MPMarianne Paesmans

Marianne Paesmans

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  • External validation of FRISBEE 5-year fracture prediction models: a registry-based cohort study

    by Arnav Agarwal, Felicia Baleanu, Michel Moreau, Alexia Charles, Laura Iconaru, Murielle Surquin, Florence Benoit, Marianne Paesmans, Rafik Karmali, Pierre Bergmann, et al.

    Summary Five-year fracture risk prediction from the Fracture Risk Brussels Epidemiological Enquiry (FRISBEE) models was externally tested in 9716 Canadian women and demonstrated good discrimination but consistently overestimated risk. Introduction Five-year risk prediction models for all fractures, major osteoporotic fractures (MOFs) and central fractures (proximal to forearm and ankle) from the FRISBEE cohort demonstrated good performance in the original derivation cohort. Our aim was to externally validate the FRISBEE-based 5-year prediction models in routine practice. Methods Using the population-based Manitoba Bone Mineral Density (BMD) registry, we identified women aged 60–85 years undergoing baseline BMD assessment from September 1, 2012 to March 31, 2018. Five-year probabilities of all fractures, MOFs and central fractures were calculated using the FRISBEE prediction models. We identified incident non-traumatic fractures up to 5 years from population-based healthcare data sources. Performance characteristics included area under the receiver operating characteristic curve (AUROC), gradient of risk (hazard ratio [HR] per SD increase and across risk tertiles) from Cox regression analysis, and calibration (ratio 5-year observed cumulative incidence to predicted fracture probability). Results We included 9716 women (mean age 70.7 + / − SD 5.3 years). During a mean observation time of 2.5 years, all fractures, MOFs and central fractures were identified in 377 (3.9%), 264 (2.7%) and 259 (2.7%) of the women. AUROC showed significant fracture risk stratification with the FRISBEE models (all fractures 0.69 [95%CI 0.67–0.72], MOFs 0.71 [95%CI 0.68–0.74], central fractures 0.72 [95%CI 0.69–0.75]). There was a strong gradient of risk for predicting fracture outcomes per SD increase (HRs from 1.98 to 2.26) and across risk tertiles (HRs for middle vs lowest from 2.25 to 2.41, HRs for highest vs lowest from 4.70 to 6.50). However, risk was overestimated for all fractures (calibration-in-the-large 0.63, calibration slope 0.63), MOF (calibration-in-the-large 0.51, calibration slope 0.57) and central fractures (calibration-in-the-large 0.55, calibration slope 0.60). Conclusions FRISBEE 5-year prediction models were externally validated to stratify fracture risk similar to the derivation cohort, but would need recalibration for Canada as risk was overestimated.


  • Clinical outcome and toxicity after simultaneous integrated boost IMRT in head and neck squamous cell cancer patients

    by Tatiana Dragan, Sylvie Beauvois, Michel Moreau, Marianne Paesmans, Christophe Vandekerkhove, Lionel Cordier, Dirk Van Gestel


  • Open Access

    CTCs as a prognostic and predictive biomarker for stage II/III Colon Cancer: a companion study to the PePiTA trial

    by Françoise Rothé, Marion Maetens, Ghizlane Rouas, Marianne Paesmans, Marc Van Den Eynde, Jean-Luc Van Laethem, Philippe Vergauwe, Guido Deboever, Yacine Bareche, Caroline Vandeputte, et al.

    Adjuvant therapy improves the prognosis of stage II & III colon cancer patients. Unfortunately, most patients do not benefit from this treatment. PePITA (NCT00994864) is a prospective, multicenter, non-randomized study whose primary objective is to predict the outcome of adjuvant therapy in colon cancer. The primary objective was to determine the prognostic and predictive value of circulating tumor cell (CTC) detection before therapy and after one course of preoperative FOLFOX. Out of the 58 first patients accrued in PePiTA trial, 36 patients participated in the CTC companion study, of whom 32 had at least one evaluable sample. Only 5 patients (14, 95% CI = 5–30%) had ≥1 CTC/22.5 ml blood in at least one of the two timepoints with 2 patients having ≥1 CTC/22.5 ml at baseline (6, 95% CI: 1–19%). The detection rate of patients with CTCs at baseline being lower than expected, the inclusion of patients in the PePiTA CTC substudy was stopped. The limited sample size did not allow us to investigate the prognostic and predictive value of CTCs in locally advanced colon cancer. Our data illustrate the need for further standardized studies in order to find the most reliable prognostic/predictive biomarker in early-stage colon cancer. This trial was prospectively registered at Jules Bordet institute ( NCT00994864 ) on the October 14, 2009.


