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Overall survival with 3 or 6 months of adjuvant chemotherapy in Italian TOSCA phase 3 randomised trial

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ANNALS OF ONCOLOGY
Volume 32, Issue 1, Pages 66-76

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DOI: 10.1016/j.annonc.2020.10.477

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colon cancer; adjuvant chemotherapy; stage II-III; duration; overall survival

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  1. Agenzia Italiana del Farmaco (AIFA) [FARM5RWTWZ]
  2. Gruppo Italiano Studio Carcinomi Apparato Digerente (GISCAD) Foundation

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The TOSCA study compared different durations of adjuvant chemotherapy in high-risk stage II and stage III colon cancer patients and found no significant difference in overall survival between the 3-month and 6-month treatment arms.
Background: Oxaliplatin-based adjuvant chemotherapy is the standard treatment of high-risk colon cancer (CC). A shorter duration (3 months) can achieve a similar outcome [in terms of relapse-free survival (RFS)] to a longer duration. This study reports the overall survival (OS) analysis of the three or six colon adjuvant (TOSCA) phase III study. It assessed different adjuvant chemotherapy durations in patients with resected high-risk stage II and stage III CC. Material and methods: TOSCA was an open-label, phase III, multicentre, non-inferiority trial conducted in 130 Italian centres. Patients were randomly assigned, in a 1 : 1 ratio, to receive 3 months of standard doses of FOLFOX/CAPDX, or 6 months of FOLFOX/CAPDX. Patients with histologically confirmed high-risk stage II and III CC were included, with RFS being the primary end point. OS was a secondary end point. Results: From June 2007 to March 2013, 3759 patients were accrued. At a median follow-up of 7 years, the hazard ratio (HR) for RFS of the 3-month versus 6-month arms was 1.13; 95% confidence interval (CI) 0.99-1.29, P for non-inferiority = 0.380, P for superiority = 0.068, crossing the non-inferiority limit of 1.20. This result did not allow us to reject the null hypothesis of the inferiority of the 3-month arm. The HR for OS of the 3-month versus 6-month arms was 1.09 (95% CI 0.93-1.26, P for superiority = 0.288). At the last follow-up analysis, the absolute OS difference between arms was <1%. Conclusions: The present analysis of the TOSCA trial does not indicate any significant difference in OS between the treatment groups. The extra benefit provided by the longer treatment should be balanced against the extra toxicity of more prolonged therapy.

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