Summary
An age-stratified subgroup analysis of the SQUIRE trial demonstrated that patients aged < 70 years exhibited significant survival benefits when necitumumab was added to gemcitabine/cisplatin chemotherapy as first-line treatment for stage IV squamous non–small cell lung cancer. This survival advantage was not observed in the elderly ≥ 70-year subgroup.
- squamous non–small cell lung cancer
- stage IV
- elderly population
- SQUIRE study
- necitumumab
- gemcitabine/cisplatin
- first-line treatment
- overall survival
- progression-free survival
- oncology clinical trials
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