Differential clinical outcomes after 3 versus 5 years in a comparison of preoperative chemotherapy with and without radiotherapy in locally advanced rectal cancer : A national cohort propensity score-matched study

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Background: Preoperative chemotherapy alone might be a good alternative to preoperative chemoradiotherapy for patients with locally advanced rectal cancer, yet long-term real-world data from the same cohort are lacking.

Methods: Patients diagnosed with stage II-III rectal adenocarcinoma from 2011 to 2015 were randomly sampled from the SEER-Plus database to evaluate the superiority of preoperative chemoradiotherapy versus preoperative chemotherapy alone.

Findings: A total of 1314 eligible patients were enrolled, with a median follow-up of 74.0 months. At 3-year follow-up, neither overall survival (OS) nor cancer-specific survival (CSS) was significantly different between the two treatment groups. At 5-year follow-up, CSS was similar across groups (HR 0.768, 95% CI 0.532-1.108; P = 0.156), but the 5-year OS was significantly better in the preoperative chemoradiotherapy group than in the preoperative chemotherapy group (HR 0.682, 95% CI 0.538-0.866; P = 0.002). Besides, the landmark analysis indicated a direct contrast in the CSS within 3 years (HR 1.101, 95% CI 0.598-2.029; P = 0.756) versus that at 3-5 years (HR 0.597, 95% CI 0.377-0.948; P = 0.027). The landmark analysis also showed directly contrasting OS outcomes within 3 years (HR 0.761, 95% CI 0.533-1.086; P = 0.130) versus those at 3-5 years (HR 0.621, 95% CI 0.451-0.857; P = 0.003).

Interpretation: In patients with locally advanced rectal cancer under real-world treatment practices, the addition of preoperative radiotherapy to chemotherapy improves survival outcomes at 3-5 years' follow-up but not at 3-year follow-up.

Medienart:

E-Artikel

Erscheinungsjahr:

2024

Erschienen:

2024

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Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:10

Enthalten in:

Heliyon - 10(2024), 6 vom: 30. März, Seite e27684

Sprache:

Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

Zhang, Yuanxin [VerfasserIn]
Luo, Rui [VerfasserIn]
Peng, Jingqi [VerfasserIn]
He, Zichuan [VerfasserIn]
Tan, Delin [VerfasserIn]
Liu, Xueping [VerfasserIn]
Wang, Hui [VerfasserIn]
Wang, Huaiming [VerfasserIn]

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Themen:

FOWARC trial
Journal Article
Locally advanced rectal cancer
Neoadjuvant therapy
PROSPECT trial
Prognostic factors
Propensity Score Matching
Survival

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Date Revised 26.03.2024

published: Electronic-eCollection

Citation Status PubMed-not-MEDLINE

doi:

10.1016/j.heliyon.2024.e27684

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NLM370141652