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Table 3 3 L chemotherapy

From: Real-world treatment patterns, healthcare resource use and clinical outcomes of patients receiving second line therapy for advanced or metastatic gastric cancer

Therapy, n (%)a

Australia (N = 9)

Canada (N = 37)

Italy (N = 19)

UK (N = 18)

Overall (N = 83)

Monotherapy

4 (44.4%)

28 (75.7%)

10 (52.6%)

10 (55.6%)

52 (62.7%)

Combination therapyb

5 (55.6%)

9 (24.3%)

9 (47.4%)

8 (44.4%)

31 (37.3%)

 Doublet chemotherapy

5 (100.0%)

7 (77.8%)

8 (88.9%)

6 (85.7%)

26 (86.7%)

 Triplet chemotherapy

-

2 (22.2%)

1 (11.1%)

1 (14.3%)

4 (13.3%)

 Missing

-

-

-

1

1

Monotherapyc

 Taxanes

3 (75.0%)

18 (64.3%)

8 (80.0%)

7 (70.0%)

36 (69.2%)

 Irinotecan

1 (25.0%)

8 (28.6%)

-

1 (10.0%)

10 (19.2%)

 Ramucirumab

-

1 (3.6%)

1 (10.0%)

1 (10.0%)

3 (5.8%)

 Fluoropyrimidines

-

1 (3.6%)

1 (10.0%)

-

2 (3.8%)

 Other monotherapy

-

-

-

1 (10.0%)

1 (1.9%)

Doublet chemotherapyc

 Fluoropyrimidine + irinotecan

5 (100.0%)

2 (22.2%)

4 (44.4%)

5 (71.4%)

16 (53.3%)

 Fluoropyrimidine + platinum

-

3 (33.3%)

3 (33.3%)

-

6 (20.0%)

 Taxanes + ramucirumab

-

1 (11.1%)

1 (11.1%)

1 (14.3%)

3 (10.0%)

 Other doublet

-

1 (11.1%)

-

-

1 (3.3%)

Triplet chemotherapyc

 Fluoropyrimidine + platinum + anthracycline

-

1 (11.1%)

-

-

1 (3.3%)

 Fluoropyrimidine + platinum + other

-

1 (11.1%)

1 (11.1%)

-

2 (6.7%)

 Other triplet

-

-

-

1 (14.3%)

1 (3.3%)

  1. a Specific drugs used are tabulated in the supplementary material
  2. b Percentages receiving doublet and triplet are out of number of patients who received combination therapy
  3. c Percentages for individual regimens are out of number of patients who received monotherapy, doublet or triplet therapy, respectively