Department of Medicine, Queen Mary Hospital, Hong Kong, China.
Samsung Medical Center, Sungkyunkwan University School of Medicine, Seoul, Korea.
Ann Oncol. 2018 Jan 1;29(1):256-263. doi: 10.1093/annonc/mdx684.
In stage I/II natural killer (NK)/T-cell lymphoma, concurrent chemoradiotherapy (CCRT) had previously been shown to result in superior outcome compared with anthracycline-containing regimens, which have since been considered ineffective. The role of CCRT in comparison with approaches employing nonanthracycline-containing chemotherapy (CT) and sequential radiotherapy (RT) in such patients remains to be defined.
Three hundred and three untreated patients (207 men, 96 women; median age: 51, 18-86 years) with stage I/II NK/T-cell lymphoma who had received nonanthracycline-containing regimens were collected from an international consortium and retrospectively analyzed. Treatment included single modality (CT and RT), sequential modalities (CT + RT; RT + CT) and concurrent modalities (CCRT; CCRT + CT). The impact of clinicopathologic parameters and types of treatment on complete response (CR) rate, progression-free-survival (PFS) and overall-survival (OS) was evaluated.
For CR, stage (P = 0.027), prognostic index for NK/T-cell lymphoma (PINK) (P = 0.026) and types of initial treatment (P = 0.011) were significant prognostic factors on multivariate analysis. On Cox regression analysis, ECOG performance score (P = 0.021) and PINK-EBV DNA (PINK-E) (P = 0.002) significantly impacted on PFS; whereas ECOG performance score (P = 0.008) and stage (P < 0.001) significantly impacted on OS. For comparing CCRT ± CT and sequential CT + RT, CCRT ± CT patients (n = 190) were similar to sequential CT + RT patients (n = 54) in all evaluated clinicopathologic parameters except two significantly superior features (higher proportion of undetectable circulating EBV DNA on diagnosis and lower PINK-E scores). Despite more favorable pre-treatment characteristics, CCRT ± CT patients had CR rate, PFS and OS comparable with sequential CT + RT patients on multivariate and Cox regression analyses.
In stage I/II NK/T-cell lymphomas, when effective chemotherapeutic regimens were used, CCRT and sequential CT + RT gave similar outcome.
在 I/II 期自然杀伤 (NK)/T 细胞淋巴瘤中,与包含蒽环类药物的方案相比,同期放化疗 (CCRT) 已显示出更好的疗效,后者被认为无效。在这些患者中,CCRT 与采用不含蒽环类药物的化疗 (CT) 和序贯放疗 (RT) 的方法相比的作用仍有待确定。
从一个国际联盟中收集了 303 名未经治疗的 I/II 期 NK/T 细胞淋巴瘤患者(207 名男性,96 名女性;中位年龄:51 岁,18-86 岁),这些患者接受了不含蒽环类药物的方案治疗。治疗包括单一方式(CT 和 RT)、序贯方式(CT+RT;RT+CT)和同期方式(CCRT;CCRT+CT)。评估了临床病理参数和治疗类型对完全缓解(CR)率、无进展生存期(PFS)和总生存期(OS)的影响。
在多变量分析中,CR 的影响因素包括分期(P=0.027)、NK/T 细胞淋巴瘤预后指数(PINK)(P=0.026)和初始治疗类型(P=0.011)。在 Cox 回归分析中,ECOG 表现评分(P=0.021)和 PINK-EBV DNA(PINK-E)(P=0.002)显著影响 PFS;而 ECOG 表现评分(P=0.008)和分期(P<0.001)显著影响 OS。对于比较 CCRT±CT 和序贯 CT+RT,CCRT±CT 组(n=190)与序贯 CT+RT 组(n=54)在所有评估的临床病理参数中相似,除了两个明显的优势特征(更高比例的诊断时可检测到的循环 EBV DNA 和更低的 PINK-E 评分)。尽管 CCRT±CT 组患者具有更有利的治疗前特征,但多变量和 Cox 回归分析显示,CR 率、PFS 和 OS 与序贯 CT+RT 组患者相当。
在 I/II 期 NK/T 细胞淋巴瘤中,当使用有效的化疗方案时,CCRT 和序贯 CT+RT 的疗效相似。