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e-Poster Display Session

154P - A multicenter, prospective study of apatinib plus chemotherapy as neoadjuvant treatment for locally advanced gastric cancer

Date

22 Nov 2020

Session

e-Poster Display Session

Topics

Cytotoxic Therapy

Tumour Site

Gastric Cancer

Presenters

Yi-Hui Tang

Citation

Annals of Oncology (2020) 31 (suppl_6): S1287-S1318. 10.1016/annonc/annonc356

Authors

Y. Tang, F. Wang, G. Lin, J. Lin, C. Zheng, P. Li, J. Xie, J. Wang, J. Lu, Q. Chen, L. Cao, M. Lin, R. Tu, Z. Huang, J. Lin, H. Zheng, C. Huang

Author affiliations

  • Department Of Gastric Surgery, Fujian Medical University Union Hospital, 350001 - Fuzhou/CN

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Abstract 154P

Background

Apatinib, a novel treatment option for chemotherapy-refractory advanced gastric cancer (AGC), has not yet been evaluated in patients with locally AGC. This trial investigated the efficacy and safety of apatinib combined with S-1 plus oxaliplatin (SOX) as a neoadjuvant treatment for locally AGC.

Methods

Patients with M0 and either T2-T4 or N+ disease received apatinib (500 mg orally once daily on days 1-21 and discontinued in the last cycle) plus SOX (S-1, 40-60 mg orally twice daily on days 1-14; oxaliplatin, 130 mg/m2 intravenously on day 1) given every 3 weeks for 2-5 cycles. D2 gastrectomy was performed 2-4 weeks after the last cycle. To further compare the efficacy and safety between apatinib plus SOX (ASOX group) and SOX alone (SOX group), we reviewed historical control patients receiving SOX as neoadjuvant chemotherapy at the central center. The primary end point was the R0 resection rate.

Results

Between July 2017 and June 2019, 48 and 58 patients were enrolled in the ASOX and SOX groups, respectively. Forty patients in the ASOX group (83.3%) and 47 patients in the SOX group (81.0%) underwent surgery, with R0 resection rates of 75.0% and 67.2%, respectively (P=0.382). The proportion of patients with T downstaging in the ASOX group was significantly higher than that in the SOX group (36.4% vs 18.5%, P=0.036). For patients with target lesions, the radiological response rate was significantly higher in the ASOX group (75.0% vs 38.5%, P=0.015). Moreover, the ASOX group was associated with significantly higher proportions of patients achieving major pathological response (25.0% vs 10.3%, P=0.046). Grade 3 toxicities occurred in 33.3% of the ASOX patients, and no grade 4 toxicities or drug-related deaths were observed.

Conclusions

Apatinib combined with SOX showed promising efficacy with an acceptable safety profile as the first-line neoadjuvant treatment for locally AGC.

Clinical trial identification

NCT03192735.

Editorial acknowledgement

Legal entity responsible for the study

The authors.

Funding

Scientific and Technological Innovation Joint Capital Projects of Fujian Province.

Disclosure

All authors have declared no conflicts of interest.

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