Small cell lung cancer: Real-world data from two institutions in Lebanon for patients receiving carboplatin etoposide or atezolizumab in first line of treatment.

Authors

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Fadi Nasr

Hotel-Dieu de France Saint joseph University Hospital, Mount Lebanon Hospital, Oncology-Hematology Department, Beirut, Lebanon

Fadi Nasr , Reem El Khoury , Intissar Yehia , Saada Diab , Ahmad Al Ghoche , Lewis Nasr

Organizations

Hotel-Dieu de France Saint joseph University Hospital, Mount Lebanon Hospital, Oncology-Hematology Department, Beirut, Lebanon, Mount Lebanon Hospital, Oncology-Hematology Department, Beirut, Lebanon, Mount Lebanon Hospital, Aley, Lebanon, Hotel Dieu De France Hospital St Joseph University, Beirut, Lebanon

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Background: Small-cell lung cancer (SCLC), accounts for approximately 15% to 17% of all diagnosed lung cancers. It is an aggressive high-grade neuroendocrine carcinoma, diagnosed during advanced stages in the majority of patients. Despite the fact that first line treatment provides response rates of up to 80%, the majority of patients relapse within 6 months after completion of initial treatment. Few advances have been made in the management of recurrent disease and treatments patterns are poor and limited in each line of the disease. The aim of this study is to present real world data regards survival outcomes such as progression free survival and overall survival in SCLC patients receiving carboplatine etoposide or tecentriq carboplatin etoposide regimens as first line of treatment. Methods: This is a retrospective (descriptive) study on 56 patients aged ≥ 18 years and with confirmed histological SCLC. Patients with extensive stage of SCLC were enrolled in this cohort study from 2 health institutions in Lebanon from July 2007 to December 2019 and followed up until progression or death. Primary end points were overall survival (time from randomization to death from any cause) and progression free survival at 6 and 12 months (time from randomization to disease progression). Secondary endpoints included objective response rate and the duration of response. Exploratory analyses included the assessment of survival outcomes of each type of treatment according to liver and brain metastasis. Results: Overall, 56 SCLC patients, diagnosed between 2003 and 2019, were observed (age <65: (27.0%, 10 patients); ≥65 (73.0%, 41 patients)). Most often prescribed treatment were etoposide-carboplatyl (80.8%, 42 patients) and atezolizumab (19.2%10 patients). Regarding metastasis at diagnosis, liver and brain metastasis were respectively (26.8%, 11 patients) and (17.1%, 7 patients). 27patients (71.1%) were alive at 6 months without progressive disease and 13 patients (34.21 %) alive at 12 months without PD. Median progression free survival incidence since diagnosis was 8.8 months. Overall survival was 10.86 months. Objective response rate after first line was 84.2%. In a cox regression analysis, liver metastasis, brain metastasis, survival at 6 or 12 months without progressive disease did not decrease significantly PFS or OS since diagnosis. Conclusions: To our knowledge, this is the first real world clinical data on SCLC in Lebanon. This study showed limited treatment options and short survival outcomes with PFS= 8.8months and OS= 10.86 months respectively for carboplatin etoposide regimen and tecentriq carboplatin etoposide regimen. There is an essential needs for clinical comparative studies in real world practicing between treatments at each line, specially for novel treatment like atezolizumab that may present new hope and directions for SCLC.

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Abstract Details

Meeting

2021 ASCO Annual Meeting

Session Type

Publication Only

Session Title

Publication Only: Lung Cancer—Non-Small Cell Local-Regional/Small Cell/Other Thoracic Cancers

Track

Lung Cancer

Sub Track

Small Cell Lung Cancer

Citation

J Clin Oncol 39, 2021 (suppl 15; abstr e20578)

DOI

10.1200/JCO.2021.39.15_suppl.e20578

Abstract #

e20578

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