Can neoadjuvant gemcitabine plus carboplatin followed by immediate cystectomy improve survival in patients with cisplatin-ineligible muscle-invasive bladder cancer?

2013 ◽  
Vol 31 (15_suppl) ◽  
pp. e15565-e15565
Author(s):  
Takuya Koie ◽  
Yuichiro Suzuki ◽  
Yuki Tobisawa ◽  
Tohru Yoneyama ◽  
Kazuyuki Mori ◽  
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e15565 Background: Standard neoadjuvant chemotherapy has not yet been established for patients with muscle-invasive bladder cancer (MIBC) who are ineligible for cisplatin based chemotherapy. In the present study, we conducted a propensity score analysis to elucidate the clinical significance of neoadjuvant gemcitabine and carboplatin chemotherapy (GCarbo) for cisplatin-ineligible patients with MIBC. Methods: The cohort of the neoadjuvant group consisted of 51 patients with MIBC, treated between March 2005 and June 2011, who were ineligible for cisplatin. Patients received 2 courses of GCarbo consisting of 800 mg/m2gemcitabine on days 1, 8, and 15, and carboplatin with an AUC of 4 on day 2. After GCarbo, radical cystectomy (RC) and bilateral pelvic lymph node dissection (PLND) were performed at an interval of 1 month. The cohort of RC alone included 59 cisplatin-ineligible MIBC patients treated with RC and bilateral PLND between June 1998 and February 2010. Propensity score matching was used to adjust for potential selection biases associated with treatment type. The endpoints were overall (OS) and disease-free survival (DFS). Results: Of the 51 patients who received GCarbo and RC, 6 (11.8%) RC specimens were found to be cancer free. Grade 3/4 neutropenia occurred in 17 patients (33.3%) and thrombocytopenia in 11 patients (21.6%). There were no patients who experienced grade3/4 nephrotoxicity or nausea. Propensity score-matched analysis indicated 45 matched pairs from both groups. The median follow-up period was 35.3 months. The 3-year OS rate was 86.5% for neoadjuvant GCarbo vs. 50.6% for the RC alone group (P < 0.0001). The DFS rate was 78.8% for neoadjuvant GCarbo vs. 44.8% for RC alone (P= 0.001). Multivariate analysis revealed that the neoadjuvant GCarbo regimen was an extremely strong and independent predictor of the longer OS and DFS. Conclusions: Although the present study is non-randomized, neoadjuvant GCarbo chemotherapy followed by immediate RC achieved significantly longer OS and DFS than cystectomy alone. The clinical usefulness of the present treatment for cisplatin-ineligible patients with MIBC should be verified by further trials.

2012 ◽  
Vol 30 (5_suppl) ◽  
pp. 276-276 ◽  
Author(s):  
Takuya Koie ◽  
Teppei Okamoto ◽  
Yuichiro Suzuki ◽  
Yuki Tobisawa ◽  
Tohru Yoneyama ◽  
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276 Background: Standard neoadjuvant chemotherapy has not yet been established for patients with muscle-invasive bladder cancer. Our pervious phase II trial demonstrated the efficacy and safety of neoadjuvant gemcitabine plus carboplatin (GCarb) chemotherapy followed by immediate radical cystectomy (RC) in patients with muscle-invasive bladder cancer. In the present study, we conducted a propensity score analysis to elucidate clinical significance of the present treatment protocol. Methods: The cohort of neoadjuvant group consists of 120 patients with muscle-invasive bladder cancer. They received 2 courses of GCarb therapy consisting of 800 mg/m2 gemcitabine on days 1, 8, and 15 and carboplatin with an AUC of 4 on day 2 between March 2005 and June 2011. After the chemotherapy, RC and bilateral pelvic lymph node dissection (PLND) were performed within an interval of 1 month. The cohort of surgery alone group includes 155 patients with muscle-invasive bladder cancer treated with RC and bilateral PLND between May 1994 and December 2004. Propensity score matching was used to adjust for potential selection biases associated with treatment type. The endpoints were overall (OS) and disease-free survival (DFS). Results: Of the 120 patients who received GCarb and RC, 28 (23.3%) RC specimens showed pT0. Grade 3/4 neutropenia occurred in 40 patients (33.9%) and thrombocytopenia in 23 patients (19.8%). Propensity score-matched analysis indicated 112 matched pairs from both groups. The 5-year OS rate was 91.5% for neoadjuvant GCarb versus 51.3% for surgery alone group (P < 0.0001). The DFS rate was 83.8% for neoadjuvant GCarb versus 53.1% for surgery alone (P < 0.0001). Multivariate analysis revealed that the neoadjuvant GCarb regimen was an extremely strong predictor of the improvement in OS and DFS. Conclusions: Although the present study is not randomized, neoadjuvant gemcitabine plus carboplatin therapy followed by immediate RC achieved significantly longer OS and DFS comparing to surgery alone. The clinical usefulness of the present treatment for the patient with muscle-invasive bladder cancer should be verified by further trials.


