1. Prognostic factors in 868 advanced gastric cancer patients treated with second-line chemotherapy in the real world.
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Fanotto, Valentina, Cordio, Stefano, Pasquini, Giulia, Fontanella, Caterina, Rimassa, Lorenza, Leone, Francesco, Rosati, Gerardo, Santini, Daniele, Giampieri, Riccardo, Di Donato, Samantha, Tomasello, Gianluca, Silvestris, Nicola, Pietrantonio, Filippo, Battaglin, Francesca, Avallone, Antonio, Scartozzi, Mario, Lutrino, Eufemia, Melisi, Davide, Antonuzzo, Lorenzo, and Pellegrino, Antonio
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GASTROINTESTINAL cancer treatment , *CANCER chemotherapy , *GASTROINTESTINAL cancer , *KAPLAN-Meier estimator , *PROGRESSION-free survival , *PATIENTS - Abstract
Background: Although second-line therapy is often considered for advanced gastric cancer patients, the optimal candidates are not well defined. Methods: We retrospectively collected baseline parameters, tumour features, and treatment data for 868 advanced gastric cancer patients exposed to multiple treatment lines at 19 Italian centres. Cross-tables and chi-square tests were used to describe categorical features. To predict the impact of clinical variables on progression-free survival and overall survival, Kaplan-Meier and Cox regression analyses were performed. Results: At the start of second-line therapy, median age was 64.8 years (25th-75th percentiles: 55.2-71.9 years). Overall, 43% of patients received single-agent chemotherapy, 47.4% a doublet, and 7.3% a triplet. Median second-line progression-free survival was 2.8 months (25th-75th percentiles: 1.8-5.2 months) and median second-line overall survival was 5.6 months (25th-75th percentiles: 2.9-10.0 months). Multivariate analysis showed that performance status, LDH level, neutrophils/lymphocytes ratio, and progression-free survival in the first-line therapy all impacted on prognosis. Based on these four prognostic factors, a prognostic index was constructed that divided patients into good, intermediate, and poor risk groups; median second-line overall survival for each group was 7.7, 4.5, and 2.0 months, respectively (log-rank p < 0.0001). Conclusions: Advanced gastric cancer patients with a favourable ECOG performance status, lower LDH levels, and a lower neutrophils/lymphocytes ratio at the start of second-line therapy seem to have better outcomes, regardless of age and intensity of treatment. A longer progression-free survival in the first-line therapy also had positive prognostic value. Our real-life study might help clinicians to identify the patients who may benefit most from a second-line therapy. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2017
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