title: Stereotactic body radiotherapy versus lobectomy for operable clinical stage IA lung adenocarcinoma: comparison of survival outcomes in two clinical trials with propensity score analysis (JCOG1313-A).
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  No randomized controlled trials comparing stereotactic body radiotherapy and lobectomy for operable early-stage non-small-cell lung cancer have been successfully conducted. This study compared survival outcomes in two multi-institutional clinical trials for stereotactic body radiotherapy (Japan Clinical Oncology Group JCOG0403) and lobectomy (Japan Clinical Oncology Group JCOG0201) with propensity score analysis.
  
  
  METHODS
  Inclusion criteria were operable, cT1N0M0 and adenocarcinoma diagnosed prior to registration of each trial. Forty of 169 patients from JCOG0403 and 219 of 811 patients from JCOG0201 were included. The primary endpoint was overall survival adjusted with propensity score analysis. The patient selection factors included in the logistic model to estimate the propensity score were age, sex, tumor diameter and consolidation/tumor ratio.
  
  
  RESULTS
  Among patient selection factors, age distribution was quite different with little overlap: the median was 79 (interquartile range: 74.5-83.5) in stereotactic body radiotherapy and 62 (interquartile range: 55-68) in lobectomy. In propensity score analysis, 21 patients from each group were matched and the hazard ratio for stereotactic body radiotherapy over lobectomy was 9.00 (95% confidence interval: 1.14-71.04). In the post hoc subgroup analysis with propensity score analysis of inverse probability of treatment weighting, patients were limited to be aged 75 or younger because JCOG0201 only included them when aged 75 or younger. Thirteen patients for stereotactic body radiotherapy and 219 for lobectomy were compared, and the hazard ratio for stereotactic body radiotherapy over lobectomy was 1.19 (95% confidence interval: 0.38-3.73).
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  The point estimates of hazard ratio favored lobectomy over stereotactic body radiotherapy in the limited number of patients. A randomized controlled study is needed for valid comparison.
authors.affiliation: JCOG Data Center/Operations Office, National Cancer Center, Tokyo jeba@ncc.go.jp.
authors.forename: Junko
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Eba
authors.affiliation: JCOG Data Center/Operations Office, National Cancer Center, Tokyo.
authors.forename: Kenichi
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Nakamura
authors.affiliation: JCOG Data Center/Operations Office, National Cancer Center, Tokyo.
authors.forename: Junki
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Mizusawa
authors.affiliation: Department of General Thoracic Surgery, Juntendo University School of Medicine, Tokyo.
authors.forename: Kenji
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Suzuki
authors.affiliation: Department of Radiation Oncology, Graduate School of Biomedical & Health Sciences, Hiroshima University, Hiroshima.
authors.forename: Yasushi
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Nagata
authors.affiliation: Department of Thoracic Surgery, Niigata Cancer Center Hospital, Niigata.
authors.forename: Teruaki
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Koike
authors.affiliation: Department of Radiation Oncology and Image-Applied Therapy, Kyoto University, Kyoto.
authors.forename: Masahiro
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Hiraoka
authors.affiliation: Division of Thoracic Surgery, National Cancer Center Hospital, Tokyo.
authors.forename: Shun-Ichi
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Watanabe
authors.affiliation: Department of Radiology, Koshigaya Municipal Hospital, Koshigaya.
authors.forename: Satoshi
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Ishikura
authors.affiliation: Department of General Thoracic Surgery, Keio University School of Medicine, Tokyo, Japan.
authors.forename: Hisao
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Asamura
authors.affiliation: JCOG Data Center/Operations Office, National Cancer Center, Tokyo.
authors.forename: Haruhiko
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Fukuda
mesh_terms: D000230:Adenocarcinoma / Q000401:mortality* / Q000473:pathology / Q000532:radiotherapy / Q000601:surgery; D000367:Age Factors; D000368:Aged; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007564:Japan; D053208:Kaplan-Meier Estimate; D016015:Logistic Models; D008168:Lung / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging; D008175:Lung Neoplasms / Q000401:mortality* / Q000473:pathology / Q000532:radiotherapy / Q000601:surgery; D008297:Male; D009367:Neoplasm Staging; D057216:Propensity Score; D016016:Proportional Hazards Models; D016634:Radiosurgery; D012737:Sex Factors; D014057:Tomography, X-Ray Computed; D016896:Treatment Outcome
keywords: lobectomy; lung cancer; operable; propensity score analysis; stereotactic body radiotherapy