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Although platinum-based chemotherapy can improve pathologic complete response (pCR) in patients with triple-negative breast cancer (TNBC), the impact on survival of platinum-based neoadjuvant and adjuvant chemotherapy is still controversial. Our meta-analysis aimed at analyzing survival with platinum-based neoadjuvant and adjuvant chemotherapy in patients with TNBC. We searched PubMed, EMBASE, MEDLINE, Cochrane databases, and several major conferences up to January 2021. Fixed and random models were used for our meta-analysis. Disease-free survival (DFS), overall survival (OS), and side effects data were extracted from the included literature in addition to the corresponding pooled hazard ratio (HR) and odds ratio (OR) with 95% confidence intervals (CIs). A total of nine studies involving 3247 patients were included. The pooled analysis suggested that compared with anthracycline- and/or paclitaxel-based chemotherapy, platinum-based chemotherapy could further improve DFS (HR = 0.56, 95% CI 0.45–0.67, p < 0.01) and OS (HR = 0.54, 95% CI 0.38–0.70, p < 0.01) in patients with TNBC. The subgroup analysis showed that platinum-based chemotherapy could further improve DFS (HR = 0.59, 95% CI 0.43–0.74, p < 0.01) and OS (HR = 0.61, 95% CI 0.40–0.83, p < 0.01) in neoadjuvant chemotherapy and DFS (HR = 0.53, 95% CI 0.37–0.69, p < 0.01) and OS (HR = 0.46, 95% CI 0.23–0.69, p < 0.01) in adjuvant chemotherapy compared with anthracycline- and/or paclitaxel-based chemotherapy in patients with TNBC. In addition, compared with anthracycline-based chemotherapy, platinum-based chemotherapy without anthracycline chemotherapy could further improve DFS (HR = 0.53, 95% CI 0.37–0.70, p < 0.01) and OS (HR = 0.46, 95%CI 0.19–0.72, p < 0.01) in patients with TNBC. Compared with anthracycline- and/or paclitaxel-based chemotherapy, all-grade diarrhea, fatigue, and grade ≥ 3 anemia were higher in platinum-based chemotherapy. In contrast, all-grade anemia, leukopenia, neutropenia, peripheral neuropathy, myalgia/arthralgia, cardiac toxicity were lower in platinum-based chemotherapy; grade ≥ 3 leukopenia, neutropenia and myalgia/arthralgia were also lower. Compared with anthracycline- and/or paclitaxel-based chemotherapy, platinum-based chemotherapy was more associated with improved DFS and OS in TNBC patients. The benefit of survival is consistent with platinum-based neoadjuvant and adjuvant chemotherapy. The side effects of platinum-based chemotherapy are tolerable.
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Abbreviations
- TNBC:
-
Triple-negative breast cancer
- HR:
-
Hazard ratio
- CI:
-
Confidence interval
- DFS:
-
Disease-free survival
- OS:
-
Overall survival
- NCCN:
-
National Comprehensive Cancer Network
- ESMO:
-
European Society of Medical Oncology
- ASCO:
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American Society of Clinical Oncology
- SABCS:
-
The San Antonio Breast Cancer Symposium
- PRISMA:
-
Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and Meta-analysis
- RCT:
-
Randomized controlled trial
- ALT:
-
Alanine aminotransferase
- AST:
-
Aspartate aminotransferase
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Zhao, F., Shen, G., Dong, Q. et al. Impact of platinum-based chemotherapy on the prognosis of early triple-negative breast cancer: a systematic review and meta-analysis. Clin Exp Med 23, 2025–2040 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10238-022-00940-y
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