motivated and capable of accurately adhering to a complicated oral schedule. Bevacizumab The initial bevacizumab study, which evaluated the benefit of adding the drug to IFL (irinotecan, bolus fluorouracil, leucovorin), found a 4.7-month OS improvement
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histology. 2 Pemetrexed-containing first-line regimens are well tolerated by most patients and are associated with a much lower incidence of alopecia, neuropathy, and cytopenias than many other regimens. The additional benefit of adding bevacizumab to a
by the ORP. This feature highlights an NCCN study funded through the grant mechanism. TH-138: Phase II Randomized Trial of Carboplatin + Pemetrexed + Bevacizumab, With or Without Atezolizumab, in Patients With Stage IV Nonsquamous NSCLC Who Harbor a
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one regimen to be preferable over another as initial therapy for metastatic disease. The panel also does not indicate a preference for biologic agents used as part of initial therapy (ie, bevacizumab, cetuximab, panitumumab, none). Therapy Retreatment
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proved wrong was that a drug that works well in mCRC would also be effective in the adjuvant setting. In the NSABP and AVANT studies, 3 , 4 bevacizumab did not improve outcomes in patients with stage II or III disease, nor did cetuximab in the N0147
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R . Randomised, double-blind multicentre phase III study of bevacizumab in combination with cisplatin and gemcitabine in chemotherapy-naíve patients with advanced or recurrent non-squamous non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC): BO17704 [abstract] . J
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endothelial growth factor (VEGF)-directed therapies (sorafenib, sunitinib, pazopanib, and bevacizumab) and mammalian target of rapamycin (mTOR) inhibitors (temsirolimus and everolimus). With such a large number of treatment options, selecting among them for a
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(Panitumumab Efficacy in Combination With mFOLFOX6 Against Bevacizumab plus mFOLFOX6 in Metastatic CRC Subjects With Wild-Type KRAS Tumors), were further assessed in secondary analyses to include extended RAS testing ( KRAS exons 2, 3, 4; NRAS exons 2, 3
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growth factor receptor (EGFR) to chemotherapy, 7 and the incorporation of other non-chemotherapy agents 8 all failed to improve survival and QOL. Recently, the addition of the anti–vascular endothelial growth factor (VEGF) antibody bevacizumab
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benefit from bevacizumab? Is testing for homologous recombination deficiency (HRD)/genomic instability appropriate? What is the role of maintenance therapy with PARP inhibitors? Of note, because the treatment of advanced ovarian cancer is complex and
