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. 2023 Feb 23;23:186. doi: 10.1186/s12885-023-10553-7

Table 4.

Treatment effects in patients with GC/GEJC/EAC, with negative/unknown HER2, on first-line treatment

Observations Total n = 682 France n = 168 Germany n = 146 UK n = 145 US n = 99 Japan n = 36 China n = 88
Time since start of first-line treatment, days 629 158 139 123 88 35 86
 Mean (SD) 90 (163) 80 (93) 78 (86) 62 (43) 125 (370) 177 (193) 95 (69)
 Median (IQR) 62 (30–103) 51 (26–99) 62 (30–987) 49 (30–85) 58 (30–103) 166 (30–250) 81 (50–122)
Response to current therapy, n (%) 469 86 112 84 73 30 84
 Stable disease 166 (35.4) 32 (37.2) 41 (36.6) 25 (29.8) 25 (34.3) 16 (53.3) 27 (32.1)
 Partial response 273 (58.2) 49 (57.0) 67 (59.8) 59 (70.2) 38 (52.1) 10 (33.3) 50 (59.5)
 Complete response 8 (1.7) 2 (2.3) 0 (0.0) 0 (0.0) 4 (5.5) 0 (0.0) 2 (2.4)
 Disease progression 22 (4.7) 3 (3.5) 4 (3.6) 0 (0.0) 6 (8.2) 4 (13.3) 5 (6.0)
Nonpharmacological treatments, n (%) 682 168 146 145 99 36 88
 Surgery 162 (23.8) 19 (11.3) 65 (44.5) 11 (7.6) 17 (17.2) 7 (19.4) 43 (48.9)
 Radiotherapy 103 (15.1) 17 (10.1) 35 (24.0) 10 (6.9) 22 (22.2) 1 (2.8) 18 (20.5)
 Stent 72 (10.6) 16 (9.5) 12 (8.2) 30 (20.7) 10 (10.1) 3 (8.3) 1 (1.1)
 Laser therapy 5 (0.7) 0 (0.0) 4 (2.7) 0 (0.0) 1 (1.0) 0 (0.0) 0 (0.0)
 None 5 (0.7) 0 (0.0) 4 (2.7) 0 (0.0) 1 (1.0) 0 (0.0) 0 (0.0)
Bothered by side effects, n (%) 676 166 144 145 98 35 88
 Not at all 81 (12.0) 8 (4.8) 10 (6.9) 21 (14.5) 22 (22.5) 2 (5.7) 18 (20.5)
 A little bit 212 (31.4) 62 (37.4) 42 (29.2) 48 (33.1) 27 (27.6) 15 (42.9) 18 (20.5)
 Somewhat 247 (36.5) 51 (30.7) 67 (46.5) 55 (37.9) 25 (25.5) 14 (40.0) 35 (39.8)
 Quite a bit 110 (16.3) 42 (25.3) 19 (13.2) 14 (9.7) 19 (19.4) 3 (8.6) 13 (14.8)
 Very much 26 (3.9) 3 (1.8) 6 (4.2) 7 (4.8) 5 (5.1) 1 (2.9) 4 (4.6)

EAC Esophageal adenocarcinoma, GC Gastric cancer, GEJC Gastroesophageal junction cancer, HER2 Human epidermal growth factor receptor 2, IQR Interquartile range, SD Standard deviation, UK United Kingdom, US United States