Ana Oaknin, Laurence Gladieff, Jerónimo Martínez-García, Guillermo Villacampa, Munetaka Takekuma, Ugo De Giorgi, Kristina Lindemann, Linn Woelber, Nicoletta Colombo, Linda Duska, Alexandra Leary, Ana Godoy-Ortiz, Shin Nishio, Antoine Angelergues, Maria Jesús Rubio, Lorena Fariñas-Madrid, Satoshi Yamaguchi, Domenica Lorusso, Isabelle Ray-Coquard, Luis Manso, Florence Joly, Jesús Alarcón, Philippe Follana, Ignacio Romero, Coriolan Lebreton, J Alejandro Pérez-Fidalgo, Mayu Yunokawa, Hanna Dahlstrand, Véronique D'Hondt, Leslie M Randall
BACKGROUND: The GOG240 trial established bevacizumab with chemotherapy as standard first-line therapy for metastatic or recurrent cervical cancer. In the BEATcc trial (ENGOT-Cx10-GEICO 68-C-JGOG1084-GOG-3030), we aimed to evaluate the addition of an immune checkpoint inhibitor to this standard backbone. METHODS: In this investigator-initiated, randomised, open-label, phase 3 trial, patients from 92 sites in Europe, Japan, and the USA with metastatic (stage IVB), persistent, or recurrent cervical cancer that was measurable, previously untreated, and not amenable to curative surgery or radiation were randomly assigned 1:1 to receive standard therapy (cisplatin 50 mg/m2 or carboplatin area under the curve of 5, paclitaxel 175 mg/m2 , and bevacizumab 15 mg/kg, all on day 1 of every 3-week cycle) with or without atezolizumab 1200 mg...
January 6, 2024: Lancet