Ramucirumab after prior sorafenib in patients with advanced hepatocellular carcinoma and elevated alpha-fetoprotein: Japanese subgroup analysis of the REACH-2 trial.

Masatoshi KudoTakuji OkusakaKenta MotomuraIzumi OhnoManabu MorimotoSatoru SeoYoshiyuki WadaShinpei SatoTatsuya YamashitaMasayuki FurukawaTakeshi AramakiSeijin NadanoKazuyoshi OhkawaHirofumi FujiiToshihiro KudoJunji FuruseHiroki TakaiGosuke HommaReigetsu YoshikawaAndrew X Zhu

Published in: Journal of gastroenterology (2020)

Ramucirumab after prior sorafenib improved PFS and OS compared with placebo, with a manageable safety profile, in the Japanese REACH-2 subpopulation, consistent with the overall REACH-2 study results. Ramucirumab is the first agent to demonstrate clinical benefit for Japanese patients with HCC in the second-line setting.

Keyphrases

phase iii
clinical trial
study protocol
open label
phase ii