Abstract:
The Impact of Neoadjuvant Chemotherapy and Adjuvant Chemotherapy on NSCLCSupported by Evidence-based MedicineQingfeng ZHENG1, YuzhaoWANG1, Sainan ZHU2, Yiqiang LIU3, Shaolei LI1, NanWU1, Jinfeng CHEN1, Lijian ZHANG1, Yue YANG1Corresponding author: Yue YANG, E-mail: zlyangyue@bjmu.edu.cn1The Second Department of Thoracic Surgery, Key laboratory of Carcinogenesis and Translational Research (Ministry of Education), Pe-king University School of Oncology, Beijing Cancer Hospital & Institute, Beijing 100142, China2Department of Biostatistics, Peking University First Hospital, Beijing 100034, China3Department of Pathology, Key Laboratory of Carcinogenesis and Translational Research (Ministry of Education), Peking UniversitySchool of Oncology, Beijing Cancer Hospital & Institute, Beijing 100142, ChinaAbstract Objective: To investigate the effect of neoadjuvant chemotherapy and adjuvant chemotherapy on NSCLC on the basisof evidence-based medicine. Methods: From January 2004 to August 2009, there were 191 cases who had received platinum-basedtwo-drug combination chemotherapy. The group distribution characteristics of these cases were analyzed and the effect of chemothera-py was observed by T staging assessment and R0 resection ratio. Overall survival ( OS ), the median survival time ( MST ) and diseasefree survival ( DFS ) were analyzed with SPSS 16.0. These research data were compared with previous data of high-level evidence. Re-sults: Of the 191 cases, 37 ( 19.37% ) cases were treated with neoadjuvant chemotherapy ( NCT ) followed by surgery ( stage ⅢB ac-counted for 24.3%, ⅢA 74.1% ) and 154 cases accepted surgery followed by adjuvant chemotherapy ( ACT ). In the NCT plus surgerygroup, the response rate ( RR = CR + PR ) was 70.3%, pathological complete response ( pCR ) was 5.4%, the MST was 14.6 months(arranged 6.18 to 23.01), the 1-year survival was 86.0%, and the 3-year survival was 53.9%. The 1-year DFS was 62.1%, and the 3-yearDFS was 23.4%. In the surgery plus ACT group, the MST was 25.9 months ( 19.03-32.77 ), the 1-year survival was 93.3%, and the3-year survival was 73.8%. The 1-year DFS was 71.0%, and the 3-year DFS was 34.0%. Conclusion: According to high-level evi-dence, adjuvant chemotherapy can be better treatment option for the majority of NSCLC cases. Patients of stage Ⅱ-ⅢA and some re-sectable patients of stageⅢB can get most benefits from neoadjuvant chemotherapy and adjuvant chemotherapy.Keywords Non-small cell lung cancer; Neoadjuvant chemotherapy; Adjuvant chemotherapy; Overall survival;Disease free survival