Extended Reduced-Dose Apixaban for Cancer-Associated Venous Thromboembolism


Por: Mahé, I, Carrier, M, Mayeur, D, Chidiac, J, Vicaut, E, Falvo, N, Sanchez, O, Grange, C, Monreal, M, López-Núñez, JJ, Otero-Candelera, R, Le Gal, G, Yeo, ER, Righini, M, Robert-Ebadi, H, Huisman, MV, Klok, FA, Westerweel, P, Agnelli, G, Becattini, C, Bamias, A, Syrigos, K, Szmit, S, Torbicki, A, Verhamme, P, Maraveyas, A, Cohen, AT, Ay, C, Chapelle, C, Meyer, G, Couturaud, F, Mismetti, P, Girard, P, Bertoletti, L and Laporte, S

Publicada: 10 abr 2025 Ahead of Print: 1 mar 2025
Resumen:
BACKGROUND In patients with active cancer and venous thromboembolism, whether extended treatment with a reduced dose of an oral anticoagulant is effective in preventing recurrent thromboembolic events and decreasing bleeding is unclear. METHODS We conducted a randomized, double-blind, noninferiority trial with blinded central outcome adjudication. Consecutive patients with active cancer and proximal deep- vein thrombosis or pulmonary embolism who had completed at least 6 months of anticoagulant therapy were randomly assigned in a 1:1 ratio to receive oral apixaban at a reduced (2.5 mg) or full (5.0 mg) dose twice daily for 12 months. The primary outcome was centrally adjudicated fatal or nonfatal recurrent venous thromboembolism, assessed in a noninferiority analysis (margin of 2.00 for the upper boundary of the 95% confidence interval of the subhazard ratio). The key secondary outcome was clinically relevant bleeding, assessed in a superiority analysis. RESULTS A total of 1766 patients underwent randomization at a median time since the index event of 8.0 months (interquartile range, 6.5 to 12.6); 866 patients were assigned to the reduced-dose group, and 900 to the full-dose group. The median treatment duration was 11.8 months (interquartile range, 8.3 to 12.1). Recurrent venous thromboembolism occurred in 18 patients (cumulative incidence, 2.1%) in the reduced-dose group and in 24 (cumulative incidence, 2.8%) in the full-dose group (adjusted subhazard ratio, 0.76; 95% confidence interval [CI], 0.41 to 1.41; P = 0.001 for noninferiority). Clinically relevant bleeding occurred in 102 patients (cumulative incidence, 12.1%) in the reduced-dose group and in 136 (cumulative incidence, 15.6%) in the full-dose group (adjusted subhazard ratio, 0.75; 95% CI, 0.58 to 0.97; P = 0.03). Mortality was 17.7% in the reduced-dose group and 19.6% in the full-dose group (adjusted hazard ratio, 0.96; 95% CI, 0.86 to 1.06). CONCLUSIONS Extended anticoagulation with reduced-dose apixaban was noninferior to full-dose apixaban for the prevention of recurrent venous thromboembolism in patients with active cancer. The reduced dose led to a lower incidence of clinically relevant bleeding complications than the full dose. (Funded by the Bristol-Myers Squibb- Pfizer Alliance; API-CAT ClinicalTrials.gov number, NCT03692065.)

Filiaciones:
Mahé, I:
 Hop Louis Mourier, Assistance Publ Hop Paris AP HP, Serv Med Interne, Colombes, France

 Univ Paris Cite, Paris, ON, Canada

 Paris Cardiovasc Res Ctr, INSERM Unite Mixte Rech S970, Team Endotheliopathy & Hemostasis Disorders, Paris, France

 French Clin Res Infrastructure Network, Invest Network Venous Thromboembolism, St Etienne, France

Carrier, M:
 Univ Ottawa, Ottawa Hosp Res Inst, Dept Med, Ottawa, ON, Canada

Mayeur, D:
 Ctr Georges Francois Leclerc, Dijon, France

 Unicanc AFSOS Support Care Res Grp, Begles, France

Chidiac, J:
 Hop Louis Mourier, Assistance Publ Hop Paris AP HP, Serv Med Interne, Colombes, France

Vicaut, E:
 Univ Paris Cite, Paris, ON, Canada

 Unite Rech Clin Lariboisiere St Louis, AP HP, Paris, France

Falvo, N:
 French Clin Res Infrastructure Network, Invest Network Venous Thromboembolism, St Etienne, France

 Ctr Hosp Univ CHU Dijon Bourgogne, Dept Vasc Pathol, Dijon, France

Sanchez, O:
 Univ Paris Cite, Paris, ON, Canada

 Paris Cardiovasc Res Ctr, INSERM Unite Mixte Rech S970, Team Endotheliopathy & Hemostasis Disorders, Paris, France

 French Clin Res Infrastructure Network, Invest Network Venous Thromboembolism, St Etienne, France

 Hop Europeen Georges Pompidou, AP HP, Serv Pneumol & Soins Intensifs, Paris, France

Grange, C:
 French Clin Res Infrastructure Network, Invest Network Venous Thromboembolism, St Etienne, France

 Hosp Civils Lyon, Serv Med Interne & Med Vasc, Lyon, France

Monreal, M:
 Hosp Univ Germans Trias i Pujol, Inst Recerca Germans Trias i Pujol, Dept Internal Med, Badalona, Spain

 Univ Autonoma Barcelona, Dept Med, Barcelona, Spain

 Univ Catolica San Antonio Murcia, Murcia, Spain

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 Hosp Univ Germans Trias i Pujol, Inst Recerca Germans Trias i Pujol, Dept Internal Med, Badalona, Spain

