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  OA 01 - The New Aspect of Radiation Therapy (ID 652)

  • Event: WCLC 2017
  • Type: Oral
  • Track: Radiotherapy
  • Presentations: 1
  • Moderators:M. Hiraoka, S.H. Kim
  • Coordinates: 10/16/2017, 11:00 - 12:30, F201 + F202 (Annex Hall)

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    OA 01.06 - Radiation Therapy is Associated with an Increased Incidence of Cardiac Events in Small Cell Lung Cancer Patients (ID 8469)

    11:55 - 12:05  |  Author(s): M. Behera
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    Background:
    Radiation (RT) dose to the heart was a predictor of inferior overall survival (OS) in the non-small cell lung cancer trial RTOG 0617, but little data quantifies cardiac morbidity for small cell lung cancer (SCLC) patients treated with RT.
    
    Method:
    The Surveillance, Epidemiology, and End Results (SEER) Program database and Medicare claims data were queried to establish rates of cardiac events (CE) among SCLC patients treated with chemotherapy (CTX) +/- RT. CE were defined as any new cardiac diagnosis including ischemic disease, cardiomyopathy, dysrhythmia, heart failure, and pericarditis. Chronic/pre-existing diagnoses were not counted as events. CTX-only patients were matched to CTX + RT patients to account for start date of RT. Second phase of propensity score matching (PSM) balanced demographical and clinical differences. Multivariate analysis (MVA) determined effect of tumor and RT covariates on CE and OS. Kaplan-Meier and cumulative incidence (CI) function curves were generated.
    
    Result:
    From 2000 – 2011, 7,060 patients were available: 2,892 (40.9%) limited-stage and 4,168 (59.0%) extensive-stage. As expected, CTX + RT patients had better OS (p < 0.001). OS for the CTX + RT and CTX-only groups: 35.0 vs. 21.4% at 12 months, and 6.6 vs 2.3% at 60 months, respectively. RT was associated with CE (p = 0.008), with CI as follows for the CTX + RT and CTX-only groups: 36.4 vs. 35.4% at 12 months, and 44.1 vs 39.0% at 60 months, respectively. MVA demonstrated higher hazard ratio of CE for extensive-stage patients (p < 0.001), black race (p < 0.001), and increased Charlson-Deyo score (p = 0.001). After PSM, 5,286 patients were included. Again, CTX + RT patients had better OS (p < 0.0001). OS for the CTX + RT and CTX-only groups: 30.6 vs. 22.5% at 12 months, and 5.3 vs 2.7% at 60 months, respectively. RT was still associated with CE (p = 0.033) after PSM, with CI of CE for the CTX + RT and CTX-only groups: 36.3 vs. 34.8% at 12 months, and 43.0 vs 38.6% at 60 months, respectively. Tumor laterality (p = 0.84) and RT modality (p = 0.62) were not associated with CE, though low numbers were treated with intensity-modulated versus 3D conformal RT (1:15 ratio).
    
    Conclusion:
    In this large database study we demonstrated RT is associated with an absolute increase in the rate of CE at 5-years of approximately 5%. Further evaluation of cardiac sparing radiation techniques should be evaluated for patients with SCLC.
    
    

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