Department of Oncology, The First Affiliated Hospital of Chongqing Medical University, Chongqing, China
Lingna Kou , Tao Zhang , Siyun Peng , Yifei Wang , Mingyang Yuan , Minmin Li
Background: Standard treatment nowadays for locally advanced cervical cancer (LACC) is concurrent chemoradiation therapy (CCRT). However, due to distant metastasis, survival outcomes are still not optimistic. We tried to evaluate the clinical efficacy and safety of adjuvant chemotherapy for patients with LACC after treated with concurrent chemoradiation therapy (CCRT). Methods: Patients diagnosed between May, 2013 to May, 2018 with stage IIA-IIIB LACC were retrospectively analyzed. All the patients received platinum-based radical concurrent chemoradiotherapy and were divided into two groups: adjuvant chemotherapy after CCRT (CCRT+ACT group) and observation after CCRT (CCRT group). Overall survival (OS), progression free survival (PFS) and adverse effects were recorded and analyzed. Kaplan–Meier method and log-rank test were used to calculate and compare differences between survival outcomes. Toxicities were analyzed using chi-square test. Results: In total, 375 patients were included in this study, and 262 patients accepted ACT after CCRT while the remaining 113 patients chose to observe. With a median follow-up of 40 months (range 5-73 months), no significant differences were found in both overall survival (OS) and progression free survival (PFS) between two groups referring as 88.5% vs. 90.3% (P= 0.904) and 83.2% vs. 87.6% (P= 0.374). OS rates for patients in CCRT+ACT and CCRT groups at 1 year and 3 years were 97.3% vs. 94.7% (P= 0.195) and 90.2% vs. 88.4% (P= 0.694), respectively. Meanwhile, PFS rates at 1 year and 3 years were 92% vs. 94.7% (P= 0.371) and 87.5% vs. 85.5% (P= 0.761) for two arms separately. 3-4 grades acute adverse events happened more frequently in CCRT+ACT group than in CCRT group, with significant differences in neutropenia and anemia (P <0.05). Conclusions: In this study, adjuvant chemotherapy after concomitant chemoradiotherapy did not show benefit of survival but do induce adverse effects. We do not suggest it unless further large scale randomized controlled trials are executed to verify it.
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