RETRACTED: Impact of Cooperative Trial and Sociodemographic Variation on Adjuvant Radiation Therapy Usage in Elderly Women (≥70 Years) with Stage I, Estrogen Receptor-Positive Breast Cancer: Analysis of the National Cancer Data Base

Journal of the American College of Surgeons
Quyen D ChuXiao-Cheng Wu

Abstract

The Cancer and Leukemia Group B (CALGB) 9343 trial demonstrated that adjuvant radiation therapy (RT) can be omitted in women aged 70 years or older, with small, estrogen receptor (ER)+ breast cancer. We postulated that RT usage after CALGB's publication should have decreased over time. We evaluated a cohort of 205,860 women aged 70 years or older, with stage I, ER+/progesterone receptor (PR)+ breast cancer with lumpectomy, diagnosed between 1998 and 2012, in the National Cancer Data Base. Clinicopathologic and sociodemographic variables were compared between pre-CALGB and post-CALGB publication (circa 2004). Univariate and multivariate analysis were used. Radiation therapy usage decreased by only 2.95% after CALGB publication (68.71% vs 65.76%; p < 0.0001). Almost one-third of women with short life expectancy (≥85 years) received RT in the post-CALGB group. Significant predictors (p < 0.01) of lowest RT use include advanced age, increased great circle distance, academic research program, East South Central region, rural population < 2,500 not adjacent to a metropolitan area, low income level, high comorbidity index, small tumor, well-differentiated histology, residual tumor, and lack of receipt of anti-hormonal therapy. The CAL...Continue Reading

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