Data from a prospective phase 2 study (NCT03547804) indicate promising efficacy and a tolerable safety profile of apatinib (Rivoceranib) combined with single-agent chemotherapy for the treatment of patients with advanced small cell lung cancer (SCLC) who had received prior therapy for their disease. These results were presented in a poster at the 2020 World Conference on Lung Cancer (WCLC) Singapore.
While it accounts for around 15% of all lung cancers, SCLC is an aggressive malignancy with unsatisfactory treatment options in the second-line setting and beyond, with a median progression-free survival (PFS) of less than 3 months, the authors noted in their data.
Given this and the lack of targeted drugs or new chemotherapeutic agents in the advanced SCLC space, investigators from The First Hospital of Jilin University, Changchun, China, evaluated the efficacy and safety of the tyrosine…
