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Table 1 Retrospective studies evaluating the treatment of the primary tumor in breast cancer patients with synchronous metastases

From: Exclusive and adjuvant radiotherapy in breast cancer patients with synchronous metastases

Authors (ref)

Database

Years of inclusion

Local treatment

Number of patients total/local treatment/no local treatment

Characteristics associated with a higher OS rate in multivariate analysis

Multivariate Analysis of Overall Survival Hazards Ratio for Death (95%CI) with local treatment

Kahn et al. [13]

National cancer database of the American college of surgeons

1990-1993

S

16023/9162/6861

S, systemic therapy, number of metastatic sites

HR OS (RO) = 0.61 (0.58-0.65)

HR (R1) = 0.751 (0.71-0.793)

Gnerlich et al. [11]

SEER

1988-2003

S

9734/4578/5156

 

HR OS = 0.57 (0.55-0.60)

Bafford et al. [7]

Dana Farber Cancer Institute, Brigham and Women's Hospital and Massachusetts General Hospital

1998-2005

S

147/61/86

S, ER+, Her2+, no CNS metastasis

HR OS = 0.47 (p = 0.003)

Shien et al. [18]

National Cancer Center Hospital

1962-2007

S

326/160/184

S, age <50, soft tissue or bone metastasis

HR OS =

0.89 (0.79-1)

Blanchard et al. [8]

Laboratory of the university of texas health science center

1973-1991

S

395/242/153

S, ER +, PR+, number of metastatic sites

HR OS = 0.609 (0.489-0.757)

Fields et al. [10]

Washington university medical center

1996-2005

S

409/287/222

S, Bone only metastasis

HR OS = 0.53 (0.42-0.67)

No difference in time to metastatic progression between the 2 groups

Babiera et al. [6]

MD Anderson cancer center

1997-2002

S

224/82/142

Only one site of metastasis, HER2+, Caucasian ethnicity

HR OS = 0.5 (0.21-1.19)

HR TTFP = 0.54 (0.38-0.77, p = 0.0007)

Hazard et al. [12]

Lynn Sage Breast Center (Northwestern memorial Hospital)

1995-2005

S

111/47/64

NA

HR OS = 0.798 (p = 0.52)

HR TTFP = 0.49 (p = 0.015)

Cady et al. [9]

Massachusetts General Hospital and Birgham and Women's Hospital

1970-2002

S

622/234/388

Young age, RH +, bone only metastasis

Matched-pair analysis: benefit of surgery p < 0.0001

Ruiterkamp et al. [17]

Eindhoven Cancer Registry

1993-2004

S

728/288/440

Surgery, age, no more than one metastatic site, no concomitant disease(p = 0.06), systemic therapy

HR OS = 0.62 (95%CI = 0.51-0.76)

Leung et al. [19]

Medical College of Virginia Campus of Virginia Commonwealth University,

1990-2000

S

157/52/105

Chemotherapy

No benefit in multivariate analysis

Rapiti et al. [16]

Geneva cancer registry

1977-1996

S

300/127/173

Age < 60, none N3, ER+, none visceral metastasis, none CNS metastasis, hormonal treatment, surgery with negative margins

HR OS = 0.6 if R0 (0.4-1.0)

NS if R1

Le Scodan et al. [14]

René Huguenin Cancer Center

1984-2004

RT

581/320/261

Only one metastatic site, young age, LRT, no visceral metastases, N0

HR OS = 0.7 (0.58-0.85)

  1. S: surgery of the primary tumor, RT: radiation therapy, LRT: locoregional treatment, HR: hazard ratio, OS: overall survival, TTFP: time to first progression, 95%CI: 95% confidence interval, MST: median survival time, CNS: central nervous system, ER+: tumor positive estrogen receptor, PR+: tumor positive progesteron receptor, Her2+: Her2 positive status, R0: surgery with negative margins, R1: surgery with positive margins, N0: clinical N0 lymph node status