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  • Title: A Multicenter Randomized Controlled Study of Paclitaxel plus Carboplatin versus Oral Uracil-Tegafur as the Adjuvant Chemotherapy in Resected Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer.
    Author: Toyooka S, Okumura N, Nakamura H, Nakata M, Yamashita M, Tada H, Kajiwara S, Watanabe N, Okada M, Sakamoto J, Aoe M, Soh J, Miyoshi S, Hotta K, Matsuo K, Date H.
    Journal: J Thorac Oncol; 2018 May; 13(5):699-706. PubMed ID: 29505900.
    Abstract:
    INTRODUCTION: We conducted a randomized controlled study to compare the survival benefit of paclitaxel plus carboplatin and oral uracil-tegafur (UFT) as adjuvant chemotherapy in resected NSCLC. METHODS: In an open-label multicenter trial, patients with pathological stage IB to IIIA NSCLC were randomized into a group receiving paclitaxel (175 mg/m2) plus carboplatin (area under the curve 5) every 3 weeks for four cycles (arm A) or a group receiving orally administered UFT (250 mg/m2) daily for 2 years (arm B). The primary and secondary end points were overall survival and relapse-free survival and toxicity, respectively. RESULTS: Between November 2004 and November 2010, 402 patients from 40 institutions were included (201 in each arm). The median follow-up period was 6.5 years. The 5-year overall survival rate was 70% (95% confidential interval [CI]: 63-76] in arm A versus 73% (95% CI: 66-78) in arm B (hazard ratio = 0.92, 95% CI: 0.55-1.41, p = 0.69). There was no significant difference in the 5-year relapse-free survival rate between arms A and B (56% versus 57% [hazard ratio = 0.92, 95% CI: 0.63-1.34, p = 0.50]). Toxicities were well tolerated and there was no treatment-related death. Toxicities of any grade or grade 4 were significantly more frequent in the paclitaxel plus carboplatin group (95.7% and 22.1%, respectively) than in the UFT group (76.5% and 1.0%, respectively [p < 0.0001 in both]). CONCLUSIONS: As adjuvant chemotherapy, paclitaxel plus carboplatin was no better than UFT in terms of survival among patients with stage IB to IIIA NSCLC tumors who underwent complete resection (UMIN000000810).
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