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Pu H, Luo Y, Zhang L, Li X, Li F, Chen J, Qian S, Tang Y, Zhao X, Hou L, Gao Y. Development and validation of nomograms for predicting survival outcomes in patients with T1-2N1 breast cancer to identify those who could not benefit from postmastectomy radiotherapy. Front Oncol 2023; 13:1112687. [PMID: 37056328 PMCID: PMC10086367 DOI: 10.3389/fonc.2023.1112687] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/30/2022] [Accepted: 03/15/2023] [Indexed: 03/30/2023] Open
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PurposeIn this study, we aimed to develop and validate nomograms for predicting the survival outcomes in patients with T1-2N1 breast cancer to identify the patients who could not benefit from postmastectomy radiotherapy (PMRT).MethodsData from 10191 patients with T1-2N1 breast cancer were extracted from the Surveillance, Epidemiology, and End Results (SEER) database. Of them, 6542 patients who had not received PMRT formed the training set. Concurrently, we retrospectively enrolled 419 patients from the Affiliated Hospital of North Sichuan Medical College (NSMC), and 286 patients who did not undergo PMRT formed the external validation set. The least absolute shrinkage and selection operator (LASSO) and multivariate Cox regression analyses were used for selecting prognostic factors in the training set. Using the selected factors, two prognostic nomograms were constructed. The nomograms’ performance was assessed using the concordance index (C-index), calibration curves, decision curve analysis (DCA), and risk subgroup classification. The stabilized inverse probability of treatment weights (IPTWs) was used to balance the baseline characteristics of the different risk groups. Finally, the survival outcomes and effectiveness of PMRT after IPTW adjustment were evaluated using adjusted Kaplan–Meier curves and Cox regression models.ResultsThe 8-year overall survival (OS) and breast cancer-specific survival (BCSS) rates for the SEER cohort were 84.3% and 90.1%, with a median follow-up time of 76 months, while those for the NSMC cohort were 84.1% and 86.9%, with a median follow-up time of 73 months. Moreover, significant differences were observed in the survival curves for the different risk subgroups (P < 0.001) in both SEER and NSMC cohorts. The subgroup analysis after adjustment by IPTW revealed that PMRT was significantly associated with improved OS and BCSS in the intermediate- (hazard ratio [HR] = 0.72, 95% confidence interval [CI]: 0.59–0.88, P=0.001; HR = 0.77, 95% CI: 0.62–0.95, P = 0.015) and high- (HR=0.66, 95% CI: 0.52–0.83, P<0.001; HR=0.74, 95% CI: 0.56–0.99, P=0.039) risk groups. However, PMRT had no significant effects on patients in the low-risk groups.ConclusionAccording to the prognostic nomogram, we performed risk subgroup classification and found that patients in the low-risk group did not benefit from PMRT.
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- Hongyu Pu
- Department of Breast and Thyroid Surgery, Affiliated Hospital of North Sichuan Medical College, Nanchong, China
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- Department of Breast and Thyroid Surgery, Affiliated Hospital of North Sichuan Medical College, Nanchong, China
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- Department of Breast and Thyroid Surgery, Affiliated Hospital of North Sichuan Medical College, Nanchong, China
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- Department of Hepatobiliary Surgery I, Affiliated Hospital of North Sichuan Medical College, Nanchong, China
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- Department of Breast and Thyroid Surgery, Affiliated Hospital of North Sichuan Medical College, Nanchong, China
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- Department of Breast and Thyroid Surgery, Chongqing General Hospital, Chongqing, China
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- Department of Breast and Thyroid Surgery, Affiliated Hospital of North Sichuan Medical College, Nanchong, China
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- Department of Breast and Thyroid Surgery, Guang’an People’s Hospital, Chongqing, China
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- Department of Breast and Thyroid Surgery, Affiliated Hospital of North Sichuan Medical College, Nanchong, China
- *Correspondence: Xiaobo Zhao, ; Lingmi Hou, ; Yanchun Gao,
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- Department of Breast and Thyroid Surgery, Affiliated Hospital of North Sichuan Medical College, Nanchong, China
- *Correspondence: Xiaobo Zhao, ; Lingmi Hou, ; Yanchun Gao,
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- Department of Breast and Thyroid Surgery, Affiliated Hospital of North Sichuan Medical College, Nanchong, China
