Trial reportJournal of clinical oncology : official journal of the American Society of Clinical Oncology2017
Results From the Phase III Randomized Trial of Onartuzumab Plus Erlotinib Versus Erlotinib in Previously Treated Stage IIIB or IV Non-Small-Cell Lung Cancer: METLung.
Trial report in Journal of clinical oncology : official journal of the American Society of Clinical Oncology, 2017. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 208 papers, 3 of them syntheses that pooled it.
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- Update on recent key publications in lung oncology: picking up speed.European respiratory review : an official journal of the European Respiratory Society · 2021Pooled it
- Incidence and risk of fatigue in cancer patients treated with MET inhibitors: A systematic review and meta-analysis.Medicine · 2019Pooled it
- The Efficacy and Risk Profile of c-Met inhibitors in Non-small Cell Lung Cancer: a Meta-analysis.Scientific reports · 2016Pooled it
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- Randomized phase II study of fulvestrant and erlotinib compared with erlotinib alone in patients with advanced or metastatic non-small cell lung cancer.Lung cancer (Amsterdam, Netherlands) · 2018Trial
- Rilotumumab plus epirubicin, cisplatin, and capecitabine as first-line therapy in advanced MET-positive gastric or gastro-oesophageal junction cancer (RILOMET-1): a randomised, double-blind, placebo-controlled, phase 3 trial.The Lancet. Oncology · 2017Trial
- A phase Ib/II study of cabozantinib (XL184) with or without erlotinib in patients with non-small cell lung cancer.Cancer chemotherapy and pharmacology · 2017Trial
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- A Phase II Randomized Trial (GO27827) of First-Line FOLFOX Plus Bevacizumab with or Without the MET Inhibitor Onartuzumab in Patients with Metastatic Colorectal Cancer.The oncologist · 2017Trial
- Exposure-Response and Tumor Growth Inhibition Analyses of the Monovalent Anti-c-MET Antibody Onartuzumab (MetMAb) in the Second- and Third-Line Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer.The AAPS journal · 2017Trial
- Reduction in Hepatocyte Growth Factor Serum Levels is Associated with Improved Prognosis in Advanced Lung Adenocarcinoma Patients Treated with Afatinib: a Phase II Trial.Targeted oncology · 2016Trial
- C-MET tyrosine kinase receptor: mechanisms, clinical applications and future perspectives in cancer therapy.Signal transduction and targeted therapy · 2026Review
- Telisotuzumab Vedotin Monotherapy in Patients With Previously Treated c-Met Protein Overexpressing, Nonsquamous,JTO clinical and research reports · 2026Article
- Targeting MET in 2025: From Exon 14 Skipping to MET-Amplified Acquired Resistance in Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer.International journal of molecular sciences · 2026Review
- Targeting MET in non-small cell lung cancer brain metastases: from molecular mechanism to precision therapy.Journal of translational medicine · 2026Review
- Epidermal growth factor receptor tyrosine kinase inhibitor for the treatment of non-small cell lung cancer in the past 30 years (1997-2026).Chinese medical journal · 2026Review
- Molecular biology of targeting lymphangiogenesis in cancer: Therapeutic strategies and future promise.Fundamental research · 2026Review
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- Targeting MET in advanced and metastatic non-small cell lung cancer: a literature review of the current landscape.Translational cancer research · 2025Review
- MET (c-Met) protein overexpression is an emerging protein biomarker in non-small cell lung cancer.NPJ precision oncology · 2025Review
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Abstract
Purpose The phase III OAM4971g study (METLung) examined the efficacy and safety of onartuzumab plus erlotinib in patients with locally advanced or metastatic non-small-cell lung cancer selected by MET immunohistochemistry whose disease had progressed after treatment with a platinum-based chemotherapy regimen. Patients and Methods Patients were randomly assigned at a one-to-one ratio to receive onartuzumab (15 mg/kg intravenously on day 1 of each 21-day cycle) plus daily oral erlotinib 150 mg or intravenous placebo plus daily oral erlotinib 150 mg. The primary end point was overall survival (OS) in the intent-to-treat population. Secondary end points included median progression-free survival, overall response rate, biomarker analysis, and safety. Results A total of 499 patients were enrolled (onartuzumab, n = 250; placebo, n = 249). Median OS was 6.8 versus 9.1 months for onartuzumab versus placebo (stratified hazard ratio [HR], 1.27; 95% CI, 0.98 to 1.65; P = .067), with a greater number of deaths in the onartuzumab arm (130 [52%] v 114 [46%]). Median progression-free survival was 2.7 versus 2.6 months (stratified HR, 0.99; 95% CI, 0.81 to 1.20; P = .92), and overall response rate was 8.4% and 9.6% for onartuzumab versus placebo, respectively. Exploratory analyses using MET fluorescence in situ hybridization status and gene expression showed no benefit for onartuzumab; patients with EGFR mutations showed a trend toward shorter OS with onartuzumab treatment (HR, 4.68; 95% CI, 0.97 to 22.63). Grade 3 to 5 adverse events were reported by 56.0% and 51.2% of patients, with serious AEs in 33.9% and 30.7%, for experimental versus control arms, respectively. Conclusion Onartuzumab plus erlotinib did not improve clinical outcomes, with shorter OS in the onartuzumab arm, compared with erlotinib in patients with MET-positive non-small-cell lung cancer.
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