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Bevacizumab-related arterial hypertension as a predictive marker in metastatic colorectal cancer patients

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Purpose

Patients with metastatic colorectal cancer (mCRC) receiving all three active drugs (irinotecan, oxaliplatin, fluorouracil) achieve the best outcome. Bevacizumab added to chemotherapy further improves progression-free (PFS) survival and overall survival. As arterial hypertension has been reported in all studies involving bevacizumab, we retrospectively analysed the correlation between the modifications of arterial blood pressure and response rate (RR) and PFS in mCRC patients treated with bevacizumab.

Patients and methods

Patients with histologically proven mCRC receiving a first-line chemotherapeutic treatment were eligible. Arterial blood pressure was measured daily and hypertension graduated according to NCI-CTC V3.0 scale.

Results

Seventy-four patients were considered for the present analysis; median age was 57 years (range 31–80). Sixty-seven patients had undergone surgery on primary tumour and, of these, 19 patients had formerly received adjuvant chemotherapy for stage II–III tumours. Chemotherapeutic regimens for metastatic disease were FOLFIRI (61 patients), FOLFOXIRI (6 patients), XELOX (5 patients) and XELIRI (2 patients). Eighteen patients (24.3%) had basal hypertension. Thirteen patients (17.6%) developed G2–G4 arterial hypertension. Six complete (8.1%) and 31 partial (41.9%) responses were recorded. Among patients with induced arterial hypertension, 84.6% achieved a complete or partial response, as compared with 42.6% of patients who did not show this side effect (P = 0.006). Kaplan–Meier analysis showed a statistically significant improvement in median PFS for patients with induced arterial hypertension (15.1 vs. 8.3 months, P = 0.04).

Conclusions

Our data suggest that bevacizumab-related arterial hypertension may represent a predictive factor of response and prolonged PFS in patients with mCRC receiving first-line bevacizumab.

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    Alfonso De Stefano, Chiara Carlomagno, Stefano Pepe, Roberto Bianco & Sabino De Placido

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De Stefano, A., Carlomagno, C., Pepe, S. et al. Bevacizumab-related arterial hypertension as a predictive marker in metastatic colorectal cancer patients. Cancer Chemother Pharmacol 68, 1207–1213 (2011). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00280-011-1604-1

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