Abstract
OBJECTIVES: To analyze the potential survival benefit of perioperative chemotherapy (CHT) in patients treated with nephroureterectomy (NU) for non-metastatic locally advanced upper tract urothelial carcinoma.
METHODS: Within the Surveillance, Epidemiology, and End Results database (2004-2014), we identified 1286 patients with T3 or T4, N 0-3 M0 UTUC. Kaplan-Meier plots, as well as multivariable Cox regression models (MCRMs) relying on inverse probability after treatment weighting (IPTW) and landmark analyses, were used to test the effect of CHT vs no CHT on overall mortality (OM) in the overall population (n =1286), as well as after stratification according to lymph node invasion (LNI).
RESULTS: Overall, 37.4% patients received CHT. The CHT rate was higher with LNI (62.2% vs 35.2%, p < 0.001). In MCRMs, testing for OM in the overall population, CHT was associated with lower rates of OM (HR 0.71, CI 0.58-0.87; p = 0.001). Similarly, in MCRMs testing for OM in patients with LNI, CHT achieved independent predictor status for lower OM (HR 0.61, CI 0.48-0.78; p < 0.001). Conversely, in MCRMs testing for OM in patients without LNI, no CHT effect was recorded (HR 0.72, CI 0.52-1.01; p = 0.05). All results were confirmed after IPTW adjustment and in landmark analyses.
CONCLUSIONS: Our results represent a contemporary North American report indicating lower OM after CHT for patients with locally advanced non-metastatic upper tract urothelial carcinoma, specifically in patients with T3-T4, N1-N3, M0 disease. Validation of the current and of the previous study is required within a randomized prospective design.
Original language | English |
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Pages (from-to) | 1329-1337 |
Number of pages | 9 |
Journal | World Journal of Urology |
Volume | 37 |
Issue number | 7 |
DOIs | |
Publication status | Published - Jul 2019 |
Keywords
- Aged
- Antineoplastic Agents/therapeutic use
- Carcinoma, Transitional Cell/pathology
- Case-Control Studies
- Chemotherapy, Adjuvant/statistics & numerical data
- Female
- Humans
- Kaplan-Meier Estimate
- Kidney Neoplasms/pathology
- Kidney Pelvis/pathology
- Lymph Nodes/pathology
- Male
- Middle Aged
- Mortality
- Neoadjuvant Therapy/statistics & numerical data
- Neoplasm Invasiveness
- Nephroureterectomy
- Perioperative Care/methods
- Proportional Hazards Models
- SEER Program
- Ureteral Neoplasms/pathology