Pembrolizumab plus Chemotherapy for Squamous Non-Small-Cell Lung Cancer
Pembrolizumab plus Chemotherapy for Squamous Non-Small-Cell Lung Cancer
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DOI:
10.1056/nejmoa1810865
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发表时间:
2018-11-22
影响因子:
158.5
通讯作者:
Kowalski, D. M.
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作者:
Paz-Ares, L.;Luft, A.;Kowalski, D. M.
BACKGROUNDStandard first-line therapy for metastatic, squamous non-small-cell lung cancer (NSCLC) is platinum-based chemotherapy or pembrolizumab (for patients with programmed death ligand 1 [PD-L1] expression on >= 50% of tumor cells). More recently, pembrolizumab plus chemotherapy was shown to significantly prolong overall survival among patients with nonsquamous NSCLC.METHODSIn this double-blind, phase 3 trial, we randomly assigned, in a 1:1 ratio, 559 patients with untreated metastatic, squamous NSCLC to receive 200 mg of pembrolizumab or saline placebo for up to 35 cycles; all the patients also received carboplatin and either paclitaxel or nanoparticle albumin-bound [nab]-paclitaxel for the first 4 cycles. Primary end points were overall survival and progression-free survival.RESULTSAfter a median follow-up of 7.8 months, the median overall survival was 15.9 months (95% confidence interval [CI], 13.2 to not reached) in the pembrolizumab-combination group and 11.3 months (95% CI, 9.5 to 14.8) in the placebo-combination group (hazard ratio for death, 0.64; 95% CI, 0.49 to 0.85; P