Predicting rapid progression and overall survival in stage II-III pancreatic cancer using a CT-based radiomic signature.

Authors

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Qinmei Xu

Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, CA

Qinmei Xu , Diego Augusto Santos Toesca , Emil Schueler , Arash Jamalian , Emel Alkim , Daniel Tandel Chang , George A. Fisher Jr., Lucas Vitzthum , Olivier Gevaert , Haruka Itakura

Organizations

Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, CA, Mayo Clinic College of Medicine and Science, Phoenix, AZ, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI

Research Funding

No funding sources reported

Background: We sought to assess the ability of a computed tomography (CT)-derived radiomic signature (RS) feature set to predict rapid tumor progression and overall survival (OS) in patients diagnosed with stage II-III pancreatic cancer undergoing stereotactic body radiation therapy (SBRT) in sequence with chemotherapy. Methods: We conducted a retrospective study on a cohort of 240 stage II-III pancreatic cancer patients who underwent SBRT in sequence with chemotherapy at a single institution (Stanford Hospital and Clinics). Among them, 83 had pre-SBRT contrast-enhanced CT images with segmented tumors, forming the imaging set, from which we extracted 900 radiomic (quantitative pixel-level imaging characteristic) features from delineated tumor regions-of-interest. For RS development, we divided the imaging set into a training set (n = 53) for model development and a test set (n = 30) for evaluation. We built a binary prediction model on the training set to identify patients at risk of rapid tumor progression within three months after SBRT. We utilized logistic regression with the Least Absolute Shrinkage and Selection Operator algorithm for feature selection and classification. To fine-tune parameters, we performed five-fold cross-validation on the training set, repeating each set of parameters five times. Finally, we assessed the model's performance on the test set (n = 30) using the area under the curve (AUC) value. We selected the model with the best AUC, while also generating the predictive radiomic feature set. For OS prognostication, we conducted both univariate and multivariate Cox proportional-hazards analyses using RS and clinical features (age, sex, stage, vessel involvement, tumor location, performance status, body mass index, biological equivalent dose of radiation) as potential predictors. Results: The enrolled cohort consisted of 127 men (mean age, 69 years ± 12 [SD]) and 113 women (mean age, 69 years ± 13 [SD]). Seventeen textural radiomic features were identified as the RS, which demonstrated a high AUC in the test set for the prediction of rapid progression (AUC 0.850; 95% CI: 0.725, 0.975). Age was associated with OS in the multivariate model while high RS (>0.5) was independently associated with OS in both univariate and multivariate models. Conclusions: CT-derived RS, combined with age, represent the most prognostic factors for stage II-III pancreatic cancer. RS, which likely reflects underlying biology or molecular alterations, contributes to the highest HR of poor OS and provide the strongest indicator of outcome following commonly used treatments in this patient population.

Multivariate analysis (RS and clinical features).
VariableHazard Ratio (95% CI)p
RS-High2.895 (1.760-4.761)<0.001**
Age1.027 (1.006-1.049)0.013*
Vessel involvement2.289 (0.939-7.700)0.065
Pancreatic head tumor1.479 (0.910-2,404)0.114
Sex_male1.413 (0.881-2.266)0.151

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Abstract Details

Meeting

2024 ASCO Gastrointestinal Cancers Symposium

Session Type

Poster Session

Session Title

Poster Session B: Cancers of the Pancreas, Small Bowel, and Hepatobiliary Tract

Track

Pancreatic Cancer,Hepatobiliary Cancer,Neuroendocrine/Carcinoid,Small Bowel Cancer

Sub Track

Other

Citation

J Clin Oncol 42, 2024 (suppl 3; abstr 706)

DOI

10.1200/JCO.2024.42.3_suppl.706

Abstract #

706

Poster Bd #

N15

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