Two cycles of carboplatin as adjuvant therapy in stage I seminoma: 8-year experience by the Hellenic Co-operative Oncology Group (HECOG).

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Konstantinos Koutsoukos

Deptartment of Clinical Therapeutics, University of Athens, Athens, Greece

Konstantinos Koutsoukos , Michael Liontos , Maria Lykka , Georgios Rigakos , Anna Andreadou , Eleni Efstathiou , Angelos Koutras , Athanasios Papatsoris , Michael Chrisofos , Kostas Stravodimos , Ioanis Adamakis , Christos Alamanis , Vasilios Karavasilis , Thomas Makatsoris , Eleni P. Galani , George Klouvas , Paris A. Kosmidis , George Fountzilas , Meletios A. Dimopoulos , Aristotelis Bamias

Organizations

Deptartment of Clinical Therapeutics, University of Athens, Athens, Greece, Papageorgiou Hospital, Thessaloniki, Greece, Department of Clinical Therapeutics, University of Athens & Department of Genitourinary Medical Onology, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Athens, Greece, University of Patras, Rion, Athens, Greece, 2nd Dept of Urology, University of Athens, Athens, Greece, 1st Dept of Urology, University of Athens, Athens, Greece, 1st dept Urology, University of Athens, Athens, Greece, Papageorgiou Hospital, Thesaloniki, Greece, Clinical Oncology Laboratory, University Hospital of Patras, Patras, Greece, Metropolitan Hospital, Athens, Greece, Hellenic Cooperative Oncology Group (HeCOG), Athens, Greece, Department of Clinical Therapeutics, University of Athens School of Medicine, Athens, Greece, Department of Clinical Therapeutics, Athens University, Medical School, Athens, Greece

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Background: Adjuvant chemotherapy is used in stage I testicular seminoma. We have reported a risk-adapted strategy of 2 cycles of cisplatin/etoposide (EP) in 64 patients with age < 34 and/or tumor diameter > 4cm) (Bamias et al, Urology 2007), resulting in no relapses over a median follow up of 5 years. Following the establishment of adjuvant carboplatin as a standard, we adopted this treatment for all patients with stage I seminoma. We report our 8-year experience and compare these results with our previous EP strategy. Methods: Patients with stage I seminoma, treated with 2 cycles of carboplatin AUC 6 and a minimum follow up of 1 year after chemotherapy were selected. All patients consented for the use of their medical information and the analysis was approved by the centers involved. Survival functions were presented using Kaplan-Meier curves. The log-rank test was used to test for survival differences across different categories. Results: 137 patients (Median age: 34; Age<34: 49%, tumor diameter>4cm: 42%; rete testis invasion: 24%), treated between 11/2003-12/2011 were selected. During a median follow up of 4 years, there were 5 relapses (5-y relapse rate [RR]: 97% [SE: 2%]): retroperitoneal lymph nodes (n=4) and isolated brain (n=1). All patients with relapse had tumor diameter > 4cm and/or age < 34. No relapse was associated with rete testis invasion. Patients with at least 1 of the above risk factors (n=94) had a significantly higher relapse rate compared with a similar population (n=64) treated with 2 cycles of adjuvant EP: 5-y RR was 95% (SE: 2%) vs.100% (SE 0%), (p=0.033). All relapsed patients were treated with BEP chemotherapy and are currently alive with no evidence of relapse. Neutropenia and nausea/vomiting were less frequent with carboplatin than with EP (11% vs. 36% and 15% vs. 65%). Conclusions: Our analysis confirms the association of age and tumor diameter with relapse in stage I seminoma treated with adjuvant carboplatin. Although adjuvant carboplatin in patients with age<34 and/or tumor diameter> 4 cm is associated with higher RR than EP, the prognosis of these patients is excellent with salvage chemotherapy and, therefore, the use of less toxic treatment is justified.

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Abstract Details

Meeting

2013 ASCO Annual Meeting

Session Type

Poster Session

Session Title

Genitourinary (Nonprostate) Cancer

Track

Genitourinary Cancer

Sub Track

Germ Cell/Testicular

Citation

J Clin Oncol 31, 2013 (suppl; abstr 4558)

DOI

10.1200/jco.2013.31.15_suppl.4558

Abstract #

4558

Poster Bd #

30B

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