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Induction therapy does not improve survival for clinical stage T2N0 esophageal cancer.

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Speicher, PJ; Ganapathi, AM; Englum, BR; Hartwig, MG; Onaitis, MW; D'Amico, TA; Berry, MF
Published in: J Thorac Oncol
August 2014

INTRODUCTION: This study compared survival after initial treatment with esophagectomy as primary therapy to induction therapy followed by esophagectomy for patients with clinical T2N0 (cT2N0) esophageal cancer in the National Cancer Database (NCDB). METHODS: Predictors of therapy selection for patients with cT2N0 esophageal cancer in the NCDB from 1998 to 2011 were identified with multivariable logistic regression. Survival was evaluated using Kaplan-Meier and Cox proportional hazards methods. RESULTS: Surgery was used in 42.9% (2057 of 4799) of cT2N0 patients. Of 1599 esophagectomy patients for whom treatment timing was recorded, induction therapy was used in 44.1% (688). Pretreatment staging was proven accurate in only 26.7% of patients (210 of 786) who underwent initial surgery without induction treatment and had complete pathologic data available: 41.6% (n = 327) were upstaged and 31.7% (n = 249) were downstaged. Adjuvant therapy (chemotherapy or radiation therapy) was given to 50.2% of patients treated initially with surgery who were found after resection to have nodal disease. There was no significant difference in long-term survival between strategies of primary surgery and induction therapy followed by surgery (median 41.1 versus 41.9 months, p = 0.51). In multivariable analysis, induction therapy was not independently associated with risk of death (hazard ratio [HR], 1.16, p = 0.32). CONCLUSIONS: Current clinical staging for early-stage esophageal cancer is highly inaccurate, with only a quarter of surgically resected cT2N0 patients found to have had accurate pretreatment staging. Induction therapy for patients with cT2N0 esophageal cancer in the NCDB is not associated with improved survival.

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J Thorac Oncol

DOI

EISSN

1556-1380

Publication Date

August 2014

Volume

9

Issue

8

Start / End Page

1195 / 1201

Location

United States

Related Subject Headings

  • Survival Rate
  • Retrospective Studies
  • Radiotherapy, Adjuvant
  • Oncology & Carcinogenesis
  • Neoplasm Staging
  • Neoadjuvant Therapy
  • Middle Aged
  • Male
  • Humans
  • Female
 

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Speicher, P. J., Ganapathi, A. M., Englum, B. R., Hartwig, M. G., Onaitis, M. W., D’Amico, T. A., & Berry, M. F. (2014). Induction therapy does not improve survival for clinical stage T2N0 esophageal cancer. J Thorac Oncol, 9(8), 1195–1201. https://doi.org/10.1097/JTO.0000000000000228
Speicher, Paul J., Asvin M. Ganapathi, Brian R. Englum, Matthew G. Hartwig, Mark W. Onaitis, Thomas A. D’Amico, and Mark F. Berry. “Induction therapy does not improve survival for clinical stage T2N0 esophageal cancer.J Thorac Oncol 9, no. 8 (August 2014): 1195–1201. https://doi.org/10.1097/JTO.0000000000000228.
Speicher PJ, Ganapathi AM, Englum BR, Hartwig MG, Onaitis MW, D’Amico TA, et al. Induction therapy does not improve survival for clinical stage T2N0 esophageal cancer. J Thorac Oncol. 2014 Aug;9(8):1195–201.
Speicher, Paul J., et al. “Induction therapy does not improve survival for clinical stage T2N0 esophageal cancer.J Thorac Oncol, vol. 9, no. 8, Aug. 2014, pp. 1195–201. Pubmed, doi:10.1097/JTO.0000000000000228.
Speicher PJ, Ganapathi AM, Englum BR, Hartwig MG, Onaitis MW, D’Amico TA, Berry MF. Induction therapy does not improve survival for clinical stage T2N0 esophageal cancer. J Thorac Oncol. 2014 Aug;9(8):1195–1201.
Journal cover image

Published In

J Thorac Oncol

DOI

EISSN

1556-1380

Publication Date

August 2014

Volume

9

Issue

8

Start / End Page

1195 / 1201

Location

United States

Related Subject Headings

  • Survival Rate
  • Retrospective Studies
  • Radiotherapy, Adjuvant
  • Oncology & Carcinogenesis
  • Neoplasm Staging
  • Neoadjuvant Therapy
  • Middle Aged
  • Male
  • Humans
  • Female