice, with a long follow-up. ⋯ F Hoffmann-La Roche.