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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2014 Feb 1.
Published in final edited form as: Cancer Treat Rev. 2012 Aug 13;39(1):97–104. doi: 10.1016/j.ctrv.2012.07.002

Table 4.

Efficacy Outcomes

Outcome Tumor Type Denosumab
(n/N)
Bisphosphonates
(n/N)
RR 95%CI I2
Incidence of SRE
Denosumab vs. Pamidronate
Body 200632 Breast
Myeloma
1/44 0/10 0.73 0.03, 16.8
Denosumab vs. Zoledronic Acid/Pamidronate/Ibandronate e
Lipton 200728 Breast 25/212 7/43 0.72 0.33, 1.5
Fizazi 200933 Prostate Breast
Solid tumorsb
6/73 6/37 0.51 0.18, 1.4
Denosumab vs. Zoledronic Acid
Stopeck 201034 Breast 471/1,026 595/1,020 0.79 0.72, 0.86
Fizazi 201135 Prostate 494/950 584/951 0.85 0.78. 0.92
Henry 201136 All tumors,c
Myeloma
392/886 436/890 0.90 0.82, 1.0
      Pooled 0.84 0.78,0.91 53%
OVERALL POOLED ESTIMATE 0.84 0.80, 0.88 7%

Time to first on-study SRE Median
time
(months)
Median time
(months)
HR 95%CI I2
Denosumab vs. Zoledronic Acid
Stopeck 201034 Breast Not reached 26.4 0.82 0.71, 0.95
Fizazi 201135 Prostate 20.7 17.1 0.82 0.71, 0.95
Henry 201136 All tumors,c
Myeloma
20.6 16.3 0.84 0.71, 0.98
      Pooled 0.83 0.75, 0.90 0%

Overall survival
Denosumab vs. Zoledronic Acid
Stopeck 201034 Breast Not reached Not reached 0.95 0.81, 1.1
Fizazi 201135 Prostate 19.4 19.8 1.0 0.91, 1.1
Henry 201136 All tumors,c
Myeloma
13 13 0.95 0.83, 1.0
      Pooled 0.98 0.90, 1.0 0%

Time to worsening of paind,e HR 95%CI I2
Denosumab vs. Zoledronic Acid
Stopeck 201038 Breast(1,042) 9.7 5.7 .78 0.67, 0.92
Brown 201140 Prostate (1,901) 5.8 4.8 .89 0.77, 1.0
von Moos 201039 All tumors,c
Myeloma (1,776)
5.5 4.7 .85 0.73, 0.98
      Pooled 0.84 0.77, 0.91 0%
a

Insufficient information to analyze the data for each bisphosphonates;

b

Except lung;

c

Except breast and prostate cancer;

d

Time to worsening from no/mild to moderate/severe pain;

e

Outcome measured at 73 weeks for Stopeck et al., and von Moos et al. Brown et al reported at 45 weeks. SRE, skeletal-related event.