Neoadjuvant chemoradiotherapy vesus chemotherapy alone followed by surgery for resectable stage III non-small-cell lung cancer: A meta-analysis

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Neoadjuvant Chemotherapy has been used for the stage III of non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) and has shown good clinical effects. However, the survival benefits of radiation therapy added in induction regimens remains controversial. We therefore conducted a meta-analysis of the published clinical trials to quantitatively evaluate the benefit of preoperative chemoradiotherapy. After searching the database of Pubmed, CNKI, EMBASE, ESMO, The Cochrane Library databases, The American Society of Clinical Oncology and Clinical Trials.gov. Trials were selected for meta-analysis if they provided an independent assessment of neoadjuvant chemoradiation and neoadjuvant chemotherapy, odds ratio(OR) for tumor downstaging, mediastinal lymph nodes pathological complete response and local control, hazard ratios (HRs) for 5-year survival and progression-free survival were pooled by the stata software version 12.0. Twelve studies involving 2,724 patients were identified, tumor downstaging (p = 0.01), mediastinal lymph nodes pathological complete responses (p = 0.028) and local control (P = 0.002) were achieved, when compared with neoadjuvant chemotherapy. The meta-analysis demonstrated neither 5-year survival nor progression-free-survival benefit in survival from adding radiation. In conclusion, the addition of radiotherapy into chemotherapy was not superior to neoadjuvant chemotherapy. The higher quality of trials need be investigated combining with the his to pathological type and genotyping of lung cancer by clinicians.

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Guo, S. X., Jian, Y., Chen, Y. L., Cai, Y., Zhang, Q. Y., & Tou, F. F. (2016). Neoadjuvant chemoradiotherapy vesus chemotherapy alone followed by surgery for resectable stage III non-small-cell lung cancer: A meta-analysis. Scientific Reports, 6. https://doi.org/10.1038/srep34388

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