  • Open Access

    Prognostic value of adipose tissue and muscle mass in advanced colorectal cancer: a post hoc analysis of two non-randomized phase II trials

    by Nicolas Charette, Caroline Vandeputte, Lieveke Ameye, Camille Van Bogaert, Jonathan Krygier, Thomas Guiot, Amélie Deleporte, Thierry Delaunoit, Karen Geboes, Jean-Luc Van Laethem, et al.

    The prognostic value of body composition in cancer patients has been widely studied during the last decade. The main finding of these studies is that sarcopenia, or skeletal muscle depletion, assessed by CT imaging correlates with a reduced overall survival (OS). By contrast, the prognostic value of fat mass remains ill-defined. This study aims to analyze the influence of body composition including both muscle mass and adipose tissue on OS in a homogeneous population of advanced colorectal cancer (CRC) patients. Among 235 patients with chemorefractory advanced CRC included in the SoMore and RegARd-C trials, body composition was assessed in 217 patients on baseline CT images. The relationship between body composition (sarcopenia, muscle density, subcutaneous and visceral fat index and density), body mass index (BMI) and OS were evaluated. Patients with a higher BMI had a better OS (≥30 versus < 30, HR: 0.50; 0.33–0.76). Those with low muscle index and muscle density had an increased mortality (HR: 2.06; 1.45–2.93 and HR: 1.54; 1.09–2.18, respectively). Likewise, low subcutaneous and visceral fat index were associated with an increased risk of dying (HR: 1.63; 1.23–2.17 and 1.48; 1.09–2.02 respectively), as were a high subcutaneous and visceral adipose tissue density (HR: 1.93; 1.44–2.57 and 2.40; 1.79–3.20 respectively). In multivariate analysis, a high visceral fat density was the main predictor of poor survival. Our results confirm the protective role of obesity in CRC patients at an advanced stage, as well as the negative prognostic impact of muscle depletion on survival. More importantly, our data show for the first time that visceral adipose tissue density is an important prognostic factor in metastatic CRC. NCT01290926 , 07/02/2011 and NCT01929616 , 28/08/2013.


  • Open Access

    Achieving Thoracic Oncology data collection in Europe: a precursor study in 35 Countries

    by Anna Rich, David Baldwin, Inmaculada Alfageme, Paul Beckett, Thierry Berghmans, Stephen Brincat, Otto Burghuber, Alexandru Corlateanu, Tanja Cufer, Ronald Damhuis, et al.

    A minority of European countries have participated in international comparisons with high level data on lung cancer. However, the nature and extent of data collection across the continent is simply unknown, and without accurate data collection it is not possible to compare practice and set benchmarks to which lung cancer services can aspire. Using an established network of lung cancer specialists in 37 European countries, a survey was distributed in December 2014. The results relate to current practice in each country at the time, early 2015. The results were compiled and then verified with co-authors over the following months. Thirty-five completed surveys were received which describe a range of current practice for lung cancer data collection. Thirty countries have data collection at the national level, but this is not so in Albania, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Italy, Spain and Switzerland. Data collection varied from paper records with no survival analysis, to well-established electronic databases with links to census data and survival analyses. Using a network of committed clinicians, we have gathered validated comparative data reporting an observed difference in data collection mechanisms across Europe. We have identified the need to develop a well-designed dataset, whilst acknowledging what is feasible within each country, and aspiring to collect high quality data for clinical research.


  • Open Access

    Febrile neutropenia (FN) occurrence outside of clinical trials: occurrence and predictive factors in adult patients treated with chemotherapy and an expected moderate FN risk. Rationale and design of a real-world prospective, observational, multinational study

    by Bernardo Leon Rapoport, Matti Aapro, Marianne Paesmans, Ronwyn van Eeden, Teresa Smit, Andriy Krendyukov, Jean Klastersky

    Febrile neutropenia (FN) is a common occurrence during chemotherapy. Granulocyte colony-stimulating factors (G-CSFs) can significantly reduce the risk of FN. International guidelines recommend G-CSF for patients receiving chemotherapy with FN risk of ≥20% or 10% to 20% with defined risk factors. Prophylaxis is not typically recommended for FN risk of < 10%; however, few studies have investigated FN incidence in lower-risk patients in real-world settings and tried to identify higher-risk subgroups. This real-world prospective, observational, multinational study aims to estimate the rate of development of FN with a chemotherapy line expected to be associated with a 10% to 20% risk of FN. Eligible patients (> 18 years of age) will have a solid tumour or Hodgkin/non-Hodgkin lymphoma and a planned chemotherapy regimen with expected risk of FN of 10% to 20% (according to published guidelines). Patients will be observed for the duration of the chemotherapy line (first cycle administered without FN prophylaxis). Primary endpoint is incidence of FN after the first chemotherapy cycle. Secondary outcomes include: FN-associated morbidity and mortality; time to first FN occurrence; other FN risk factors and impact of FN on quality of life. A risk model using occurrence of FN as a binary outcome will be developed. Data will be stratified by age, comorbidities and other risk factors. This study will provide insight into the real FN risk for common chemotherapy regimens and predictive factors for FN, including patients generally excluded from randomised clinical trials, from which reported FN rates have been variable. This study builds on knowledge of predictive factors from other research and will provide information on patients with 10% to 20% FN risk.


