Retrospective Analysis of 156 Cases of Metastatic Renal Cell Carcinoma: Evaluation of Prognostic Factors and Response to Different Treatments

1994 ◽  
Vol 80 (6) ◽  
pp. 468-472 ◽  
Author(s):  
Giuseppe Landonio ◽  
Claudia Baiocchi ◽  
Daniela Cattaneo ◽  
Massimo Ferrari ◽  
Ornella Gottardi ◽  
...  

Background Metastatic renal cell carcinoma is a “capricious” tumor. Many prognostic factors have been evaluated, treatment is still controversial, and results are not coincident. Methods We reviewed 156 patients with metastatic renal cell carcinoma. Survival from the time of diagnosis was the end point of the study. The influence on survival of age, sex, nephrectomy, disease-free interval, performance status, site and number of metastases was analyzed. Univariate and multivariate analysis were done. Survival according to different therapies was also evaluated. Results In our study, no nephrectomy, a disease-free interval < 24 months, > 2 metastatic sites and a performance status > 2 proved to be risk factors. According to the number of risk factors, 3 groups of patients were identified (low, intermediate and high risk). We observed 3 kinds of responses to treatments: 1) in untreated patients (n = 48), median overall survival was 6 months, and the 24-month survival rate was 8%; 2) in patients treated with hormone therapy and/or chemotherapy (n = 73), median overall survival was 13 months, and the 24-month survival rate was 24%; 3) in patients treated with interferon and/or interleukin-2 (n = 35), median overall survival was 16 months and the 24-month survival rate was 34%. Conclusions Our results are only partially in accordance with those observed by other authors. Risk factors and treatment must be determined in more defined and selected studies.

Author(s):  
Christopher Weight

This chapter summarizes the findings of a landmark trial of cytoreductive nephrectomy in patients with metastatic renal cell carcinoma performed in the interferon era. All enrolled patients had a good performance status. It found overall survival extended by about 3 months in the cytoreductive-nephrectomy-plus-interferon arm versus the interferon-only arm.


2016 ◽  
Vol 34 (2_suppl) ◽  
pp. 529-529
Author(s):  
Dale Kesley Robertson ◽  
Chao Zhang ◽  
Yuan Liu ◽  
Theresa Wicklin Gillespie ◽  
Omer Kucuk ◽  
...  

529 Background: In most settings median overall survival (OS) is longer for non-Hispanic whites relative to non-Hispanic blacks with metastatic renal cell carcinoma (mRCC). However, absence of nephrectomy has been a predictor of shorter OS for both groups. The primary objectives of this study were to define the reasons why patients with mRCC do not undergo nephrectomy and to correlate absolute contraindications to surgery with race and OS. Methods: Retrospective chart reviews of patients treated with targeted therapy for mRCC were conducted at the Winship Cancer Institute of Emory University and the AVAMC after obtaining institutional authorizations. Reasons for not undergoing nephrectomy were categorized as absolute, relative or no contraindication to nephrectomy. Descriptive statistics were employed along with Kaplan-Meier survival analysis. Results: See Table. The median OS (months) by nephrectomy status was 15.9 (6.8 – 24.7) vs. 41.8 (25.6 – 49.4), p value 0.0003, for patients at Emory with no nephrectomy vs. nephrectomy, respectively. The corresponding AVAMC values were 15.5 (8.5 – 29.5) vs. 45.2 (30.3 – 100.9), p value 0.0002. Conclusions: The number of patients with absolute contraindications to nephrectomy varied widely by race and institution, yet absence of nephrectomy was the predominant predictor of shorter OS in both settings. [Table: see text]


2018 ◽  
Vol 13 (4) ◽  
pp. 40-44 ◽  
Author(s):  
S. Z. Safina ◽  
S. A. Varlamov ◽  
A. V. Snegovoy ◽  
I. S. Varlamov ◽  
L. I. Gurina ◽  
...  

