Phase II Trial of Atezolizumab As First-Line or Subsequent Therapy for Patients With Programmed Death-Ligand 1–Selected Advanced Non–Small-Cell Lung Cancer (BIRCH)
Peters S, Gettinger S, Johnson ML, Jänne PA, Garassino MC, Christoph D, Toh CK, Rizvi NA, Chaft JE, Carcereny Costa E, Patel JD, Chow LQM, Koczywas M, Ho C, Früh M, van den Heuvel M, Rothenstein J, Reck M, Paz-Ares L, Shepherd FA, Kurata T, Li Z, Qiu J, Kowanetz M, Mocci S, Shankar G, Sandler A, Felip E. Phase II Trial of Atezolizumab As First-Line or Subsequent Therapy for Patients With Programmed Death-Ligand 1–Selected Advanced Non–Small-Cell Lung Cancer (BIRCH). Journal Of Clinical Oncology 2017, 35: jco.2016.71.947. PMID: 28609226, PMCID: PMC5562171, DOI: 10.1200/jco.2016.71.9476.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchConceptsMedian overall survivalOverall survivalImmune cellsPD-L1Tumor cellsLung cancerAdvanced non-small cell lung cancerNon-small cell lung cancerTumor-infiltrating immune cellsEnd pointEfficacy of atezolizumabEfficacy-evaluable patientsMethods Eligible patientsObjective response ratePrimary end pointSecondary end pointsLines of therapyPD-L1 expressionPD-L1 statusPhase II trialProgression-free survivalDeath ligand 1Cell lung cancerKRAS mutation statusAtezolizumab monotherapy