% IMPORTANT: The following is UTF-8 encoded. This means that in the presence % of non-ASCII characters, it will not work with BibTeX 0.99 or older. % Instead, you should use an up-to-date BibTeX implementation like “bibtex8” or % “biber”. @ARTICLE{Herrlinger:860831, author = {Herrlinger, Ulrich and Tzaridis, Theophilos and Mack, Frederic and Steinbach, Joachim Peter and Schlegel, Uwe and Sabel, Michael and Hau, Peter and Kortmann, Rolf-Dieter and Krex, Dietmar and Grauer, Oliver and Goldbrunner, Roland and Schnell, Oliver and Bähr, Oliver and Uhl, Martin and Seidel, Clemens and Tabatabai, Ghazaleh and Kowalski, Thomas and Ringel, Florian and Schmidt-Graf, Friederike and Suchorska, Bogdana and Brehmer, Stefanie and Weyerbrock, Astrid and Renovanz, Miriam and Bullinger, Lars and Galldiks, Norbert and Vajkoczy, Peter and Misch, Martin and Vatter, Hartmut and Stuplich, Moritz and Schäfer, Niklas and Kebir, Sied and Weller, Johannes and Schaub, Christina and Stummer, Walter and Tonn, Jörg-Christian and Simon, Matthias and Keil, Vera C and Nelles, Michael and Urbach, Horst and Coenen, Martin and Wick, Wolfgang and Weller, Michael and Fimmers, Rolf and Schmid, Matthias and Hattingen, Elke and Pietsch, Torsten and Coch, Christoph and Glas, Martin}, title = {{L}omustine-temozolomide combination therapy versus standard temozolomide therapy in patients with newly diagnosed glioblastoma with methylated {MGMT} promoter ({C}e{T}e{G}/{NOA}–09): a randomised, open-label, phase 3 trial}, journal = {The lancet}, volume = {393}, number = {10172}, issn = {0140-6736}, address = {London [u.a.]}, publisher = {Elsevier}, reportid = {FZJ-2019-01486}, pages = {678 - 688}, year = {2019}, abstract = {BackgroundThere is an urgent need for more effective therapies for glioblastoma. Data from a previous unrandomised phase 2 trial suggested that lomustine-temozolomide plus radiotherapy might be superior to temozolomide chemoradiotherapy in newly diagnosed glioblastoma with methylation of the MGMT promoter. In the CeTeG/NOA-09 trial, we aimed to further investigate the effect of lomustine-temozolomide therapy in the setting of a randomised phase 3 trial.MethodsIn this open-label, randomised, phase 3 trial, we enrolled patients from 17 German university hospitals who were aged 18–70 years, with newly diagnosed glioblastoma with methylated MGMT promoter, and a Karnofsky Performance Score of $70\%$ and higher. Patients were randomly assigned (1:1) with a predefined SAS-generated randomisation list to standard temozolomide chemoradiotherapy (75 mg/m2 per day concomitant to radiotherapy [59–60 Gy] followed by six courses of temozolomide 150–200 mg/m2 per day on the first 5 days of the 4-week course) or to up to six courses of lomustine (100 mg/m2 on day 1) plus temozolomide (100–200 mg/m2 per day on days 2–6 of the 6-week course) in addition to radiotherapy (59–60 Gy). Because of the different schedules, patients and physicians were not masked to treatment groups. The primary endpoint was overall survival in the modified intention-to-treat population, comprising all randomly assigned patients who started their allocated chemotherapy. The prespecified test for overall survival differences was a log-rank test stratified for centre and recursive partitioning analysis class. The trial is registered with ClinicalTrials.gov, number NCT01149109.FindingsBetween June 17, 2011, and April 8, 2014, 141 patients were randomly assigned to the treatment groups; 129 patients (63 in the temozolomide and 66 in the lomustine-temozolomide group) constituted the modified intention-to-treat population. Median overall survival was improved from 31·4 months $(95\%$ CI 27·7–47·1) with temozolomide to 48·1 months (32·6 months–not assessable) with lomustine-temozolomide (hazard ratio [HR] 0·60, $95\%$ CI 0·35–1·03; p=0·0492 for log-rank analysis). A significant overall survival difference between groups was also found in a secondary analysis of the intention-to-treat population (n=141, HR 0·60, $95\%$ CI 0·35–1·03; p=0·0432 for log-rank analysis). Adverse events of grade 3 or higher were observed in 32 $(51\%)$ of 63 patients in the temozolomide group and 39 $(59\%)$ of 66 patients in the lomustine-temozolomide group. There were no treatment-related deaths.InterpretationOur results suggest that lomustine-temozolomide chemotherapy might improve survival compared with temozolomide standard therapy in patients with newly diagnosed glioblastoma with methylated MGMT promoter. The findings should be interpreted with caution, owing to the small size of the trial.}, cin = {INM-3}, ddc = {610}, cid = {I:(DE-Juel1)INM-3-20090406}, pnm = {572 - (Dys-)function and Plasticity (POF3-572)}, pid = {G:(DE-HGF)POF3-572}, typ = {PUB:(DE-HGF)16}, pubmed = {pmid:30782343}, UT = {WOS:000458817300026}, doi = {10.1016/S0140-6736(18)31791-4}, url = {https://juser.fz-juelich.de/record/860831}, }