Marcia S Brose, Bruce Robinson, Steven I Sherman, Jolanta Krajewska, Chia-Chi Lin, Fernanda Vaisman, Ana O Hoff, Erika Hitre, Daniel W Bowles, Jorge Hernando, Leonardo Faoro, Kamalika Banerjee, Jennifer W Oliver, Bhumsuk Keam, Jaume Capdevila
BACKGROUND: Patients with radioiodine-refractory differentiated thyroid cancer (DTC) previously treated with vascular endothelial growth factor receptor (VEGFR)-targeted therapy have aggressive disease and no available standard of care. The aim of this study was to evaluate the tyrosine kinase inhibitor cabozantinib in this patient population. METHODS: In this global, randomised, double-blind, placebo-controlled, phase 3 trial, patients aged 16 years and older with radioiodine-refractory DTC (papillary or follicular and their variants) and an Eastern Cooperative Oncology Group performance status of 0 or 1 were randomly assigned (2:1) to oral cabozantinib (60 mg once daily) or matching placebo, stratified by previous lenvatinib treatment and age...
August 2021: Lancet Oncology