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Qingjian Ye1, Yuebo Yang1, Xinran Tang1
1Department of Gynecology, The Third Affiliated Hospital of Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou 510630, China.
Background:
This study was to compare the efficacy and safety between neoadjuvant chemotherapy followed by radical surgery (NACT+RS) and radiotherapy only (RT) or concurrent chemoradiotherapy (CCRT) for treatment of patients with stage IB2, IIA, or IIB cervical cancer.
Method:
The electronic databases of PubMed, Embase, and the Cochrane Library were searched to screen relevant studies from their inception to October 2018. Clinical data including overall survival (OS), disease-free survival (DFS), and adverse events were extracted. Egger's test was used to evaluate the publication bias, and sensitivity analysis was conducted to estimate the robustness of results.
Results:
Finally, three randomized controlled trials (RCTs) and two case-control studies consisting of 1,275 patients with stage IB2, IIA, or IIB cervical cancer were included in the current study. Overall, pooled results showed no significant differences in OS ((hazard ratio (HR) = 0.603, 95%CI = 0.350 - 1.038) and DFS (HR = 0.678, 95%CI = 0.242 - 1.904) for patients treated with NACT+RS compared with RT only or CCRT, but the subgroup analysis showed that the OS and DFS were significantly longer in the NACT+RS groups than the RT or CCRT group (OS: HR = 0.431, 95%CI = 0.238 - 0.781, p = 0.006; DFS: HR = 0.300, 95%CI = 0.187 - 0.482, p < 0.001) for the population with median follow-up time of more than 60 months. For adverse events, the incidence of thrombocytopenia in the NACT+RS group was significantly higher than that in the RT only or CCRT group (relative risk (RR) = 3.240, 95% CI 1.575-6.662), while the incidence of diarrhea was significantly lower than that in the RT only or CCRT group (RR = 0.452, 95% CI =0.230-0.890).
Conclusion:
These findings suggest that the short-term therapeutic effects of the two treatments may be possibly equal for patients with stage IB2-IIB cervical cancer, but the long-term effects for improving OS and DFS may be better using NACT+RS compared with the RT only or CCRT.
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