Impact of primary tumor resection in oligometastatic non-small cell lung cancer: Experience of a resource-limited cancer center in southern Brazil.

Abstract

e20552 Background: Stage IV non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) with low volume disease represents a more indolent phenotype within the biological spectrum of lung cancer. Recent data suggest that aggressive local therapy may impact clinical benefit in this subgroup of patients, with 5-year overall survival (OS) rate around 20%. Methods: We analyzed patients with oligometetastatic (≤3 metastasis) NSCLC treated with primary tumor resection at Hospital São Lucas da PUCRS. Clinico-pathological features and survival data were retrospectively collected using standard templates. The primary endpoint was OS. Survival was estimated using the Kaplan-Meier method and log-rank test was used to univariate analysis. Results: Between April 1991 and December 2015, 25 patients with oligometastatic NSCLC underwent surgery of the primary tumor. Clinico-pathological data are summarized in Table 1. Overall, median OS was 16 months (95% CI: 8.87-23.13 months) with a 5-years survival rate of 7%. Age less than 65 years old was associated with longer OS (HR 0.34 95%CI 0.13-0.92 p = 0.02). Patients with brain metastasis had a non-significant lower OS than those without (16 vs. 24 months, respectively). Conclusions: This analysis suggests that in a resource-limited center, where immunotherapies and targeted-therapies are not available, local therapy for oligometastatic NSCLC did not provide the same clinical benefit seen in the same population from high-income countries. See table. [Table: see text]