Background. In a CRAD001LRU02T study of everolimus for metastatic renal cell carcinoma patients previously treated with bevacizumab ±  interferon, median overall survival (OS) was 17.4 months (95 % confidence interval 13.5–21.3 month).Objective of final analysis was to evaluate 5-year OS and long-term toxicity in this study.Materials and methods. Survival data were collected from 37 patients with bevacizumab-refractory metastatic renal cell carcinoma who received everolimus in a completed prospective multicenter study. Patients were predominantly male, 89 % had ECOG performance status of 0/1, 51 % received previous bevacizumab in combination with interferon, and 38/62% had MSKCC favorable/intermediate risk disease.Results. The 5-year survival rate was 16.2% (95 % confidence interval 14.1–18.3 %), with a median follow-up of 5 years. The 1-, and 3-year OS rates were 81.0 and 43.0 %, respectively. The median duration of second-line of everolimus was 315 (range 61–569) days. 11 (29.7 %) patients received third-line therapy with a median duration of 3.6 months. Confirmed objective tumor responses were seen in 5 (14.0 %) patients. 70.0 % (n = 26) patients had a stable disease. 1 (2.7 %) patient achieved complete response after 4 years of therapy. One (2.7 %) patient  discontinued everolimus therapy on their own accord due to relapse of systemic lupus erythematosus and one (2.7 %)  patient had 14-days interruption of an everolimus therapy due to grade 3 hyperglycemia. No grade 4 treatment-related toxicity was found.Conclusions. Everolimus provided an estimated 5-year survival rate of 16.2 % for bevacizumab-resistant metastatic renal cell carcinoma. Prolonged everolimus was not associated with new types or increased severity of adverse events.


2012 ◽  
Vol 30 (15_suppl) ◽  
pp. e15071-e15071
Author(s):  
Sei Naito ◽  
Hidefumi Kinoshita ◽  
Tsunenori Kondo ◽  
Nobuo Shinohara ◽  
Takashi Kasahara ◽  
...  

e15071 Background: Metastasectomy considered to prolong survival in patients with metastatic renal cell carcinoma (mRCC). However, data on the indications for metastasectomy are limited. We aimed to examine the prognosis and the prognostic factors of mRCC patients who underwent metastasectomy. Methods: We sent questionnaires to Japanese hospitals and collected the data of patients who were diagnosed with mRCC between January 1988 and December 2009 and who had their metastatic lesions removed. We calculated the overall survival between metastasectomy and death or until the last follow-up. We also analyzed the relationship between survival and clinical features and identified adverse prognostic factors by multivariate analysis. Furthermore, we identified the group with a poor prognosis on the basis of the number of prognostic factors for which the patients were positive. These findings were internally validated using bootstrap procedures and the c-index. Results: We collected the data of 559 patients from 48 institutions. The median overall survival period was 80 months (95% CI, 69.7-90.6 months). We detected 5 adverse prognostic factors: incomplete resection by metastasectomy (hazard ratio, 1.75; p = 0.0169); brain metastasis (hazard ratio, 3.26; p = 0.0002); C-reactive protein levels of >1.0 mg/dl (hazard ratio, 2.84; p < 0.0001); Eastern Cooperative Oncology Group performance status of >1 (hazard ratio, 1.65; p = 0.0274); and the worst nuclear grade, i.e., the nuclei of tumor cells are larger than those of normal tubular cells (hazard ratio, 1.59; p = 0.0348). Patients positive for 3 or more of theseadverse prognostic factors had a worse prognosis (median overall survival, 24 months) than those positive for less than 3 factors (median overall survival, 105 months). The c-index for this model was 0.65 at 2 years. Conclusions: We identified 5 adverse prognostic factors for predicting the survival of patients who underwent metastasectomy.


Cancers ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 12 (10) ◽  
pp. 2911
Author(s):  
Alexandr Poprach ◽  
Milos Holanek ◽  
Renata Chloupkova ◽  
Radek Lakomy ◽  
Michal Stanik ◽  
...  

The role of cytoreductive nephrectomy (CN) in treatment of locally advanced or metastatic renal cell carcinoma (mRCC) in the era of targeted therapies (TT) is still not clearly defined. The study population consisted of 730 patients with synchronous mRCC. The RenIS (Renal carcinoma Information System) registry was used as the data source. The CN/TT cohort included patients having CN within 3 months from the mRCC diagnosis and subsequently being treated with TT, while the TT cohort included patients receiving TT upfront. Median progression-free survival from the first intervention was 6.7 months in the TT arm and 9.3 months in the CN/TT patients (p < 0.001). Median overall survival was 14.2 and 27.2 months, respectively (p < 0.001). Liver metastasis, high-grade tumor, absence of CN, non-clear cell histology, and MSKCC (Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center) poor prognosis status were associated with adverse treatment outcomes. According to the results of this retrospective study, patients who underwent CN and subsequently were treated with TT had better outcomes compared to patients treated with upfront TT. The results of the study support the use of CN in the treatment algorithm for mRCC.


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