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Survival of Neoadjuvant and Adjuvant Therapy Compared With Surgery Alone for Resectable Esophageal Squamous Cell Carcinoma: A Systemic Review and Network Meta-Analysis
OBJECTIVE: The optimal treatment for resectable esophageal squamous cell carcinoma (ESCC) remains controversial. Surgery is the primary treatment but with poor results. Attempts to improve patient survival have been made by introducing chemotherapy, radiotherapy, or both. However, randomized compari...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8564474/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34745950 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fonc.2021.728185 |
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author | Ma, Zeliang Yuan, Meng Bao, Yongxing Wang, Yang Men, Yu Hui, Zhouguang |
author_facet | Ma, Zeliang Yuan, Meng Bao, Yongxing Wang, Yang Men, Yu Hui, Zhouguang |
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description | OBJECTIVE: The optimal treatment for resectable esophageal squamous cell carcinoma (ESCC) remains controversial. Surgery is the primary treatment but with poor results. Attempts to improve patient survival have been made by introducing chemotherapy, radiotherapy, or both. However, randomized comparisons for all these strategies are not always available. This network meta-analysis compared the overall survival of neoadjuvant and adjuvant therapy with surgery alone to identify the most effective approach. METHODS: We systematically searched electronic databases (PubMed, Embase, and Cochrane Library) for relevant studies published before April 2021. Only phase II and III randomized controlled trials comparing the following treatments were included: surgery alone, neoadjuvant chemotherapy (NCT), radiotherapy (NRT) or chemoradiotherapy (NCRT), adjuvant chemotherapy (ACT), radiotherapy (ART), or chemoradiotherapy (ACRT). The hazard ratios (HR) and 95% confidence intervals (CIs) of overall survival (OS) was identified as the measurement of effectiveness. A network meta-analysis was conducted to synthesize the evidence under the Bayesian framework, and the relative effects of all possible comparisons were made. The ranking analysis was performed to support the decision in clinical practice. RESULTS: A total of 19 relevant trials with 3,749 patients were identified. Compared with surgery alone, NCRT (HR 0.76, 95% CI 0.65–0.89) and NCT (HR 0.81, 95% CI 0.70–0.94) significantly improved OS, while other treatments, including NRT (HR 0.86, 95% CI 0.66–1.08), ACRT (HR 0.73, 95% CI 0.49–1.08), ACT (HR 0.96, 95% CI 0.75–1.21), and ART (HR 0.86, 95% CI 0.66–1.14), provided no significant survival advantage. None of the neoadjuvant and adjuvant treatments showed a statistically significant difference in OS to each other when compared in pairs. CONCLUSION: For resectable esophageal squamous cell carcinoma, this network meta-analysis showed that NCRT may be the optimal strategy, NCT may be the second choice, while other multimodality treatments could not improve OS compared with surgery alone. It remains unclear whether ESCC will benefit from adding radiotherapy into the neoadjuvant treatment. SYSTEMATIC REVIEW REGISTRATION: We registered this meta-analysis protocol at the prospective register of systematic reviews, PROSPERO https://www.crd.york.ac.uk/prospero/display_record.php?RecordID=172745 (Identification code: CRD42020172745). |
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spelling | pubmed-85644742021-11-04 Survival of Neoadjuvant and Adjuvant Therapy Compared With Surgery Alone for Resectable Esophageal Squamous Cell Carcinoma: A Systemic Review and Network Meta-Analysis Ma, Zeliang Yuan, Meng Bao, Yongxing Wang, Yang Men, Yu Hui, Zhouguang Front Oncol Oncology OBJECTIVE: The optimal treatment for resectable esophageal squamous cell carcinoma (ESCC) remains controversial. Surgery is the primary treatment but with poor results. Attempts to improve patient survival have been made by introducing chemotherapy, radiotherapy, or both. However, randomized comparisons for all these