Pathologic complete response and survival outcomes in patients with localized soft tissue sarcoma treated with neoadjuvant chemoradiotherapy or radiotherapy: Long-term update of NRG Oncology RTOG 9514 and 0630.
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Abstract
11012 Background: We sought to determine the prognostic significance of pathologic complete response (pCR) in soft tissue sarcoma (STS) in patients (pts) receiving neoadjuvant chemoradiotherapy (RTOG 9514) or radiotherapy (RTOG 0630) with long-term outcomes. Methods: RTOG has completed two phase II trials (RTOG 9514 and RTOG 0630) for pts with localized STS. Pts with high-grade STS ≥8 cm of extremities or body wall were enrolled to 9514 from 1997-2000 and received 3 cycles neoadjuvant chemotherapy (CT), interdigitated with RT, and 3 cycles postop CT. Pts with STS of extremities were enrolled to 0630 from 2008-2010 and received preoperative RT without CT. One pathology expert (DL) assessed pts for pCR at time of surgery without knowledge of disease outcomes. Overall and disease-free survival (OS and DFS) were calculated from the date of surgery. Pts that did not have surgery or had an amputation were excluded. Hazard ratios (HR) and p-values were estimated by multivariate Cox model stratified by study, where possible (i.e., > 0 events in both groups); otherwise p-values were calculated by stratified log-rank test. Results: Of 135 who had surgery, 123 were evaluable for pCR: 14/51 (27.5%) on 9514 and 14/72 (19.4%) on 0630 had pCR. With median follow-up of > 5 years for surviving pts, OS is 100% for pts with pCR vs. 5-year 76.5% (95% confidence interval 62.3-90.8) and 56.4% (43.3-69.5) for pts with < pCR in 9514 and 0630, respectively. pCR is associated with improved OS (p = 0.01) and DFS [HR 4.91 (1.51-15.93); p = 0.008] relative to < pCR. Local failure rate was 0% in pts with pCR vs. 5-year 11.7% (3.6-25.1) and 9.1% (3.3-18.5) for pts with < pCR in 9514 and 0630, respectively. Leiomyosarcoma/liposarcoma/myxofibrosarcoma are associated with better OS [hazard ratio 2.24 (1.12 and 4.45)] while liposarcoma/myxofibrosarcoma are associated with better DFS [hazard ratio 2.42 (1.23-4.76)]. Conclusions: Results from this analysis have demonstrated that pCR is associated with improved survival outcomes in pts with STS treated with either neoadjuvant RT or CT-RT. pCR should be considered as a survival surrogate for future STS studies. Clinical trial information: RTOG 9514 and RTOG 0630.
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Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.
Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.005 | 0.006 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.002 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Research integrity | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
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Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.
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