Results of adjuvant chemotherapy for invasive urothelial cancer with lymph-node metastasis

1994 ◽  
Vol 35 (S1) ◽  
pp. S14-S17 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hiroaki Kobayashi ◽  
Koji Obata
Medicina ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 57 (6) ◽  
pp. 548
Author(s):  
Masahiro Kagabu ◽  
Takayuki Nagasawa ◽  
Shunsuke Tatsuki ◽  
Yasuko Fukagawa ◽  
Hidetoshi Tomabechi ◽  
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Background and Objectives: In October 2018, the International Federation of Gynecology and Obstetrics (FIGO) revised its classification of advanced stages of cervical cancer. The main points of the classification are as follows: stage IIIC is newly established; pelvic lymph node metastasis is stage IIIC1; and para-aortic lymph node metastasis is stage IIIC2. Currently, in Japan, radical hysterectomy is performed in advanced stages IA2 to IIB of FIGO2014, and concurrent chemoradiotherapy (CCRT) is recommended for patients with positive lymph nodes. However, the efficacy of CCRT is not always satisfactory. The aim of this study was to compare postoperative adjuvant chemotherapy (CT) and postoperative CCRT in stage IIIC1 patients. Materials and Methods: Of the 40 patients who had undergone a radical hysterectomy at Iwate Medical University between January 2011 and December 2016 and were pathologically diagnosed as having positive pelvic lymph nodes, 21 patients in the adjuvant CT group and 19 patients in the postoperative CCRT group were compared. Results: The 5 year survival rates were 77.9% in the CT group and 74.7% in the CCRT group, with no significant difference. There was no significant difference in overall survival or progression-free survival between the two groups. There was no significant difference between CT and CCRT in postoperative adjuvant therapy in the new classification IIIC1 stage. Conclusions: The results of the prospective Japanese Gynecologic Oncology Group (JGOG) 1082 study are pending, but the present results suggest that CT may be a treatment option in rural areas where radiotherapy facilities are limited.


2010 ◽  
Vol 20 (6) ◽  
pp. 1000-1005 ◽  
Author(s):  
Masamichi Hiura ◽  
Takayoshi Nogawa ◽  
Takashi Matsumoto ◽  
Takashi Yokoyama ◽  
Yuko Shiroyama ◽  
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Objective:The purposes of this study were to assess modified radical hysterectomy including systematic pelvic and para-aortic lymphadenectomy followed by adjuvant chemotherapy in patients with para-aortic lymph node (PAN) metastasis in endometrial carcinoma and to identify the multivariate independent prognostic factors for long-term survival during the past 10 years.Methods:Between December 1987 and December 2002, we performed modified radical hysterectomy with bilateral salpingo-oophorectomy including systematic pelvic and para-aortic lymphadenectomy and peritoneal cytology in 284 endometrial carcinoma patients according to the classification of the International Federation of Gynecology and Obstetrics (stage IA, n = 66; stage IB, n = 96; stage IC, n = 33; stage IIA, n = 5; stage IIB, n = 20; stage IIIA, n = 28; stage IIIC, n = 28; and stage IV, n = 8) who gave informed consents at our institute. Patients with tumor confined to the uterus (stages IC and II) were treated by 3 courses of cyclophosphamide 750 mg/m2, epirubicin 50 mg/m2, and cisplatin 75 mg/m2 regimen 3 to 4 weeks apart, and patients with extrauterine lesions involving adnexa and/or pelvic lymph node (PLN) were treated by 5 courses. In addition, 10 courses were given to patients with PAN metastasis. Patients with PLN metastasis received adjuvant chemotherapy, and adjuvant radiation was not part of our institutional protocol. For multivariate regression modeling with proportional hazards, the regression model of Cox was used. Survival curves were analyzed by the Kaplan-Meier method, and analysis of the differences was performed by the log-rank test.Results:The overall incidence of retroperitoneal lymph node metastasis assessed by systematic pelvic and para-aortic lymphadenectomy was 12.0% (34/284) in stages I to IV endometrial carcinoma, and incidences of PLN and PAN metastases were 9.2% (26/284) and 7.4% (21/284), respectively. However, PAN metastasis rate is 50% (13/26) in patients with PLN metastasis. Univariate analysis of prognostic factors revealed that International Federation of Gynecology and Obstetrics clinical stage (P < 0.0001), histological finding (P = 0.0292), myometrial invasion (P < 0.0001), adnexal metastasis (P < 0.0001), lymphovascular space invasion (P < 0.0001), tumor diameter (P = 0.0108), peritoneal cytology (P = 0.0001), and retroperitoneal lymph node metastasis (P < 0.0001) were significantly associated with 10-year overall survival. Survival was not associated with age (P = 0.1558) or cervical involvement (P = 0.1828). A multivariate analysis showed that adnexal metastasis (P = 0.0418) and lymphovascular space invasion (P = 0.0214) were significantly associated with 10-year overall survival. The 5- and 10-year overall survival rates in patients with negative PAN were 96% and 93% versus 72% and 62% in patients with positive PAN (P = 0.006).Conclusions:It is suggested that surgery with systematic pelvic and para-aortic lymphadenectomy followed by adjuvant chemotherapy could improve long-term survival in patients with PAN metastasis, although there are only 21 patients with PAN metastasis.


