Adjuvant chemoradiotherapy versus radiotherapy alone in women with high-risk endometrial cancer (PORTEC-3)…

Randomized trialThe Lancet. Oncology· Oct 2025

Adjuvant chemoradiotherapy versus radiotherapy alone in women with high-risk endometrial cancer (PORTEC-3): 10-year clinical outcomes and post-hoc analysis by molecular classification from a randomised phase 3 trial.

Cathalijne C B Post, Stephanie M de Boer, Melanie E Powell … Carien L Creutzberg

Gynecologic CancerRandomized trialTreatmentQ1IF 9.4

Adjuvant chemoradiotherapy significantly reduces recurrence in high-risk endometrial cancer with p53 abnormal tumors.

Adjuvant chemoradiotherapy versus radiotherapy alone in women with high-risk endometrial cancer (PORTEC-3): 10-year clinical outcomes and post-hoc analysis by molecular classification from a randomised phase 3 trial.

Cathalijne C B Post … Carien L Creutzberg

The Lancet · Oct 2025

Background

The PORTEC-3 trial investigated the benefit of chemoradiotherapy versus pelvic radiotherapy alone for women with high-risk endometrial cancer.

Methods

Were randomly assigned (1:1) to receive pelvic radiotherapy (48·6 Gy in 1·8 Gy fractions) or chemoradiotherapy (radiotherapy combined with two cycles of cisplatin 50 mg/m 2 intravenously in weeks one and four, followed by four cycles of carboplatin area-under-the-curve 5 and paclitaxel 175 mg/m 2 intravenously at 3-week intervals).

n = 330 patients

HR 0·42

Results

HR 0·42

for p53-abnormal tumors, combined treatment nearly halved the risk of cancer returning

n = 330 patients

More results

Between Nov 23, 2006, and Dec 20, 2013, 660 eligible and evaluable patients recruited at 103 centres in six clinical trial groups across seven countries were randomly assigned to chemoradiotherapy (n=330) or radiotherapy alone (n=330).

More results

Molecular analysis was available for 411 (62%) patients (210 [64%] of 330 patients in the chemoradiotherapy group and 201 [61%] of 330 patients in the radiotherapy group), whose characteristics were similar to the overall trial population.

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Conclusion

10-year overall survival and recurrence-free survival were improved for patients with high-risk endometrial cancer treated with adjuvant chemoradiotherapy versus radiotherapy alone, with most clinically relevant benefit suggested for p53 abnormal cancers.

Adjuvant chemoradiotherapy versus radiotherapy alone in women with high-risk endometrial cancer (PORTEC-3): 10-year clinical outcomes and post-hoc analysis by molecular classification from a randomised phase 3 trial.

Adjuvant chemoradiotherapy versus radiotherapy alone in women with high-risk endometrial cancer (PORTEC-3): 10-year clinical outcomes and post-hoc analysis by molecular classification from a randomised phase 3 trial.

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