Treatment dependent improvements in survival of stage 2/3 rectal cancer patients treated with trimodality therapy between 2006-2016, an NCDB analysis.

Hagen F Kennecke, Henry T. Bahnson, See list of authors in comments

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Background:Trimodality therapy (TT) with chemo/radiation (C/RT), chemotherapy and total mesorectal excision (TME) surgery remains the standard for patients with stage 2/3 rectal cancer. Use of pre-operative (pre-op) C/RT is an important Commission on Cancer (CoC) quality benchmark but has not previously been shown to improve overall survival when compared to post-op C/RT. The objective of this study was to document the impact on survival of peri-op C/RT in stage 2/3 rectal cancer in a broad population.Methods:The National Cancer Database was used to identify all patients diagnosed with stage 2/3 rectal cancer from 2006-16. Included patients received true TT and were classified into groups A, Total Neoadjuvant Therapy (TNT) with pre-op C/RT + pre-op multi-agent (MA) chemotherapy (CT); group B, pre-op C/RT+ post-op single-agent CT; group C, pre-op C/RT + post-op MA CT; and group D, post-op C/RT and MA CT. Cox multivariate survival analysis were performed including demographics, peri-op C/RT, surgery type, stage, lymph node count, year of diagnosis and facility type: academic (Acad), Comprehensive (Comp)/Community (Comm), Integrated (Integ) and unknown (Unkn).Results:Of 110,372 stage 2/3 patients, 32,467 received TT (mean age 58, 61% male) and were included. Of these, 8883 (27%, group A) received TNT, 5967 (18%) were in group B, 12,928 (40%) in group C, while 4,689 (14%) were in group D. A reduction in use of post-operative C/RT (group D) was observed between 2006 (28%) and 2016 (8%), p < .001, accompanied by a reciprocal increase in patients receiving pre-op C/RT and post-op MA CT (Group C) between 2006 and 2016 (24 to 45%, respectively, p

Original languageAmerican English
StatePublished - Jan 1 2021

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