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    The DIRECTION study proved that donafenib is expected to become the treatment of RAIR-DTC patients of choice | a thousand "cases"

    • Last Update: 2022-11-01
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    Basic condition of the patient



    Gender: Female

    Age: 57 years old

    Basic information: In March 2015, the patient underwent thyroidectomy, etc.
    , and received the last radioactive iodine treatment
    on May 18, 2016.
    In order to monitor the progression of the disease, the patient underwent imaging tests in 2018 and 2019, and the last imaging results showed multiple nodules in both lungs, multiple small lymph nodes in the mediastinum, and disease progression
    .

    Personal history: no history of smoking, alcohol consumption, allergies, or substance abuse



    The patient has been treated previously



    On March 6, 2015, the patient underwent thyroidectomy, etc


    • Surgical treatment: thyroidectomy + cervical lymph node dissection + lymphadenectomy + peripheral nerve surgery + bronchotomy;

    • Pathological result: papillary thyroid carcinoma (PTC), grade unknown
      .


    From 13 June 2015 to 18 May 2016, the patient was treated with radioactive iodine


    Treatment under:

    • On 13 June 2015, the patient was treated with radioactive iodine at 100 mCi;

    • On 26 November 2015, the patient received 150mCi radioactive iodine therapy;

    • On 18 May 2016, the patient was treated
      with radioactive iodine at 150 mCi.
      On May 22, 2016, treated ¹³¹I systemic tomographic imaging showed that the lesions did not take iodine
      .

     


    Disease progression was detected at patient review on 21 March 2019


    • After imaging evaluation, the right lower lung nodule is 11mm, multiple nodules in both lungs, multiple small lymph nodes in the mediastinum, and the patient has disease progression (PD).



    • After screening, the patient met the "multicenter, randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled phase III clinical trial to evaluate the efficacy and safety of donafenib tosylate tablets in the treatment of locally advanced/metastatic iodine-refractory differentiated thyroid cancer (RAIR-DTC)" (ZGDD3 study) conducted by Henan Cancer Hospital and was enrolled in the clinical trial
      .


    Donafenib treatment undergoes


    • Patient baseline: height 160 cm, weight 69 kg, BMI 26.
      95 kg/m², Eastern Collaborative Oncology Group physical status score (ECOG PS) 1, no previous history of
      tyrosine kinase inhibitor (TKI) therapy.

    • Tumor baseline: T4aN1bM1 (lung/lymph node metastasis), target lesion 11mm in the right lower lung, multiple nodules in both lungs, and multiple small lymph nodes
      in the mediastinum.

    • Laboratory baseline: thyroid-stimulating hormone (TSH) 0.
      07 mIU/L (local laboratory), thyroglobulin (Tg) 40.
      1 ng/mL, thyroglobulin antibody (TgAb) 0.
      1 IU/mL (local laboratory).

    • On 3 April 2019, patients were enrolled in the trial and started oral multikinase inhibitor donafenib (300 mg twice daily).

    • At week 8 of enrollment, the patient's Tg level decreased to 10.
      14 ng/ml, the target lesion was reduced by 45.
      5% from baseline, and the disease was partially relieved (PR).

    • At week 24, the patient had a minimum SOD of target lesions and retreated to 5 mm
      .

    • The patient is still receiving donafenib (41 months old).

     


    Laboratory evaluation


    • Tg levels and target lesion size changed
      from the screening period to 144 weeks of treatment.


    Imaging tests

    • From baseline to September 17, 2019, radiographic changes
      in lung target lesions.


    • From baseline to 17 September 2019, radiographic changes
      in non-target lesions in the lungs.

     


    Donafenib treatment-related adverse reactions (TRAE) occur



    • Other TRAEs are CTCAE grade 1 and include diarrhea, arthralgias, rash, ectopic rhythm, atrial escape rhythm, and elevated
      phosphate.
      The patient's ECOG PS during treatment dropped to 0 on day 28 and remained until the end of the
      trial.



    Case summary



    This case was diagnosed with PTC, and after surgical treatment such as thyroidectomy, the disease progressed after multiple radioactive iodine treatments, and lung/lymph node metastases
    occurred.
    By ¹³¹I systemic tomographic imaging, the patient was diagnosed that the disease had progressed to iodine refractory
    .
    On April 3, 2019, after multiple evaluations, the patient met the eligibility criteria for the ZGDD3 study and was enrolled in the clinical study
    .
    At the first efficacy assessment, donafenib showed good efficacy: Tg levels decreased significantly at week 4 of enrollment and remained stable during treatment
    .
    At the 8th week of treatment, imaging findings suggest that the tumor has reached PR.

    At week 24 of treatment, the tumor reaches a minimum SOD (5 mm).

