Zhi-Cheng Jin, Jia-Wei Zhou, Jian-Jian Chen, Rong Ding, Bernhard Scheiner, Si-Na Wang, Hai-Liang Li, Qing-Xia Shen, Qing-Yun Lu, Yi Liu, Wei-Hua Zhang, Biao Luo, Hai-Bin Shi, Ming Huang, Ye-Ming Wu, Chun-Wang Yuan, Ming-Sheng Huang, Jia-Ping Li, Jian-Bing Wu, Xiao-Li Zhu, Bin-Yan Zhong, Hai-Feng Zhou, Yu-Qing Wang, Shan-Zhi Gu, Zhi-Yi Peng, Chuan-Sheng Zheng, Rui-Bao Liu, Guo-Hui Xu, Wei-Zhu Yang, Ai-Bing Xu, Dong-Fang Liu, Xiaolong Qi, Yee Hui Yeo, Hai-Dong Zhu, Yang Zhao, David J. Pinato, Fanpu Ji, Gao-Jun Teng
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Abstract
Background
Cancer cachexia can impact prognosis, cause resistance to anticancer treatments and affect the tolerability of treatments. This study aims to identify hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) with cachexia by characterizing longitudinal body composition (BC) trajectories.
Methods
This longitudinal, multicentre cohort study included unresectable HCC patients treated with first-line programmed death-(ligand)1 inhibitors plus anti-vascular endothelial growth factor antibody/tyrosine kinase inhibitors between 01/2018–12/2022. BC measurements including skeletal muscle mass (SMM) and total adipose tissue area (TATA) were evaluated by computed tomography at the third lumbar vertebra at baseline and follow-up imaging. Unsupervised latent class growth mixed models were applied to distinguish potential longitudinal SMM and TATA trajectories for identifying cachexia. The primary study endpoint was overall survival (OS), with secondary endpoints including progression-free survival (PFS), objective response rate (ORR) and safety. Multiple Cox proportional hazards models were used to calculate adjusted hazard ratios (HRs) for survival.
Results
A total of 411 patients with 2138 time-point measurements were included. The median age was 56 years, and 50 (12.2%) patients were female. Two distinct trajectories were identified for SMM and TATA: sharp-falling and stable. SMM sharply declined in 58 patients (14.1%) and TATA in 71 of 406 patients (17.5%) with significant worse OS (for SMM, 17.0 vs. 24.9 months; p < 0.001; HR = 0.59; for TATA, 15.3 vs. 25.1 months; p < 0.001; HR = 0.44). Patients were categorized into three phases based on trajectories: pre-cachexia (SMM and TATA stable, n = 299, 73.6%), cachexia (SMM or TATA sharp-falling, n = 86, 21.2%) and refractory cachexia (SMM and TATA sharp-falling, n = 21, 5.2%). Patients with refractory cachexia exhibited the worst OS, PFS and ORR, followed by those with cachexia. The median OS was 11.5 months for refractory cachexia, 17.7 for cachexia and 26.0 for pre-cachexia; median PFS was 6.0, 7.9 and 10.9 months, respectively, with ORR of 4.8%, 39.5% and 54.2%, respectively (all ps < 0.001). Multivariable Cox analysis identified refractory cachexia as an independent risk factor for both OS (HR = 3.31; p < 0.001) and PFS (HR = 2.94; p < 0.001), with cachexia also showing significant impacts. Grade 3–4 adverse events were higher in patients with refractory cachexia (23.8%) and cachexia (8.1%) compared with pre-cachexia (6.0%; p = 0.010).
Conclusions
HCC patients with cachexia and refractory cachexia were identified by longitudinal BC trajectories. Falling trajectories of BC identified refractory cachexia patients with worst response, survival and poor tolerability from systemic therapy combinations.
期刊介绍:
The Journal of Cachexia, Sarcopenia and Muscle is a peer-reviewed international journal dedicated to publishing materials related to cachexia and sarcopenia, as well as body composition and its physiological and pathophysiological changes across the lifespan and in response to various illnesses from all fields of life sciences. The journal aims to provide a reliable resource for professionals interested in related research or involved in the clinical care of affected patients, such as those suffering from AIDS, cancer, chronic heart failure, chronic lung disease, liver cirrhosis, chronic kidney failure, rheumatoid arthritis, or sepsis.