Erlotinib failed to show an improvement in PFS or OS compared with docetaxel in an EGFR-unselected patient population.

Sarcopenia as determined using preoperative computed tomography could be used to predict postoperative major complication and prognosis in patients with resected NSCLC. Our results may provide some important information for preoperative management.

In NSCLC patients, positive EGFR mutation status may be associated with longer VDT, which seemed to have a slowly progressive and less-aggressive character. More accurate evaluation of VDT may be helpful for understanding the natural history of EGFR mutation-positive NSCLC and treatment with EGFR tyrosine kinase inhibitors.

Background/Aim: To describe real clinical outcomes in patients with non-small cell lung cancer who have uncommon epidermal growth factor receptor (EGFR) mutations. Materials and Methods: We performed a retrospective chart review from 15 medical institutes that cover a population of three million people from April 2008 to March 2019. Results: There were 102 patients with uncommon EGFR mutation. Progression-free survival (PFS) tended to be longer in patients receiving afatinib compared with first-generation EGFR tyrosine kinase inhibitors. PFS in patients treated with afatinib or osimertinib was significantly longer than in patients treated with gefitinib or erlotinib (p=0.030). Multivariate analysis also revealed the contribution of afatinib or osimertinib to increased survival. In patients with exon 20 insertions, chemotherapy was efficacious. Conclusion: In treating patients with uncommon EGFR mutations, our results indicate longer-term survival might be achieved with second-generation or later TKIs and cytotoxic chemotherapeutic drugs.The treatment of patients with advanced non-small-cell lung cancer (NSCLC) harboring mutant epidermal growth factor receptor (EGFR) has been revolutionized by the development of EGFR tyrosine kinase inhibitors (TKIs) (1-3). The most common types of EGFR mutation are exon 19 deletions and 5757

To evaluate the efficacy and safety of bevacizumab-containing chemotherapy for non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC), we performed a population-based observational study. The efficacy and safety of bevacizumab-containing chemotherapy for NSCLC patients were evaluated at 14 sites (17 hospital departments) in a prefecture of Japan between December 2009 and August 2011. Complete data sets were obtained from 159 patients with NSCLC. The median age was 66 years, and 34.0 % of the patients were 70 years or older. The overall response rate to bevacizumab therapy was 41.6 %, and the disease control rate was 78.5 %. In 88 patients who received bevacizumab-containing chemotherapy as first-line therapy, the response and disease control rates were 55.0 and 78.9 %, respectively. The incidence of clinically significant (grade 3 or more) adverse events was generally low: proteinuria occurred in 2 (1.3 %) patients, hypertension in 2 (1.3 %), hemoptysis in 1 (0.6 %), and interstitial pneumonia in 1 (0.6 %). The time to treatment failure (TTF) in the 159 patients was 169 days, and the median overall survival (OS) was 580 days. In patients who received bevacizumab-containing chemotherapy as first-line therapy, the TTF and OS were 152 and 520 days, respectively. The difference in TTF between patients who received bevacizumab-containing chemotherapy as first-line therapy and those who received it as second-line or later-line therapy was not significant (p = 0.4971). With regard to first-line therapy, the difference in TTF between patients treated with carboplatin + pemetrexed + bevacizumab and those treated with carboplatin + paclitaxel + bevacizumab was not significant (p = 0.9435). We deduced that bevacizumab-containing chemotherapy is effective against NSCLC and also tolerable in clinical practice.