Clinical Studies – Targeting Acute and Chronic Thromboembolic Disorders

SELECT-D extension: Treatment of cancer-associated VTE 12 month outcomes of placebo vs Xarelto® randomisation of the SELECT-D trial.

Background

  • The SELECT-D trial demonstrated that Xarelto had a greater effect on reduction in VTE vs dalteparin, but increased bleeding compared with dalteparin in cancer patients at 6 months
  • Uncertainty around optimal duration of anticoagulation use remains in patients with active cancer

Objective1

  • To assess VTE recurrence and bleeding, with anticoagulation or not, beyond 6 months in a long-term extension of the SELECT-D trial

Study design1

  • At around 6 months post-randomisation in the SELECT-D trial, patients with CAT with residual DVT  or had presented with a PE were randomly assigned to Xarelto 20 mg OD or placebo.
SELECT-D extension

Endpoints1

Primary efficacy outcome

  • VTE recurrence at 12 months after first randomisation

Secondary efficacy outcomes

  • Major bleeding
  • CRNMB
  • Overall survival
  • VTE recurrence at 12 months for the patient subgroup with no RVDT

Key findings1

  • After 6 months only 4% of patients treated with Xarelto had a VTE recurrence (HR 0.32; 95% CI, 0.06-1.58) vs placebo (14%). There was a numerically lower cumulative VTE recurrence rate for Xarelto versus placebo
  • The trial was underpowered to detect a statistically significant reduction in recurrent VTE with extended anticoagulation beyond 6 months
  • Major bleeding rates were 0% with placebo and 5% with Xarelto (95% CI, 1–18)
  • CRNMB were 0% with placebo and 4% with Xarelto (95% CI, 1–17)
  • After 6 months, OS for Xarelto-treated patients was 89% (95% CI, 75–95) and 87% (95% CI, 73–94) for placebo patients (HR=1.16; 95% CI, 0.36–3.81)
  • Absence of RVDT defined a low VTE recurrence risk group (log rank P=.03)

CAT, cancer-associated thrombosis ; CI, confidence interval; CRNMB, clinically relevant non-major bleeding; DVT , deep vein thrombosis; HR, hazard ratio; OD, once daily; OS, overall survival; PE , pulmonary embolism; RVDT, residual deep vein thrombosis; VTE , venous thromboembolism.

 

PP-XAR-ALL-1827-1

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