- *Correspondence: Xiaobo Zhao, ; Lingmi Hou, ; Yanchun Gao,
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Qi WX, Cao L, Xu C, Cai G, Chen J. The optimal regional irradiation volume for breast cancer patients: A comprehensive systematic review and network meta-analysis of published studies. Front Oncol 2023; 13:1081201. [PMID: 36798812 PMCID: PMC9927229 DOI: 10.3389/fonc.2023.1081201] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/27/2022] [Accepted: 01/10/2023] [Indexed: 02/04/2023] Open
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Background Currently, the optimal adjuvant regional nodal irradiation (RNI) volume for breast cancer (BC) remained controversial. We aimed to define the optimal RNI treatment volume for BC by using a comprehensive network meta-analysis (NMA) of published studies. Materials and methods PubMed, Embase, Medline, and Cochrane Central Register of Controlled Trials were searched from database inception to 30 May 2022. Studies assessing different adjuvant RNI volumes for BC were eligible for inclusion. The primary outcome was overall survival (OS), and secondary outcome was disease-free survival (DFS) and distant-metastasis-free survival (DMFS). Results A total of 29,640 BC patients from twenty studies were included. The pooled hazard ratio demonstrated that internal mammary node irradiation (IMNI) in BC patients significantly improved OS giving HR (hazard ratio) of 0.87 (95%CI: 0.83-0.91, p<0.001), DFS with HR of 0.78 (95%CI: 0.68-0.90, p<0.01), and DMFS with HR of 0.87 (95%CI: 0.79-0.97, p<0.01) when compared to controls. Sub-group analysis indicated that RNI with IMNI significantly improved OS (HR 0.87, 95%CI: 0.81-0.93, p<0.01), DFS (HR 0.65, 95%CI: 0.56-0.77, p<0.01), and DMFS (HR 0.90, 95%CI: 0.82-0.98, p=0.02) when compared to RNI without IMNI. NMA showed that CW/WB (chest wall/whole breast) + RNI with IMNI significantly improved DFS (HR 0.93, 95%CI: 0.86-1.00) and DMFS (HR 0.90, 95%CI: 0.81-0.99), but not for OS (HR 0.93, 95%CI: 0.84-1.03) when compared to CW/WB alone. Based on the analysis of the treatment ranking, CW/WB+RNI with IMNI appeared as the best treatment approach for BC patients. Conclusions Our pooled results demonstrated that RNI with IMNI yielded a significant survival advantage for BC patients. NMA showed that CW/WB+RNI with IMNI was the optimal radiation volume for BC patients.
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- *Correspondence: Wei-Xiang Qi, ; Jiayi Chen,
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Qi WX, Cao L, Zheng S, Xu C, Cai R, Xu H, Cai G, Chen J. IMNI PRECISION trial protocol: a phase II, open-label, non-inferior randomized controlled trial of tailoring omission of internal mammary node irradiation for early-stage breast cancer. BMC Cancer 2022; 22:1356. [PMID: 36575421 PMCID: PMC9795778 DOI: 10.1186/s12885-022-10454-1] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/01/2022] [Accepted: 12/15/2022] [Indexed: 12/28/2022] Open
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BACKGROUND Since the publication of MA-20 and EORTC-22922 trials, chest wall (CW)/ whole breast (WB) irradiation + comprehensive regional nodal irradiation (RNI) with internal mammary node irradiation (IMNI) has been the standard adjuvant treatment for early-stage breast cancer (BC). However, one size does not fit all BC, and the risk of recurrence significantly varies among this patient population. In addition, whether all BC patients presented with one to three positive lymph nodes (pN1) could benefit from IMNI remains controversial. Thus, the optimal adjuvant RNI volume for early-stage BC with T1-2N1 remains undetermined. METHODS The IMNI PRECISION trial is a single institute, open-labeled, non-inferior, randomized controlled trial. A total of 214 clinically "high risk" BC patients which is characterized as having at least two of the five clinically adverse factors (age ≤ 40, three positive LN, T2 stage, grade 3 and Ki-67 index ≥ 14%), but genomic score "low risk" (the genomic score ≤ 44) N1 breast cancers are randomly assigned to omitting IMNI group (experimental group) or with IMNI (control group) with a 1:1 ratio. The primary endpoint of this trial is event-free survival, and secondary endpoints include overall survival and locoregional recurrence-free survival. DISCUSSION The IMNI PRECISION design allows promising clinical-genomic model to stratify the individualized risk of developing recurrence and guides the optimal RNI treatment for early-stage (pT1-2N1) BC patients. We anticipate that our results would provide high-level evidence to tailor IMNI according to individualized recurrence risk of BC. TRIAL REGISTRATION ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier NCT04517266 . Date of registration: August 18, 2020. Status: Recruiting.