2016 ◽  
Vol 34 (2_suppl) ◽  
pp. 375-375
Author(s):  
Takuya Koie ◽  
Chikara Ohyama ◽  
Atsushi Imai ◽  
Shingo Hatakeyama ◽  
Takahiro Yoneyama ◽  
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375 Background: Standard neoadjuvant chemotherapy has not yet been established for patients with muscle-invasive bladder cancer (MIBC) who are ineligible for cisplatin (CDDP)-based chemotherapy. We conducted a propensity score analysis to evaluate the clinical significance of neoadjuvant gemcitabine and carboplatin (GCarbo) chemotherapy for CDDP-ineligible patients with MIBC. Methods: We enrolled 381 patients with MIBC, and retrospectively compared two cohorts of CDDP-ineligible patients with MIBC. The GCarbo cohort consisted of 63 patients, who received 2 courses of GCarbo consisting of 800 mg/m2 gemcitabine on days 1, 8, and 15 and carboplatin with an area under the curve of 4 on day 2, prior to RC. The RC alone cohort consisted of 56 patients receiving RC without neoadjuvant or adjuvant chemotherapy. The endpoints were overall (OS), cancer-specific (CSS), and disease-free survival (DFS). The oncological outcomes were analyzed using log-rank test and multivariate Cox regression model. Results: Propensity score-matched analysis indicated 56 matched pairs from both groups. The 3-year OS rates were 77.9% for the GCarbo cohort and 50.7% for the RC alone cohort (P = 0.002). The 3-year CSS rates were 92.8% for the GCarbo cohort and 52.6% for RC alone group (P < 0.001). The 3-year DFS rates were 80.6% for the GCarbo cohort and 48.1% for the RC alone cohort (P = 0.005). Multivariate analysis revealed that GCarbo was an extremely strong predictor of improved survival. Conclusions: Although the present study is non-randomized, neoadjuvant GCarbo chemotherapy followed by immediate RC significantly improved OS, CSS, and DFS in CDDP-ineligible MIBC patients.


2017 ◽  
Vol 35 (6_suppl) ◽  
pp. 392-392
Author(s):  
Fumitaka Shimizu ◽  
Satoru Muto ◽  
Masataka Taguri ◽  
Takeshi Ieda ◽  
Takatsugu Okegawa ◽  
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392 Background: The clinical evidence of adjuvant chemotherapy (AC ) is less robust than neoadjuvant chemotherapy (NAC). However, several surveys suggest that urologists prefer to use AC more frequently than NAC. We evaluate the clinical benefit of adjuvant platinum based chemotherapy following radical cystectomy (RC) for muscle-invasive bladder cancer (BCa) in routine clinical practice. Methods: This observational study was conducted to compare the effectiveness of AC versus observation postcystectomy in patients with clinicallymuscle-invasive BCa. Cancer-specific survival (CSS) and overall survival (OS) between the AC group and RC alone group were compared using Kaplan-Meiyer method and log-rank test. After adjusting for background factors using propensity score weighting, differences in CSS and OS between these two groups were compared. Subgroup analyses by the pathological characteristics were performed. Results: In total, 322 patients were included in this study. Of these, 23% received AC postcystectomy. Clinicopathological characteristics showed that patients in the AC group were pathologically more advanced and were at higher risk than the RC alone group. In the unadjusted population, although it is not significantly, the AC group had lower overall survival (3-years OS; 61.5% vs 73.6%, HR 1.44, p = 0.243, log-rank test, AC vs RC alone). In the weighted propensity score analysis, although it is not significantly, AC group were superior than RC alone groups (OS: HR 0.65, 95%CI 0.39-1.09, p = 0.099, log-rank test, AC vs RC alone). Subgroup analyses showed that AC significantly reduced the hazard ratio of OS and CSS in ≥ pT3, pN+, ly+, and v+ subgroups. Conclusions: The weighted propensity score analyses showed that platinum-based AC might be associated with increased CSS and OS in patients with high-risk invasive BCa.


