Final results of local-regional control and late toxicity of RTOG 9003: a randomized trial of altered fractionation radiation for locally advanced head and neck cancer.
Final results of local-regional control and late toxicity of RTOG 9003: a randomized trial of altered fractionation radiation for locally advanced head and neck cancer.
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10.1016/j.ijrobp.2013.12.027
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2014-05-01
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Ang KK
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Beitler JJ;Zhang Q;Fu KK;Trotti A;Spencer SA;Jones CU;Garden AS;Shenouda G;Harris J;Ang KK
To test whether altered radiation fractionation schemes improved local-regional control (LRC) rates for patients with squamous cell cancers (SCC) of the head and neck when compared to standard fractionation (SFX) of 70 Gy. Patients with stage III or IV (or stage II base of tongue) SCC were randomized to 4 treatment arms: (1) SFX-70 Gy/35 daily fxns/7 week; (2) HFX-81.6 Gy/68 BID fxns/7 weeks; (3) AFX-S 67.2 Gy/42 fxns/6 weeks with a 2 week rest after 38.4 Gy; and (4) AFX-C 72 Gy/42 fxns/6 weeks. n=1,076. The 3 experimental arms were to be compared to SFX. With patients censored for LRC at 5 years, only the comparison of HFX with SFX was significantly different (HFX: Hazard Ratio-0.79(0.62–1.00), p=0.05; AFX-C 0.82 (0.65–1.05), p=0.11). Censored at 5 years, HFX improved Overall Survival (OS) (Hazard Ratio 0.81, p=0.05). Prevalence of any Grade 3, 4, or 5 toxicity at 5 years, any feeding tube use after 180 days, or feeding tube use at 1 year did not differ significantly when the experimental arms were compared to SFX. When 7 week treatments were compared to 6 week treatments, accelerated fractionation appeared to increase Grade 3, 4 or 5 toxicity at 5 years (p=0.06). Looking at the worst toxicity per patient by treatment only the AFX-C arm seemed to trend worse than the SFX arm when comparing Grade 0–2 vs. 3–5 toxicity(p=0.09). At 5 years, only HFX improved LRC & OS for patients with locally advanced SCC without increasing late toxicity.