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Published on: February 12, 2017
Pemetrexed-based first-line chemotherapy had particularly prominent objective response rate for advanced NSCLC: A
Yuankai Lv1, Zhuo Cao1, Jiongwei Pan1
1Department of Respiratory, Lishui People's Hospital, No.15 Dazhong Road, Liandu District, Lishui, Zhejiang, 323000, People's Republic of China.
Objective:
The aim of the present work was to investigate the clinical efficacy of first-line chemotherapy regimens in the treatment of advanced non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) through a comprehensive network meta-analysis (NMA).
Methods:
The prospective randomized controlled clinical trials relevant to 10 first-line chemotherapy regimens in the treatment of advanced NSCLC were systematic electronic search in the databases of Pubmed, Embase, Cochrane Library and CNKI. The combined direct or indirect objective response rate (ORR) between each of the 10 first-line chemotherapy regimens was calculated.
Results:
Seventeen prospective clinical trials of first-line chemotherapy regimens in treatment of advanced NSCLC were included in the NMA. The 10 treatment regimens including A = cisplatin + gemcitabine, B = carboplatin + gemcitabine, C = gemcitabine, D = carboplatin + paclitaxel, E = paclitaxel + gemcitabine, F = docetaxel + carboplatin, G = gemcitabine + vinorelbine, H = pemetrexed + carboplatin, I = cisplatin + pemetrexed and J = cisplatin + docetaxel were compared in the present NMA. Direct pooled results indicated that the ORR was not statistically different (P all > 0.05). However, NMA showed that the combined ORR for regimens A (OR = 1.47, 95% CI: 0.80-2.81), B (OR = 3.22, 95% CI: 1.45-6.923), D (OR = 3.30, 95% CI: 1.22-9.33), E (OR = 4.36, 95% CI: 1.64-12.82), G (OR = 3.72, 95% CI: 1.12-12.83) and I (OR = 5.80, 95% CI: 2.04-17.86) was superior to regimen C. Rank probability analysis indicated that regimen C = gemcitabine and regimen I = cisplatin + pemetrexed had the highest probability of inferior and superior treatment ORR among the 10 first-line chemotherapy regimens.
Conclusion:
Cisplatin + pemetrexed may have particularly prominent ORR for advanced NSCLC as the first-line chemotherapy regimen.
