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. 2021 Mar 24;4(3):e211136. doi: 10.1001/jamanetworkopen.2021.1136

Table 2. Categorization of HPD Definitions Proposed in the Included Studies According to the Concept of Tumor Growth Acceleration.

Category Parameters of tumor growth acceleration Evaluating lesions Consideration of TTF Source
1 TGR ratio (post-TGR/pre-TGR)a Target lesions only TTF <2 mo Tunali et al,22 2019
None Champiat et al,5 2017; Ferrara et al,6 2018; Aoki et al,10 2019; Kanjanapan et al,14 2019; Scheiner et al,202019; Ten Berge et al,21 2019; Matos et al,18 2020c; Kim et al,15 2019c; Arasanz et al,23 2020; Petrioli et al,25 2020
2 TGK ratio (post-TGK/pre-TGK)b Target lesions only None Saâda-Bouzid et al,9 2017; Ji et al,12 2019; Lu et al,17 2019; Refae et al,26 2020
3 Early tumor burden increase Target lesions only TTF <2 mo Ruiz-Patiño et al,27 2020
None Abbas et al,28 2019; Forschner et al,24 2020
Target and new lesions TTF <2 mo Lo Russo et al,16 2019; Matos et al,18 2020c
4 Both TGK ratio and early tumor burden increase Target lesion only TTF <2 mo Kato et al,8 2017; Kamada et al,13 2019
None Sasaki et al,19 2019
Both TGR ratio and early tumor burden increase Target and new lesions TTF <2 mo Hwang et al,11 2020; Kim et al,15 2019c
Either TGR ratio or TGK ratio Target lesion only None Kim et al,7 2019

Abbreviations: HPD, hyperprogressive disease; TGK, tumor growth kinetics; TGR, tumor growth rate; TTF, time to failure.

a

Post-TGR/pre-TGR calculated by tumor volume.

b

Post-TGK/pre-TGK calculated by tumor size.

c

Matos et al18 and Kim et al15 compared 2 HPD definitions.