Among 103 patients with soft-tissue sarcomas that had progressed after two to four lines of standard chemotherapy, median progression-free survival (PFS) for patients randomized to trabectedin was 3.12 months, compared with 1.51 for patients randomized to best supportive care.
This difference translated into a hazard ratio (HR) favoring trabectedin of 0.39 (P less than .0001), Axel Le Cesne, MD, of Gustave Roussy Cancer Institute in Villejuif, France, reported on behalf of colleagues in the French Sarcoma Group. ...