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- Title
CT-based radiomics scores predict response to neoadjuvant chemotherapy and survival in patients with gastric cancer.
- Authors
Sun, Kai-Yu; Hu, Hang-Tong; Chen, Shu-Ling; Ye, Jin-Ning; Li, Guang-Hua; Chen, Li-Da; Peng, Jian-Jun; Feng, Shi-Ting; Yuan, Yu-Jie; Hou, Xun; Wu, Hui; Li, Xin; Wu, Ting-Fan; Wang, Wei; Xu, Jian-Bo
- Abstract
<bold>Background: </bold>Neoadjuvant chemotherapy is a promising treatment option for potential resectable gastric cancer, but patients' responses vary. We aimed to develop and validate a radiomics score (rad_score) to predict treatment response to neoadjuvant chemotherapy and to investigate its efficacy in survival stratification.<bold>Methods: </bold>A total of 106 patients with neoadjuvant chemotherapy before gastrectomy were included (training cohort: n = 74; validation cohort: n = 32). Radiomics features were extracted from the pre-treatment portal venous-phase CT. After feature reduction, a rad_score was established by Randomised Tree algorithm. A rad_clinical_score was constructed by integrating the rad_score with clinical variables, so was a clinical score by clinical variables only. The three scores were validated regarding their discrimination and clinical usefulness. The patients were stratified into two groups according to the score thresholds (updated with post-operative clinical variables), and their survivals were compared.<bold>Results: </bold>In the validation cohort, the rad_score demonstrated a good predicting performance in treatment response to the neoadjuvant chemotherapy (AUC [95% CI] =0.82 [0.67, 0.98]), which was better than the clinical score (based on pre-operative clinical variables) without significant difference (0.62 [0.42, 0.83], P = 0.09). The rad_clinical_score could not further improve the performance of the rad_score (0.70 [0.51, 0.88], P = 0.16). Based on the thresholds of these scores, the high-score groups all achieved better survivals than the low-score groups in the whole cohort (all P < 0.001).<bold>Conclusion: </bold>The rad_score that we developed was effective in predicting treatment response to neoadjuvant chemotherapy and in stratifying patients with gastric cancer into different survival groups. Our proposed strategy is useful for individualised treatment planning.
- Subjects
STOMACH cancer; CANCER patients; CANCER chemotherapy; TALLIES; ATROPHIC gastritis
- Publication
BMC Cancer, 2020, Vol 20, Issue 1, p1
- ISSN
1471-2407
- Publication type
journal article
- DOI
10.1186/s12885-020-06970-7