Survival impact among occidental patients with metastatic gastric cancer (mGC) treated with ramucirumab as second line treatment (2L): Local experience of a teaching hospital in Chile.

Authors

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Carlos Salinas

University of Chile, Santiago De Chile, Chile

Carlos Salinas , Olga Barajas , Luis Villanueva , Rodrigo Vasquez , Monica Ahumada

Organizations

University of Chile, Santiago De Chile, Chile, Arturo López Pérez Foundation, Santiago, Chile, Hospital Clinico Universidad de Chile, Santiago, Chile

Research Funding

No funding received
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Background: GC is frequent in Chile, with an incidence of 7.8% and a mortality rate of 11.6% in 2020. Late diagnosis continues to be one of the most important problems, although treatments in advanced stages have experienced important advances in the last 6 years. REGARD and RAINBOW trials showed an increase in median OS when using Ramucirumab alone or in combination with Paclitaxel of 5,2 and 9,4 mths respectively. Although this therapy is not covered by our Public Health Insurance, there are some patients that they can access. Also, there are not too many reports in LATAM pts so we present our local real world data. Methods: We conducted a retrospective study of local data from patients diagnosed with mGC who progressed with standard first-line treatment and were treated with ramucirumab-based regimens from January 2015 to January 2021. Clinical factors were recorded baseline, characteristics of therapy and AE related to toxicity. Toxicity was assessed by CTCAE v5.0 and response to treatment by RECIST 1.1. Results were analyzed by measuring time to progression and survival. Results: The search resulted in 9 pts, 6 men and 3 women between 38 and 72 years (median 59 years). 66% were in ECOG 1 performance status and 33% in ECOG 2, with a median BMI of 23 kg / m2. 33% were smokers and all had some other comorbidity as a medical history. All tumors were adenocarcinomas and 33% had a signet ring cell component on histology. Only one tumor was HER2 +++ and all were MSS (by IHC). The most common first-line treatment received before progression was FOLFOX; 4 to 12 cycles; 8 cycle average. All patients were treated with paclitaxel-ramucirumab as 2L (4 to 19 cycles, mean of 5 cycles). 67% of patients achieved stable disease with the best response. During the follow-up period, 8 patients experienced disease progression in an average of 6.7 months, who switched to 3L with Nivolumab. Relapses during 2L were in the peritoneum and 55% in other sites as well. Only two patients discontinued paclitaxel treatment after 4 cycles due to intolerance and continued to receive Ramucirumab. 44% developed grade 3 toxicities: 50% of them due to taxane-related peripheral neuropathy. Grade 4 or 5 toxicity was not reported. 50% of patients were alive at 6 months of treatment. Conclusions: In our country and LATAM, GC still has a significant medical and socioeconomic burden. Its incidence is still one of the highest in the world, most patients are diagnosed in the metastatic stage and face treatment in deficient PS. In this context, our local real-world data showed consistency with what the literature says, although more data remains to accumulate and describe.

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Abstract Details

Meeting

2021 ASCO Annual Meeting

Session Type

Publication Only

Session Title

Publication Only: Gastrointestinal Cancer—Gastroesophageal, Pancreatic, and Hepatobiliary

Track

Gastrointestinal Cancer—Gastroesophageal, Pancreatic, and Hepatobiliary

Sub Track

Esophageal or Gastric Cancer

Citation

J Clin Oncol 39, 2021 (suppl 15; abstr e16007)

DOI

10.1200/JCO.2021.39.15_suppl.e16007

Abstract #

e16007

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