TY - JOUR
T1 - Population mortality in advanced melanoma patients with and without response and progression; data from the Dutch Melanoma Treatment Registry
AU - van Breeschoten, Jesper
AU - van den Eertwegh, Alfons J.M.
AU - Hilarius, Doranne L.
AU - Haanen, John B.
AU - Blank, Christian U.
AU - Aarts, Maureen J.B.
AU - van den Berkmortel, Franchette W.P.J.
AU - de Groot, Jan Willem B.
AU - Hospers, Geke A.P.
AU - Kapiteijn, Ellen
AU - Piersma, Djura
AU - van Rijn, Rozemarijn S.
AU - Stevense-den Boer, Marion A.
AU - van der Veldt, Astrid A.M.
AU - Vreugdenhil, Gerard
AU - Boers-Sonderen, Marye J.
AU - Manevski, Damjan
AU - Suijkerbuijk, Karijn P.M.
AU - Wouters, Michel W.J.M.
AU - de Wreede, Liesbeth C.
N1 - Funding
For the Dutch Melanoma Treatment Registry
(DMTR), the Dutch Institute for Clinical Auditing
foundation received a start-up grant from a governmental organisation, The Netherlands Organisation for
Health Research and Development (ZonMW, project
number 836002002). The DMTR is structurally funded
by Bristol Myers Squibb, Merck Sharpe & Dohme,
Novartis and Roche Pharma. Roche Pharma stopped
funding in 2019, and Pierre Fabre started funding the
DMTR in 2019. For this work, no funding was granted.
Publisher Copyright:
© 2023 The Author(s)
PY - 2023/3
Y1 - 2023/3
N2 - Introduction: When analysing patient survival, one is often interested in cause of death. Little is known about the presence of population mortality in advanced melanoma patients. The aim of this study was to assess population mortality after different response states in advanced melanoma patients in the Netherlands, and analyse the contribution of disease and population mortality for different age groups. Methods: We selected patients diagnosed between 2013 and 2019 with unresectable IIIC or stage IV melanoma, registered in the Dutch Melanoma Treatment Registry. A multi-state model with response states integrating population mortality was fitted. One-year landmark analyses were performed to assess outcomes after each response state. Results: Overall, 5119 patients were selected. Five-year probabilities of melanoma-related mortality in patients alive in complete response at one year after diagnosis increased with age, and was 17.2% (95% confidence interval: 13.0–21.4) for patients aged <65 years and 28.7% (95% confidence interval: 24.3–33.1) in patients aged ≥80 years. Population mortality only played a large role for older patients (75 years and above) alive at 1 year after diagnosis with a partial or complete response. Conclusion: Even though survival outcomes of advanced melanoma patients have improved over the last decade, the vast majority of patients still die due to melanoma-related mortality.
AB - Introduction: When analysing patient survival, one is often interested in cause of death. Little is known about the presence of population mortality in advanced melanoma patients. The aim of this study was to assess population mortality after different response states in advanced melanoma patients in the Netherlands, and analyse the contribution of disease and population mortality for different age groups. Methods: We selected patients diagnosed between 2013 and 2019 with unresectable IIIC or stage IV melanoma, registered in the Dutch Melanoma Treatment Registry. A multi-state model with response states integrating population mortality was fitted. One-year landmark analyses were performed to assess outcomes after each response state. Results: Overall, 5119 patients were selected. Five-year probabilities of melanoma-related mortality in patients alive in complete response at one year after diagnosis increased with age, and was 17.2% (95% confidence interval: 13.0–21.4) for patients aged <65 years and 28.7% (95% confidence interval: 24.3–33.1) in patients aged ≥80 years. Population mortality only played a large role for older patients (75 years and above) alive at 1 year after diagnosis with a partial or complete response. Conclusion: Even though survival outcomes of advanced melanoma patients have improved over the last decade, the vast majority of patients still die due to melanoma-related mortality.
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U2 - 10.1016/j.ejca.2023.01.006
DO - 10.1016/j.ejca.2023.01.006
M3 - Article
C2 - 36773402
AN - SCOPUS:85147863592
SN - 0959-8049
VL - 182
SP - 132
EP - 143
JO - European Journal of Cancer
JF - European Journal of Cancer
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