Two hundred and two client-owned dogs with nonmetastatic recurrent or nonresectable grade II or III MCT were included in this study.
Methods: Double-blind, randomized, placebo-controlled phase III clinical trial. Dogs were administered masitinib (12.5 mg/kg/d PO) or a placebo. Time-to-tumor progression (TTP), overall survival, objective response at 6 months, and toxicity were assessed.
Results: Masitinib increased overall TTP compared with placebo from 75 to 118 days (P= .038).
This effect was more pronounced when masitinib was used as first-line therapy, with an increase in the median TTP from 75 to 253 days (P= .001) and regardless of whether the tumors expressed mutant (83 versus not reached [P= .009]) or wild-type KIT (66 versus 253 [P= .008]).
Masitinib was generally well tolerated, with mild (grade I) or moderate (grade II) diarrhea or vomiting as the most common adverse events.
Conclusions and Clinical Importance: Masitinib is safe and effective at delaying tumor progression in dogs presenting with recurrent or nonresectable grade II or III nonmetastatic MCT.
Source: K.A. Hahn et al. (2008): Masitinib is Safe and Effective for the Treatment of Canine Mast Cell Tumors. In: Journal of Veterinary Internal Medicine, Volume 22 Issue 6, Pages 1301 - 1309
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