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ArticleTherapeutic advances in chronic disease2022

First-line therapeutic strategy for patients with advanced non-small cell lung cancer with Leu858Arg epidermal growth factor receptor mutations: a Bayesian network meta-analysis.

Chongxiang Chen, Chunning Zhang, Huaming Lin, Qianyin Liu, Limian Wu, Chengzhi Zhou, Jiexia Zhang

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Article in Therapeutic advances in chronic disease, 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 4 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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Chongxiang ChenState Key Laboratory of Respiratory Disease, National Clinical Research Center for Respiratory Disease, Guangzhou Institute of Respiratory Health, The First Affiliated Hospital of Guangzhou Medical University, Guangzhou, China.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2079-881X
Chunning ZhangThe First Tumor Department, Maoming People's Hospital, Maoming, China.
Huaming LinThe First Tumor Department, Maoming People's Hospital, Maoming, China.
Qianyin LiuState Key Laboratory of Respiratory Disease, National Clinical Research Center for Respiratory Disease, Guangzhou Institute of Respiratory Health, The First Affiliated Hospital of Guangzhou Medical University, Guangzhou, China.
Limian WuState Key Laboratory of Respiratory Disease, National Clinical Research Center for Respiratory Disease, Guangzhou Institute of Respiratory Health, The First Affiliated Hospital of Guangzhou Medical University, Guangzhou, China.
Chengzhi ZhouState Key Laboratory of Respiratory Disease, National Clinical Research Center for Respiratory Disease, Guangzhou Institute of Respiratory Health, The First Affiliated Hospital of Guangzhou Medical University, Guangzhou 510120, China.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1758-0035
Jiexia ZhangState Key Laboratory of Respiratory Disease, National Clinical Research Center for Respiratory Disease, Guangzhou Institute of Respiratory Health, The First Affiliated Hospital of Guangzhou Medical University, Guangzhou 510120, China.
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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Aim: The objective of this network meta-analysis was to determine the most useful first-line therapeutic strategy for patients with advanced (IIIB/IV or relapsed) non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) with epidermal growth factor receptor (EGFR) Leu858Arg or EGFR 19del mutations. Methods: PubMed, the Web of Science, Medline, and reports of the top three world cancer conferences (WCLC, ESMO, and ASCO) were searched for appropriated randomized controlled studies (RCTs) discussing the use of various generations of tyrosine kinase inhibitors (TKIs; gefitinib, erlotinib, icotinib, afatinib, dacomitinib, osimertinib, aumolertinib), chemotherapy [pemetrexed-based chemotherapy (PC), non-pemetrexed-based chemotherapy (NPC)], and different combined therapies (osimertinib plus bevacizumab, afatinib plus cetuximab, erlotinib plus bevacizumab, erlotinib plus ramucirumab, gefitinib plus apatinib, gefitinib plus PC, and gefitinib plus pemetrexed) to treat patients with advanced NSCLC with EGFR Leu858Arg or 19del mutations. OpenBugs and Stata software were used to analyze the data. Results: We included 21 studies with 16 arms (including 2479 cases with EGFR Leu858Arg mutations and 3325 cases with EGFR 19del mutations). Among patients with NSCLC with EGFR Leu858Arg mutations, compared with the first-generation TKIs (such as gefitinib), the second- or third-generation TKIs [dacomitinib: hazard ratio (HR) = 0.63; 95% confidence index (CI) = (0.45, 0.89); osimertinib: HR = 0.63; 95% CI = (0.42, 0.97)] showed significant benefits in improving progression-free survival (PFS), as did afatinib plus cetuximab [HR = 1.98; 95% CI = (1.01, 3.95)], erlotinib plus bevacizumab [HR = 1.79; 95% CI = (1.22, 2.62)], and erlotinib plus ramucirumab [HR = 1.62; 95% CI = (1.07, 2.48)]. In terms of overall survival (OS), these 16 arms showed no significant differences between each other ( Conclusion: For NSCLC patients with EGFR Leu858Arg mutations, the second-generation TKIs, the third-generation TKIs, and the combined treatments showed better efficacy than the first-generation TKIs for PFS. There were, however, no significant differences between each group for OS.

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epidermal growth factor receptormeta-analysisnon–small cell lung cancertyrosine kinase inhibitors

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