A multicenter, observational, phase 4 study (STELLAR) to evaluate the safety and tolerability of lenvatinib (LEN) in patients with advanced or unresectable hepatocellular carcinoma (uHCC).

Authors

Markus Peck-Radosavljevic

Markus Peck-Radosavljevic

Internal Medicine and Gastroenterology (IMuG) with Emergency Medicine (ZAE), Klinikum Klagenfurt am Worthersee, Klagenfurt, Austria

Markus Peck-Radosavljevic , Lipika Goyal , Simone Strasser , Ana Maria Matilla Peña , Rui Marinho , Alessandro Granito , Christoph Roderburg , Mark Marsico , Vanessa C Christou , Ran Xie , Pankhoori Saraf , Tim Meyer

Organizations

Internal Medicine and Gastroenterology (IMuG) with Emergency Medicine (ZAE), Klinikum Klagenfurt am Worthersee, Klagenfurt, Austria, Department of Medicine, Harvard Medical School, Massachusetts General Hospital Cancer Center, Boston, MA, Gastroenterology and Liver Centre, Royal Prince Alfred Hospital, Camperdown, Sydney, Australia, Gastroenterology and Hepatology Department, Hospital General Universitario Gregorio Marañón, CIBERehd, Madrid, Spain, Department of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Centro Hospitalar Universitário Lisboa Norte, Medical School of Lisbon, Lisbon, Portugal, Department of Medical and Surgical Sciences, University of Bologna, Bologna, Italy, Department of Hepatology and Gastroenterology, Charité Universitätsmedizin, Berlin, Germany, Center for Observational and Real-World Evidence, Merck & Co., Inc., Kenilworth, NJ, Medical Affairs, Eisai Europe Ltd., Hatfield, United Kingdom, Biostatistics, Eisai Inc., Woodcliff Lake, NJ, Clinical Research, Eisai Inc., Woodcliff Lake, NJ, Department of Oncology, Royal Free London NHS Foundation Trust, London, United Kingdom

Research Funding

Pharmaceutical/Biotech Company

Background: HCC is a leading cause of cancer-related deaths worldwide. LEN is now a first-line treatment option for patients with uHCC, based on the REFLECT study in which LEN was established as noninferior to sorafenib (SOR) for overall survival (OS); LEN also demonstrated statistically significant and clinically meaningful improvements in progression-free survival, time-to-progression, and objective response rate vs SOR. The safety profile of LEN was consistent with its known side-effect profile. This postauthorization safety study aims to better characterize the safety of LEN, including hepatotoxicity, in real-life conditions in a Western population. Methods: This prospective, open-label, observational study (NCT04763408) will enroll patients with advanced or uHCC in routine clinical practice whom the treating physician has decided to treat with LEN (n = 500) or SOR (n = 500) according to the product labels. Enrollment is planned for 60 sites across Europe, Australia, USA, and Russia. The primary endpoint is the safety of LEN (hepatic-related toxicity and overall safety profile with regard to serious adverse events, grade ≥3 adverse events, and dose modifications and discontinuations due to adverse events). Secondary endpoints include treatment patterns (duration of treatment, incidence of dose interruptions and dose reductions, relative dose intensity, and subsequent treatments) and OS with LEN. Similar efficacy and safety data will be collected with SOR as an internal control for the population. Additionally, associations will be explored between patients’ baseline characteristics and treatment decisions as well as clinical and safety outcomes. Visits will be scheduled according to routine practice. Patients will be followed from initiation of treatment until the end of observation (whichever occurs first: withdrawal of consent, loss to follow-up, death, or end of the study [ie, 6 months after the last patient is enrolled]). Safety will be collected from initiation of LEN or SOR until the earlier of: 28 days after LEN/SOR discontinuation or the end of observation for patients who did not discontinue. Patients will be followed for survival and subsequent anticancer treatments until the end of observation, irrespective of length of treatment. Clinical trial information: NCT04763408.

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Abstract Details

Meeting

2022 ASCO Gastrointestinal Cancers Symposium

Session Type

Trials in Progress Poster Session

Session Title

Trials in Progress Poster Session B: Cancers of the Pancreas, Small Bowel, and Hepatobiliary Tract

Track

Pancreatic Cancer,Hepatobiliary Cancer,Neuroendocrine/Carcinoid,Small Bowel Cancer

Sub Track

Patient-Reported Outcomes and Real-World Evidence

Clinical Trial Registration Number

NCT04763408

DOI

10.1200/JCO.2022.40.4_suppl.TPS485

Abstract #

TPS485

Poster Bd #

R6

Abstract Disclosures