[Comment] Bevacizumab in adjuvant treatment of non-small-cell lung cancer

Outcomes in early-stage non-small-cell lung cancer (NSCLC) are infamously poor. In the ANITA trial of patients with stage IB –IIIA disease,1 median overall survival for after surgical resection was 43·7 months. Use of adjuvant chemotherapy improved outcome but median overall survival was still only 65·7 months, and meta-analyses2 of NSCLC adjuvant chemotherapy trials suggest a relative survival benefit of just 5% at 5 years.2 When Heather Wakelee and colleagues designed the E1505 trial in 2007, the results of which are reported in The Lancet Oncology, there was a massive unmet need for better therapeutics.
Source: The Lancet Oncology - Category: Cancer & Oncology Authors: Tags: Comment Source Type: research