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JOURNAL OF CLINICAL ONCOLOGY
Volume 38, Issue 17, Pages 1906-+Publisher
AMER SOC CLINICAL ONCOLOGY
DOI: 10.1200/JCO.19.03285
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- William Guy Forbeck Research Foundation
- St. Baldrick's Foundation
- Little Heroes Cancer Research Fund
- Children's Neuroblastoma Cancer Foundation
- Neuroblastoma Children's Cancer Foundation
- Super Jake Foundation
- Matthew Bittker Foundation
- Alex's Lemonade Stand Foundation
- Rally Foundation for Childhood Cancer Research
- Bear Necessities Pediatric Research Foundation
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PURPOSEThe Children's Oncology Group (COG) stratifies the treatment of patients with neuroblastoma on the basis of a combination of biomarkers that include age and tumor histology classified by age-linked International Neuroblastoma Pathology Classification (INPC) criteria. By definition, this leads to a duplication of the prognostic contribution of age. The individual histologic features underlying the INPC have prognostic strength and are incorporated in the International Neuroblastoma Risk Group classification schema. Here, we analyzed data in the International Neuroblastoma Risk Group Data Commons to validate the prognostic strength of the underlying INPC criteria and to determine whether a risk classification devoid of the confounding of age and INPC criteria will identify new prognostic subgroups.PATIENTS AND METHODSEvent-free survival of patients diagnosed between 1990 and 2002 (cohort 1; n = 10,104) and between 2003 and 2016 (cohort 2; n = 8,761) was analyzed. Recursive partitioning with univariate Cox models of event-free survival (survival tree regression) was performed using (1) individual INPC criteria (age at diagnosis, histologic category, mitosis-karyorrhexis index (MKI), grade of differentiation) and (2) factors in (1) plus other COG-risk biomarkers (International Neuroblastoma Staging System [INSS] stage, MYCN status, ploidy).RESULTSThe independent prognostic ability of age, histologic category, MKI, and grade were validated. Four histologic prognostic groups were identified (< 18 months with low v high MKI, and 18 months with differentiating v undifferentiated/poorly differentiating tumors). Compared with survival trees generated with established COG risk criteria, an additional prognostic subgroup was identified and validated when individual histologic features were analyzed in lieu of INPC.CONCLUSIONReplacing INPC with individual histologic features in the COG risk classification will eliminate confounding, facilitate international harmonization of risk classification, and provide a schema for more precise prognostication and refined therapeutic approaches.
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