    So far, the patient is still taking donafenib monotherapy, and his progression-free survival (PFS) has been nearly 41 months, and the tumor is in PR state
    .
    During treatment, patients did not develop grade 3 TRAEs and donafenib was generally well
    tolerated.



    Expert reviews








    Professor Yang Hui


    • Chief physician, master tutor and department director of the Department of Nuclear Medicine, Henan Cancer Hospital

    • Director of Henan Provincial Key Laboratory of Precision Diagnosis and Treatment of Nuclear Oncology

    • He is the chairman-elect of the Tumor Nuclear Medicine Professional Committee of the Chinese Anti-Cancer Association

    • Vice Chairman of the Nuclear Medicine Expert Committee of the Chinese Society of Clinical Oncology

    • Member of the Standing Committee of the Nuclear Medicine Branch of the Chinese Society of Imaging Technology

    • Vice Chairman of the Radioactive Particle Working Committee of the Nuclear Medicine Branch of the Chinese Medical Association

    • Vice Chairman of the Particle Therapy Branch of the Minimally Invasive Tumor Treatment Professional Committee of the Chinese Anti-Cancer Association

    • Member of the Standing Committee of the Editorial Board of the Journal of Tumor Imaging


    As the most common endocrine malignancy, the incidence of thyroid cancer has continued to increase in recent years, of which PTC is the most common pathological type, often referred to as differentiated thyroid cancer (DTC) together with follicular thyroid carcinoma (FTC) [1].

    The vast majority of patients have a good prognosis and long-term survival after standardized treatment, but some patients still develop distant metastases after treatment and lose the ability to concentrate iodine during natural history or treatment, and develop iodine-refractory differentiated thyroid cancer (RAIR-DTC) [2].

    Compared with DTC patients with good iodine intake, patients with RAIR-DTC generally have shorter survivals, with an average survival of only about 3 to 5 years and a 10-year survival rate of about 10 percent
    [3].


    Donafenib is a novel oral multikinase inhibitor, which is a new patented drug molecule formed by substituting pyridylmethanamine on the sorafenib molecule
    with pyridyltrideuterated methylamine.
    At present, pharmacodynamics, pharmacokinetics (PK), clinical efficacy and safety data have proved that compared with sorafenib, donafenib has unchanged antitumor activity in vitro, in vivo antitumor activity is enhanced and the safety is improved [4].

    。 This week, Donafenib's DIRECTION study, presented at the 2022 American Thyroid Association (ATA) Annual Meeting, is a randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled, multicenter phase III study that currently includes the largest number of RAIR-DTC patients in China, to evaluate the efficacy and safety
    of donafenib in Chinese RAIR-DTC patients.
    The study included 191 patients with locally advanced/metastatic RAIR-DTC and randomly divided them into donafenib (n=128) and placebo (n=63)
    in a 2:1 ratio.
    The results of the study showed that donafenib significantly prolonged the independent review committee (IRC) assessed mPFS (12.
    9 versus 6.
    4 months, HR=0.
    39, p<0.
    0001)<b15> compared with placebo.
    In terms of objective response rate (ORR), the donafenib group was significantly higher than the placebo group (23.
    3 percent vs.
    1.
    7 percent) [5].

    In this case, after nearly 41 months of first-line treatment with donafenib, the patient has not developed acquired resistance and the disease remains in PR status
    .
    It is believed that donafenib is expected to become the treatment of RAIR-DTC patients in China in the future
    .

    References

    [1] CHEN Wenjie, WANG Yabing, CHEN Xiaolin, et al.
    Recent research progress of iodine-refractory differentiated thyroid cancer[J].
    Chinese Journal of Clinical Pharmacology and Therapeutics,2022,27(01):116-120.
    )

    [2] Wang Renfei, Wang Yong, Shi Feng, et al.
    Consensus on the diagnosis and treatment of iodine-refractory differentiated thyroid cancer (2019 edition).
    China Oncology,2019,29(06):476-480.
    )

    [3] LIU Yanqing,LIN Yansong.
    Diagnosis and treatment strategy and prognosis of iodine-refractory differentiated thyroid cancer[J].
    Chinese Journal of Practical Surgery,2019,39(03):216-220.
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    [4] Li Su, Qin Shukui.
    Deuterated drugs and their application prospects in the research and development of new antitumor drugs[J].
    Journal of Clinical Oncology,2020,25(12):1138-1143.
    )

    [5] Y.
    Lin, H.
    Yang, F.
    Shi, et al.
    Donafenib in Locally Advanced/Metastatic, Radioactive Iodine-Refractory, Differentiated Thyroid Cancer: A Randomized, Double-blind, Placebo-controlled, Multi-Center Phase III Clinical Trial (DIRECTION).
    ESMO Abstract 3099.

    Typesetting: Youshi

    Execution: Small garden


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