BMC Cancer ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 21 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Makito Miyake ◽  
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Kota Iida ◽  
Nobutaka Nishimura ◽  
Tatsuki Miyamoto ◽  
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Abstract Background To explore possible solutions to overcome chronic Bacillus Calmette–Guérin (BCG) shortage affecting seriously the management of non-muscle invasive bladder cancer (NMIBC) in Europe and throughout the world, we investigated whether non-maintenance eight-dose induction BCG (iBCG) was comparable to six-dose iBCG plus maintenance BCG (mBCG). Methods This observational study evaluated 2669 patients with high- or highest-risk NMIBC who treated with iBCG with or without mBCG during 2000–2019. The patients were classified into five groups according to treatment pattern: 874 (33%) received non-maintenance six-dose iBCG (Group A), 405 (15%) received six-dose iBCG plus mBCG (Group B), 1189 (44%) received non-maintenance seven−/eight-dose iBCG (Group C), 60 (2.2%) received seven−/eight-dose iBCG plus mBCG, and 141 (5.3%) received only ≤5-dose iBCG. Recurrence-free survival (RFS), progression-free survival, and cancer-specific survival were estimated and compared using Kaplan–Meier analysis and the log-rank test, respectively. Propensity score-based one-to-one matching was performed using a multivariable logistic regression model based on covariates to obtain balanced groups. To eliminate possible immortal bias, 6-, 12-, 18-, and 24-month conditional landmark analyses of RFS were performed. Results RFS comparison confirmed that mBCG yielded significant benefit following six-dose iBCG (Group B) in recurrence risk reduction compared to iBCG alone (groups A and C) before (P < 0.001 and P = 0.0016, respectively) and after propensity score matching (P = 0.001 and P = 0.0074, respectively). Propensity score-matched sequential landmark analyses revealed no significant differences between groups B and C at 12, 18, and 24 months, whereas landmark analyses at 6 and 12 months showed a benefit of mBCG following six-dose iBCG compared to non-maintenance six-dose iBCG (P = 0.0055 and P = 0.032, respectively). There were no significant differences in the risks of progression and cancer-specific death in all comparisons of the matched cohorts. Conclusions Although non-maintenance eight-dose iBCG was inferior to six-dose iBCG plus mBCG, the former might be an alternative remedy in the BCG shortage era. To overcome this challenge, further investigation is warranted to confirm the real clinical value of non-maintenance eight-dose iBCG.


2013 ◽  
Vol 31 (6_suppl) ◽  
pp. 296-296
Author(s):  
Michael S. Cookson ◽  
Christine Francis Lihou ◽  
Samira Q. Harper ◽  
Thomas Li ◽  
Surya Chitra ◽  
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296 Background: Valrubicin was approved in the United States in 1998, removed from the market in 2002 because of manufacturing issues, and reintroduced in 2009. We report secondary outcomes and concomitant medication use from a US multicenter, observational, retrospective study. Methods: Medical records of adult patients with non–muscle-invasive bladder cancer (NMIBC) who used valrubicin were abstracted (March–September 2011). Kaplan-Meier analyses were performed for disease-free survival (DFS), progression-free survival (PFS), worsening-free survival (WFS), cystectomy-free survival (CFS), and time to cystectomy. Results: 113 patients (mean age, 73.7 years) received intravesical valrubicin (median, 6 instillations [range, 2–18]). 107 patients (94.7%) received >3 instillations; 97 (85.8%) completed the full course of therapy (≥6 instillations). DFS was 51.6% (95% CI, 40.9%–61.3%) at 3 months, 30.4% (95% CI, 20.4%–41.1%) at 6 months, and median DFS was 3.5 months (95% CI, 2.5–4.0). PFS was 97.6% (95% CI, 90.9%–99.4%) at 3 months, 87.2% (95% CI, 75.4%–93.5%) at 6 months, and median PFS was 18.2 months (95% CI, 17.2–19.0). WFS was 47.4% (95% CI, 37.2%–57.0%) at 3 months and 28.1% (95% CI, 18.8%–38.2%) at 6 months. CFS was 98.0% (95% CI, 92.2%–99.5%) at 3 months and 93.7% (95% CI, 85.2%–97.4%) at 6 months. Median CFS was not reached; only 13.3% of patients underwent radical cystectomy after starting valrubicin. 56 patients (49.6%) experienced ≥1 local adverse reaction; the most common were hematuria and pollakiuria (both 17.7%), micturition urgency (15.9%), and bladder spasm (14.2%). 55 patients (48.7%) used ≥1 concomitant medication for local adverse reactions; the most commonly used were urinary antispasmodics (21.2%), fluoroquinolones (14.2%), and other urologicals (14.2%). Conclusions: In patients with NMIBC treated with intravesical valrubicin, median DFS and PFS were 3.5 and 18.2 months, respectively, and median CFS was not reached as only 13% of patients underwent radical cystectomy. Valrubicin was well tolerated, and most patients received the full course of 6 instillations. Funding: Research and abstract were supported by Endo Pharmaceuticals Inc.


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