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OTOLARYNGOLOGY-HEAD AND NECK SURGERY
卷 168, 期 6, 页码 1453-1462出版社
WILEY
DOI: 10.1002/ohn.245
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competing risk; early stage; oropharyngeal cancer; radiotherapy; surgery
This retrospective study compared the survival outcomes of early-stage oropharyngeal cancer patients who received upfront surgery or definitive radiotherapy. The results showed that upfront surgery was associated with lower cancer-specific and noncancer mortality in HPV-negative patients, while both treatments had similar efficacy in HPV-positive patients.
ObjectiveTo compare the survival outcomes of early-stage oropharyngeal cancer (OPC) patients treated with upfront surgery versus definitive radiotherapy (RT). Study DesignRetrospective observational study. SettingPublicly available database. MethodsA total of 1877 patients with T1-2N0-1M0 OPC were retrieved from the Surveillance, Epidemiology, and End Results database. Primary endpoints were cancer-specific and noncancer mortalities, which were estimated using cumulative incidence function and compared by Gray's test. Univariate and multivariate Fine-Gray subdistribution hazard models were used to estimate the effects of treatment modality on mortality. Subgroup analyses were performed in propensity-score-matched cohorts. All the analyses were conducted separately in human papillomavirus (HPV)-negative and HPV-positive cohorts. ResultsIn the HPV-negative cohort, definitive RT was independently associated with increased risk of cancer-specific mortality (adjusted subdistribution hazard ratio [SHR], 2.29; 95% confidence interval [CI], 1.42-3.68; p = .001) and noncancer mortality (adjusted SHR, 2.74; 95% CI, 1.50-5.02; p = .001). In the HPV-positive cohort, definitive RT and upfront surgery could achieve similar cancer-specific and noncancer survival outcomes. ConclusionUpfront surgery is associated with lower cancer-specific and noncancer mortality in HPV-negative early-stage OPC patients. However, in the setting of HPV-positive early-stage OPC with better prognosis, the 2 treatment modalities have similar efficacy in terms of cancer-specific and noncancer survival outcomes. In the future, carefully designed prospective clinical trials are needed to confirm our findings.
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