 Univ Autonoma Barcelona, Dept Med, Barcelona, Spain

 Ctr Invest Biomed Red Enfermedades Resp, Madrid, Spain

Otero-Candelera, R:
 Ctr Invest Biomed Red Enfermedades Resp, Madrid, Spain

 Univ Seville, Hosp Univ Virgen del Rocio, Inst Biomed, Seville, Spain

Le Gal, G:
 Univ Ottawa, Ottawa Hosp Res Inst, Dept Med, Ottawa, ON, Canada

Yeo, ER:
 Univ Hlth Network, Toronto Gen Hosp, Toronto, ON, Canada

Righini, M:
 Geneva Univ Hosp, Fac Med, Div Angiol & Hemostasis, Geneva, Switzerland

Robert-Ebadi, H:
 Geneva Univ Hosp, Fac Med, Div Angiol & Hemostasis, Geneva, Switzerland

Huisman, MV:
 Leiden Univ, Dept Med, Div Thrombosis & Hemostasis, Med Ctr, Leiden, Netherlands

Klok, FA:
 Leiden Univ, Dept Med, Div Thrombosis & Hemostasis, Med Ctr, Leiden, Netherlands

Westerweel, P:
 Albert Schweitzer Hosp Dordrecht, Dept Internal Med, Dordrecht, Netherlands

Agnelli, G:
 Univ Perugia, Internal Vasc & Emergency Med Stroke Unit, Perugia, Italy

Becattini, C:
 Univ Perugia, Internal Vasc & Emergency Med Stroke Unit, Perugia, Italy

Bamias, A:
 Natl & Kapodistrian Univ Athens, ATTIKON Univ Hosp, Propaedeut Dept Med 2, Athens, Greece

Syrigos, K:
 Natl & Kapodistrian Univ, Sotiria Gen Hosp Chest Dis, Dept Internal Med, Athens, Greece

Szmit, S:
 European Hlth Ctr, Ctr Postgrad Med Educ, Dept Pulm Circulat Thromboembol Dis & Cardiol, Otwock, Poland

 Ctr Postgrad Med Educ, Dept Cardiooncol, Warsaw, Poland

Torbicki, A:
 European Hlth Ctr, Ctr Postgrad Med Educ, Dept Pulm Circulat Thromboembol Dis & Cardiol, Otwock, Poland

Verhamme, P:
 Univ Hosp Leuven, Vasc Med & Hemostasis, Leuven, Belgium

Maraveyas, A:
 Hull Univ Teaching Hosp NHS Trust, Hull York Med Sch, Kingston Upon Hull, England

Cohen, AT:
 Kings Coll London, Guys & St Thomas NHS Fdn Trust Hosp, London, England

Ay, C:
 Med Univ Vienna, Comprehens Canc Ctr Vienna, Dept Med 1, Div Hematol & Hemostaseol, Vienna, Austria

Chapelle, C:
 CHU St Etienne, Serv Pharmacol Clin, St Etienne, France

 Univ Jean Monnet, INSERM Unite 1059, Mines St Etienne, Sante Ingn Biol St Etienne SAINBIOSE, St Etienne, France

Meyer, G:
 Univ Paris Cite, Paris, ON, Canada

 French Clin Res Infrastructure Network, Invest Network Venous Thromboembolism, St Etienne, France

Couturaud, F:
 French Clin Res Infrastructure Network, Invest Network Venous Thromboembolism, St Etienne, France

 Univ Brest, INSERM Unite 1412, Ctr Invest Clin CIC, INSERM Unite 1304,Grp Etud Thrombose Bretagne Occi, Brest, France

 CHU Brest, Dept Med Interne & Pneumol, Brest, France

Mismetti, P:
 French Clin Res Infrastructure Network, Invest Network Venous Thromboembolism, St Etienne, France

 Univ Jean Monnet, INSERM Unite 1059, Mines St Etienne, Sante Ingn Biol St Etienne SAINBIOSE, St Etienne, France

 CHU St Etienne, Serv Med Vasc & Therapeut, St Etienne, France

 CHU St Etienne, INSERM CIC 1408, St Priest En Jarez, France

Girard, P:
 French Clin Res Infrastructure Network, Invest Network Venous Thromboembolism, St Etienne, France

 Inst Mutualiste Montsouris, Dept Thorac, Paris, France

Bertoletti, L:
 French Clin Res Infrastructure Network, Invest Network Venous Thromboembolism, St Etienne, France

 Univ Jean Monnet, INSERM Unite 1059, Mines St Etienne, Sante Ingn Biol St Etienne SAINBIOSE, St Etienne, France

 CHU St Etienne, Serv Med Vasc & Therapeut, St Etienne, France

 CHU St Etienne, INSERM CIC 1408, St Priest En Jarez, France

Laporte, S:
 French Clin Res Infrastructure Network, Invest Network Venous Thromboembolism, St Etienne, France

 CHU St Etienne, Serv Pharmacol Clin, St Etienne, France

 Univ Jean Monnet, INSERM Unite 1059, Mines St Etienne, Sante Ingn Biol St Etienne SAINBIOSE, St Etienne, France
ISSN: 00284793





New England Journal of Medicine
Editorial
Massachusetts Medical Society, WALTHAM WOODS CENTER, 860 WINTER ST,, WALTHAM, MA 02451-1413 USA, Estados Unidos America
Tipo de documento: Article
Volumen: 392 Número: 14
Páginas: 1363-1373
WOS Id: 001456095200001
ID de PubMed: 40162636

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