Adjuvant capecitabine and oxaliplatin for gastric cancer after D2 gastrectomy (CLASSIC): a phase 3 open-label, randomised controlled trial
- Authors
- Bang, Yung-Jue; Kim, Young-Woo; Yang, Han-Kwang; Chung, Hyun Cheol; Park, Young-Kyu; Lee, Kyung Hee; Lee, Keun-Wook; Kim, Yong Ho; Noh, Sang-Ik; Cho, Jae Yong; Mok, Young Jae; Kim, Yeul Hong; Ji, Jiafu; Yeh, Ta-Sen; Button, Peter; Sirzén, Florin; Noh, Sung Hoon; CLASSIC Trial Investigators
- Issue Date
- Jan-2012
- Publisher
- The Lancet Publishing Group
- Citation
- The Lancet, v.379, no.9813, pp 315 - 321
- Pages
- 7
- Indexed
- SCI
SCIE
SCOPUS
- Journal Title
- The Lancet
- Volume
- 379
- Number
- 9813
- Start Page
- 315
- End Page
- 321
- URI
- https://scholarworks.korea.ac.kr/kumedicine/handle/2020.sw.kumedicine/12473
- DOI
- 10.1016/S0140-6736(11)61873-4
- ISSN
- 0140-6736
1474-547X
- Abstract
- Background
D2 gastrectomy is recommended in US and European guidelines, and is preferred in east Asia, for patients with resectable gastric cancer. Adjuvant chemotherapy improves patient outcomes after surgery, but the benefits after a D2 resection have not been extensively investigated in large-scale trials. We investigated the effect on disease-free survival of adjuvant chemotherapy with capecitabine plus oxaliplatin after D2 gastrectomy compared with D2 gastrectomy only in patients with stage II–IIIB gastric cancer.
Methods
The capecitabine and oxaliplatin adjuvant study in stomach cancer (CLASSIC) study was an open-label, parallel-group, phase 3, randomised controlled trial undertaken in 37 centres in South Korea, China, and Taiwan. Patients with stage II–IIIB gastric cancer who had had curative D2 gastrectomy were randomly assigned to receive adjuvant chemotherapy of eight 3-week cycles of oral capecitabine (1000 mg/m2 twice daily on days 1 to 14 of each cycle) plus intravenous oxaliplatin (130 mg/m2 on day 1 of each cycle) for 6 months or surgery only. Block randomisation was done by a central interactive computerised system, stratified by country and disease stage. Patients, and investigators giving interventions, assessing outcomes, and analysing data were not masked. The primary endpoint was 3 year disease-free survival, analysed by intention to treat. This study reports a prespecified interim efficacy analysis, after which the trial was stopped after a recommendation by the data monitoring committee. The trial is registered at ClinicalTrials.gov (NCT00411229).
Findings
1035 patients were randomised (520 to receive chemotherapy and surgery, 515 surgery only). Median follow-up was 34·2 months (25·4–41·7) in the chemotherapy and surgery group and 34·3 months (25·6–41·9) in the surgery only group. 3 year disease-free survival was 74% (95% CI 69–79) in the chemotherapy and surgery group and 59% (53–64) in the surgery only group (hazard ratio 0·56, 95% CI 0·44–0·72; p<0·0001). Grade 3 or 4 adverse events were reported in 279 of 496 patients (56%) in the chemotherapy and surgery group and in 30 of 478 patients (6%) in the surgery only group. The most common adverse events in the intervention group were nausea (n=326), neutropenia (n=300), and decreased appetite (n=294).
Interpretation
Adjuvant capecitabine plus oxaliplatin treatment after curative D2 gastrectomy should be considered as a treatment option for patients with operable gastric cancer.
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