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Research Paper|Volume 16, Issue 11|pp 9824—9845

Age-related nomogram revealed optimal therapeutic option for older patients with primary liver cancer: less is more

Bo Wang1, Yongqiang Xiong1, Ren Li1, Shu Zhang1,2
  • 1Department of Geriatric Digestive Surgery, The Second Affiliated Hospital of Xi’an Jiaotong University, Xi’an, China
  • 2Experimental Teaching Center for Clinical Skills, The Second Affiliated Hospital of Xi’an Jiaotong University, Xi’an, China
Received: September 15, 2023Accepted: May 3, 2024Published: June 6, 2024
https://doi.org/10.18632/aging.205901

Copyright: © 2024 Wang et al. This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY 4.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.

Abstract

Background: Age bias in therapeutic decisions for older patients with cancer exists. There is a clear need to individualize such decisions.Methods: Based on the Surveillance, Epidemiology and End Results (SEER) database, 5081 primary liver cancer (PLC) patients between 2010 and 2014 were identified and divided into <64, 64-74 and >74 years group. Each group was randomly divided into training and internal validation cohorts, and patients who were diagnosed between 2015 and 2016 were included as an external validation. The nomogram model predicting overall survival (OS) was generated and evaluated based on the Cox regression for the influencing factors in prognosis. The K-M analysis was used to compare the difference among different treatments.

Results: KM analysis showed a significant difference for OS in three age groups (P < 0.001). At the same time, we also found different prognostic factors and their importance in different age groups. Therefore, we created three nomograms based on the results of Cox regression results for each age group. The c-index was 0.802, 0.766, 0.781 respectively. The calibration curve and ROC curve show that our model has a good predictive efficacy and the reliability was also confirmed in the internal and external validation set. An available online page was established to simplify and visualize our model (http://124.222.247.135/). The results of treatment analysis revealed that the optimal therapeutic option for PLCs was surgery alone.

Conclusions: The optimal therapeutic option for older PLCs was surgery alone. The generated dynamic nomogram in this study may be a useful tool for personalized clinical decisions.