Patients with ERCC1-negative locally advanced esophageal cancers may benefit from preoperative chemoradiotherapy - PubMed (original) (raw)

Clinical Trial

. 2008 Jul 1;14(13):4225-31.

doi: 10.1158/1078-0432.CCR-07-4848.

Kyung-Ja Cho, Gui Young Kwon, Seung-Il Park, Yong Hee Kim, Jong Hoon Kim, Ho-Young Song, Ji Hoon Shin, Hwoon Yong Jung, Gin Hyug Lee, Kee Don Choi, Sung-Bae Kim

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Patients with ERCC1-negative locally advanced esophageal cancers may benefit from preoperative chemoradiotherapy

Min Kyoung Kim et al. Clin Cancer Res. 2008.

Abstract

Purpose: To assess the significance of excision repair cross-complementation group 1 (ERCC1) expression as a predictive marker, we analyzed the effects of preoperative chemoradiotherapy on survival relative to ERCC1 status in patients with locally advanced operable esophageal cancer.

Experimental design: Paraffin-embedded pretreatment tumor specimens, collected by endoscopic biopsy from patients treated with surgery alone or with preoperative chemoradiotherapy followed by surgery, were immunohistochemically assayed for ERCC1 expression.

Results: Of the 175 patients, 152 biopsy specimens were available for immunohistochemical analysis. Based on a median ERCC1 expression score of 1, we divided the samples into ERCC1-positive (score >1; 71 patients, 47%) and ERCC1-negative (score </=1; 81 patients, 53%) groups. No differences in patient and disease characteristics were observed between the two groups. However, among patients with ERCC1-negative tumors, those who received preoperative chemoradiotherapy had longer overall survival (OS) and event-free survival (EFS) than those treated with esophagectomy alone (median OS, 59.2 versus 25.4 months, P = 0.057; median EFS, 50.7 versus 19.7 months, P = 0.042). This difference was not observed among patients with ERCC1-positive tumors. In multivariate analysis, treatment modality was the major determinant of both EFS (P = 0.006) and OS (P = 0.008) for patients with ERCC1-negative tumors, whereas Eastern Cooperative Oncology Group performance status was the only significant predictor of outcome among ERCC1-positive patients. Among patients who received esophagectomy alone, those with ERCC1-positive tumors had a tendency toward longer OS and EFS (P = 0.085 and 0.094, respectively).

Conclusions: Patients with ERCC1-negative operable esophageal tumors show a greater benefit from preoperative chemoradiotherapy followed by esophagectomy than those who undergo esophagectomy alone.

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