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Cleary JM, Horick NK, McCleary NJ, Abrams TA, Yurgelun MB, Azzoli CG, Rubinson DA, Brooks GA, Chan JA, Blaszkowsky LS, Clark JW, Goyal L, Meyerhardt JA, Ng K, Schrag D, Savarese DM, Graham C, Fitzpatrick B, Gibb KA, Boucher Y, Duda DG, Jain RK, Fuchs CS, Enzinger PC. FOLFOX plus ziv-aflibercept or placebo in first-line metastatic esophagogastric adenocarcinoma: A double-blind, randomized, multicenter phase 2 trial. Cancer 2019; 125:2213-2221. [PMID: 30913304 PMCID: PMC6763367 DOI: 10.1002/cncr.32029] [Citation(s) in RCA: 33] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/11/2018] [Revised: 12/06/2018] [Accepted: 01/10/2019] [Indexed: 02/04/2023]
Abstract
BACKGROUND Antiangiogenic therapy is a proven therapeutic modality for refractory gastric and gastroesophageal junction adenocarcinoma. This trial assessed whether the addition of a high affinity angiogenesis inhibitor, ziv-aflibercept, could improve the efficacy of first-line mFOLFOX6 (oxaliplatin, leucovorin, and bolus plus infusional 5- fluorouracil) in metastatic esophagogastric adenocarcinoma. METHODS Patients with treatment-naive metastatic esophagogastric adenocarcinoma were randomly assigned (in a 2:1 ratio) in a multicenter, placebo-controlled, double-blind trial to receive first-line mFOLFOX6 with or without ziv-aflibercept (4 mg/kg) every 2 weeks. The primary endpoint was 6-month progression-free survival (PFS). RESULTS Sixty-four patients were randomized to receive mFOLFOX6 and ziv-aflibercept (43 patients) or mFOLFOX6 and a placebo (21 patients). There was no difference in the PFS, overall survival, or response rate. Patients treated with mFOLFOX6/ziv-aflibercept tended to be more likely to discontinue study treatment for reasons other than progressive disease (P = .06). The relative dose intensity of oxaliplatin and 5-fluorouracil was lower in the mFOLFOX6/ziv-aflibercept arm during the first 12 and 24 weeks of the trial. There were 2 treatment-related deaths due to cerebral hemorrhage and bowel perforation in the mFOLFOX6/ziv-aflibercept cohort. CONCLUSIONS Ziv-aflibercept did not increase the anti-tumor activity of first-line mFOLFOX6 in metastatic esophagogastric cancer, potentially because of decreased dose intensity of FOLFOX. Further evaluation of ziv-aflibercept in unselected, chemotherapy-naive patients with metastatic esophagogastric adenocarcinoma is not warranted.
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Affiliation(s)
- James M. Cleary
- Center for Esophageal and Gastric Cancer, Dana-Farber/Brigham and Women’s Cancer Center, Boston, Massachusetts
- Division of Gastrointestinal Cancers, Department of Medical Oncology, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute/Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts
| | - Nora K. Horick
- Biostatistics Center, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts
| | - Nadine Jackson McCleary
- Center for Esophageal and Gastric Cancer, Dana-Farber/Brigham and Women’s Cancer Center, Boston, Massachusetts
- Division of Gastrointestinal Cancers, Department of Medical Oncology, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute/Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts
| | - Thomas A. Abrams
- Center for Esophageal and Gastric Cancer, Dana-Farber/Brigham and Women’s Cancer Center, Boston, Massachusetts
- Division of Gastrointestinal Cancers, Department of Medical Oncology, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute/Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts
| | - Matthew B. Yurgelun
- Center for Esophageal and Gastric Cancer, Dana-Farber/Brigham and Women’s Cancer Center, Boston, Massachusetts
- Division of Gastrointestinal Cancers, Department of Medical Oncology, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute/Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts
| | - Christopher G. Azzoli
- Steele Laboratories for Tumor Biology, Massachusetts General Hospital Cancer Center, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts
| | - Douglas A. Rubinson
- Center for Esophageal and Gastric Cancer, Dana-Farber/Brigham and Women’s Cancer Center, Boston, Massachusetts
- Division of Gastrointestinal Cancers, Department of Medical Oncology, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute/Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts
| | - Gabriel A. Brooks
- Norris Cotton Cancer Center, Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center, Lebanon, New Hampshire
| | - Jennifer A. Chan
- Center for Esophageal and Gastric Cancer, Dana-Farber/Brigham and Women’s Cancer Center, Boston, Massachusetts
- Division of Gastrointestinal Cancers, Department of Medical Oncology, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute/Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts
| | | | - Jeffrey W. Clark
- Massachusetts General Hospital Cancer Center, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts
| | - Lipika Goyal
- Massachusetts General Hospital Cancer Center, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts
| | - Jeffrey A. Meyerhardt
- Center for Esophageal and Gastric Cancer, Dana-Farber/Brigham and Women’s Cancer Center, Boston, Massachusetts
- Division of Gastrointestinal Cancers, Department of Medical Oncology, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute/Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts
| | - Kimmie Ng
- Center for Esophageal and Gastric Cancer, Dana-Farber/Brigham and Women’s Cancer Center, Boston, Massachusetts
- Division of Gastrointestinal Cancers, Department of Medical Oncology, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute/Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts
| | - Deborah Schrag
- Center for Esophageal and Gastric Cancer, Dana-Farber/Brigham and Women’s Cancer Center, Boston, Massachusetts
- Division of Gastrointestinal Cancers, Department of Medical Oncology, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute/Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts
| | - Diane M.F. Savarese
- Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts
| | - Christopher Graham
- Center for Esophageal and Gastric Cancer, Dana-Farber/Brigham and Women’s Cancer Center, Boston, Massachusetts
- Division of Gastrointestinal Cancers, Department of Medical Oncology, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute/Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts
| | - Bridget Fitzpatrick
- Center for Esophageal and Gastric Cancer, Dana-Farber/Brigham and Women’s Cancer Center, Boston, Massachusetts
- Division of Gastrointestinal Cancers, Department of Medical Oncology, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute/Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts
| | - Kathryn A. Gibb
- Center for Esophageal and Gastric Cancer, Dana-Farber/Brigham and Women’s Cancer Center, Boston, Massachusetts
- Division of Gastrointestinal Cancers, Department of Medical Oncology, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute/Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts
| | - Yves Boucher
- Steele Laboratories for Tumor Biology, Massachusetts General Hospital Cancer Center, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts
| | - Dan G. Duda
- Steele Laboratories for Tumor Biology, Massachusetts General Hospital Cancer Center, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts
| | - Rakesh K. Jain
- Steele Laboratories for Tumor Biology, Massachusetts General Hospital Cancer Center, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts
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- Center for Esophageal and Gastric Cancer, Dana-Farber/Brigham and Women’s Cancer Center, Boston, Massachusetts
- Division of Gastrointestinal Cancers, Department of Medical Oncology, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute/Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts
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