strategies are not always available. This network meta-analysis compared the overall survival of neoadjuvant and adjuvant therapy with surgery alone to identify the most effective approach. METHODS: We systematically searched electronic databases (PubMed, Embase, and Cochrane Library) for relevant studies published before April 2021. Only phase II and III randomized controlled trials comparing the following treatments were included: surgery alone, neoadjuvant chemotherapy (NCT), radiotherapy (NRT) or chemoradiotherapy (NCRT), adjuvant chemotherapy (ACT), radiotherapy (ART), or chemoradiotherapy (ACRT). The hazard ratios (HR) and 95% confidence intervals (CIs) of overall survival (OS) was identified as the measurement of effectiveness. A network meta-analysis was conducted to synthesize the evidence under the Bayesian framework, and the relative effects of all possible comparisons were made. The ranking analysis was performed to support the decision in clinical practice. RESULTS: A total of 19 relevant trials with 3,749 patients were identified. Compared with surgery alone, NCRT (HR 0.76, 95% CI 0.65–0.89) and NCT (HR 0.81, 95% CI 0.70–0.94) significantly improved OS, while other treatments, including NRT (HR 0.86, 95% CI 0.66–1.08), ACRT (HR 0.73, 95% CI 0.49–1.08), ACT (HR 0.96, 95% CI 0.75–1.21), and ART (HR 0.86, 95% CI 0.66–1.14), provided no significant survival advantage. None of the neoadjuvant and adjuvant treatments showed a statistically significant difference in OS to each other when compared in pairs. CONCLUSION: For resectable esophageal squamous cell carcinoma, this network meta-analysis showed that NCRT may be the optimal strategy, NCT may be the second choice, while other multimodality treatments could not improve OS compared with surgery alone. It remains unclear whether ESCC will benefit from adding radiotherapy into the neoadjuvant treatment. SYSTEMATIC REVIEW REGISTRATION: We registered this meta-analysis protocol at the prospective register of systematic reviews, PROSPERO https://www.crd.york.ac.uk/prospero/display_record.php?RecordID=172745 (Identification code: CRD42020172745). Frontiers Media S.A. 2021-10-20 /pmc/articles/PMC8564474/ /pubmed/34745950 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fonc.2021.728185 Text en Copyright © 2021 Ma, Yuan, Bao, Wang, Men and Hui https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) and the copyright owner(s) are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms. |
spellingShingle | Oncology Ma, Zeliang Yuan, Meng Bao, Yongxing Wang, Yang Men, Yu Hui, Zhouguang Survival of Neoadjuvant and Adjuvant Therapy Compared With Surgery Alone for Resectable Esophageal Squamous Cell Carcinoma: A Systemic Review and Network Meta-Analysis |
title | Survival of Neoadjuvant and Adjuvant Therapy Compared With Surgery Alone for Resectable Esophageal Squamous Cell Carcinoma: A Systemic Review and Network Meta-Analysis |
title_full | Survival of Neoadjuvant and Adjuvant Therapy Compared With Surgery Alone for Resectable Esophageal Squamous Cell Carcinoma: A Systemic Review and Network Meta-Analysis |
title_fullStr | Survival of Neoadjuvant and Adjuvant Therapy Compared With Surgery Alone for Resectable Esophageal Squamous Cell Carcinoma: A Systemic Review and Network Meta-Analysis |
title_full_unstemmed | Survival of Neoadjuvant and Adjuvant Therapy Compared With Surgery Alone for Resectable Esophageal Squamous Cell Carcinoma: A Systemic Review and Network Meta-Analysis |
title_short | Survival of Neoadjuvant and Adjuvant Therapy Compared With Surgery Alone for Resectable Esophageal Squamous Cell Carcinoma: A Systemic Review and Network Meta-Analysis |
title_sort | survival of neoadjuvant and adjuvant therapy compared with surgery alone for resectable esophageal squamous cell carcinoma: a systemic review and network meta-analysis |
topic | Oncology |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8564474/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34745950 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fonc.2021.728185 |
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