Long term morbidity and mortality among survivors of infant neuroblastoma: A report from the Childhood Cancer Survivor Study (CCSS).

Authors

Danielle Friedman

Danielle Novetsky Friedman

Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, New York, NY

Danielle Novetsky Friedman , Pamela J Goodman , Wendy Leisenring , Lisa Diller , Susan Lerner Cohn , Emily S. Tonorezos , Rebecca M. Howell , Susan A Smith , Suzanne L. Wolden , Paul C. Nathan , Joseph Philip Neglia , Kirsten K. Ness , Leslie L. Robison , Kevin C. Oeffinger , Gregory T. Armstrong , Charles A. Sklar , Tara O. Henderson

Organizations

Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, New York, NY, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle, WA, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute and Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, The University of Chicago Medicine, Chicago, IL, Adult Long Term Follow-Up Program, Department of Medicine, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, New York, NY, Department of Radiation Physics, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX, The Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto, ON, Canada, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, St. Jude Children's Research Hospital, Memphis, TN, Duke University, Durham, NC, The University of Chicago, Chicago, IL

Research Funding

U.S. National Institutes of Health

Background: Infants with neuroblastoma typically have low-risk disease with excellent survival. Therapy has been de-intensified over time to minimize late effects, however the impact on survivors’ risk of late mortality, subsequent malignant neoplasms (SMN), and chronic health conditions (CHC) is unclear. Methods: We evaluated late mortality, SMNs and CHCs (graded according to CTCAE v4.03), overall and by diagnosis era, among 990 5-year neuroblastoma survivors diagnosed at < 1 year of age between 1970-1999. Cumulative mortality, standardized mortality ratios (SMR), and standardized incidence ratios (SIR) of SMNs were estimated using the National Death Index and SEER rates, respectively. Cox proportional hazards estimated hazard ratios (HR) and 95% confidence intervals (CI) for CHC, compared to 5,051 CCSS siblings. Results: Among survivors (48% female; median attained age: 24 years, range 6-46), there was increased treatment with surgery alone across the 1970s, 1980s and 1990s (21.5%, 35.3%, 41.1%, respectively), but decreased treatment with combination surgery + radiation (22.5%, 5.3%, 0.3%, respectively) and surgery + radiation + chemotherapy (28.7%, 14.7%, 9.3%, respectively). The 20-year cumulative mortality was 2.3% (95% CI, 1.4-3.8), primarily due to SMNs (SMRSMN= 10.0, 95% CI, 4.5-22.3). The 20-year cumulative incidence of SMN was 1.2% (95% CI, 0.3-3.2), 2.5% (95% CI, 1.3-4.4), and zero for those diagnosed in the 1970s, 1980s, and 1990s, respectively. SIR was highest for renal SMNs (SIR 12.5, 95% CI, 1.7-89.4). Compared to siblings, survivors were at increased risk for grade 1-5 CHC (HR 2.1, 95% CI, 1.9-2.3) with similar HR across eras (HR1970s= 1.9, 95% CI, 1.6-2.2; HR1980s= 2.2, 95% CI, 1.9-2.6; HR1990s= 2.0, 95% CI, 1.7-2.4). The HR of severe, disabling, life-threatening and fatal CHC (grades 3-5) decreased in more recent eras (HR1970s= 4.7, 95% CI, 3.4-6.6; HR1980s= 4.4, 95% CI, 3.2-6.2; HR1990s= 2.9, 95% CI, 2.0-4.3). Conclusions: Survivors of infant neuroblastoma remain at increased risk for late mortality, SMN, and CHCs many years after diagnosis. However, the risk of grade 3-5 CHCs has declined in more recent eras, likely reflecting de-intensification of therapy.

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Abstract Details

Meeting

2019 ASCO Annual Meeting

Session Type

Poster Session

Session Title

Pediatric Oncology

Track

Pediatric Oncology

Sub Track

Survivorship

Citation

J Clin Oncol 37, 2019 (suppl; abstr 10051)

DOI

10.1200/JCO.2019.37.15_suppl.10051

Abstract #

10051

Poster Bd #

433

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