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Young-Seok Seo1,2, Hak Jae Kim2,3, Hong Gyun Wu2,3, Sun Mi Choi4, Samina Park5.
Abstract
BACKGROUND: Although the choice between stereotactic ablative radiotherapy (SABR) and lobectomy for early-stage non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) has been debated for years, the two procedures have not yet been directly compared in a randomized trial. We conducted a virtual randomized phase III trial stratified by age to compare the effectiveness of lobectomy and SABR for medically operable patients with stage IA (AJCC eighth) NSCLC using the Markov model analysis.Entities:
Keywords: Lobectomy; Markov model; non-small cell lung cancer; randomized trial; stereotactic radiotherapy
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Year: 2019 PMID: 31124275 PMCID: PMC6558457 DOI: 10.1111/1759-7714.13103
Source DB: PubMed Journal: Thorac Cancer ISSN: 1759-7706 Impact factor: 3.500
Figure 1A Scenario for the Markov state transition model of NSCLC less than 3 cm.Each rectangle represents a state of health. From the initial state, patients are randomized to undergo lobectomy or SABR. Straight arrows represent the changes that may occur during each cycle or a very short time interval. In contrast, gray rectangles mean that the patients may remain in the same Markov state for more than one cycle.NSCLC, non‐small cell lung cancer; SABR, stereotactic ablative radiotherapy; CTx, chemotherapy; RT, conventional radiotherapy; pN+, pathologically positive lymph node; NED, no evidence of disease; BSC, best supportive care.
Estimated values of the variables used for the Markov model extracted from the literature
| Variables | Lobectomy | SABR | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Annual mortality rate of general population at 45–85‐years‐old | 0.002491–0.082156 | ||
| Annual mortality of progressive disease with chemotherapy plus BCS | 0.6268 (0.4624–0.8105) | ||
| Procedure‐related mortality rate at 45–85‐years‐old | 0.0133–0.0800 | 0.0037 (0–0.0208) | |
| Procedure‐related mortality rate with conventional radiotherapy | 0.0010 | ||
| One year probability of disease progression after primary treatment | 0.0400 (0.0133–0.0742) | 0.0790 (0.049–0.1284) | |
| Rate of LR only/total recurrence | 0 | 0.1844 (0.1451–0.4285) | |
| Rate of RR only + LR&RR/total recurrence | 0.2784 (0.0952–0.4) | 0.1781 (0–0.3333) | |
| The probability of radical salvage treatment for recurrence | |||
| Local failure only | 0 | 0.2622 (0.2171–0.4865) | |
| Regional failure | 0.3446 (0.3172–0.3888) | 0.3010 (0.2941–0.3095) | |
| Distant failure | 0 | 0 | |
| One year probability of disease progression after radical salvage treatment | |||
| In local recurrence | 0 | 0.0679 (0–0.0799) | |
| In regional failure | 0.2639 (0.2342–0.2865) | 0.3115 (0.254–0.3835) | |
90‐day post‐treatment mortality rates of lobectomy.
Total 41 references for extracted parameters in Table 1 were attached to the supplement
BCS, best supportive care; LR, local recurrence; RR, regional recurrence; SABR, stereotactic ablative radiotherapy.
Second‐order Monte Carlo simulation stratified by age: the difference of life expectancy between lobectomy and SABR
| Life expectancy (years) | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Age | Modality | Estimation | Mean difference | 95% CI |
| |
| 45 | Lobectomy | 12.60 | 1.69 | 0.89 | 2.43 | 0.0001 |
| SABR | 10.91 | |||||
| 50 | Lobectomy | 12.43 | 1.68 | 0.93 | 2.47 | 0.0001 |
| SABR | 10.75 | |||||
| 55 | Lobectomy | 12.22 | 1.60 | 0.83 | 2.43 | 0.0001 |
| SABR | 10.62 | |||||
| 60 | Lobectomy | 11.82 | 1.47 | 0.67 | 2.31 | 0.0003 |
| SABR | 10.35 | |||||
| 65 | Lobectomy | 11.35 | 1.32 | 0.52 | 2.17 | 0.0016 |
| SABR | 10.03 | |||||
| 70 | Lobectomy | 10.50 | 1.00 | 0.18 | 1.75 | 0.0206 |
| SABR | 9.49 | |||||
| 75 | Lobectomy | 9.43 | 0.72 | −0.06 | 1.50 | 0.0689 |
| SABR | 8.70 | |||||
| 80 | Lobectomy | 7.84 | 0.35 | −0.37 | 1.03 | 0.3268 |
| SABR | 7.49 | |||||
| 85 | Lobectomy | 6.07 | −0.04 | −0.64 | 0.53 | 0.8837 |
| SABR | 6.12 | |||||
CI, confidence interval; SABR, stereotactic ablative radiotherapy.
Figure 2Estimated overall survival stratified by age at diagnosis in patients with stage IA NSCLC after lobectomy or SABR. Patients with stage IA NSCLC were stratified by age (a) 60 years, (b) 65 years, (c) 70 years, (d) 75 years, (e) 80 years, and (f) 85 years at diagnosis and overall survival was estimated in each of the cohorts using the Markov model. () Lobectomy and () SABR.
Figure 3Sensitivity analysis of varying probability of disease progression after primary treatment in 75‐year‐old patients. One‐way sensitivity analysis of varying probability of disease progression after (a) lobectomy and (b) SABR. SABR could be a preferred strategy if the probability of these two variables were changed beyond the threshold. () Lobectomy and () SABR. (c) Two‐way sensitivity analysis of the probability of disease progression after lobectomy and SABR: the dark gray region denotes lobectomy is preferred, while the light gray region shows SABR is preferred. SABR, stereotactic ablative radiotherapy; Dz_prog, disease progression.
Figure 4Validation of the Markov model. The predicted (a) fiveyear survival curve after lobectomy and (b) threeyear survival curve after SABR based on the Markov model are shown. The gray circles represent the survival outcomes from real studies, wherein the median age of each cohort was set to a representative value at diagnosis. The black square is the average of the values from these real studies. The mean overall survival following lobectomy and SABR in the real studies were approximately 1% and 2% lower, respectively than those obtained from the Markov model. SABR, stereotactic ablative radiotherapy. () Markov model, () clinical trials, and () mean value of clinical trials.