Conditions: Colorectal Cancer Metastatic
Allocation: RANDOMIZED | Intervention model: PARALLEL
Enrollment: 332
Healthy volunteers: no

Brief summary:
Primary Objective:

To evaluate the improvement in progression-free survival (PFS) of aflibercept versus placebo in participants with metastatic colorectal cancer treated with FOLFIRI as second-line treatment for metastatic disease.

Secondary Objectives:

To compare the overall survival (OS) in the 2 treatment arms. To compare the overall response rate (ORR) in the 2 treatment arms. To assess the safety profile of the 2 treatment arms. To assess immunogenicity of intravenous (IV) aflibercept in selected centers.

Detailed description:
Screening occurred from signed informed consent to randomization (up to 21 days). A treatment cycle was defined as a 2 week-period. All participants were followed during the study treatment and follow-up period until death or study cut off date, which ever comes first.

Arms:
arm 1: Placebo for aflibercept intravenous (IV) infusion on Day 1 of each cycle (1 cycle = 2 weeks) in combination with FOLFIRI regimen until disease progression, unacceptable toxicity or participant's refusal. FOLFIRI regimen: Irinotecan 180 mg/m\^2 IV infusion and leucovorin 400 mg/m\^2 IV infusion, 5-Fluorouracil IV bolus 400 mg/m\^2 followed by continuous IV infusion 2400 mg/m\^2. arm 2: Aflibercept 4 mg/kg IV infusion on Day 1 of each cycle (1 cycle = 2 weeks) in combination with FOLFIRI regimen until disease progression, unacceptable toxicity or participant's refusal. FOLFIRI regimen: Irinotecan 180 mg/m\^2 IV infusion and leucovorin 400 mg/m\^2 IV infusion, 5-Fluorouracil IV bolus 400 mg/m\^2 followed by continuous IV infusion 2400 mg/m\^2.

Interventions: intervention 1: Aflibercept intervention 2: Placebo
Intervention descriptions: intervention 1: Pharmaceutical form: Concentrate for Solution for infusion; Route of administration: Intravenous intervention 2: Pharmaceutical form: Concentrate for Solution for infusion; Route of administration: Intravenous

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