Treatment patterns, overall survival, and healthcare utilization among Medicare beneficiaries with endometrial cancer in the United States.

Authors

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Mugdha Gokhale

Merck & Co., Inc., Kenilworth, NJ

Mugdha Gokhale , Jiemin Ma , Changxia Shao , Lei Chen , Robert Orlowski

Organizations

Merck & Co., Inc., Kenilworth, NJ

Research Funding

Pharmaceutical/Biotech Company
Merck Sharp & Dohme Corp., a subsidiary of Merck & Co., Inc., Kenilworth, NJ, USA

Background: Endometrial cancer (EC) is the most common gynecologic cancer in the US, yet real-world disease burden is poorly understood. To address this, we conducted a retrospective study exploring patient (pt) characteristics, treatment patterns, overall survival (OS), and healthcare resource utilization (HCRU) among elderly US pts with EC. Methods: Using Surveillance, Epidemiology, and End Results (SEER)-Medicare linked data, we identified beneficiaries aged ≥65 y with newly diagnosed EC between Jan 1, 2007–Dec 31, 2013. Pts were followed from the EC diagnosis date to the earliest of death, loss to follow-up, or Dec 31, 2014. Descriptive analyses were conducted for pt characteristics assessed in the 6-mo baseline period and for treatment patterns and HCRU assessed during follow-up. Median OS was estimated from the start of each line of systemic therapy using the Kaplan-Meier method. Lines of therapy started when pts received a new systemic therapy regimen and ended when pts switched to another regimen, after a 90-d treatment gap, or at end of follow-up. For pts with surgery, systemic therapy starting >120 d after surgery or after discontinuation of adjuvant therapy was defined as first-line (1L) therapy. Adjuvant therapy was defined as any systemic therapy starting ≤120 d after surgery for EC and ending after a 90-d treatment gap following the last prescription. Results: There were 12,710 eligible pts with EC during 2007–2013 in the SEER-Medicare database; median age at diagnosis was 73 y. At initial diagnosis, 9395 (73.9%) pts had stage I/II EC, 2042 (16.1%) had stage III, and 1273 (10.0%) had stage IV. 778 pts did not receive surgery/radiation, 1230 pts received surgery/radiation plus adjuvant therapy, 9729 pts received surgery/radiation only, and 973 (7.7%) pts received 1L systemic therapy. Of these 973 pts, 370 (38.0%) received second-line (2L) and 157 (16.1%) received third-line (3L) treatment. Pts receiving 1L therapy had a mean of 5.6 outpatient physician office visits per month, 22.1% had ≥1 hospitalization, and 38.5% had ≥1 emergency room visit during follow-up. Carboplatin-based regimens were the most frequently used 1L therapies (56.8%), typically combined with paclitaxel (43.5%). Median OS was generally short, particularly for those diagnosed with stage III/IV EC (Table). Conclusions: Medicare beneficiaries receiving systemic chemotherapy for EC generally had high HCRU and poor survival, particularly among pts diagnosed at later stages. This highlights the underlying disease burden and unmet need for more effective treatments in these pts.


Any stage
Stage I/II
Stage III/IV
OS, median (95% CI), mo from start of



- 1L
n = 973

13.1 (11.7–15.0)
n = 390

21.0 (18.6–26.2)
n = 583

10.3 (9.0–11.7)
- 2L
n = 370

11.2 (9.3–12.8)
n = 137

15.8 (11.8–18.8)
n = 233

9.5 (8.1–11.2)
- 3L
n = 157

9.6 (7.3–11.7)
n = 60

12.6 (8.8–NR)
n = 97

8.8 (5.7–10.0)
NR, not reached.

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Abstract Details

Meeting

2021 ASCO Annual Meeting

Session Type

Publication Only

Session Title

Publication Only: Health Services Research and Quality Improvement

Track

Quality Care/Health Services Research

Sub Track

Real-World Data/Outcomes

Citation

J Clin Oncol 39, 2021 (suppl 15; abstr e18698)

DOI

10.1200/JCO.2021.39.15_suppl.e18698

Abstract #

e18698

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