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. 2014 Jun 30;4(3):386–401. doi: 10.3390/jpm4030386

Table 1.

Comparative description of study designs.

Study Identifier
Name
Sponsor
Study Design Setting Biomarker/Population Selection Treatment Arms Primary Endpoint Tissue Requirement for Biomarker Analysis
3.1. Trials with EGFR Pathway Targeted Therapies
NCT00637910
TAILOR
Fatebenefratelli and Ophthalmic Hospital
Phase III
Randomized
Open label
2nd line EGFR WT Erlotinib
Docetaxel
OS Archived tissue
NCT01360554
ARCHER 1009
Pfizer
Phase III
Randomized
Double blind
Superiority
2nd line
3rd line
none Erlotinib
Dacomitinib
PFS Archived tissue
NCT01466660
LUX-Lung 7
Boehringer Ingelheim
Phase II
Randomized
Open label
Superiority
1st line EGFR mut
Adenocarcinoma
Gefitinib
Afatinib
PFS No
NCT01523587
LUX-Lung 8
Boehringer Ingelheim
Phase III
Randomized
Open label
Superiority
2nd line Squamous cell carcinoma Erlotinib
Afatinib
PFS Archived tissue
NCT01487265
SCRI Development Innovations, LLC/Novartis
Phase II
Single arm
2nd line
3rd line
4th line
EGFR TKI sensitive Erlotinib plus BKM120 PFS at 3 months Archived tissue
NCT01294306
NCI
Phase II
Single arm
Any line Erlotinib sensitive Erlotinib plus MK2206 EGFR mut: ORR Archived tissue
EGFR WT: DCR
NCT01229150
NCI
Phase II
Randomized
Open label
2nd line
3rd line
KRAS mut KRAS mut: Selumetinib
Selumetinib plus erlotinib
KRAS mut: ORR Archived tissue
KRAS WT KRAS WT: Erlotinib
Erlotinib plus selumetinib
KRAS WT: PFS
3.2. Trials with ALK Pathway Targeted Therapies
NCT01801111
Hoffmann-La Roche
Phase II
Single arm
2nd line or higher ALK translocation
Prior progression on crizotinib
Erlotinib plus alectinib ORR No
NCT01449461
Ariad Pharmaceuticals
Phase II
Single arm
Any line ALK translocation
Prior progression on crizotinib
AP26113 ORR Archived tissue
ALK translocation
Crizotinib naive
3.3. Trials with MET and EGFR Pathway Combination Targeted Therapies
NCT01456325
MetLung
Hoffmann-La Roche
Phase III
Randomized
Double blind
2nd line
3rd line
MET positive Erlotinib
Erlotinib plus onartuzumab
OS Archived tissue
3.4. Trials with Angiogenesis and EGFR Pathway Combination Targeted Therapies
NCT01562028
BELIEF
European Thoracic Oncology Platform/Spanish Lung Cancer Group
Phase II
Single arm
1st line EGFR mut
Non Squamous
Erlotinib plus bevacizumab PFS Archived tissue
NCT01532089
Academic and Community Cancer Research United
Phase II
Randomized
Open label
1st line EGFR mut
Non Squamous
Erlotinib
Erlotinib plus bevacizumab
PFS No
3.5. Trials with Targeted Therapies from Multiple Pathways
NCT01306045
NCI
Phase II
Non randomized
Open label
EGFR mut: 1st line or higher EGFR mut EGFR mut: erlotinib
KRAS, NRAS, HRAS, or BRAF mut: selumetinib
ORR Archived tissue
Other groups: 2nd line or higher KRAS, NRAS, HRAS, or BRAF mut
PI3K Activation PI3K activation: MK2206
HER2 activation HER2 activation: lapatinib
PDGFR mut or amplification or KIT mut PDGFR mut or amplification or KIT mut: sunitinib
NCT01248247
BATTLE II
M.D. Anderson Cancer Center
Phase II
Randomized
Open label
Any line Adaptive randomization based on ongoing analysis that attests which treatment is best in the setting of specific biomarker patterns Erlotinib
Erlotinib plus MK2206
MK2206 plus selumetinib
sorafenib
8 week PFS Real time biopsy
3.6. Trials with Therapies Inhibiting Miscellaneous Targets
NCT00787267
TOP0801
DUKE University
Phase II
Single arm
2nd line or higher None dasatinib Biomarker predictors of response Real time biopsy
NCT01514864
Bristol-Myers Squibb
Phase II
Single arm
Any line BRAF or DDR2 mutations dasatinib ORR No
NCT01124864
Novartis Pharmaceuticals
Phase II
Single arm
3rd or higher EGFR mut AUY922 Response at 18 weeks Archived tissue
Real time biopsy only for the modified EGFR mut group
KRAS mut
EGFR and KRAS WT
ALK translocation
Modified EGFR mut (EGFR mut with prior response to EGFR TKI)
NCT01788332
Lisette Nixon
Phase II
Randomized
Double blind
Maintenance after 1st line chemotherapy Only patients with response to first line chemotherapy will be randomized Olaparib
Placebo
PFS Archived tissue
NCT01560104
AbbVie
Phase II
Randomized 2:1
Double blind
1st line EGFR wild type Carboplatin plus paclitaxel plus veliparib
Carboplatin plus paclitaxel plus placebo
PFS Archived tissue

Abbreviations: TKI, tyrosine kinase inhibitor; PFS, progression-free survival; OS, overall survival; mut, mutant; WT, wild-type; ORR odds ratio.