Koch, C;
Schwing, AM;
Herrmann, E;
Borner, M;
Diaz-Rubio, E;
Dotan, E;
Feliu, J;
... Trojan, J; + view all
(2018)
Bevacizumab-based first-line chemotherapy in elderly patients with metastatic colorectal cancer: an individual patient data based meta-analysis.
Oncotarget
, 9
(12)
pp. 10272-10283.
10.18632/oncotarget.23475.
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Abstract
BACKGROUND: The aim of this meta-analysis was to evaluate efficacy and safety of first-line chemotherapy with or without a monoclonal antibody in elderly patients ( ≥ 70 years) with metastatic colorectal cancer (mCRC), since they are frequently underrepresented in clinical trials. RESULTS: Individual data from 10 studies were included. From a total of 3271 patients, 604 patients (18%) were ≥ 70 years (median 73 years, range 70–88). Of these, 335 patients were treated with a bevacizumab-based first-line regimen and 265 were treated with chemotherapy only. The median PFS was 8.2 vs. 6.5 months and the median OS was 16.7 vs. 13.0 months in patients treated with and without bevacizumab, respectively. The safety profile of bevacizumab in combination with first-line chemotherapy did not differ from published clinical trials. MATERIALS AND METHODS: PubMed and Cochrane Library searches were performed on 29 April 2013 and studies published to this date were included. Authors were contacted to request progression-free survival (PFS), overall survival (OS) data, patient data on treatment regimens, age, sex and potential signs of toxicity in patients ≥ 70 years of age. CONCLUSIONS: This meta-analysis suggests that the addition of bevacizumab to standard first-line chemotherapy improves clinical outcome in elderly patients with mCRC and is well tolerated.
| Type: | Article |
|---|---|
| Title: | Bevacizumab-based first-line chemotherapy in elderly patients with metastatic colorectal cancer: an individual patient data based meta-analysis |
| Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
| DOI: | 10.18632/oncotarget.23475 |
| Publisher version: | https://doi.org/10.18632/oncotarget.23475 |
| Language: | English |
| Additional information: | © 2018 Koch et al. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License 3.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/). |
| Keywords: | metastatic colorectal cancer, elderly, first-line chemotherapy, bevacizumab |
| UCL classification: | UCL UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences > Faculty of Medical Sciences UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences > Faculty of Medical Sciences > Cancer Institute UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences > Faculty of Medical Sciences > Cancer Institute > Research Department of Oncology |
| URI: | https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10050308 |
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