Victoria Giglio, Patricia Schneider, Kim Madden, Bill Lin, Iqbal Multani, Hassan Baldawi, Patrick Thornley, Leen Naji, Marc Levin, Peiyao Wang, Anthony Bozzo, David Wilson, Michelle Ghert
With solid tumor cancer survivorship increasing, the number of patients requiring post-treatment surveillance also continues to increase. This highlights the need for evidence-based cancer surveillance guidelines. Ideally, these guidelines would be based on combined high-quality data from randomized controlled trials (RCTs). We present a systematic review of published cancer surveillance RCTs in which we sought to determine the feasibility of data pooling for guideline development. We carried out a systematic search of medical databases for RCTs in which adult patients with solid tumors that had undergone surgical resection with curative intent and had no metastatic disease at presentation, were randomized to different surveillance regimens that assessed effectiveness on overall survival (OS)...
February 26, 2021: Oncology Reviews