Trial reportGastric cancer : official journal of the International Gastric Cancer Association and the Japanese Gastric Cancer Association2010
Randomized phase II study of sequential docetaxel and irinotecan with 5-fluorouracil/folinic acid (leucovorin) in patients with advanced gastric cancer: the GATAC trial.
Trial report in Gastric cancer : official journal of the International Gastric Cancer Association and the Japanese Gastric Cancer Association, 2010. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 11 papers, 4 of them syntheses that pooled it.
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- A Bayesian Network Meta-Analysis for Identifying the Optimal Taxane-Based Chemotherapy Regimens for Treating Gastric Cancer.Frontiers in pharmacology · 2019Pooled it
- Reporting of health-related quality of life in randomized controlled trials involving palliative systemic therapy for esophagogastric cancer: a systematic review.Gastric cancer : official journal of the International Gastric Cancer Association and the Japanese Gastric Cancer Association · 2018Pooled it
- Palliative chemotherapy and targeted therapies for esophageal and gastroesophageal junction cancer.The Cochrane database of systematic reviews · 2017Pooled it
- Chemotherapy for advanced gastric cancer.The Cochrane database of systematic reviews · 2017Pooled it
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- Quality of life in patients with advanced gastric cancer sequentially treated with docetaxel and irinotecan with 5-fluorouracil and folinic acid (leucovin).Medical oncology (Northwood, London, England) · 2014Trial
- Efficacy and safety comparison of chemotherapies for advanced gastric cancer: A network meta-analysis.Oncotarget · 2017Article
- Benchmarking of gastric cancer sensitivity to anti-cancer drugs ex vivo as a basis for drug selection in systemic and intraperitoneal therapy.Journal of experimental & clinical cancer research : CR · 2014Article
- Aggressive locoregional surgical therapy for gastric peritoneal carcinomatosis.Annals of surgical oncology · 2014Article
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- Recombinant immunotoxin anti-c-Met/PE38KDEL inhibits proliferation and promotes apoptosis of gastric cancer cells.Journal of experimental & clinical cancer research : CR · 2011Article
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Abstract
backgroundThe optimal chemotherapy in patients with advanced gastric carcinoma (GC) is yet to be determined. We compared sequential administration of docetaxel and irinotecan, both in combination with infused 5-fluorouracil/leucovorin (5-Fu/Lv), and randomly assigned patients to start with either of the two.
methodsPatients with previously untreated locally advanced or metastatic GC and with measurable lesions (response evaluation criteria in solid tumors; RECIST) were randomly assigned to start with docetaxel 45 mg/m(2) (arm T) or irinotecan 180 mg/m(2) (arm C) with bolus/44-h infusion of 5-Fu/Lv (day 1 every 2 weeks). After four courses, there was a prescheduled crossover to the alternative regimen for four additional courses.
resultsEighty-one patients were randomized and 78 started treatment. Complete and partial responses were seen in 31 (40%) patients after 8 weeks and in 32 (41%) after 16 weeks, with similar results in both study arms. The median overall survival (OS) was 11.5 and 10.6 months in arms T and C, respectively (P = 0.3). The two schedules were feasible and did not differ in the overall rate of severe adverse events (SAEs).
conclusionThis is the first randomized comparison of two of the newer cytostatic drugs in GC therapy. No differences favoring either arm T or arm C were found with respect to response rate, OS, or toxicity. The median OS of 11 months indicates that sequential administration of the two combinations is effective and is similar to triple combinations. Thus, comparable efficacy to platinum combinations appears to be obtained with newer, less toxic regimens when given sequentially.
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