作者: Jim Cassidy , Stephen Clarke , Eduardo Díaz-Rubio , Werner Scheithauer , Arie Figer
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摘要: Purpose To evaluate whether capecitabine plus oxaliplatin (XELOX) is noninferior to fluorouracil. folinic acid, and oxaliplatin (FOLFOX-4) as first-line therapy in metastatic colorectal cancer (MCRC). Patients and Methods The initial design of this trial was a randomized, two-arm, noninferiority, phase III comparison of XELOX versus FOLFOX-4. After patient accrual had begun, the trial design was amended in 2003 after bevacizumab phase III data became available. The resulting 2× 2 factorial design randomly assigned patients to …