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CELLULAR PHYSIOLOGY AND BIOCHEMISTRY
Volume 40, Issue 1-2, Pages 361-369Publisher
KARGER
DOI: 10.1159/000452551
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Metastatic colorectal cancer; First line treatment; RAS mutations; Network meta-analysis
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- Educational Commission of Liaoning Province of China [20060973]
- Science and Technology Planning Project of Liaoning Province of China [2007225009-1, 2011404013-9, 2011225019, 2013225079]
- National Natural Science Foundation of China [81372532]
- Science and Technology Planning Project of Shenyang [F15-139-9-27]
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Background/Aims: Whether patients with RAS mutation metastatic colorectal cancer (mCRC) obtain benefits from bevacizumab added to first-line chemotherapy remains unclear. Methods: PubMed, Cochrane Systematic Reviews, the Cochrane Collaboration Central Register of Controlled Clinical Trials, ClinicalTrials.gov, and the American Society of Clinical Oncology and European Society for Medical Oncology databases were searched to identify abstracts for randomized controlled trials (RCTs) evaluating the efficacy of bevacizumab for the first-line treatment of patients with RAS mutations mCRC from inception to the end of April 2016. Hazard ratios (HRs) for overall survival (OS) and progression-free survival (PFS) were estimated. Results: Ten eligible papers reporting six RCTs were included. In the network meta-analysis of patients with RAS mutations, bevacizumab + chemotherapy prolonged PFS compared with chemotherapy alone (HR 0.75, 95% CI 0.51-1.10), but the difference was not statistically significant. Bevacizumab + chemotherapy did not prolong OS compared with chemotherapy alone (HR 1.10, 95% CI 0.73-1.66). Conclusion: There was insufficient evidence to definitively state that patients with RAS mutations mCRC could benefit from bevacizumab combined with chemotherapy as first-line treatment. (C) 2016 The Author(s) Published by S. Karger AG, Basel
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