Stereotactic Radiosurgery With or Without Whole-Brain Radiation Therapy for Limited Brain Metastases: A Secondary Analysis of the North Central Cancer Treatment Group N0574 (Alliance) Randomized Controlled Trial.
Publication/Presentation Date
12-1-2017
Abstract
PURPOSE: To determine whether whole-brain radiation therapy (WBRT) is associated with improved overall survival among non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) patients with favorable prognoses at diagnosis.
METHODS AND MATERIALS: In the N0574 trial, patients with 1 to 3 brain metastases were randomized to receive stereotactic radiosurgery (SRS) or SRS plus WBRT (SRS + WBRT), with a primary endpoint of cognitive deterioration. We calculated diagnosis-specific graded prognostic assessment (DS-GPA) scores for NSCLC patients and evaluated overall survival according to receipt of WBRT and DS-GPA score using 2 separate cut-points (≥2.0 vs
RESULTS: A total of 126 NSCLC patients were included for analysis, with median follow-up of 14.2 months. Data for DS-GPA calculation were available for 86.3% of all enrolled NSCLC patients. Overall, 50.0% of patients had DS-GPA score ≥2.0, and 23.0% of patients had DS-GPA scores ≥2.5. The SRS and SRS + WBRT groups were well balanced with regard to prognostic factors. The median survival according to receipt of WBRT was 11.3 months (+WBRT) and 17.9 months (-WBRT) for patients with DS-GPA ≥2.0 (favorable prognoses, P=.63; hazard ratio 0.86; 95% confidence interval 0.47-1.59). Median survival was 3.7 months (+WBRT) and 6.6 months (-WBRT) for patients with DS-GPA
CONCLUSIONS: We observed no significant differences in survival according to receipt of WBRT in favorable-prognosis NSCLC patients. This study further supports the approach of SRS alone in the majority of patients with limited brain metastases.
Volume
99
Issue
5
First Page
1173
Last Page
1178
ISSN
1879-355X
Published In/Presented At
Churilla, T. M., Ballman, K. V., Brown, P. D., Twohy, E. L., Jaeckle, K., Farace, E., Cerhan, J. H., Anderson, S. K., Carrero, X. W., Garces, Y. I., Barker, F. G., 2nd, Deming, R., Dixon, J. G., Burri, S. H., Chung, C., Ménard, C., Stieber, V. W., Pollock, B. E., Galanis, E., Buckner, J. C., … Asher, A. L. (2017). Stereotactic Radiosurgery With or Without Whole-Brain Radiation Therapy for Limited Brain Metastases: A Secondary Analysis of the North Central Cancer Treatment Group N0574 (Alliance) Randomized Controlled Trial. International journal of radiation oncology, biology, physics, 99(5), 1173–1178. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijrobp.2017.07.045
Disciplines
Medicine and Health Sciences | Oncology
PubMedID
28939223
Department(s)
Department of Radiation Oncology
Document Type
Article