Koji Matsuo1, David J Nusbaum2, Hiroko Machida3, Yongmei Huang4, Varun Khetan2, Shinya Matsuzaki2, Maximilian Klar5, Brendan H Grubbs6, Lynda D Roman7, Jason D Wright4. 1. Division of Gynecologic Oncology, Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA; Norris Comprehensive Cancer Center, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA. Electronic address: koji.matsuo@med.usc.edu. 2. Division of Gynecologic Oncology, Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA. 3. Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Tokai University School of Medicine, Kanagawa, Japan. 4. Division of Gynecologic Oncology, Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons, New York, NY. 5. Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, University of Freiburg, Freiburg, Germany. 6. Division of Maternal-Fetal Medicine, Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA. 7. Division of Gynecologic Oncology, Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA; Norris Comprehensive Cancer Center, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA.
Abstract
BACKGROUND: Pelvic lymph node metastasis carries the highest impact on decreased survival among surgical-pathological risk factors for early-stage cervical cancer. Although concurrent administration of chemotherapy during postoperative radiotherapy is the current standard treatment for surgically treated high-risk early-stage cervical cancer, its effectiveness specific to node-positive disease has not been completely studied. OBJECTIVE: To examine the association between the use of concurrent chemotherapy and survival in women with early-stage cervical cancer and nodal metastasis receiving adjuvant radiotherapy. MATERIALS AND METHODS: This is a population-based cohort study using the Surveillance, Epidemiology, and End Results Program from 1988 to 2016. Women with stage T1-2 cervical cancer with pelvic lymph node metastasis who underwent hysterectomy and received postoperative radiotherapy were examined. Trends, characteristics, and overall survival were compared between women who received postoperative radiotherapy alone (n = 729) or in combination with concurrent chemo-radiotherapy (n = 1809). Propensity score-based inverse probability of treatment weighting was used to account for the effect of measured covariates on treatment selection. RESULTS: Among 2538 women, there was a marked increase in the use of concurrent chemotherapy from 1997 to 2000 (20.7% to 78.5%, P = .052), followed by a more gradual rise through 2016 (88.3%, P < .001). In a multivariable model, women with non-squamous cell carcinomas and those diagnosed more recently were more likely to receive concurrent chemo-radiotherapy, whereas older women were less likely to receive concurrent chemo-radiotherapy (all, P < .05). At the population level, the 5-year overall survival rates remained unchanged (annual percent change for 1997-2012: -0.1; 95% confidence interval, -1.2 to 1.0; P = .776). In a propensity score weighted cohort, women who received concurrent chemo-radiotherapy had a 5-year overall survival rate similar to women treated with radiotherapy alone (73.1% vs 73.6%; hazard ratio, 1.004; 95% confidence interval, 0.887-1.136; P = .955). Significant differences were also not seen in older women, nonsquamous types, stage T2 disease, and multiple node metastases (all, P > .05). CONCLUSION: Despite the marked increase in the use of concurrent chemo-radiotherapy for women with early-stage cervical cancer and nodal metastases, there was no association between use of concurrent chemotherapy during postoperative radiotherapy and improved survival.
BACKGROUND:Pelvic lymph node metastasis carries the highest impact on decreased survival among surgical-pathological risk factors for early-stage cervical cancer. Although concurrent administration of chemotherapy during postoperative radiotherapy is the current standard treatment for surgically treated high-risk early-stage cervical cancer, its effectiveness specific to node-positive disease has not been completely studied. OBJECTIVE: To examine the association between the use of concurrent chemotherapy and survival in women with early-stage cervical cancer and nodal metastasis receiving adjuvant radiotherapy. MATERIALS AND METHODS: This is a population-based cohort study using the Surveillance, Epidemiology, and End Results Program from 1988 to 2016. Women with stage T1-2 cervical cancer with pelvic lymph node metastasis who underwent hysterectomy and received postoperative radiotherapy were examined. Trends, characteristics, and overall survival were compared between women who received postoperative radiotherapy alone (n = 729) or in combination with concurrent chemo-radiotherapy (n = 1809). Propensity score-based inverse probability of treatment weighting was used to account for the effect of measured covariates on treatment selection. RESULTS: Among 2538 women, there was a marked increase in the use of concurrent chemotherapy from 1997 to 2000 (20.7% to 78.5%, P = .052), followed by a more gradual rise through 2016 (88.3%, P < .001). In a multivariable model, women with non-squamous cell carcinomas and those diagnosed more recently were more likely to receive concurrent chemo-radiotherapy, whereas older women were less likely to receive concurrent chemo-radiotherapy (all, P < .05). At the population level, the 5-year overall survival rates remained unchanged (annual percent change for 1997-2012: -0.1; 95% confidence interval, -1.2 to 1.0; P = .776). In a propensity score weighted cohort, women who received concurrent chemo-radiotherapy had a 5-year overall survival rate similar to women treated with radiotherapy alone (73.1% vs 73.6%; hazard ratio, 1.004; 95% confidence interval, 0.887-1.136; P = .955). Significant differences were also not seen in older women, nonsquamous types, stage T2 disease, and multiple node metastases (all, P > .05). CONCLUSION: Despite the marked increase in the use of concurrent chemo-radiotherapy for women with early-stage cervical cancer and nodalmetastases, there was no association between use of concurrent chemotherapy during postoperative radiotherapy and improved survival.
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