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- Wei-Xiang Qi
- grid.412277.50000 0004 1760 6738Department of Radiation Oncology, Ruijin Hospital, Shanghai Jiaotong University School of Medicine, Shanghai, China
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- grid.412277.50000 0004 1760 6738Department of Radiation Oncology, Ruijin Hospital, Shanghai Jiaotong University School of Medicine, Shanghai, China
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- grid.412277.50000 0004 1760 6738Department of Radiation Oncology, Ruijin Hospital, Shanghai Jiaotong University School of Medicine, Shanghai, China
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- grid.412277.50000 0004 1760 6738Department of Radiation Oncology, Ruijin Hospital, Shanghai Jiaotong University School of Medicine, Shanghai, China
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- grid.412277.50000 0004 1760 6738Department of Radiation Oncology, Ruijin Hospital, Shanghai Jiaotong University School of Medicine, Shanghai, China
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- grid.412277.50000 0004 1760 6738Department of Radiation Oncology, Ruijin Hospital, Shanghai Jiaotong University School of Medicine, Shanghai, China
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- grid.412277.50000 0004 1760 6738Department of Radiation Oncology, Ruijin Hospital, Shanghai Jiaotong University School of Medicine, Shanghai, China
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- grid.412277.50000 0004 1760 6738Department of Radiation Oncology, Ruijin Hospital, Shanghai Jiaotong University School of Medicine, Shanghai, China
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Xu FF, Cao L, Xu C, Cai G, Wang SB, Qi WX, Chen JY. Practical Model to Optimize the Strategy of Adjuvant Postmastectomy Radiotherapy in T1-2N1 Breast Cancer With Modern Systemic Therapy. Front Oncol 2022; 12:789198. [PMID: 35280719 PMCID: PMC8908314 DOI: 10.3389/fonc.2022.789198] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/04/2021] [Accepted: 01/28/2022] [Indexed: 12/24/2022] Open
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Purpose The effect of adjuvant irradiation after mastectomy in early-stage breast cancer patients remains controversial. The present study aims to explore the clinical benefit obtained from adjuvant radiotherapy among post-mastectomy pT1-2N1 breast cancer patients who received adjuvant modern systemic therapy. Methods Medical records of consecutive patients with pT1-2N1 breast cancer who received mastectomy in our institution between January 2009 and December 2016 were retrospectively reviewed. High-risk features consist of patient age, number of positive lymph nodes, T stage, and Ki67 index, which were developed previously at our institution using early-stage breast cancer patients after mastectomy without adjuvant radiotherapy. Differences of survival and local recurrence were compared between no-postmastectomy radiotherapy (PMRT) and PMRT group according to number of risk factors. The time-to-event curves were calculated by the Kaplan–Meier methods and compared by the log-rank test. Propensity score matching (PSM) was performed to reduce the imbalances in patient characteristics. Results A total of 548 patients were enrolled (no-PMRT: 259 and PMRT: 289). After a median follow-up of 69 months, the 5-year rate of DFS, BCSS, and LRR in the overall cohort was 90.2%, 97.4%, and 3.6%, respectively. PMRT did not significantly improve DFS, BCSS, and LRRFS in the whole cohort. Patients were divided into low-risk (with no or one risk factor) and high-risk (with two or more risk factors) groups. According to the univariable and multivariable analysis, high-risk group (HR = 1.81, 95% CI 1.11–2.98, p = 0.02) was demonstrated as an independent risk factor for DFS. For the high-risk group, PMRT significantly improved DFS from 81.4% to 91.9% and BCSS from 95.5% to 98.6% and decreased the 5-year rate of LRR from 5.6% to 1.4%, respectively (p < 0.01, p = 0.05, and p = 0.06). However, no survival benefit from PMRT was observed in the low-risk group in terms of DFS, BCSS, and LRR (p = 0.45, p = 0.51, and p = 0.99, respectively). In multivariate analysis, PMRT remained an independent prognostic factor for DFS (HR = 0.50, 95% CI 0.24–1.00, p = 0.05) in the high-risk group. After PSM analysis, the survival benefit of PMRT was sustained in high-risk patients. Conclusion PMRT significantly improved DFS in high-risk pT1-2N1 breast cancer patients, but not in low-risk patients. Independent validation of our scoring system is recommended.
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- Fei-Fei Xu
- Department of Radiation Oncology, Ruijin Hospital, Shanghai Jiaotong University School of Medicine, Shanghai, China
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- Department of Radiation Oncology, Ruijin Hospital, Shanghai Jiaotong University School of Medicine, Shanghai, China
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- Department of Radiation Oncology, Ruijin Hospital, Shanghai Jiaotong University School of Medicine, Shanghai, China
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- Department of Radiation Oncology, Ruijin Hospital, Shanghai Jiaotong University School of Medicine, Shanghai, China
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- Department of Radiation Oncology, Ruijin Hospital, Shanghai Jiaotong University School of Medicine, Shanghai, China
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- Department of Radiation Oncology, Ruijin Hospital, Shanghai Jiaotong University School of Medicine, Shanghai, China
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- Department of Radiation Oncology, Ruijin Hospital, Shanghai Jiaotong University School of Medicine, Shanghai, China
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