2009 ◽  
Vol 19 (9) ◽  
pp. 1585-1590 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hidemichi Watari ◽  
Takashi Mitamura ◽  
Masashi Moriwaki ◽  
Masayoshi Hosaka ◽  
Yoko Ohba ◽  
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We investigated the survival and the failure pattern of 288 patients with endometrial cancer treated with extensive surgery including systematic pelvic and para-aortic lymphadenectomy followed by cisplatin-based chemotherapy from 1982 to 2002. We correlated the failure pattern with various clinicopathologic factors to find the predictors of recurrence sites. The 5-year overall survival rates were 97.5% for stage I, 87.5% for stage II, 85.2% for stage III, and 12.5% for stage IV. Notably, the 5-year survival rate was 76.5% for patients with stage IIIC disease. Among patients with a low risk (n = 92) for recurrence who received no adjuvant chemotherapy, 2 (2.2%) showed recurrent disease. Among those with intermediate (n = 98) and high (n = 98) risks for recurrence who received adjuvant chemotherapy, 9 (9.2%) and 20 (20.4%) showed recurrent disease, respectively. The recurrence sites were described as follows: distant (n = 12), vaginal (n = 8), peritoneal (n = 7), pelvic (n = 2), and lymphatic (n = 2). Lymphatic failure was found beyond the area of lymphadenectomy. Architectural and nuclear grades; myometrial, lymph-vascular space, and cervical invasions; and lymph node metastasis were predictors of distant failure. Cervical invasion and lymph node metastasis were predictors of vaginal failure. For patients with stage I/II cancer, the architectural and nuclear grades were related to distant failure. Seven (63.6%) of 11 patients with a low or intermediate risk survived after relapse, whereas only 1 (4.8%) of 21 patients with a high risk survived after a recurrence. We conclude that we need to further test the efficacy of systemic adjuvant therapy using new chemotherapeutic regimens to prevent distant failure and to improve the survival of patients with endometrial cancer.


2013 ◽  
Vol 31 (4_suppl) ◽  
pp. 51-51
Author(s):  
Toru Aoyama ◽  
Takaki Yoshikawa ◽  
Junya Shirai ◽  
Hirohito Fujikawa ◽  
Tsutomu Hayashi ◽  
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51 Background: Peritoneum is still the most frequent site of the recurrence in stage II/III gastric cancer patients although the survival was improved by S-1 adjuvant chemotherapy. The objective of this retrospective study was to clarify the risk factors of peritoneal recurrence in patients who received S-1 adjuvant chemotherapy. Methods: Peritoneal recurrence free survival (P-RFS) was examined in 100 gastric cancer patients who underwent curative D2 surgery, were diagnosed with stage II or III pathologically, and received adjuvant S-1 between June of 2002 and March of 2011. Uni- and multi- variate analyses were performed to identify risk factors by Cox’s proportional hazard analyses. Results: P-RFS was 64.3% at 3 years and 58.8% at 5 years. A total of 18 patients were diagnosed with peritoneal recurrence. Macroscopic tumor diameter, depth of tumor invasion, and lymph node metastasis were the significant factors by univariate analysis, while tumor diameter and lymph node metastasis were the only significant independent risk factors by multivariate analysis. Conclusions: The macroscopic tumor diameter and lymph node metastasis were the most important risk factors for P-RFS. When patients had these risk factors, S-1 was not sufficient to inhibit peritoneal recurrence. When developing a novel adjuvant chemotherapy targeting peritoneal metastasis in the future, clinical trials should be limited to these patients.


