Fatal Interstitial Lung Disease after Addition of Sorafenib to a Patient with Lung Adenocarcinoma Who Had Failed to Improve with Erlotinib Alone

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Interstitial lung disease (ILD) induced by epidermal growth factor receptor tyrosine kinase inhibitors has been extensively documented with decreasing incidence after appropriate patient selection due to increasing awareness over the years. However, ILD induced by sorafenib was mentioned with lower frequency only in patients with hepatocellular and renal cell carcinoma living in Japan but not in patients with other carcinomas or living outside Japan, and it has been overlooked in clinical practice. In the present case, sorafenib was added to the treatment of a 60-year-old non-smoking patient with non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC). After his failing to improve with erlotinib alone, erlotinib was continued to be given in combination with sorafenib as a salvage therapy. Although clinical signs of ILD were observed 2 weeks after the addition of sorafenib, the radiological diagnosis of ILD was only made 41 days after the initiation of the combination treatment, and the patient died 56 days after treatment onset. It was concluded that ILD was indeed induced by sorafenib. This is the first report of ILD induced by sorafenib in a patient with NSCLC living outside Japan. Oncologists should be aware of this fatal complication for its early detection in order to avoid a severe course of ILD leading to a decrease in the ILD mortality rate.

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Disease flare after tyrosine kinase inhibitor discontinuation in patients with EGFR-mutant lung cancer and acquired resistance to erlotinib or gefitinib: implications for clinical trial design.

Geoffrey R Oxnard, Travis Miller, Jamie E. Chaft … (2011)

Treatment of patients with oncogene-addicted cancers with tyrosine kinase inhibitors (TKI) is biologically and clinically different than with cytotoxic chemotherapy. We have observed that some patients with EGFR-mutant lung cancer and acquired resistance to erlotinib or gefitinib (RECIST progression after initial benefit) have accelerated progression of disease after discontinuation of TKI. To examine this observation and define the course of patients following TKI discontinuation, we systematically evaluated patients enrolled on clinical trials of agents to treat acquired resistance to erlotinib or gefitinib. We evaluated patients with EGFR-mutant lung cancer who participated in trials for patients with acquired resistance that mandated TKI discontinuation before administration of study therapy. Disease flare was defined as hospitalization or death attributable to disease progression during the washout period. Fourteen of 61 patients (23%; 95% CI: 14-35) experienced a disease flare. The median time to disease flare after TKI discontinuation was 8 days (range 3-21). Factors associated with disease flare included shorter time to progression on initial TKI (P = 0.002) and the presence of pleural (P = 0.03) or CNS disease (P = 0.01). There was no association between disease flare and the presence of T790M at the time of acquired resistance. In patients with EGFR-mutant lung cancer and acquired resistance to epidermal growth factor receptor TKIs, discontinuation of erlotinib or gefitinib before initiation of study treatment is associated with a clinically significant risk of accelerated disease progression. Clinical trials in this patient population must minimize protocol-mandated washout periods. ©2011 AACR

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Randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled, phase II trial of sorafenib and erlotinib or erlotinib alone in previously treated advanced non-small-cell lung cancer.

D. Spigel, B. Daniel, R. Mitchell … (2011)

Sorafenib, an oral multikinase inhibitor, has shown preliminary activity in non-small-cell lung cancer (NSCLC). Patients with advanced NSCLC were treated with erlotinib with or without sorafenib in this multicenter phase II trial. Key eligibility criteria included the following: stage IIIB or IV NSCLC; one to two prior regimens; Eastern Cooperative Oncology Group performance status of 0 to 2; and measurable disease. Patients were randomly assigned 2:1 to sorafenib (400 mg orally twice a day) plus erlotinib (150 mg orally daily) or placebo plus erlotinib and stratified by squamous/nonsquamous histology and prior bevacizumab. Treatment efficacy, measured by progression-free survival (PFS) and overall response rate (ORR), was compared. Treatment of 168 patients allowed detection of 40% improvement in the historical PFS of 2.2 months with single-agent erlotinib. One hundred sixty-eight patients enrolled from February 2008 to February 2009. Clinical characteristics of the two groups were similar. ORRs for sorafenib/erlotinib and placebo/erlotinib were 8% and 11%, respectively (P = .56); disease control rates were 54% and 38%, respectively (P = .056). Median PFS was 3.38 months for sorafenib/erlotinib versus 1.94 months for placebo/erlotinib (hazard ratio, 0.86; 95% CI, 0.60 to 1.22; P = .196). Seventy-two patients consented to analyses of tumor epidermal growth factor receptor (EGFR). In 67 patients with EGFR wild-type (WT) tumors, median PFS was 3.38 months for sorafenib/erlotinib versus 1.77 months for placebo/erlotinib (P = .018); median overall survival (OS) was 8 months for sorafenib/erlotinib versus 4.5 months for placebo/erlotinib (P = .019). An OS advantage for sorafenib/erlotinib was suggested among 43 patients with fluorescent in situ hybridization (FISH) EGFR-negative tumors (P = .064). Both regimens were tolerable, with modest toxicity increase with sorafenib. Although there was little difference in ORR or PFS, subset analyses in EGFR WT and EGFR FISH-negative patients suggest a benefit for the combination of erlotinib/sorafenib compared with single-agent erlotinib with respect to PFS and OS.

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Journal ID (doi): 10.1159/issn.1662-6575

Title: Case Reports in Oncology

Publisher: S. Karger AG

ISSN (Electronic): 1662-6575

Publication date Subscription-year: 2014

Publication date Collection: January – April 2014

Publication date (Electronic): 25 April 2014

Volume: 7

Issue: 1

Pages: 273-276

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Departments of ^aMedical Oncology and ^bRadiology, the Chinese PLA General Hospital, Beijing, and ^cDepartment of Medical Oncology, the Chinese PLA General Hospital (Hainan branch), Sanya, China

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*Shun-Chang Jiao, Department of Medical Oncology, The Chinese PLA General Hospital, No. 28 Fuxing Road, Haidian District, Beijing, 100853 (China), E-Mail jiaosc@vip.sina.com

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Fatal Interstitial Lung Disease after Addition of Sorafenib to a Patient with Lung Adenocarcinoma Who Had Failed to Improve with Erlotinib Alone

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Disease flare after tyrosine kinase inhibitor discontinuation in patients with EGFR-mutant lung cancer and acquired resistance to erlotinib or gefitinib: implications for clinical trial design.

FDA drug approval summary: erlotinib (Tarceva) tablets.

Randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled, phase II trial of sorafenib and erlotinib or erlotinib alone in previously treated advanced non-small-cell lung cancer.

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