Efficacy of FOLFOX Versus FOLFOX Plus Aflibercept in K-ras Mutant Patients With Resectable Liver Metastases

Patients presenting with multiple innumerable liver metastases will probably never come to resection, however, for all others, including patients with numerous multiple metastases or large metastases, resection should be considered after limited chemotherapy.
There is consensus for a backbone chemotherapy consisting of fluoropyrimidine + oxaliplatin. FOLFOX was used in the previous EORTC study and is again recommended.
The addition of targeted agents to standard chemotherapy in the perioperative strategy for mCRC might increase the ORR and R0 resectability, without significant increase in toxicity, therefore translating to a better outcome.
BOS2 (EORTC 40091) was designed to test this hypothesis in patients with a KRAS wold-type profile.
It was decided in parallel to design an open label, randomized, multi-center, 2-arm phase II-III study this time aimed at enrolling KRAS mutated patients.
Arm A: (standard) mFOLFOX6 + Surgery Arm B: (experimental) mFOLFOX6 + Aflibercept + Surgery