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PURPOSE: The use of oral cancer drugs (OAD) has increased over the last two decades. The objective of this study was to measure the impact of a nurse-led telephone follow-up in the therapeutic management of patients treated with an OAD regarding toxicity, medication adherence and quality of life. METHODS: A randomized, multicenter, controlled trial was conducted. All consecutive over 18-year-old patients, treated in medical oncology, radiotherapy, or hematology departments, receiving OAD for any cancer were invited to participate to the study. A total of 183 patients treated for solid or hematological cancers with an OAD were randomly assigned to receive a nurse-led telephone follow-up or standard care for 24 weeks. Data were collected between 2015 and 2018. RESULTS: Nurse telephone follow-up did not improve the global score toxicity in the intervention group. However, telephone calls directed by trained nurses induced a significant decrease in number of patients with grade 3 adverse events throughout the follow-up [OR 0.45 (IC à 95%) (0.23, 0.9)](P = 0.03). There was no significant difference in quality of life and medication adherence between groups at any follow-up time point. CONCLUSIONS: In this first French real-life study, the advice provided by qualified nurses via phone calls improved the management of grade 3 toxicities but failed to demonstrate an improvement of all grades of toxicities. More prospective studies are needed to confirm the impact of telephone calls on the toxicities related to OAD. TRIAL REGISTRATION: Clinical trial registration is NCT02459483. Protection committee SUD-ESTI registration is 2015-A00527-42 on 13 April 2015. National Agency for the Safety of Medicines and Health Products registration is 150619-B on the 27 may 2015.
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Antineoplásicos/uso terapéutico , Cumplimiento de la Medicación/psicología , Calidad de Vida/psicología , Anciano , Antineoplásicos/farmacología , Femenino , Estudios de Seguimiento , Humanos , Masculino , Persona de Mediana Edad , Estudios ProspectivosRESUMEN
BACKGROUND: Patients with RAS wild-type (WT) nonresectable metastatic colorectal cancer (mCRC) may receive either bevacizumab or an anti-epidermal growth factor receptor (EGFR) combined with first-line, 5-fluorouracil-based chemotherapy. Without the RAS status information, the oncologist can either start chemotherapy with bevacizumab or wait for the introduction of the anti-EGFR. Our objective was to compare both strategies in a routine practice setting. MATERIALS AND METHODS: This multicenter, retrospective, propensity score-weighted study included patients with a RAS WT nonresectable mCRC, treated between 2013 and 2016 by a 5-FU-based chemotherapy, with either delayed anti-EGFR or immediate anti-vascular endothelial growth factor (VEGF). Primary criterion was overall survival (OS). Secondary criteria were progression-free survival (PFS) and objective response rate (ORR). RESULTS: A total of 262 patients (129 in the anti-VEGF group and 133 in the anti-EGFR group) were included. Patients receiving an anti-VEGF were more often men (68% vs. 56%), with more metastatic sites (>2 sites: 15% vs. 9%). The median delay to obtain the RAS status was 19 days (interquartile range: 13-26). Median OS was not significantly different in the two groups (29 vs. 30.5 months, p = .299), even after weighting on the propensity score (hazard ratio [HR] = 0.86, 95% confidence interval [CI], 0.69-1.08, p = .2024). The delayed introduction of anti-EGFR was associated with better median PFS (13.8 vs. 11.0 months, p = .0244), even after weighting on the propensity score (HR = 0.74, 95% CI, 0.61-0.90, p = .0024). ORR was significantly higher in the anti-EGFR group (66.7% vs. 45.6%, p = .0007). CONCLUSION: Delayed introduction of anti-EGFR had no deleterious effect on OS, PFS, and ORR, compared with doublet chemotherapy with anti-VEGF. IMPLICATIONS FOR PRACTICE: For RAS/RAF wild-type metastatic colorectal cancer, patients may receive 5-fluorouracil-based chemotherapy plus either bevacizumab or an anti-epidermal growth factor receptor (EGFR). In daily practice, the time to obtain the RAS status might be long enough to consider two options: to start the chemotherapy with bevacizumab, or to start without a targeted therapy and to add the anti-EGFR at reception of the RAS status. This study found no deleterious effect of the delayed introduction of an anti-EGFR on survival, compared with the introduction of an anti-vascular endothelial growth factor from cycle 1. It is possible to wait one or two cycles to introduce the anti-EGFR while waiting for RAS status.
