TY - JOUR
T1 - Favorable Response to Pemetrexed as a Salvage Agent for Patients with Advanced Lung Cancer Who Have Failed Conventional Platinum-Based Chemotherapy and EGFR Tyrosine Kinase Inhibitors
AU - Hung, Wen Yueh
AU - Lee, Chun-Nin
AU - Bai, Kuan-Jen
AU - Yu, Ming-Chih
AU - Chang, Jer Hwa
AU - Hsu, Han Lin
AU - Liu, Hsingjin-Eugene
PY - 2009/8
Y1 - 2009/8
N2 - Background: For locally advanced or metastatic non-squamous non-small cell lung cancer(NSCLC), pemetrexed is currently recommended as first-line treatment in combination withplatinum agents or second-line chemotherapy after the disease has become refractory to platinum-baseddoublet regimens, but few reports have addressed its role as salvage chemotherapyafter failure of multiple therapies and the relationship between response rate and EGFR andK-ras mutations.Methods: We retrospectively evaluated the efficacy of pemetrexed in 11 patients with advancedNSCLC, who had failed at least platinum-based doublet combinations and erlotinib or gefitinib.The gender, performance status, number of cycles given, EGFR and K-ras mutation status, bestresponse, adverse reactions, time to progression (TTP) and overall survival (OS) were used toassess the effects.Results: A median of 6.17 cycles of infusion was given. Six out of 11 patients experienced partialresponse, three stable disease and two disease progression. The TTP and OS of salvage pemetrexedtherapy were 108 and 346 days, respectively. The EGFR mutation status did not affectits efficacy. It was well-tolerated and required no dose modification.Conclusions: Pemetrexed is a good option for patients with good performance status who havefailed platinum- and taxane-containing regimens and EGFR tyrosine kinase inhibitors.
AB - Background: For locally advanced or metastatic non-squamous non-small cell lung cancer(NSCLC), pemetrexed is currently recommended as first-line treatment in combination withplatinum agents or second-line chemotherapy after the disease has become refractory to platinum-baseddoublet regimens, but few reports have addressed its role as salvage chemotherapyafter failure of multiple therapies and the relationship between response rate and EGFR andK-ras mutations.Methods: We retrospectively evaluated the efficacy of pemetrexed in 11 patients with advancedNSCLC, who had failed at least platinum-based doublet combinations and erlotinib or gefitinib.The gender, performance status, number of cycles given, EGFR and K-ras mutation status, bestresponse, adverse reactions, time to progression (TTP) and overall survival (OS) were used toassess the effects.Results: A median of 6.17 cycles of infusion was given. Six out of 11 patients experienced partialresponse, three stable disease and two disease progression. The TTP and OS of salvage pemetrexedtherapy were 108 and 346 days, respectively. The EGFR mutation status did not affectits efficacy. It was well-tolerated and required no dose modification.Conclusions: Pemetrexed is a good option for patients with good performance status who havefailed platinum- and taxane-containing regimens and EGFR tyrosine kinase inhibitors.
KW - 非小細胞型肺癌
KW - EGFR 酪氨酸激酶抑制劑
KW - pemetrexed
KW - Non-small cell lung cancer
KW - EGFR tyrosine kinase inhibitors
KW - 非小細胞型肺癌
KW - EGFR 酪氨酸激酶抑制劑
KW - pemetrexed
KW - Non-small cell lung cancer
KW - EGFR tyrosine kinase inhibitors
UR - http://www.cos.org.tw/Jour/Letter.asp?sub=2&Continue=Y
M3 - Article
SN - 1015-6267
VL - 25
SP - 281
EP - 286
JO - 中華民國癌症醫學會雜誌
JF - 中華民國癌症醫學會雜誌
IS - 4
ER -