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ArticleScientific reports2015

The effectiveness of RECIST on survival in patients with NSCLC receiving chemotherapy with or without target agents as first-line treatment.

Ting Zhou, Lie Zheng, Zhihuang Hu, Yang Zhang, Wenfeng Fang, Yuanyuan Zhao, Jieying Ge, Hongyun Zhao, Li Zhang

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Article in Scientific reports, 2015. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 8 papers.

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5 · Who and what money

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9 authors.

Ting Zhou1] Sun-Yat Sen University Cancer Center, Guangzhou, China [2] State Key Laboratory of Oncology in South China, Guangzhou 510060, China [3] Collaborative innovation Center for Cancer Medicine, Guangzhou 510060, China.
Lie Zheng1] Sun-Yat Sen University Cancer Center, Guangzhou, China [2] State Key Laboratory of Oncology in South China, Guangzhou 510060, China [3] Collaborative innovation Center for Cancer Medicine, Guangzhou 510060, China.
Zhihuang Hu1] Sun-Yat Sen University Cancer Center, Guangzhou, China [2] State Key Laboratory of Oncology in South China, Guangzhou 510060, China [3] Collaborative innovation Center for Cancer Medicine, Guangzhou 510060, China.
Yang Zhang1] Sun-Yat Sen University Cancer Center, Guangzhou, China [2] State Key Laboratory of Oncology in South China, Guangzhou 510060, China [3] Collaborative innovation Center for Cancer Medicine, Guangzhou 510060, China.
Wenfeng Fang1] Sun-Yat Sen University Cancer Center, Guangzhou, China [2] State Key Laboratory of Oncology in South China, Guangzhou 510060, China [3] Collaborative innovation Center for Cancer Medicine, Guangzhou 510060, China.
Yuanyuan Zhao1] Sun-Yat Sen University Cancer Center, Guangzhou, China [2] State Key Laboratory of Oncology in South China, Guangzhou 510060, China [3] Collaborative innovation Center for Cancer Medicine, Guangzhou 510060, China.
Jieying Ge1] Sun-Yat Sen University Cancer Center, Guangzhou, China [2] State Key Laboratory of Oncology in South China, Guangzhou 510060, China [3] Collaborative innovation Center for Cancer Medicine, Guangzhou 510060, China.
Hongyun Zhao1] Sun-Yat Sen University Cancer Center, Guangzhou, China [2] State Key Laboratory of Oncology in South China, Guangzhou 510060, China [3] Collaborative innovation Center for Cancer Medicine, Guangzhou 510060, China.
Li Zhang1] Sun-Yat Sen University Cancer Center, Guangzhou, China [2] State Key Laboratory of Oncology in South China, Guangzhou 510060, China [3] Collaborative innovation Center for Cancer Medicine, Guangzhou 510060, China.

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

We analyzed the correlation between survival and antitumor effect evaluated by RECIST in advanced NSCLC patients with chemotherapy plus target therapy or not as first-line treatment, to examine the applicability of RECIST in this population. The patients were screened from 4 clinical trials (12621, 12006, FASTACT-I, and FASTACT-II), and those who received chemotherapy plus target therapy or chemotherapy alone were eligible. Among the 59 enrolled patients, 29 received combination therapy, while the other 30 received chemotherapy only. In the combination therapy group, patients with PR or SD had longer overall survival (OS) than those with PD (P < 0.001 and P = 0.002, respectively). However, in the chemotherapy alone group, compared with PD patients, either PR or SD group had no significant overall survival benefit (P = 0.690 and P = 0.528, respectively). In summary, for advanced NSCLC patients receiving chemotherapy plus target therapy as first-line treatment and evaluated by RECIST criteria, SD has the same overall survival benefit as PR, suggesting that antitumor effective evaluation by RECIST criteria cannot be translated to overall survival benefit especially for this kind of patients. Therefore, developing a more comprehensive evaluation method to perfect RECIST criteria is thus warranted for patients received target therapy in NSCLC.

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Response Evaluation Criteria in Solid TumorsAdultAgedAntineoplastic Combined Chemotherapy ProtocolsCarcinoma, Non-Small-Cell LungDisease-Free SurvivalFemaleFollow-Up StudiesHumansLung NeoplasmsMaleMiddle AgedNeoplasm StagingRemission InductionSurvival RateTomography, X-Ray Computed

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