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Objective To compare the efficacy and safety of icotinib therapy alone versus icotinib combined with thoracic radiotherapy for the treatment of advanced non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) patients with an activating epidermal growth factor receptor (EGFR) gene mutation.Methods A total of 83 patients with advanced NSCLC harboring an activating EGFR gene mutation was enrolled in this study.All the patients were randomly divided into 2 groups.Patients in group A (n =41) received thoracic radiotherapy (prescribed at 60-66 Gy) combined with icotinib (three times per day,125 mg once).Patients in group B (n =42) were given icotinib therapy alone (three times per day,125 mg once).Treatment was continued until disease progression or unacceptable toxicity or death.The primary end points were median progression-free survival (mPFS) and 12 month-PFS rate.The secondary end points included objective response rate (ORR),disease control rate (DCR) and adverse events.Results With a median follow-up of 18.2 months,mPFS was 15.2 months (95％ CI:12.2-17.4) in group A and 13.2 months (95％ CI:10.8-14.9) in group B (x2 =4.29,P=0.036).PFS rates of 12 months for group A and group B were 70.3％ and 61.2％,respectively.The ORR were 78.0％ vs.57.1％ (x2 =5.16,P =0.028),and the DCR were 95.1％ vs.92.9％ (P＞0.05) in groups A and group B,respectively.No grade 3-4 adverse events was observed in both groups except the rashes (4 cases in each group).Besides,10 patients had grade 1-2 radiation-related pneumonitis and 15 patients suffered grade 1-2 radiation-related oesophagitis in group A.Conclusions In advanced NSCLC patients with an activating EGFR gene mutation,the combination of thoracic radiotherapy and icotinib had achieved an improvement on ORR and PFS with good tolerance.Clinical trial registration Chinese clinical trial registry,ChiCTRINR-16010262.
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Objective To observe and analyze the clinical efficacy of docetaxel and S-1 in treatment of anthracycline-resistant triple-negtive breast cancer(TNBC).Methods 64 cases with TNBC admitted in People' Hospital of Shaoxing City from June 2009 to June 2011were selected as research object.The clinical data of these cases were analyzed retrospectively.Anthracycline had been used to treat the cases, but with no effect or recurrence.Then docetaxel combined with S-1 was applied to the cases.Clinical efficacy and adverse reactions of the chemotherapy were observed and analyzed. Results After treatment,the efficiency of 64 cases was 54.69%,and the disease control rate was 79.69%.During the treatment,the main adverse reactions were gastrointestinal reactions and bone marrow suppression,without death,and patients could tolerate the adverse event.Follow-up results showed that the median time of progression was 10.5 months.After two years,progression-free survival rate was 0.Conclusion Docetaxel combined with S-1 has good clinical efficacy for anthracycline-resistant triple-negtive breast cancer,with relatively mild side effects,which may be an ideal adjuvant chemotherapy method.
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Objective To evaluate the efficacy and safety of paclitaxel plus cisplatin combination in treatment patients with advanced or metastatic squamous-cell carcinoma of the esophagus(ESCC).Methods Twenty-five patients with advanced or metastatic ESCC received paclitaxel 175mg/m2 by 3-hour infusion on day 1 and cisplatin 25mg/m2 by infusion on day 1 ～ 3.3 weeks as one cycle.Results Twenty-four patients were eligible to be evaluated the efficacy and safety.The overall response rate was 45.8％ with complete and partial response rates of 4.1％ and 41.7％,respectively.The median survival time of all patients was 11 months(95％ CI:8.35 ～ 13.65 months).There was significant difference in the median overall survival between the patients who had showed response versus those who had not(P =0.022).Median survival was 12.5 months(95％ CI:9.11 ～ 15.90 months) and 8 months(95％CI:5.50 -9.50 months),respectively.The 1-year survival probability was 37.3％.The most common toxicities were leukopenia,neutropenia,thrombocytopenia and alopecia.Conclusion The effect of paclitaxel and cisplatin which seems beneficial as first-line therapy in advanced squamous-cell carcinoma of the esophagus had a high effective rate with acceptable toxicity.