Incurable locoregional disease is a strong poor prognostic factor in recurrent or metastatic squamous cell carcinoma of the head and neck

Autor: Yoshiyuki Iida, Takanori Kawabata, Tomoya Yokota, Hirofumi Ogawa, Takashi Mukaigawa, Yusuke Onozawa, Tsuyoshi Onoe, Satoshi Hamauchi, Hirofumi Yasui, Ari Nishimura, Hiromichi Shirasu
Rok vydání: 2021
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Zdroj: International Journal of Clinical Oncology. 26:1822-1830
ISSN: 1437-7772
1341-9625
DOI: 10.1007/s10147-021-01965-1
Popis: Distant metastasis is a poor prognostic factor in recurrent/metastatic squamous cell carcinoma of the head and neck. However, limited information on the prognostic impact of locoregional disease is available, despite its life-threatening features. We investigated the prognostic impact of incurable locoregional disease and distant metastasis in recurrent/metastatic squamous cell carcinoma of the head and neck. We retrospectively analyzed 156 patients with recurrent/metastatic squamous cell carcinoma of the head and neck who received palliative chemotherapy between August 2006 and December 2019. The median follow-up time for all censored patients was 12.1 (range 1.9–63.5) months. The median overall survival was 12.4 (95% confidence interval 10.1–15.1) months. Incurable locoregional disease (hazard ratio: 2.31, P = 0.007), liver metastasis (hazard ratio: 2.84, P = 0.006), disease-free interval > 13 months (hazard ratio: 0.51, P = 0.041), cetuximab use (hazard ratio: 0.59, P = 0.007), and immune checkpoint inhibitor use (hazard ratio: 0.56, P = 0.006) were associated with prognosis. The number of distant metastatic sites was not associated with overall survival (1–2: hazard ratio: 0.60, P = 0.16; 3–4: hazard ratio: 1.34, P = 0.50). Patients with incurable locoregional disease had more life-threatening events than those with curable locoregional disease. The presence of incurable locoregional disease had a significant prognostic impact, whereas the number of distant metastatic sites had no prognostic impact. Liver metastasis was a poor prognostic factor for recurrent/metastatic squamous cell carcinoma of the head and neck.
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