Sara Lonardi, Cosimo Rasola, Riccardo Lobefaro, Daniele Rossini, Vincenzo Formica, Mario Scartozzi, Giovanni Luca Frassineti, Giorgia Boscolo, Saverio Cinieri, Samantha Di Donato, Nicoletta Pella, Francesca Bergamo, Alessandra Raimondi, Ermenegildo Arnoldi, Lorenzo Antonuzzo, Cristina Granetto, Fable Zustovich, Monica Ronzoni, Silvana Leo, Federica Morano, Fotios Loupakis, Federica Buggin, Vittorina Zagonel, Matteo Fassan, Chiara Cremolini, Luca Boni, Filippo Pietrantonio
PURPOSE: To verify whether both doublet chemotherapy with a modified schedule of fluorouracil, leucovorin, and oxaliplatin (mFOLFOX) and monochemotherapy with fluorouracil plus leucovorin (5-FU + LV) achieve satisfactory efficacy when both regimens are combined with panitumumab (PAN) as initial treatment of elderly patients with RAS / BRAF wild-type metastatic colorectal cancer (mCRC). PATIENTS AND METHODS: PANDA (ClinicalTrials.gov identifier: NCT02904031) was an open-label, randomized phase II noncomparative trial in previously untreated patients age 70 years and older with unresectable RAS / BRAF wild-type mCRC...
December 1, 2023: Journal of Clinical Oncology