Chronic health conditions (CHCs) following cisplatin-based chemotherapy (CHEM): A multi-institutional study of 680 testicular cancer survivors (TCS).

Authors

Mohammad Abu Zaid

Mohammad Issam Abu Zaid

Indiana University School of Medicine, Indianapolis, IN

Mohammad Issam Abu Zaid , Howard D. Sesso , Chunkit Fung , Darren Richard Feldman , Robert James Hamilton , David J. Vaughn , Clair Beard , Malcolm J. Moore , Deepak M. Sahasrabudhe , Eileen Johnson , Sophie Fossa , Lawrence H. Einhorn , Lois B. Travis

Organizations

Indiana University School of Medicine, Indianapolis, IN, Harvard Medical School, Division of Preventive Medicine, Boston, MA, Wilmot Cancer Center, University of Rochester Medical Center, Rochester, NY, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, New York, NY, Division of Surgical Oncology, Princess Margaret Hospital, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada, Abramson Cancer Center of the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, MA, Princess Margaret Cancer Centre, Toronto, ON, Canada, University of Rochester Wilmot Cancer Center, Rochester, NY, University of Rochester School of Medicine and Dentistry, Rochester, NY, Oslo University Hospital, Oslo, Norway

Research Funding

NIH

Background: Platinating agents are among the most commonly used group of cytotoxic drugs worldwide. Few studies, however, have comprehensively examined the number and range of co-morbidities following CHEM in uniformly treated patients. Given the limited number of CHEM regimens used to cure TC and high long-term survival rates, TCS represent a unique population to provide new knowledge. We examined CHCs in an ongoing North American multi-center study of TCS given CHEM (NCI 1R01 CA157823-02). Methods: Eligible TCS were aged < 50 y at diagnosis and treated with only first line cisplatin CHEM after 1990. Questionnaires regarding co-morbidities and prescription drugs were completed. Evaluated CHCs included tinnitus, hearing loss, peripheral neuropathy (PN), balance/vertigo, renal disease, hypertension (HTN), Raynaud’s syndrome, diabetes (DM), thyroid disease, hypogonadism, erectile dysfunction (ED), anxiety/depression, pain, and others. For PN, responses of “a little”, “quite a bit”, or “very much” regarding tingling, numbness or shooting/burning pain were scored as ‘yes’. Yes/no variables assessed ototoxicity (i.e., tinnitus, “problems hearing words, sounds, or language in crowds”, hearing aid use, and deafness). Results: We evaluated 680 consecutively enrolled TCS. Median age at diagnosis was 31 (range, 15-49 y); median time since CHEM completion was 52 mos. (range, 1-30 y). Only 15% of patients reported no CHCs, with 21%, 23%, 17%, and 24% reporting 1, 2, 3, or 4+ CHCs, respectively. 47% reported any ototoxicity including tinnitus in 36% of all TCS. Ten patients reported hearing aid use. 55% reported PN, while 29% had both PN and ototoxicity. Medication use for HTN, hypercholesterolemia, DM, ED, pain, or anxiety/depression was reported by 8%, 11%, 4%, 4%, 7%, and 13% of patients respectively. Conclusions: Several years after CHEM, nearly a quarter of TCS in this study reported 4 or more CHCs. We may have overestimated the number of CHCs, since PN included “a little” symptomatology, and ototoxicity was based on limited binary variables without finer gradation of symptoms. Future studies will continue to identify important CHCs following CHEM in TCS.

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Abstract Details

Meeting

2015 ASCO Annual Meeting

Session Type

Poster Discussion Session

Session Title

Patient and Survivor Care

Track

Patient and Survivor Care

Sub Track

Survivorship

Citation

J Clin Oncol 33, 2015 (suppl; abstr 9519)

DOI

10.1200/jco.2015.33.15_suppl.9519

Abstract #

9519

Poster Bd #

178

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