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Real-world 5-year outcomes with durvalumab after chemoradiotherapy in unresectable stage III NSCLC.

N Girard, J Bar, P Baas, C Chouaid, D C Christoph, J K Field, R Fietkau, M C Garassino, P Garrido Lopez, V Gregorc and 15 more

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Article in ESMO open, 2026. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. It is linked to trial NCT03798535 (First Real-world Data on Unresectable Stage III NSCLC Patients Treated With Durvalumab After Chemoradiotherapy), which is not on this map. Cited by 5 papers.

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NCT03798535 completednot on this map

First Real-world Data on Unresectable Stage III NSCLC Patients Treated With Durvalumab After Chemoradiotherapy

TypeobservationalSponsorAstraZenecaRan2018 to 2024Enrolled1,156ConditionsNSCLC
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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

25 authors.

N GirardInstitut du Thorax Curie Montsouris, Institut Curie/UVSQ, Paris, France. Electronic address: nicolas.girard2@curie.fr.
J BarJusidman Cancer Center, Sheba Medical Center, Ramat Gan, Israel; Gray Faculty of Medical and Health Sciences, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, Israel.
P BaasThe Netherlands Cancer Institute, Amsterdam, The Netherlands; Department of Pulmonary Disease, Leiden University Medical Center, Leiden, The Netherlands.
C ChouaidService de Pneumologie, Centre Hospitalier Intercommunal de Créteil, Créteil, France.
D C ChristophDepartment of Pneumonology & Infectiology, Division of Thoracic Oncology, Evangelisches Krankenhaus Herne-Eickel, Herne, Germany.
J K FieldRoy Castle Lung Cancer Research Programme, Department of Molecular and Clinical Cancer Medicine, University of Liverpool, Liverpool, UK.
R FietkauUniversitätsklinikum Erlangen, Erlangen, Germany.
M C GarassinoDepartment of Hematology/Oncology, The University of Chicago, Chicago, USA.
P Garrido LopezDepartment of Medical Oncology, Hospital Universitario Ramón y Cajal, Universidad de Alcalá, Madrid, Spain.
V GregorcCandiolo Cancer Institute, FPO-IRCCS, Candiolo (TO), Turin, Italy.
V D HaakensenDepartment of Oncology, Institute for Cancer Research, Oslo University Hospital, Oslo, Norway.
T J N HiltermannDepartment of Pulmonary Diseases and Tuberculosis, University of Groningen, University Medical Center Groningen, Groningen, The Netherlands.
S KaoChris O'Brien Lifehouse, Sydney, Australia.
F McDonaldLung Unit, The Royal Marsden Hospital, London, UK.
F MornexDepartment of Radiation Oncology, Centre Hospitalier Universitaire de Lyon, Lyon, France.
M MoskovitzRambam Health Care Campus, Haifa, Israel.
S PetersDepartment of Oncology, Centre Hospitalier Universitaire Vaudois, Lausanne, Switzerland.
S SivaPeter MacCallum Cancer Centre and University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Australia.
B SolomonPeter MacCallum Cancer Centre and University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Australia.
Y QiaoAstraZeneca, Gaithersburg, USA.
S AnandAstraZeneca, Gaithersburg, USA.
P ChanderAstraZeneca, Gaithersburg, USA.
T ShcherbakovaAstraZeneca, Cambridge, UK.
I Diaz PerezAstraZeneca, Gaithersburg, USA.
A R FilippiDepartment of Radiotherapy, Fondazione IRCCS Policlinico San Matteo, University of Pavia, Pavia, Italy.

Funding

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

backgroundConsolidation durvalumab is standard of care treatment for patients with unresectable, stage III non-small-cell lung cancer without progression after chemoradiotherapy. Additional study is warranted to investigate the long-term efficacy of this regimen in real-world settings.

methodsPACIFIC-R (NCT03798535) was an international, observational, cohort study of patients who started durvalumab 10 mg/kg intravenously every 2 weeks within an AstraZeneca-initiated early access program between September 2017 and December 2018. Data were extracted retrospectively from medical records to describe the real-world effectiveness of consolidation durvalumab in patients with unresectable non-small-cell lung cancer without progression after chemoradiotherapy. The primary endpoints were real-world progression-free survival (rwPFS) and overall survival (OS).

resultsMedian age was 65.0 years (range 26-88 years); most patients [747/1153 (64.8%)] were male and current [300/1153 (26.0%)] or former [750/1153 (65.0%)] smokers. Among patients with reported data, most had Eastern Cooperative Oncology Group performance status <2 [743/755 (98.4%)], stage IIIB/C disease [584/1090 (53.6%)], non-squamous histology [746/1137 (65.6%)], and programmed death-ligand 1 expression on ≥1% of tumor cells [572/791 (72.3%)]. Median follow-up (censored patients) was 63.5 months for rwPFS and 67.5 months for OS. Median rwPFS was 24.3 months [95% confidence interval (CI) 20.3-28.4 months]; 5-year rwPFS was 35.2% (95% CI 32.4% to 38.1%). Median OS was 59.0 months (95% CI 52.7-64.3 months); 5-year OS was 49.2% (95% CI 46.2% to 52.2%). Encouraging results were observed across subgroups, including among patients who received durvalumab after either concurrent or sequential chemoradiotherapy [median rwPFS (95% CI): 25.8 months (20.9-31.8 months) versus 23.2 months (16.9-29.5 months); median OS: 63.1 months (57.3-73.5 months) versus 47.1 months (35.3-58.1 months)], and irrespective of programmed death-ligand 1 expression [on ≥1% versus <1% of tumor cells; median rwPFS (95% CI): 25.5 months (19.1-32.8 months) versus 16.3 months (10.9-27.5 months); median OS: 62.4 months (55.0 months-not estimable) versus 43.3 months (31.6-60.7) months].

conclusionsPACIFIC-R provides mature data on OS and rwPFS from a large, real-world cohort, supporting consolidation durvalumab as a standard of care in this setting.

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chemoradiotherapydurvalumabnon-small-cell lung cancerreal-worldunresectable

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