Division of Hematology/Oncology, Department of Medicine, Tri-Service General Hospital, National Defense Medical Center, Taipei, Taiwan.
Graduate Institute of Clinical Medicine, College of Medicine, Taipei Medical University, Taipei, Taiwan.
Head Neck. 2019 Nov;41(11):3775-3782. doi: 10.1002/hed.25904. Epub 2019 Aug 22.
The study was aimed to evaluate the impact of accumulated oral tegafur-uracil (UFUR) as maintenance chemotherapy on overall survival (OS) and disease-free survival (DFS) rates after concurrent chemoradiotherapy (CCRT) for complete remission (CR) in non-distant metastatic TNM stage IV nasopharyngeal carcinoma (NPC).
Data were retrospectively analyzed from a database of patients with non-distant metastatic TNM stage IV NPC, composed of those who underwent CCRT for CR from January 2010 through December 2017.
Thirty-three patients were treated with CCRT (the non-UFUR group), and the other 37 patients were treated with the same regimen, followed by additional oral UFUR (the UFUR group). Importantly, the 5-year OS rates were 91.89% in the UFUR group and 57.58% in the non-UFUR group (P = .004).
Adding UFUR to CCRT was found to significantly improve the DFS and OS rates of patients with non-distant metastatic TNM stage IV NPC. The authors cautiously suggest UFUR as possible maintenance therapy following CCRT.
本研究旨在评估在完全缓解(CR)的局部晚期转移性 IV 期鼻咽癌(NPC)患者中,同步放化疗(CCRT)后,累积口服替加氟-尿嘧啶(UFUR)作为维持化疗对总生存(OS)和无病生存(DFS)率的影响。
从 2010 年 1 月至 2017 年 12 月接受 CCRT 治疗 CR 的局部晚期转移性 IV 期 NPC 患者的数据库中回顾性分析数据。
33 例患者接受 CCRT(非 UFUR 组),另外 37 例患者接受相同方案治疗,随后接受口服 UFUR(UFUR 组)。重要的是,UFUR 组的 5 年 OS 率为 91.89%,而非 UFUR 组为 57.58%(P=0.004)。
在 CCRT 中加入 UFUR 可显著提高局部晚期转移性 IV 期 NPC 患者的 DFS 和 OS 率。作者谨慎地建议 UFUR 作为 CCRT 后的可能维持治疗。