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Oncotarget. 2017 Aug 02;8(35):59709-59719. doi: 10.18632/oncotarget.19810. eCollection 2017 Aug 29.

Network meta-analysis of the efficacy and adverse effects of several treatments for advanced/metastatic prostate cancer.

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Jing Wu, Wei-Kang Chen, Wei Zhang, Jin-Song Zhang, Jian-He Liu, Yong-Ming Jiang, Ke-Wei Fang

Affiliations

  1. Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, School of Basic Medical Sciences, Kunming Medical University, Kunming 650500, P.R. China.
  2. Department of Urology, The Second Affiliated Hospital of Kunming Medical University, Kunming 650101, P.R. China.

PMID: 28938674 PMCID: PMC5601770 DOI: 10.18632/oncotarget.19810

Abstract

This network meta-analysis was conducted to compare the efficacy and adverse effects of several treatments for advanced/metastatic prostate cancer (PC). The PubMed and Cochrane Library databases were searched for randomized controlled trials of treatments for advanced/metastatic PC. Eighteen studies covering 6,340 patients were included in this analysis. The calculated were odds ratios, 95% confidence intervals, and the surface under the cumulative ranking (SUCRA) curve. Pairwise meta-analysis showed that overall survival rates achieved with radiotherapy or endocrine therapy were lower than obtained with radiotherapy + endocrine therapy. The endocrine therapy includes estrogen therapy, luteinizing hormone-releasing hormone agonist (LHRH-A), anti-androgen therapy (ADT), ADT + LHRH-A and estrogen therapy + LHRH-A, and its SUCRA values indicated that for overall response rate, estrogen therapy + LHRH-A ranked the highest (92.6%); for overall survival rate, ADT ranked the highest (75.2%); for anemia, estrogen therapy ranked the highest (88.2%); and for diarrhea and hot flushes, ADT ranked the highest (diarrhea, 87.4%; hot flushes, 89.3%). Cluster analysis on the endocrine therapy showed that ADT + LHRH-A achieved the highest overall survival and overall response rates in the treatment of advanced/metastatic PC. Estrogen therapy and ADT had the lowest incidences of diarrhea and anemia. Thus, combined radiotherapy + endocrine therapy had higher overall survival rate, and among the endocrine therapy, in terms of overall response rate and overall survival rate, ADT + LHRH-A may be a better regimen in the treatment of advanced or metastatic PC.

Keywords: adverse effects; efficacy; endocrine therapy; prostate cancer; randomized controlled trials

Conflict of interest statement

CONFLICTS OF INTEREST None.

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