The purpose of this study is to studying neoadjuvant gefitinib followed by surgery, followed by adjuvant gefitinib to see how well it works in treating patients with unresectable stage III NSCLC harboring EGFR mutations.
Concurrent chemoradiotherapy is the recommended therapeutic approach for patients with unresectable stage III non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC), although surgery offers the chance of cure. With combined-modality therapy with radiation therapy and chemotherapy, the prognosis of stage III NSCLC remains poor. Gefitinib has shown great efficacy in NSCLC patients with EGFR mutations. This study is to studying neoadjuvant gefitinib followed by surgery, followed by adjuvant gefitinib to see how well it works in treating patients with unresectable EGFR mutant stage III NSCLC.
Study Type
INTERVENTIONAL
Allocation
NA
Purpose
TREATMENT
Masking
NONE
neoadjuvant gefitinib followed by surgery, followed by adjuvant gefitinib
Sun Yat-sen University Cancer Center
Guangzhou, Guangdong, China
Resectability rate
Time frame: 3 months
Number of participants with perioperative complications
Time frame: 1 year
Event-free survival
Event-free survival was assessed from randomization to disease recurrence/progression or death from any cause.
Time frame: 2 years after the last patient is randomized
Overall survival
Overall survival was assessed from randomization to death from any cause.
Time frame: 2 years after the last patient is randomized
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