2017 ◽  
Vol 35 (15_suppl) ◽  
pp. e17024-e17024
Author(s):  
Munetaka Takekuma ◽  
Yuka Kasamatsu ◽  
Shin Nishio ◽  
Hideo Omi ◽  
Tsutomu Tabata ◽  
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e17024 Background: A multicenter phase II trial was conducted to assess the efficacy and toxicity of paclitaxel and nedaplatin as the initial postoperative adjuvant chemotherapy for high-risk uterine cervical cancer. Methods: The patients with FIGO stages IB1-IIA2 squamous cell carcinoma of the uterine cervix were enrolled. Histologic confirmation of lymph node metastasis was mandatory. Intravenous paclitaxel 175 mg/m(2) over 3hours and nedaplatin 80 mg/m(2) over 1 hour were administered on day 1 of a every 28 day cycle, of which there were 5 cycles after radical hysterectomy. Results: 62 patients were enrolled into the study protocol from November 2011 to July 2015. The median age of patients was 48.5 years (range; 28-64). Median tumor diameter was 37 mm (0-34). 10 patients (16.1%) had parametrial invasion, 44 (71.0%) had deep stromal invasion, and 53 (85.5%) had lymph-vascular invasion. 30 patients (48.4%) had one metastatic lymph node, 11 (17.7%) had two, 3 (4.8%) had three, 5 (8.1%) had four and 13 (21.0%) had five or more. With a median follow-up of 36.9 months (range: 17.2-61.5), the 2-year progression-free survival rate and pelvic disease progression-free rate were 78.9% (95% CI, 68.5% to 89.3%) and 85.0% (95% CI, 75.8% to 94.3%), respectively. The 2-year overall survival rate was 93.3% (95% CI, 86.8% to 99.8%). Adverse events were almost acceptable. Grade 3-4 adverse events (NCI-CTC ver4.0) that occurred in 5% or more patients were neutropenia (60.7%) and infection (6.6%). The proportion of patients who completed 5 cycles of treatment was 90.3%. Conclusions: Adjuvant chemotherapy with paclitaxel and nedaplatin for patients with high-risk cervical cancer after radical hysterectomy was demonstrated to be an effective and feasible treatment. Phase III trial should compare this with concurrent chemoradiotherapy. Clinical trial information: 000005605.


2021 ◽  
Vol 11 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jiazhang Xing ◽  
Bo Yang ◽  
Xiaorong Hou ◽  
Ning Jia ◽  
Xiaolei Gong ◽  
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Pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma (PDAC) is a lethal disease with a poor prognosis. In resectable PDAC, the recurrence rate is still high even when surgery and adjuvant chemotherapy (CT) are applied. Regional lymph node metastasis and positive margins are associated with higher recurrence risk and worse survival. Adjuvant radiotherapy has been explored, but its efficacy remains controversial. In recent years, some characteristics have been reported to stratify patients who may benefit from adjuvant chemoradiation (CRT), such as lymph node metastasis and margin status. Adjuvant chemotherapy followed by chemoradiation (CT-CRT) was also proposed. A total of 266 patients with resectable PDAC who have lymph node metastasis or R1 resection after surgery were enrolled. In multivariate Cox regression analyses, pancreatic body or tail tumor location (HR 0.433, p&lt;0.0001, compared with pancreatic head) and adjuvant CT predicted a better survival, while there were no significant differences among the different CT regimens. Higher T stage indicated poor survival (stage I: reference; stage II: HR 2.178, p=0.014; stage III: HR 3.581, p=0.001). Propensity score matching was applied in 122 patients to explore the role of CRT. A cohort of 51 patients (31 and 20 patients in the CT and CT-CRT groups, respectively) was generated by matching. Further analyses revealed adjuvant CT-CRT was associated with prolonged survival compared with CT alone (HR 0.284, p=0.014) and less frequent local recurrences (56.5% vs. 21.4% in the CT and CT-CRT group, respectively). However, no significant differences in disease-free survival among these two groups were observed.


2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Shungo Endo ◽  
Noriyuki Isohata ◽  
Koichiro Kojima ◽  
Yoshihiro Kadono ◽  
Kunihiko Amano ◽  
...  

Abstract Background There are many reports on the choice of treatment and prognosis of left-sided obstructive colorectal cancer; only few studies focus on the prognostic factors of LOCRC. Therefore, we analyzed the prognostic factors of left-sided obstructive colorectal cancer by post-hoc analysis of a retrospective multicenter study in the Japan Colonic Stent Safe Procedure Research Group. Methods This study was conducted as a post-hoc analysis of a retrospective multi-center observational study which enrolled a total of 301 patients, with the aim of investigating prognostic factors for relapse-free survival. The relationships among sex, age, decompression for bridge to surgery, depth of invasion, lymph node metastasis, postoperative complications, adjuvant chemotherapy, carcinoembryonic antigen, carbohydrate antigen 19 − 9, neutrophil-to-lymphocyte ratio, and relapse-free survival were examined. Results T3 of depth of invasion, negative postoperative complication (grade 0–1 of Clavien-Dindo classification), and administration of adjuvant chemotherapy (in Stage III) indicated a significantly good prognosis using Cox’s univariate analyses. Lymph node metastasis was not selected as a prognostic factor. Then, excluding patients with < 12 harvested lymph nodes, which may indicate stage migration, lymph node metastasis was also determined to be a prognostic factor. Using Cox’s multivariate analysis, depth of invasion, lymph node metastasis (excluding N0 cases with < 12 harvested lymph nodes), and adjuvant chemotherapy (all cases) were found to be prognostic factors. Conclusions In left-sided obstructive colorectal cancer, depth of invasion, lymph node metastasis and adjuvant chemotherapy were found to be prognostic factors, and patients with < 12 dissected lymph nodes could cause stage migration. This may result in disadvantages, such as not being able to receive adjuvant chemotherapy.


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