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ArticleCancer medicine2021

Effectiveness and prognostic factors of apatinib treatment in patients with recurrent or advanced cervical carcinoma: A retrospective study.

Hui Yang, Min Chen, Zijie Mei, Conghua Xie, Yunfeng Zhou, Hui Qiu

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Article in Cancer medicine, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 5 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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Hui YangDepartment of Radiation and Medical Oncology, Zhongnan Hospital of Wuhan University, Wuhan, People's Republic of China.ORCID 0000-0002-3152-1285
Min ChenDepartment of Radiation and Medical Oncology, Zhongnan Hospital of Wuhan University, Wuhan, People's Republic of China.
Zijie MeiDepartment of Radiation and Medical Oncology, Zhongnan Hospital of Wuhan University, Wuhan, People's Republic of China.
Conghua XieDepartment of Radiation and Medical Oncology, Zhongnan Hospital of Wuhan University, Wuhan, People's Republic of China.ORCID 0000-0001-6623-9864
Yunfeng ZhouDepartment of Radiation and Medical Oncology, Zhongnan Hospital of Wuhan University, Wuhan, People's Republic of China.
Hui QiuDepartment of Radiation and Medical Oncology, Zhongnan Hospital of Wuhan University, Wuhan, People's Republic of China.
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Funding

National Natural Science Foundation of China 81703037Zhongnan Hospital of Wuhan University Science, Technology and Innovation Seed Fund znpy2019078Zhongnan Hospital of Wuhan University Science, Technology and Innovation Seed Fund znpy2019080
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

backgroundApatinib is an oral anti-angiogenic drug, its efficacy and prognosis in cervical carcinoma are unclear. This study evaluates the effectiveness and prognostic factors of apatinib in the treatment of recurrent or advanced cervical carcinoma.

methodsPatients with recurrent or advanced cervical cancer, who agreed to take apatinib, were recruited into this single-center and retrospective study, and administrated apatinib with or without combination of chemo- or radio-therapy until progressive disease (PD) or unacceptable toxicity.

resultsFrom March 2017 to February 2019, 53 patients were reviewed. Among them, 2 (3.77%) patients occurred complete response, 16 (30.19%) patients showed partial response, 27 (50.95%) patients had stable disease, and 8 (15.09%) patients had PD. The objective response rate and disease control rate (DCR) of these patients were 33.96% and 84.91%, respectively. The DCR of patients younger than 50, nonsquamous carcinoma, first-line apatinib therapy, combined radiotherapy, lesions within radiation field, surgical history, and Eastern Cooperative Oncology Group (ECOG) performance status score of 0 or 1 were significantly higher than other patients (p < 0.05). The median progression-free survival (PFS) and overall survival (OS) were 6.0 months (95% CI: 4.43-7.57) and 8.0 months (95% CI: 6.52-9.48), respectively. The univariable and multivariable analysis showed that the patients with an ECOG performance status score of 2 and further line therapy were associated with poor prognosis in both PFS and OS (PFS: HR =8.35, p = 0.000; HR =6.66, p = 0.001; OS: HR = 7.40, p = 0.000; HR = 3.24, p = 0.039), respectively. The most common adverse effects (AEs) were hand-foot syndrome (35.58%), hypertension (18.87%) and fatigue (15.09%). No grade 3 AEs and drug-related death occurred.

conclusionThe efficacy and prognosis of patients who are in good general condition and first-line apatinib combination therapy may be better than other patients. But further phase III clinical trials should be taken to prove this hypothesis.

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AdenocarcinomaAnalysis of VarianceAngiogenesis InhibitorsAntineoplastic AgentsCarcinoma, Squamous CellCombined Modality TherapyFatigueFemaleHand-Foot SyndromeHumansHypertensionMiddle AgedNeoplasm Recurrence, LocalPrognosisProgression-Free SurvivalPyridinesAngiogenesis InhibitorsAntineoplastic AgentsapatinibPyridinesangiogenesisapatinibcervical carcinomaefficacyprognosisretrospective study

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