Comparison of Efficacy and Safety of Lupin’s Pegfilgrastim with Neulastim® as an Adjunct to Chemotherapy in Patients with Non Myeloid Malignancies: A Randomised Phase III Clinical Study

Autor: Minish Jain, Sharad Desai, Rajnish Nagarkar, Rakesh Neve, Unmesh Takalkar, Dhananjay Bakhle, Chirag Shah
Jazyk: angličtina
Rok vydání: 2022
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Zdroj: Journal of Clinical and Diagnostic Research, Vol 16, Iss 8, Pp XC01-XC07 (2022)
Druh dokumentu: article
ISSN: 2249-782X
0973-709X
DOI: 10.7860/JCDR/2022/57833.16768
Popis: Introduction: Pegfilgrastim is indicated in patients receiving myelosuppressive anticancer drugs to reduce the Duration of Severe Neutropenia (DSN) and incidence of Febrile Neutropenia (FN). The efficacy and safety of a proposed Pegfilgrastim biosimilar should be compared with an approved biologic drug to establish therapeutic equivalence. Aim: To compare the efficacy of Lupin’s biosimilar Pegfilgrastim versus Neulastim® (Amgen Inc.) as an adjunct to chemotherapy in patients with non-myeloid malignancies. Materials and Methods: The present prospective, open-label, randomised phase lll clinical study was conducted on a total of 170 patients with histologically or cytologically confirmed non-myeloid malignancies eligible to receive a myelosuppressive chemotherapy regimen. The participants were administered Lupin’s Pegfilgrastim (n=86) or Neulastim® (n=84) 6 mg by subcutaneous injection, once in each chemotherapy cycle for a maximum of three cycles. Patients were chemotherapy naive or had not received myelosuppressive chemotherapy within last 12 months of screening. The primary efficacy endpoint was DSN (number of days on which absolute neutrophil count
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