The Optimal Treatment for Stage IIIA-N2 Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer: A Network Meta-Analysis

Yi Zhao; Wei Wang; Hengrui Liang; Chi-Fu Jeffrey Yang; Thomas D'Amico; Calvin S H Ng; Chia-Chuan Liu; René Horsleben Petersen; Gaetano Rocco; Alessandro Brunelli; Jun Liu; Jiaxi He; Weizhe Huang; Wenhua Liang; Jianxing He; AME Thoracic Surgery Collaborative Group

doi:10.1016/j.athoracsur.2018.11.024

The Optimal Treatment for Stage IIIA-N2 Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer: A Network Meta-Analysis

Yi Zhao, Wei Wang, Hengrui Liang, Chi-Fu Jeffrey Yang, Thomas D'Amico, Calvin S H Ng, Chia-Chuan Liu, René Horsleben Petersen, Gaetano Rocco, Alessandro Brunelli, Jun Liu, Jiaxi He, Weizhe Huang, Wenhua Liang, Jianxing He, AME Thoracic Surgery Collaborative Group

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BACKGROUND: The optimal treatment for stage IIIA-N2 non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) is controversial. We aimed to address this important issue through a Bayesian network meta-analysis.

METHODS: We performed a search of electronic databases for randomized controlled trials comparing the following treatments: surgery, radiotherapy, chemotherapy, and their multiple combinations before March 25, 2018. Pooled data on overall survival and treatment-related deaths were analyzed within the Bayesian framework.

RESULTS: Eighteen eligible trials reporting 13 treatments were included. In terms of overall survival, neoadjuvant chemotherapy followed by surgery and adjuvant chemotherapy or radiotherapy, which tended to be consistent (hazard ratio [HR] 1.14, 95% credible interval [CrI] 0.21 to 5.93), ranked superior to other treatments. Notably, neoadjuvant chemotherapy followed by surgery and adjuvant radiotherapy was significantly more effective in prolonging survival than surgery alone (HR 0.38, 95% CrI 0.18 to 0.81), surgery plus adjuvant radiotherapy (HR 0.51, 95% CrI 0.29 to 0.92) and potentially surgery plus adjuvant chemotherapy (HR 0.49, 95% CrI 0.23 to 1.05). Overall, with 29% as the highest possibility of causing the fewest treatment-related deaths, neoadjuvant chemotherapy followed by surgery and adjuvant chemotherapy or radiotherapy was the safest treatment option.

CONCLUSIONS: Neoadjuvant chemotherapy followed by surgery and adjuvant chemotherapy or radiotherapy has the greatest possibility to be the optimal treatment with the best overall survival and fewest treatment-related deaths for stage IIIA-N2 NSCLC.

Original language	English
Journal	The Annals of Thoracic Surgery
Volume	107
Issue number	6
Pages (from-to)	1866-1875
ISSN	0003-4975
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/j.athoracsur.2018.11.024
Publication status	Published - Jun 2019

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Zhao, Y., Wang, W., Liang, H., Yang, C-F. J., D'Amico, T., Ng, C. S. H., Liu, C-C., Petersen, R. H., Rocco, G., Brunelli, A., Liu, J., He, J., Huang, W., Liang, W., He, J., & AME Thoracic Surgery Collaborative Group (2019). The Optimal Treatment for Stage IIIA-N2 Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer: A Network Meta-Analysis. The Annals of Thoracic Surgery, 107(6), 1866-1875. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.athoracsur.2018.11.024

Zhao, Y, Wang, W, Liang, H, Yang, C-FJ, D'Amico, T, Ng, CSH, Liu, C-C, Petersen, RH, Rocco, G, Brunelli, A, Liu, J, He, J, Huang, W, Liang, W, He, J & AME Thoracic Surgery Collaborative Group 2019, 'The Optimal Treatment for Stage IIIA-N2 Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer: A Network Meta-Analysis', The Annals of Thoracic Surgery, vol. 107, no. 6, pp. 1866-1875. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.athoracsur.2018.11.024

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