Abstract
We aimed to produce a prediction model for survival at any given date after surgery for esophageal cancer (conditional survival), which has not been done previously. Using joint density functions, we developed and validated a prediction model for all-cause and disease-specific mortality after surgery with esophagectomy, for esophageal cancer, conditional on post-surgery survival time. The model performance was assessed by the area under the receiver operating characteristic curve (AUC) and risk calibration, with internal cross-validation. The derivation cohort was a nationwide Swedish population-based cohort of 1027 patients treated in 1987-2010, with follow-up throughout 2016. This validation cohort was another Swedish population-based cohort of 558 patients treated in 2011-2013, with follow-up throughout 2018. The model predictors were age, sex, education, tumor histology, chemo(radio)therapy, tumor stage, resection margin status, and reoperation. The medians of AUC after internal cross-validation in the derivation cohort were 0.74 (95% confidence interval [95%CI] 0.69-0.78) for 3-year all-cause mortality, 0.76 (95%CI 0.72-0.79) for 5-year all-cause mortality, 0.74 (95%CI 0.70-0.78) for 3-year disease-specific mortality, and 0.75 (95%CI 0.72-0.79) for 5-year disease-specific mortality. The corresponding AUC values in the validation cohort ranged from 0.71 to 0.73. The model showed good agreement between observed and predicted risks. Complete results for conditional survival any given date between 1 and 5 years of surgery are available from an interactive web-tool: https://sites.google.com/view/pcsec/home. This novel prediction model provided accurate estimates of conditional survival any time after esophageal cancer surgery. The web-tool may help guide post-operative treatment and follow-up.
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