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A placebo-controlled, double-blind trial of infliximab for cancer-associated weight loss in elderly and/or poor performance non-small cell lung cancer patients (N01C9).
Lung cancer (Amsterdam, Netherlands) - 1 May 2010
Jatoi Aminah, Ritter Howard L, Dueck Amylou, Nguyen Phuong L, Nikcevich Daniel A, Luyun Ronnie F, Mattar Bassam I, Loprinzi Charles L
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PURPOSE: This study tested whether infliximab, a chimeric IgG1kappa monoclonal antibody that blocks tumor necrosis factor (TNF) alpha, improves/stabilizes weight loss in elderly and/or poor performance status patients with metastatic non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC). METHODS: This double-blind trial randomly assigned patients to infliximab/docetaxel (n=32) versus placebo/docetaxel (n=29). The primary endpoint...
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