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Anticuerpos Monoclonales , Neoplasias Colorrectales , Anticuerpos Monoclonales/uso terapéutico , Protocolos de Quimioterapia Combinada Antineoplásica/uso terapéutico , Bevacizumab/uso terapéutico , Neoplasias Colorrectales/tratamiento farmacológico , Neoplasias Colorrectales/genética , Fluorouracilo/uso terapéutico , Humanos , Masculino , Estudios RetrospectivosRESUMEN
INTRODUCTION: There is a plea for the development of tools allowing the screening of fragile patients under oral chemotherapy. Such tools would identify patients with difficulties for being adherent or for having low side effects management skills. The aim of this study is to validate psychometric characteristics of a questionnaire assessing patients' adherence and skill level of management for oral capecitabine treatment. METHODS: Questionnaire's psychometric validation study. Prospective monocentric cohort. Cases-simulated questionnaire was constructed, according to recommendations, from the results of a socio-anthropological study. Validation phases included: a pre-testing and a field-testing including acceptability, scale reliability and internal consistency were conducted involving experts and patients sample. RESULTS: Pre-testing excluded 1 item. Acceptability phase included 15 patients, who did not change any of the questions. Reliability and internal consistency were tested with 67 patients. Cancer site did not statistically influence questionnaire answers. No correlation was identify with the analyse performed for the internal consistency testing. CONCLUSION: This questionnaire has shown to be a valid tool for the assessment of the adherence and side effect management skill for patients with capecitabine treatment. It can easily be uses as a screening tool for prescribers. It can also be used as an evaluation tool for a therapeutic education programme in this field.
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Antimetabolitos Antineoplásicos/efectos adversos , Neoplasias de la Mama/tratamiento farmacológico , Capecitabina/efectos adversos , Neoplasias del Colon/tratamiento farmacológico , Cumplimiento de la Medicación/psicología , Encuestas y Cuestionarios , Anciano , Anciano de 80 o más Años , Antimetabolitos Antineoplásicos/administración & dosificación , Neoplasias de la Mama/psicología , Capecitabina/administración & dosificación , Neoplasias del Colon/psicología , Análisis Discriminante , Femenino , Humanos , Masculino , Persona de Mediana Edad , Estudios Prospectivos , Psicometría , Reproducibilidad de los ResultadosAsunto(s)
Antineoplásicos Inmunológicos/efectos adversos , Bevacizumab/efectos adversos , Hipertensión/tratamiento farmacológico , Síndrome de Leucoencefalopatía Posterior/inducido químicamente , Adenocarcinoma/tratamiento farmacológico , Anciano , Inhibidores de la Angiogénesis/administración & dosificación , Antihipertensivos/uso terapéutico , Antineoplásicos Inmunológicos/administración & dosificación , Protocolos de Quimioterapia Combinada Antineoplásica/efectos adversos , Bevacizumab/administración & dosificación , Neoplasias Óseas/secundario , Neoplasias de la Mama/tratamiento farmacológico , Neoplasias de la Mama/patología , Neoplasias del Colon/tratamiento farmacológico , Resultado Fatal , Femenino , Humanos , Neoplasias Pulmonares/tratamiento farmacológico , Neoplasias Pulmonares/patología , Imagen por Resonancia Magnética , Masculino , Persona de Mediana Edad , Síndrome de Leucoencefalopatía Posterior/diagnóstico por imagen , Síndrome de Leucoencefalopatía Posterior/tratamiento farmacológico , Tomografía Computarizada por Rayos XRESUMEN
CONCLUSIONS: Conventional radiotherapy with concurrent cisplatin is significantly superior to induction cisplatin fluorouracil chemotherapy followed by radiotherapy in terms of laryngeal preservation in patients with T3 hypopharyngeal carcinoma. Despite a high rate of laryngeal preservation no survival benefit was recorded in this selected population. OBJECTIVES: To compare conventional radiotherapy with concurrent cisplatin to induction chemotherapy with cisplatin fluorouracil followed by conventional radiotherapy. The primary end point was the preservation of the larynx. The secondary end points included toxicity, causes of death, and survival rates. PATIENTS AND METHODS: Seventy-one adult patients with previously untreated resectable T3 pyriform sinus squamous cell carcinoma were enrolled in the multicenter prospective randomized phase III trial. They were evaluated for organ preservation, survival rates, and toxic reactions. RESULTS: The rates of laryngeal preservation at 2 years were 68% for the induction chemotherapy (IC) group and 92% for the chemoradiotherapy (CR) group (p = 0.016). At 2 years, the event-free survival rates were 36% and 41% for the IC group and CR group, respectively.