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Individualized concurrent chemotherapy by pretreatment plasma Epstein-Barr viral DNA in II-III stage nasopharyngeal carcinoma: A propensity score matching analysis using a large cohort.

ABSTRACT:

Object

To ascertain the treatment effect of concurrent chemotherapy (CCT) in stage II-III nasopharyngeal carcinoma (NPC) patients with different Epstein-Barr virus (EBV) DNA level in intensity-modulated radiotherapy (IMRT) era.

Methods

A total of 2742 patients diagnosed with stage II-III NPC were involved in this study. Patients received IMRT with/without CCT. Overall survival (OS) was the primary endpoint. Receiver operating characteristics curve was used to determine the cut-off value of pre-DNA based on OS. After propensity score matching, the role of CCT was explored in patients with different EBV DNA level.

Results

In our cohort, the cut-off value of pre EBV DNA was 1460 copies/mL (area under curve [AUC], 0.695-0.769; sensitivity, 0.766; specificity, 0.599). Patients with high EBV DNA level showed poor survival in OS, progression free survival (PFS), locoregional relapse-free survival (LRFS) and distant metastasis-free survival (DMFS). In patients with EBV DNA level >1460 copies/mL, the concurrent chemoradiotherapy (CCRT) group achieved higher 3-year OS compared with IMRT groups. However, the CCRT and IMRT groups showed comparable OS in patients with EBV DNA ?1460 copies/mL. In multivariate analyses, CCT was a protective factor for OS, PFS, and LRFS in high-risk patients (EBV DNA level >1460 copies/mL), while not an independent prognostic factor among the low-risk patients (EBV DNA level ?1460 copies/mL).

Conclusion

Pre-EBV DNA could be a useful tool to guide individualized treatment for stage II-III NPC patients. Additional CCT to IMRT improved the survival for patients with high pre-EBV DNA, while those with low pre-EBV DNA could not.

SUBMITTER: Sun XS

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6675745 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature

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Individualized concurrent chemotherapy by pretreatment plasma Epstein-Barr viral DNA in II-III stage nasopharyngeal carcinoma: A propensity score matching analysis using a large cohort.

Sun Xue-Song XS Chen Wen-Hui WH Liu Sai-Lan SL Liang Yu-Jing YJ Chen Qiu-Yan QY Guo Shan-Shan SS Wen Yue-Feng YF Liu Li-Ting LT Xie Hao-Jun HJ Tang Qing-Nan QN Li Xiao-Yun XY Yan Jin-Jie JJ Mai Hai-Qiang HQ Tang Lin-Quan LQ

Cancer medicine 20190618 9

<h4>Object</h4>To ascertain the treatment effect of concurrent chemotherapy (CCT) in stage II-III nasopharyngeal carcinoma (NPC) patients with different Epstein-Barr virus (EBV) DNA level in intensity-modulated radiotherapy (IMRT) era.<h4>Methods</h4>A total of 2742 patients diagnosed with stage II-III NPC were involved in this study. Patients received IMRT with/without CCT. Overall survival (OS) was the primary endpoint. Receiver operating characteristics curve was used to determine the cut-off ...[more]

PMID: 31210417

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Project description:Nasopharyngeal carcinoma (NPC) is consistently associated with Epstein-Barr virus (EBV) infection in regions in which it is endemic, including Southern China and Southeast Asia. The high mortality rates of NPC patients with advanced and recurrent disease highlight the urgent need for effective treatments. While recent genomic studies have revealed few druggable targets, the unique interaction between the EBV infection and host cells in NPC strongly implies that targeting EBV may be an efficient approach to cure this virus-associated cancer. Key features of EBV-associated NPC are the persistence of an episomal EBV genome and the requirement for multiple viral latent gene products to enable malignant transformation. Many translational studies have been conducted to exploit these unique features to develop pharmaceutical agents and therapeutic strategies that target EBV latent proteins and induce lytic reactivation in NPC. In particular, inhibitors of the EBV latent protein EBNA1 have been intensively explored, because of this protein's essential roles in maintaining EBV latency and viral genome replication in NPC cells. In addition, recent advances in chemical bioengineering are driving the development of therapeutic agents targeting the critical functional regions of EBNA1. Promising therapeutic effects of the resulting EBNA1-specific inhibitors have been shown in EBV-positive NPC tumors. The efficacy of multiple classes of EBV lytic inducers for NPC cytolytic therapy has also been long investigated. However, the lytic-induction efficiency of these compounds varies among different EBV-positive NPC models in a cell-context-dependent manner. In each tumor, NPC cells can evolve and acquire somatic changes to maintain EBV latency during cancer progression. Unfortunately, the poor understanding of the cellular mechanisms regulating EBV latency-to-lytic switching in NPC cells limits the clinical application of EBV cytolytic treatment. In this review, we discuss the potential approaches for improvement of the above-mentioned EBV-targeting strategies.

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Individualized concurrent chemotherapy by pretreatment plasma Epstein-Barr viral DNA in II-III stage nasopharyngeal carcinoma: A propensity score matching analysis using a large cohort.

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Individualized concurrent chemotherapy by pretreatment plasma Epstein-Barr viral DNA in II-III stage nasopharyngeal carcinoma: A propensity score matching analysis using a large cohort.

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