Trial Outcomes & Findings for Stereotactic Body Radiation Therapy in Treating Patients With Stage I Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer (NCT NCT00750269)

This study was designed to start at dose level 5. Dose levels 1-4 were in place only to be used if the regimen in general proved too toxic and lower dose levels were needed. No patients were accrued to levels 1-4.

Stereotactic Body Radiation Therapy in Treating Patients With Stage I Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer

Maximum tolerated dose (MTD) defined as dose most closely associated with a 20% probability of experiencing a toxicity \<= 1 year from start of SBRT from following dose-limiting toxicities: Gr 3-5 Cardiac: Pericardial effusion, Pericarditis, Restrictive cardiomyopathy; Gr 4-5 GI: Dysphagia, Esophagitis, Esophageal fistula/obstruction/perforation/stenosis/ulcer/hemorrhage; Gr 3-5 Nervous System Disorders: Brachial plexopathy, Recurrent laryngeal nerve palsy, Myelitis; Gr 3-5 Respiratory: Atelectasis (gr 4-5 only), Bronchopulmonary/mediastinal/pleural/tracheal hemorrhage, Bronchial/pulmonary/bronchopleural/tracheal fistula, Hypoxia (provided gr 3 is worse than baseline), Bronchial/tracheal obstruction, Pleural effusion, Pneumonitis, Pulmonary fibrosis; Changes in Pulmonary Function Tests per SBRT Pulmonary Toxicity Scale, Gr 3-5: FEV1 decline, FVC decline; Any Gr 5 adverse event attributed to treatment. Dose level was determined by time-to-event continual reassessment method (TITE-CRM).

Primary tumor control is defined as the absence of primary tumor failure. Primary tumor failure (PTF) refers to the primary treated tumor after protocol therapy and corresponds to meeting following two criteria: 1) Increase in tumor dimension of 20% as defined above for local enlargement (LE); 2) The measurable tumor with criteria meeting LE should be avid on Positron Emission Tomography (PET) imaging with uptake of a similar intensity as the pretreatment staging PET, OR the measurable tumor should be biopsied confirming viable carcinoma. Marginal Failures (MF) and Involved Lobe Failures were also counted as PTF. The cumulative incidence method was used to estimate primary tumor control rate. The 90% confidence interval for local control was calculated using bootstrapping methods. Per the protocol, only the MTD dose level was to be analyzed. However, due to the quantity of patients enrolled on Dose Level 8 as well as safety concerns, Dose Level 8 was analyzed also.

Progression-free survival is defined as the state of being alive without progression of disease. A failure is the first of the following: local progression, regional progression, distant metastasis, or death. Progression-free survival was assessed at the maximum tolerated dose using the Kaplan-Meier method to estimate the 2-year survival rate. Arms were not compared/tested.

An event for overall survival is death due to any cause. Overall survival was assessed at the maximum tolerated dose using the Kaplan-Meier method to estimate the 2-year survival rate. Arms were not compared/tested.

Local progression is the same as primary tumor failure (PTF) which refers to the primary treated tumor after protocol therapy and corresponds to meeting both of the following two criteria: 1) Increase in tumor dimension of 20% as defined above for local enlargement (LE); 2) The measurable tumor with criteria meeting LE should be avid on Positron Emission Tomography (PET) imaging with uptake of a similar intensity as the pretreatment staging PET, OR the measurable tumor should be biopsied confirming viable carcinoma. For outcome analysis, Marginal Failures (MF) and Involved Lobe Failures will also be counted as PTF. Local progression was assessed using the cumulative incidence method to estimate the 2-year failure rate. Arms were not compared/tested.

Regional nodal progression is defined as appearance after protocol therapy of measurable tumor within lymph nodes along the natural lymphatic drainage typical for the location of the treated primary disease only with dimension of at least 1.0 cm on imaging studies (preferably CT scans) within the lung, bronchial hilum, or the mediastinum. Regional nodal progression was assessed using the cumulative incidence method to estimate the 2-year failure rate. Arms were not compared/tested.

Distant metastases is defined as the appearance after protocol therapy of cancer deposits characteristic of metastatic dissemination from non-small cell lung cancer. Distant metastases progression was assessed using the cumulative incidence method to estimate the 2-year failure rate. Arms were not compared/tested.

Rate of patients developing any treatment-related toxicity during the first year following the start of SBRT that is not among the types considered as a dose-limiting toxicity.

Percentage of patients who developed any treatment-related toxicity after the first year following the start of SBRT.