Final OS analysis from the phase III j-alex study of alectinib (ALC) versus crizotinib (CRZ) in Japanese ALK-inhibitor naïve ALK-positive non-small cell lung cancer (ALK+ NSCLC)

After a median follow-up of 68.6 months in the ALC arm and 68.0 months in the CRZ arm, death events occurred in 40.8% and 39.4% in the ALC and the CRZ arms, respectively. Five-year survival rates for patients in the ALC and CRZ arm were 60.85% and 64.11%, respectively. The final OS HR was 1.03 (95%CI 0.67-1.58), however, median OS was not reached in either arm. Of note, patients in the CRZ arm tended to have their treatment switched earlier than those in the ALC arm (median time to treatment-switch: 12.3 months vs. NE). Most of the patients (78.8%) in the CRZ arm received ALC as a 1st subsequent therapy, whereas only 10.7% of patients in the ALC arm received CRZ. In this final J-ALEX OS analysis, prolongation of OS in the ALC arm was not observed compared to the CRZ arm. However, OS result may be substantially confounded since 78.8% of the patients in the CRZ arm received ALC as initial, subsequent therapy. Clinical trial information: 132316...... READ ARTICLE

Journal of Clinical Oncology DOI:10.1200/JCO.2021.39.15_suppl.9022

Authors: Hiroshige Yoshioka, Toyoaki Hida, Hiroshi Nokihara, Masahiro Morise, Young Hak Kim, Koichi Azuma, Takashi Seto, Yuichi Takiguchi, Makoto Nishio, Toru Kumagai, Katsuyuki Hotta, Satoshi Watanabe, Koichi Goto, Miyako Satouchi, Toshiyuki Kozuki, Kazuhiko Nakagawa, Tetsuya Mitsudomi, Nobuyuki Yamamoto, Takuya Yoshimoto, Tomohide Tamura