Benefit-risk evaluation of ziv-aflibercept in combination with irinotecan-fluoropyrimidine-based chemotherapy (FOLFIRI) from the VELOUR trial using multicriteria decision analysis (MCDA).

2017 
e14656 Background: In the VELOUR trial, in metastatic colorectal cancer (mCRC) patients, ziv-aflibercept (Afl) combined with FOLFIRI demonstrated significant improvements in median overall survival (OS) by 1.44 mos and median progression-free survival (PFS) by 2.23 mos when compared with FOLFIRI + placebo. We utilized a systematic approach to evaluate the benefit/risk profile of the regimen in the target disease population. Objectives: To evaluate favorable and unfavorable effects of Afl in combination with FOLFIRI in patients with mCRC previously treated with an oxaliplatin-based regimen using the MCDA method. Methods: Data from VELOUR were used to compare the 2 treatment arms (Afl + FOLFIRI vs placebo + FOLFIRI). An 8-step process based on the MCDA was used to construct a value tree that displayed evaluation criteria for favorable and unfavorable effects, determined score, assigned weight for each criteria, and then combined weights and scores for each treatment arm to derive an overall value. Sensitivi...
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