Department of Surgical Oncology, University of North Carolina At Chapel Hill, 170 Manning Drive, 1150 Physicians Office Building, CB#7213, Chapel Hill, NC, 27599-7050, USA.
Division of Intramural Research, National Institute on Minority Health and Health Disparities (NIMHD), National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD, USA.
Breast Cancer Res Treat. 2021 Sep;189(2):509-520. doi: 10.1007/s10549-021-06303-7. Epub 2021 Jun 26.
PURPOSE: To assess potential disparities in guideline-concordant care delivery among women with early-stage triple-negative and HER2-positive breast cancer treated with breast conserving therapy. METHODS: Women ≥ 40 years old diagnosed with pT2N0M0 triple-negative or HER2-positive breast cancer treated with primary surgery and axillary staging between 2012 and 2017 were identified using the National Cancer Database (NCDB). The primary outcome was receipt of adjuvant systemic therapy and radiation concordant with current guidelines. Multivariable log-binomial regression was used to assess the prevalence of optimal therapy use across patient and cancer characteristics. Kaplan-Meier curves were used to assess 5-year overall survival. Multivariable Cox proportional hazards regression was used to compare the impact of optimal therapy on 5-year mortality. RESULTS: 11,785 women were included with 7,843 receiving optimal therapy. Receipt of optimal therapy decreased with age even after adjusting for comorbidities and cancer characteristics; other sociodemographic factors were not associated with differences in receipt of optimal therapy. Among patients who did not receive adjuvant systemic therapy, most were not offered the treatment (49%) or refused (40%). Overall 5-year survival was higher among women who received optimal therapy (89% [95% CI 88.0-89.3] vs. 66% [95% CI 62.9-68.5]). Patients who received suboptimal therapy were over twice as likely to die within 5 years of their diagnosis (adjusted HR 2.44, 95% CI 2.12-2.82). CONCLUSION: Age is the primary determinant of the likelihood of a woman to receive optimal adjuvant therapies in high-risk early-stage breast cancer. Patients who did not receive optimal therapy had significantly diminished survival.
目的:评估接受保乳治疗的早期三阴性和 HER2 阳性乳腺癌女性在遵循指南的护理方面是否存在差异。
方法:通过国家癌症数据库(NCDB),确定了 2012 年至 2017 年间接受原发手术和腋窝分期治疗的年龄≥40 岁、诊断为 pT2N0M0 三阴性或 HER2 阳性乳腺癌的女性。主要结局是接受辅助全身治疗和放射治疗与当前指南一致。采用多变量对数二项式回归评估最佳治疗方案在患者和癌症特征方面的应用率。采用 Kaplan-Meier 曲线评估 5 年总生存率。采用多变量 Cox 比例风险回归比较最佳治疗对 5 年死亡率的影响。
结果:共纳入 11785 例女性,其中 7843 例接受了最佳治疗。即使在调整了合并症和癌症特征后,随着年龄的增长,接受最佳治疗的比例也会下降;其他社会人口学因素与接受最佳治疗的比例无差异。在未接受辅助全身治疗的患者中,大多数未接受治疗(49%)或拒绝(40%)。接受最佳治疗的患者 5 年总生存率更高(89%[95%CI 88.0-89.3] vs. 66%[95%CI 62.9-68.5])。接受非最佳治疗的患者在诊断后 5 年内死亡的风险高出两倍以上(调整后的 HR 2.44,95%CI 2.12-2.82)。
结论:年龄是女性在高危早期乳腺癌中接受最佳辅助治疗的主要决定因素。未接受最佳治疗的患者生存率显著降低。
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