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- Title
Tumor volume as a prognostic factor for local control and overall survival in advanced larynx cancer.
- Authors
Timmermans, Adriana J.; Lange, Charlotte A. H.; de Bois, Josien A.; van Werkhoven, Erik; Hamming‐Vrieze, Olga; Hilgers, Frans J. M.; van den Brekel, Michiel W. M.
- Abstract
<bold>Objectives/hypothesis: </bold>Tumor volume has been postulated to be an important prognostic factor for oncological outcome after radiotherapy or chemoradiotherapy. This postulate was retrospectively investigated in a consecutively treated cohort of T3-T4 larynx cancer patients.<bold>Study Design: </bold>Retrospective cohort study.<bold>Methods: </bold>For 166 patients with T3-T4 larynx cancer (1999-2008), pretreatment computed tomography and magnetic resonance imaging scans were available for tumor volume delineation. Patients were treated with radiotherapy, chemoradiotherapy, or total laryngectomy with postoperative radiotherapy. Both a dedicated head and neck radiologist and the first author determined all tumor volumes. Statistical analysis was by Kaplan-Meier plots and Cox proportional hazard models.<bold>Results: </bold>Patients with T3 larynx cancer had significantly smaller tumor volumes than patients with T4 larynx cancer (median = 8.1 cm(3) and 15.8 cm(3), respectively; P < .0001). In the group treated with total laryngectomy and postoperative radiotherapy, no association was found between tumor volume and local or locoregional control or overall survival. In the group treated with radiotherapy, a nonsignificant trend was observed between local control and tumor volume. In the chemoradiotherapy group, however, a significant impact of tumor volume was found on local control (hazard ratio = 1.07; 95% confidence interval = 1.01-1.13; P = .028).<bold>Conclusions: </bold>Tumor volume was not significantly associated with local control, locoregional control, or overall survival in the surgically treated group. In the group treated with radiotherapy, there was no statistically significant association, but a trend was observed between local control and tumor volume. Only in patients treated with concurrent chemoradiotherapy was a significant impact of tumor volume on local control found.<bold>Level Of Evidence: </bold>4.
- Subjects
NETHERLANDS; RADIOTHERAPY; CANCER chemotherapy; LARYNX; POSTOPERATIVE care; LARYNGOSCOPES; ANTHROPOMETRY; BIOPSY; COMBINED modality therapy; LARYNGEAL tumors; LONGITUDINAL method; PROGNOSIS; SURVIVAL; TUMOR classification; RETROSPECTIVE studies; TUMOR treatment
- Publication
Laryngoscope, 2016, Vol 126, Issue 2, pE60
- ISSN
0023-852X
- Publication type
journal article
- DOI
10.1002/lary.25567