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JAMA SURGERY
Volume 156, Issue 8, Pages 721-729Publisher
AMER MEDICAL ASSOC
DOI: 10.1001/jamasurg.2021.2373
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- Health Ministry of China [179]
- Sun Yat-sen University Clinical Research 5010 Program [2007048]
- National Science Foundation of China [81272635]
- Science and Technology Fund for Projects of Guangdong Province [2012A030400007]
- Major Science and Technology Special Fund for Projects of Zhejiang Province [2011C13039-2]
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The study found that neoadjuvant chemoradiotherapy (NCRT) followed by surgery significantly improved long-term overall survival and disease-free survival in patients with locally advanced esophageal squamous cell carcinoma (ESCC).
IMPORTANCE The prognosis of patients with locally advanced esophageal squamous cell carcinoma (ESCC) remains poor after surgery. Neoadjuvant chemoradiotherapy (NCRT) has been shown to potentially improve survival. OBJECTIVE To compare the treatment efficacy of NCRT plus surgery with surgery alone for long-term survival among patients with locally advanced ESCC. DESIGN, SETTING, AND PARTICIPANTS The Neoadjuvant Chemoradiotherapy for Esophageal Cancer 5010 study was a multicenter open-label randomized phase 3 clinical trial that enrolled patients between June 1, 2007, and December 31, 2014. Follow-up ended on December 31, 2019. The study was conducted at 8 centers in China. A total of 451 patients aged 18 to 70 years with thoracic ESCC stage T1-4N1M0/T4N0M0 were enrolled and randomized. Data were analyzed from December 1, 2019, to June 30, 2020. INTERVENTIONS Patients randomized to receive NCRT plus surgery (NCRT group) received preoperative chemotherapy (25 mg/m(2) of vinorelbine on days 1 and 8 and 75 mg/m(2) of cisplatin on day 1 or 25 mg/m(2) of cisplatin on days 1 to 4) every 3 weeks for 2 cycles and concurrent radiotherapy (40.0 Gy, administered in 20 fractions of 2.0 Gy for 5 days per week) followed by surgery. Patients randomized to receive surgery alone (surgery group) underwent surgery after randomization. MAIN OUTCOMES AND MEASURES The primary end point was overall survival in the intention-to-treat population. The secondary end point was disease-free survival. RESULTS A total of 451 patients (mean [SD] age, 56.5 [7.0] years; 367 men [81.4%]) were randomized to the NCRT (n = 224) and surgery (n = 227) groups and were eligible for the intention-to-treat analysis. By December 31, 2019, 224 deaths had occurred. The median follow-up was 53.5 months (interquartile range, 18.2-87.4 months). Patients receiving NCRT plus surgery had prolonged overall survival compared with those receiving surgery alone (hazard ratio, 0.74; 95% CI, 0.57-0.97; P = .03), with a 5-year survival rate of 59.9% (95% CI, 52.9%-66.1%) vs 49.1% (95% CI, 42.3%-55.6%), respectively. Patients in the NCRT group compared with the surgery group also had prolonged disease-free survival (hazard ratio, 0.60; 95% CI, 0.45-0.80; P < .001), with a 5-year survival rate of 63.6% (95% CI, 56.0%-70.2%) vs 43.0% (95% CI, 36.0%-49.7%), respectively. CONCLUSIONS AND RELEVANCE In this randomized clinical trial, treatment with NCRT plus surgery significantly improved long-term overall survival and disease-free survival and therefore may be considered a standard of care for patients with locally advanced ESCC.
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