Network-meta-analysis of chemotherapy in nasopharyngeal carcinoma (MAC-NPC): An update on 8,221 patients.

Authors

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Claire Petit

Gustave Roussy, Villejuif, France

Claire Petit , Anne WM Lee , Alexandra Carmel , Wai Tong Ng , Jun Ma , Anthony TC Chan , Ruey-Long Hong , Ming-Yuan Chen , Lei Chen , Guopei Zhu , Wen-Fei Li , Sharon Poh , Roger Ngan , Hai-Qiang Mai , Pei-Yu Huang , Li Zhang , George Fountzilas , Jean Bourhis , Jean-Pierre Pignon , Pierre Blanchard

Organizations

Gustave Roussy, Villejuif, France, Department of Clinical Oncology, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, Hong Kong, Institut Gustave Roussy, Villejuif, France, University of Hong Kong–Shenzhen Hospital, Hong Kong, China, Sun Yat-sen University Cancer Center, Guangzhou, China, State Key Laboratory of translational oncology, Hong Kong Cancer Institute, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shatin, China, National Taiwan University Hospital, Taipei, Taiwan, Sun Yat-Sen University Cancer Center, Guangzhou, China, Department of Oral and Maxillofacial Head & Neck Oncology, Shanghai Ninth People's Hospital, Shanghai JiaoTong University School of Medicine, Shanghai, China, National Cancer Centre, Singapore, Singapore, Queen Elizabeth Hospital, Hong Kong, China, State Key Laboratory of Oncology in South China; Collaborative Innovation Center for Cancer Medicine, Department of Medical Oncology, Sun Yat-sen University Cancer Center, Guangzhou, China, Hellenic Cooperative Oncology Group (HeCOG), Athens, Greece, Centre Hospitalier Universitaire Vaudois, Lausanne, Switzerland, Biostatistics and Epidemiology, Gustave-Roussy Cancer Campus, Paris-Saclay and Paris-Sud Universities, Villejuif, France

Research Funding

Other Foundation
french LNCC, PHRC

Background: Based on an individual patient data (IPD) network meta-analysis (NMA) of 20 randomized trials and 5,144 patients (pts), the MAC-NPC collaborative group has shown that the addition of adjuvant chemotherapy (AC) to chemo-radiotherapy (CRT) achieved the highest survival benefit in nasopharyngeal carcinoma (NPC; Ribassin-Majed JCO 2017). Here, we updated the meta-analysis with the addition of 8 trials. Methods: Trials of Radiotherapy (RT) with or without chemotherapy (CT) in patients with non-metastatic NPC were identified and updated IPD obtained. Both Western and Chinese medical literatures were searched. Overall Survival (OS) was the main endpoint. Fixed and random-effects frequentist NMA models were applied, network heterogeneity and consistency were evaluated. P-score was used to rank the treatments. R software - netmeta package was used to perform the analyses. Treatments were grouped in the following categories: RT alone (RT), induction chemotherapy followed by RT (IC-RT), induction chemotherapy without taxanes followed by concomitant chemoradiotherapy (ICtax(-)-CRT), induction chemotherapy with taxanes followed by concomitant chemoradiotherapy (ICtax(+)-CRT), concomitant chemoradiotherapy (CRT), concomitant chemoradiotherapy followed by adjuvant chemotherapy (CRT-AC) and RT followed by adjuvant chemotherapy (RT-AC). Results: Overall 28 trials and 8,214 pts were included. Median follow-up was 7.2 years. There was no heterogeneity in the NMA. There was inconsistency in the main analysis, which disappeared after the exclusion of 2 outlier trials. ICtax(+)-CRT ranked the best treatment for OS with a P-Score of 91%. Hazard ratio [HR, 95% Confidence Interval] for ICtax(+)-CRT was 0.75 [0.59-0.96] compared to CRT and 0.92 [0.69-1.24] compared to CRT-AC (second best treatment in raking with a P-Score of 85%; see league table below). When the 2 types of IC were merged, CRT-AC ranked the first followed by IC-CRT with P-Scores of 93% and 86% respectively, with a HR of 0.97 [0.84-1.14] for CRT-AC vs. IC-CRT. Conclusions: This IPD NMA of the treatment of locally advanced NPC demonstrates that the addition of IC or AC to CRT improves disease control probability and survival over CRT alone. Data on progression-free survival, locoregional and distant control will be presented at the meeting.

ICtax(+)-CRT
p-score = 91%
0.92
[0.69-1.24]
CRT-AC
p-score = 85%
0.87
[0.65-1.17]
0.94
[0.79-1.13]
ICtax(-)-CRT
p-score = 74%
0.75
[0.59-0.96]
0.82
[0.69-0.97]
0.87
[0.74-1.02]
CRT
p-score = 45%

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Abstract Details

Meeting

2020 ASCO Virtual Scientific Program

Session Type

Poster Discussion Session

Session Title

Head and Neck Cancer

Track

Head and Neck Cancer

Sub Track

Local-Regional Disease

Citation

J Clin Oncol 38: 2020 (suppl; abstr 6523)

DOI

10.1200/JCO.2020.38.15_suppl.6523

Abstract #

6523

Poster Bd #

184

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