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ABSTRACT: Background
Clinical practice guidelines focusing on age-related adjuvant chemotherapy for rectal cancer are currently limited. The present study aimed to explore the impact of age on the efficacy of adjuvant oxaliplatin-based chemotherapy in patients with rectal cancer after neoadjuvant chemoradiotherapy.Methods
We performed a retrospective cohort analysis using data from the Surveillance, Epidemiology, and End Results-Medicare-linked database from 1992-2009. We enrolled patients with yp stages I-III rectal cancer who received neoadjuvant chemoradiotherapy and underwent curative resection. The age-related survival benefit of adding oxaliplatin to adjuvant 5-fluorouracil (5-FU) chemotherapy was evaluated using Kaplan-Meier survival analysis with propensity score-matching and Cox proportional hazards models.Results
Comparing the oxaliplatin group with the 5-FU group, there were significant interactions between age and chemotherapy efficacy in terms of overall survival (OS) (p for interaction = 0.017) among patients with positive lymph nodes (ypN+). Adding oxaliplatin to 5-FU could prolong survival in patients aged < 73 years and ypN+ category, and but did not translate into survival benefits in patients aged ? 73 years and ypN+ category. No significant interactions were observed among ypN- patients, and oxaliplatin did not significantly improve OS, regardless of age.Conclusions
In patients with rectal cancer who have already received neoadjuvant chemoradiotherapy and undergone curative resection, adding oxaliplatin to 5-FU could prolong OS in patients aged < 73 years and ypN+ category. However, adding oxaliplatin did not translate into survival benefits in patients age ? 73 years and ypN+ category, or in ypN- patients.
SUBMITTER: Huang XZ
PROVIDER: S-EPMC4991408 | biostudies-literature | 2016 Apr
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Huang Xuan-Zhang XZ Gao Peng P Song Yong-Xi YX Sun Jing-Xu JX Chen Xiao-Wan XW Zhao Jun-Hua JH Ma Bin B Wang Jun J Wang Zhen-Ning ZN
Oncotarget 20160401 15
<h4>Background</h4>Clinical practice guidelines focusing on age-related adjuvant chemotherapy for rectal cancer are currently limited. The present study aimed to explore the impact of age on the efficacy of adjuvant oxaliplatin-based chemotherapy in patients with rectal cancer after neoadjuvant chemoradiotherapy.<h4>Methods</h4>We performed a retrospective cohort analysis using data from the Surveillance, Epidemiology, and End Results-Medicare-linked database from 1992-2009. We enrolled patients ...[more]