  • Baseline cell-free DNA (cfDNA) and metabolic tumor volume (MTV) independently predict outcome in metastatic chemorefractory colorectal cancer (mCRC).

    by Erwin Woff, Pashalina Kehagias, Caroline Vandeputte, Tarek Kamoun, Thomas Guiot, Lieveke Ameye, Karen Paula Geboes, Thierry Delaunoit, Gauthier Demolin, Marc Peeters, et al.

    11569 Background: No validated prognostic biomarker is currently available for mCRC. This trial assessed cfDNA and MTV before treatment with regorafenib as prognostic biomarkers for progression-free survival (PFS) and overall survival (OS) in mCRC. Methods: After signed informed consent, mCRC patients were enrolled in a prospective non-randomized trial aiming to define unlikelihood to benefit from regorafenib (EudraCT number: 2012-005655-16) and assessed for cfDNA and FDG PET/CT MTV at baseline. cfDNA was extracted from 3mL of plasma and quantified using the Qubit 2.0 fluorometer. All target lesions were delineated on FDG PET/CT using a PERCIST-based threshold and their volumes were summed to obtain total MTV. MTV and cfDNA optimal cutoffs for OS and PFS prediction were determined by the Contal and O’Quigley’s method. MTV, cfDNA, age, gender, Body Mass Index (low, normal, high, obese), ECOG PS, number of chemotherapy lines (NCL), previous use of bevacizumab and presence of a KRAS mutation were included in a multivariate analysis. Results: MTV and cfDNA of 132 evaluable/141 eligible patients were well correlated (Spearman’s correlation coefficient = 0.70; p < 0.001) and risk groups for both PFS and OS were identified on the basis of cfDNA (cfDNA < 1 µg/mL; cfDNA≥1 µg/mL) and MTV (MTV < 100 cm³; 100-300 cm³; > 300 cm³). The multivariate analysis retained cfDNA, MTV, NCL, and obesity as independent parameters for PFS prediction, and cfDNA, MTV, NCL, BMI, and previous use of bevacizumab as independent parameters for OS prediction. Prognostic scores for PFS and OS were developed based on regression coefficients from the final Cox proportional hazards models. Prognostic scores for PFS (1.8 vs 5.3 months, HR: 3.15 for score ≥-3 vs < -3, (95% CI, 2.08-4.76); p < 0.001) and for OS (4.2 vs 13.9 months, HR: 4.59 for score ≥-6 vs < -6: (95% CI, 2.92-7.21); p < 0.001) both identified patients with much contrasted outcomes. Conclusions: Baseline cfDNA and MTV along with BMI parameters predict outcome in patients with mCRC before regorafenib onset. These parameters not related to treatment should be considered, if validated in further studies, as stratification factors in future clinical trials. Clinical trial information: 2012-005655-16.

  • Safety of pregnancy in patients (pts) with history of estrogen receptor positive (ER+) breast cancer (BC): Long-term follow-up analysis from a multicenter study.

    by Matteo Lambertini, Niels Kroman, Lieveke Ameye, Octavi Cordoba, Alvaro Pinto, Giovanni Benedetti, Maj-Britt Jensen, Shari I. Gelber, Maria Del Grande, Michail Ignatiadis, et al.

    LBA10066 The full, final text of this abstract will be available at abstracts.asco.org at 7:30 AM (EDT) on Saturday, June 3, 2017, and in the Annual Meeting Proceedings online supplement to the June 20, 2017, issue of the Journal of Clinical Oncology. Onsite at the Meeting, this abstract will be printed in the Saturday edition of ASCO Daily News.


  • Open Access

    Should the treatment of advanced lepidic adenocarcinoma be adapted to the pathological subtype?

    by Marianne Paesmans

    Increased sensitivity to chemotherapy/TKI of mucinous variant in advanced L-ADC should be tested in a phase III trialhttp://ow.ly/TkWXi