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- Title
Long-Term Cause-Specific Mortality in Hodgkin Lymphoma Patients.
- Authors
Vries, Simone de; Schaapveld, Michael; Janus, Cécile P M; Daniëls, Laurien A; Petersen, Eefke J; Maazen, Richard W M van der; Zijlstra, Josée M; Beijert, Max; Nijziel, Marten R; Verschueren, Karijn M S; Kremer, Leontien C M; Eggermond, Anna M van; Lugtenburg, Pieternella J; Krol, Augustinus D G; Roesink, Judith M; Plattel, Wouter J; Spronsen, Dick Johan van; Imhoff, Gustaaf W van; Boer, Jan Paul de; Aleman, Berthe M P
- Abstract
<bold>Background: </bold>Few studies have examined the impact of treatment-related morbidity on long-term, cause-specific mortality in Hodgkin lymphoma (HL) patients.<bold>Methods: </bold>This multicenter cohort included 4919 HL patients, treated before age 51 years between 1965 and 2000, with a median follow-up of 20.2 years. Standardized mortality ratios, absolute excess mortality (AEM) per 10 000 person-years, and cause-specific cumulative mortality by stage and primary treatment, accounting for competing risks, were calculated.<bold>Results: </bold>HL patients experienced a 5.1-fold (AEM = 123 excess deaths per 10 000 person-years) higher risk of death due to causes other than HL. This risk remained increased in 40-year survivors (standardized mortality ratio = 5.2, 95% confidence interval [CI] = 4.2 to 6.5, AEM = 619). At age 54 years, HL survivors experienced similar cumulative mortality (20.0%) from causes other than HL to 71-year-old individuals from the general population. Whereas HL mortality statistically significantly decreased over the calendar period (P < .001), solid tumor mortality did not change in the most recent treatment era. Patients treated in 1989-2000 had lower 25-year cardiovascular disease mortality than patients treated in 1965-1976 (4.3% vs 5.7%; subdistribution hazard ratio = 0.65, 95% CI = 0.46 to 0.93). Infectious disease mortality was not only increased after splenectomy but also after spleen irradiation (hazard ratio = 2.81, 95% CI = 1.55 to 5.07). For stage I-II, primary treatment with chemotherapy (CT) alone was associated with statistically significantly higher HL mortality (P < .001 for CT vs radiotherapy [RT]; P = .04 for CT vs RT+CT) but lower 30-year mortality from causes other than HL (15.8%, 95% CI = 9.7% to 23.3%) compared with RT alone (36.9%, 95% CI = 34.0% to 39.8%, P = .001) and RT and CT combined (29.8%, 95% CI = 26.8% to 32.9%, P = .02).<bold>Conclusions: </bold>Compared with the general population, HL survivors have a substantially reduced life expectancy. Optimal selection of patients for primary CT is crucial, weighing risks of HL relapse and long-term toxicity.
- Subjects
HODGKIN'S disease; CARDIOVASCULAR disease related mortality; DEATH rate; MORTALITY; SPLEEN; CAUSES of death; RESEARCH; RESEARCH methodology; CANCER relapse; EVALUATION research; COMPARATIVE studies; SECONDARY primary cancer; LONGITUDINAL method
- Publication
JNCI: Journal of the National Cancer Institute, 2021, Vol 113, Issue 6, p760
- ISSN
0027-8874
- Publication type
journal article
- DOI
10.1093/jnci/djaa194