Long-term follow-up of a randomised trial designed to determine the need for irradiation following conservative surgery for the treatment of invasive breast cancer
| Autor: | J. Quilliam, J.-C. Gazet, C. McConkey, R. C. Coombes, R. Sutcliffe, H. T. Ford, S. Lowndes, Richard Gray |
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| Rok vydání: | 2006 |
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medicine.medical_specialty medicine.medical_treatment Breast Neoplasms Mastectomy Segmental Disease-Free Survival Breast cancer Recurrence Antineoplastic Combined Chemotherapy Protocols Adjuvant therapy Humans Medicine Cyclophosphamide business.industry Wide local excision Hazard ratio Hematology Middle Aged medicine.disease Combined Modality Therapy Chemotherapy regimen Surgery Radiation therapy Log-rank test Methotrexate Receptors Estrogen Oncology Relative risk Female Fluorouracil business |
| Zdroj: | Annals of Oncology. 17:401-408 |
| ISSN: | 0923-7534 |
| DOI: | 10.1093/annonc/mdj080 |
| Popis: | Four hundred consecutive patients aged under 70 years diagnosed with a clinical T1 or T2 breast cancer were randomised to receive post-operative radiotherapy (n = 208) or not (n = 192), and monitored to record all local recurrences, distant recurrences and deaths for up to 20 years (median 13.7 years). All patients were treated by wide local excision and adjuvant therapy [estrogen receptor (ER) positive: tamoxifen; ER negative: CMF chemotherapy]. Kaplan-Meier and log-rank test methods were used to estimate and compare survival and recurrence. The 20-year Kaplan-Meier rates for local breast recurrence were 28.6% [95% confidence interval (CI) 19.6% to 37.6%] for radiotherapy and 49.8% (95% CI 40.8% to 58.9%). There was no significant difference between the two groups with regard to disease-free or overall survival. The hazard ratio for death among women who received radiation, as compared with those that did not, was 0.91 (95% CI 0.64-1.28; P = 0.59). Therefore, post-operative radiotherapy produced a clear-cut reduction in locoregional recurrence 0.45 (0.31-0.64; P = 0.0001), but did not influence the incidence of distant metastases or time of death. However, of the 119 patients who had a local recurrence, 51 (42.8%) had a distant recurrence, whereas of the 281 without local recurrence only 59 (21%) ever had a distant recurrence. A Cox's regression analysis with local recurrence as a time-dependent variable showed a risk ratio of 5.28 (P0.0001). This strong relationship is dependent on the intensity of post-treatment follow-up and investigation. |
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