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Abstract
Purpose: The current guidelines recommend cisplatin-based adjuvant chemotherapy for patients with completely resected stage II-III non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC). Carboplatin-based chemotherapy is occasionally selected, although there is limited evidence of its long-term outcomes. We conducted this study to compare the long-term outcomes of cisplatin- based chemotherapy with those of carboplatin-based chemotherapy.
Methods: A retrospective chart review was performed to identify patients aged ≥ 18 years with performance status 0-1, complete resection, and pathological stage II-IIIA NSCLC (7th edition) between 2014 and 2016 in our multi-institutional database. Patients were classified into two groups: the cisplatin-based adjuvant chemotherapy group and the carboplatin-based adjuvant chemotherapy group. To adjust for baseline differences, inverse probability of treatment weighting (IPTW) based on propensity scores was applied. The primary outcome was recurrence-free survival (RFS) and the secondary outcomes were cancer-specific survival (CSS) and overall survival (OS).
Results: A total 342 patients were included, of whom 195 received cisplatin-based adjuvant chemotherapy and 147 received carboplatin-based chemotherapy. After IPTW adjustment, the hazard ratios for RFS, CSS, and OS were 1.10 (95% confidence interval [CI]: 0.82-1.49, p = 0.526), 1.11 (95% CI: 0.68-1.82, p = 0.675), and 1.46 (95% CI: 0.96-2.22, p = 0.08), respectively.
Conclusions: Carboplatin-based adjuvant chemotherapy may be considered for selected patients deemed unfit to receive cisplatin.
期刊介绍:
Surgery Today is the official journal of the Japan Surgical Society. The main purpose of the journal is to provide a place for the publication of high-quality papers documenting recent advances and new developments in all fields of surgery, both clinical and experimental. The journal welcomes original papers, review articles, and short communications, as well as short technical reports("How to do it").
The "How to do it" section will includes short articles on methods or techniques recommended for practical surgery. Papers submitted to the journal are reviewed by an international editorial board. Field of interest: All fields of surgery.