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. 2016 Oct 23;7(14):2110–2116. doi: 10.7150/jca.16211

Table 4.

Overview of the literature on BM and SRE in SCLC.

Denmark (Cetin K et al., 2014) Japan (Katakami N et al., 2014) Switzerland
Trial Design Retrospective, population-based Prospective, observational Retrospective, observational
duration 1999-2010 2008-2009 2000-2010
cancer type NSCLC and SCLC NSCLC and SCLC SCLC
n 5900 (SCLC only) 77 (SCLC only) 92 (SCLC only)
LD: n.n. LD: 30 LD:22
ED: n.n. ED: 47 ED:70
Median age 68 years (15.7-104.3) 68 years (35-89) 62.7 [39.7 - 81.9]
Male sex 57% 70.4% 62%
BM incidence Overall: 16.7% At first diagnosis: 40.4% At first diagnosis: 36.9%
time to BM from first diagnosis Overall: 5.1%/year Overall: 19 months LD: 14.8 months
ED: 0.9 months
SRE incidence Overall: 14.8% Overall: 18.2% Overall: 18.4%
50% of all BM patients -- 90% of all BM patients
At first diagnosis: -- At first diagnosis: 8.5% At first diagnosis: 8.7%
SRE type Overall (NSCLC+SCLC): Overall (NSCLC + SCLC): Overall (SCLC only)
Pathologic fracture: 8% Pathologic fracture: 4.7% Pathologic fracture: 3.3%
Radiation to bone: 67% Radiation to bone: 15.7% Radiation to bone: 10.9%
Surgery to bone: 4% Surgery to bone: 0% Surgery to bone: 2.2%
Spinal cord compression: 21% Spinal cord compression: 1.1% Spinal cord compression: 1.2%
HCM: -- HCM: 2.2% HCM: 4.3%
time to SRE from first diagnosis 48.2% per year Overall: 9.5 month --
Bisphos-phonate use -- SCLC overall: 7.8% SCLC overall: 19.6%
LD: 8.5% LD: 4.5%
ED: 6.7% ED: 24.3%
predictive factors for BM -- - ED (HR=6.11; 95% CI 1.69-22.05, p=0.006 - age ≥ 75 (OR 0.27 (0.10; 0.72), p=0.009
- LDH >1000 at baseline (HR=9.14; 95% CI 1.51-55.14, p=0.016 - LDH ≥ 300 (OR 3.75 (1.46; 9.63), p=0.06
- PTHrP elevation at baseline (HR=0.38; 95% CI, 0.15-0.99, p=0.048 - LDH ≥ 1000 (OR 5.63 (1.02; 31.07), p=0.05