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Niels Reinmuth1, Sébastien Couraud2, Luis Paz-Ares3
1Asklepios Lung Clinic, German Center for Lung Research (DZL), Munich-Gauting, Germany.
Introduction:
In the phase 3 EVOKE-01 trial (NCT05089734), sacituzumab govitecan (SG) exhibited a numerical improvement in overall survival and tolerability compared with docetaxel in patients with metastatic NSCLC previously treated with platinum-based chemotherapy and programmed cell death protein (ligand) 1 inhibitors, although results were not statistically significant. This analysis evaluated health-related quality of life (HRQoL) data from EVOKE-01.
Methods:
Patients (N = 603) were randomized 1:1 to SG (n = 299) or docetaxel (n = 304) in 21-day cycles. HRQoL was assessed by the NSCLC Symptom Assessment Questionnaire (NSCLC-SAQ), European Organization for Research and Treatment of Cancer Quality of Life questionnaire-Core 30 (QLQ-C30), and EuroQol 5 Dimension 3-level questionnaire. Least square mean changes from baseline at week 25, time to first meaningful deterioration or death, and time to confirmed deterioration were analyzed.
Results:
SG exhibited significantly and meaningfully better effects than docetaxel on NSCLC-SAQ shortness of breath (SoB), fatigue, total score, and on QLQ-C30 role functioning, fatigue, and dyspnea. Time to first meaningful deterioration or death favored SG over docetaxel for NSCLC-SAQ SoB (hazard ratio [95% confidence interval ]: 0.75 [0.61-0.91]), fatigue (0.70 [0.57-0.86]), and total score (0.80 [0.66-0.97]); QLQ-C30 fatigue (0.80 [0.66-0.96]) and dyspnea (0.74 [0.60-0.90]); and EuroQol visual analog scale (0.79 [0.65-0.96]). The time to confirmed deterioration favored SG over docetaxel for NSCLC-SAQ SoB (0.59 [0.44-0.77]) and fatigue (0.70 [0.52-0.95]), and QLQ-C30 fatigue (0.75 [0.59-0.95]).
Conclusions:
These exploratory results suggest that SG may benefit HRQoL over docetaxel, supporting SG as an active therapeutic agent for metastatic NSCLC post platinum-based and programmed cell death protein (ligand) 1 inhibitor therapy.
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