Survival Outcomes in Resected Extrahepatic Cholangiocarcinoma: Effect of Adjuvant Radiotherapy in a Surveillance, Epidemiology, and End Results Analysis

Journal Article · Thu Sep 01 04:00:00 EDT 2011 · International Journal of Radiation Oncology, Biology and Physics

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijrobp.2010.05.001· OSTI ID:21587676

Vern-Gross, Tamara Z ^[1]; Chen, Ke ^[2]; Lee, Christopher M ^[3]; Tward, Jonathan D ^[4]; MacDonald, O Kenneth ^[5]; Crane, Christopher H ^[6]; Talamonti, Mark S ^[7]; Munoz, Louis L ^[8]; Small, William ^[9]

---

1. Department of Radiation Oncology, Wake Forest University Baptist Medical Center, Winston-Salem, NC (United States)
2. Department of Mathematical Sciences, University of Texas-Dallas, Richardson, TX (United States)
3. Department of Radiation Oncology, Cancer Care Northwest, Spokane, WA (United States)
4. Department of Radiation Oncology, Huntsman Cancer Center, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT (United States)
5. Department of Radiation Oncology, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN (United States)
6. Department of Radiation Oncology, M.D. Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX (United States)
7. Department of Surgery, Northshore University Healthsystem, Evanston, IL (United States)
8. Department of Radiation Oncology, Texas Cancer Center at Medical City Dallas, Dallas, TX (United States)
9. Department of Radiation Oncology, Robert H. Lurie Comprehensive Cancer Center, Northwestern University, Chicago, IL (United States)

Purpose: The benefit of adjuvant radiotherapy (RT) after surgical resection for extrahepatic cholangiocarcinoma has not been clearly established. We analyzed survival outcomes of patients with resected extrahepatic cholangiocarcinoma and examined the effect of adjuvant RT. Methods and Materials: Data were obtained from the Surveillance, Epidemiology, and End Results (SEER) program between 1973 and 2003. The primary endpoint was the overall survival time. Cox regression analysis was used to perform univariate and multivariate analyses of the following clinical variables: age, year of diagnosis, histologic grade, localized (Stage T1-T2) vs. regional (Stage T3 or greater and/or node positive) stage, gender, race, and the use of adjuvant RT after surgical resection. Results: The records for 2,332 patients were obtained. Patients with previous malignancy, distant disease, incomplete or conflicting records, atypical histologic features, and those treated with preoperative/intraoperative RT were excluded. Of the remaining 1,491 patients eligible for analysis, 473 (32%) had undergone adjuvant RT. After a median follow-up of 27 months (among surviving patients), the median overall survival time for the entire cohort was 20 months. Patients with localized and regional disease had a median survival time of 33 and 18 months, respectively (p < .001). The addition of adjuvant RT was not associated with an improvement in overall or cause-specific survival for patients with local or regional disease. Conclusion: Patients with localized disease had significantly better overall survival than those with regional disease. Adjuvant RT was not associated with an improvement in long-term overall survival in patients with resected extrahepatic bile duct cancer. Key data, including margin status and the use of combined chemotherapy, was not available through the SEER database.

• OSTI ID: 21587676
• Journal Information: International Journal of Radiation Oncology, Biology and Physics, Journal Name: International Journal of Radiation Oncology, Biology and Physics Journal Issue: 1 Vol. 81; ISSN IOBPD3; ISSN 0360-3016
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

Related Subjects

62 RADIOLOGY AND NUCLEAR MEDICINE
BILIARY TRACT
CHEMOTHERAPY
DIAGNOSIS
DIGESTIVE SYSTEM
DISEASES
EPIDEMIOLOGY
MATHEMATICS
MEDICINE
MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS
NEOPLASMS
NUCLEAR MEDICINE
RADIOLOGY
RADIOTHERAPY
REGRESSION ANALYSIS
STATISTICS
SURGERY
SURVIVAL TIME
THERAPY