Predicting Cancer Progression in Patients With Stage T1 Bladder Carcinoma

1999 ◽  
Vol 17 (10) ◽  
pp. 3182-3187 ◽  
Author(s):  
Liang Cheng ◽  
Roxann M. Neumann ◽  
Amy L. Weaver ◽  
Bruce E. Spotts ◽  
David G. Bostwick

PURPOSE: A significant number of patients with stage T1 bladder carcinoma are at risk for cancer progression. We sought to identify factors associated with cancer progression in a series of patients with stage T1 bladder carcinoma treated with a contemporary therapeutic approach. PATIENTS AND METHODS: The study population consisted of 83 consecutive patients in whom stage T1 bladder carcinoma was diagnosed at the Mayo Clinic between 1987 and 1992. All patients underwent transurethral resection of the bladder (TURB) and had histologic confirmation of the diagnosis. The mean age was 71 years (range, 47 to 94 years). The male-to-female ratio was 3.9:1. The mean length of follow-up was 5.2 years (range, 1 day to 10.4 years). The depth of lamina propria invasion in the TURB specimens was measured with an ocular micrometer. Cancer progression was defined as the development of muscle-invasive or more advanced stage carcinoma, distant metastasis, or death from bladder cancer. RESULTS: The overall 5- and 7-year progression-free survival rates were 82% and 80%, respectively. The depth of invasion in the TURB specimens was associated with cancer progression (hazards ratio, 1.6 for doubling of depth of invasion; 95% confidence interval, 1.03 to 2.4; P = .037). The 5-year progression-free survival rate for patients with depth of invasion of ≥ 1.5 mm was 67%, compared with 93% for those with depth of invasion of less than 1.5 mm (P = .009). No other variable, including age, sex, tobacco use, alcohol use, the presence of carcinoma-in-situ, histologic grade, lymphocytic infiltration, or muscularis mucosae invasion, was associated with cancer progression. CONCLUSION: The depth of invasion in the TURB specimens, measured with a micrometer, is predictive of cancer progression in patients with stage T1 bladder carcinoma.

2017 ◽  
Vol 35 (15_suppl) ◽  
pp. e15116-e15116
Author(s):  
Berna Oksuzoglu ◽  
Guliz Zengin ◽  
Ibrahim Turker ◽  
Umut Demirci

e15116 Background: The aim of this study was to evaluate the clinical features and treatment outcomes of mucinous colorectal adenocarcinoma (MCA) followed in a single institution. Methods: Seventy-nine patients diagnosed with MCA admitted to our center between January 2003 and August 2016 included in this study. Demographic and clinico-pathologic characterictics of patients were analysed using patient medical records retrospectively. Results: Median age of the patients was 57 (24-83) with a male to female ratio of 1/3. Common symptoms were abdominal pain, rectal bleeding, abdominal distention, tenesmus and constipation in 44 (55.7%), 17 (21.5%), 7 (8.9%), 6 (7.6%), 5 (6.3%) of patients respectively. At the time of the diagnosis ECOG performance score was 0 or 1 in 74 (93.7%) of the patients. One (1.3%), 26 (32.9%), 37 (46.8%) and 15 (19%) of the patients had stage 1,2,3 and 4 disease respectively. Neoadjuvant chemo-radiotherapy with 5 FU and leucovorin (FUFA) was the treatment of choice in 11 (13.9%) of rectal MUC patients. The type of surgery was curative, palliative and emergent in 60 (76%), 9 (12.4%) and 9 (12.4%) respectively. Localisation of the primary tumor was right colon, left colon and rectum in 31 (39.2%), 30 (38%) and 18 (24.8) patients respectively. In the adjuvant setting, 59 (74.7%) of patients were received adjuvant chemotherapy. Only 6 patients had MSI, 26 patients had k-RAS, n-RAS and b-RAF mutation results. Metastatic sites were mostly visceral organ, intra-abdominal and local recurrence in 13 (16.5%), 12 (15.2%) and 6 (7.6%) of patients respectively. The median disease free survival, progression free survival and overall survival (OS), were 15.5 months, 17.5 months and 44.1 months, respectively. Conclusions: Survival rates were higher than literature in this study. This may be partly explained by better ECOG performance score of our patient group. We also found that better ECOG score, left sided tumor, younger age, were associated with better OS.


2020 ◽  
Vol 38 (4_suppl) ◽  
pp. 182-182
Author(s):  
Ben McCormick ◽  
Pranitha Prodduturvar ◽  
Wadad Mneimneh ◽  
Valeria Dal Zotto ◽  
Leander Grimm ◽  
...  

182 Background: Exosomes play pivotal roles in cancer progression, metastasis and chemoresistance. CD63 and CD9 are widely accepted exosomal markers. Their pattern of expression and prognostic significance in patients with RSCC and LSCC is unknown. This study explored CD63 and CD9 expression and prognostic significance in patients with RSCC and LSCC using immunohistochemistry (IHC). Methods: Between 2015 and 2018, 63 patients underwent surgical resection of colon cancer for whom we had available tissues for CD63 and CD9 IHC staining. Two pathologists independently scored the CD63 and CD9 expression in the tumor and adjacent normal mucosa (ANM). Staining intensity was graded 1-3 and staining percentage was estimated in 10% increments. Mean Quick-score (Q-score) (intensity X percentage of staining) was calculated. Results: RSCC and LSCC represented 52% and 48% of the patients respectively. The ANM and Tumor CD63 Q-scores were 225 vs 191 (p = 0.009) in RSCC and 224 vs 154 (p = 0.0001) in LSCC, respectively. The ANM and Tumor CD9 Q-scores were 134 vs 152 (p = 0.142) in RSCC and 135 vs 154 (p = 0.137) in LSCC, respectively. In patients with RSCC and LSCC, the mean Tumor CD63 Q-score was 191 vs 154 (p = 0.024), while the mean ANM CD63 Q-score was 225 vs 224 (p = 0.920). The mean Tumor CD9 Q-score was 152 and 154 (p = 0.883), and the mean ANM CD9 Q-score was 134 vs 135 (p = 0.926). In our cohort, there was no difference in progression free survival (PFS) between patients with RSCC and LSCC (p = 0.2349). In all patients, there was no difference in PFS in patients with CD63 expression < 100 and ≥100 (p = 0.8284). Among patients with RSCC, there was a significantly lower PFS in patients with CD63 expression < 100 vs. ≥100 (p = 0.0259). However, among patients with LSCC, there was no difference in PFS in patients with CD63 expression < 100 vs. ≥100 (p = 0.3494). Conclusions: To our knowledge, this is the first study to show a difference in exosomal marker (CD63) expression pattern and its prognostic significance in patients with RSCC and LSCC. There was a significant positive correlation between progression free survival in patients with RSCC and higher exosomal expression.


Author(s):  
Michael Pinkawa ◽  
Daniel M. Aebersold ◽  
Dirk Böhmer ◽  
Michael Flentje ◽  
Pirus Ghadjar ◽  
...  

Abstract Objective The current article encompasses a literature review and recommendations for radiotherapy in nodal oligorecurrent prostate cancer. Materials and methods A literature review focused on studies comparing metastasis-directed stereotactic ablative radiotherapy (SABR) vs. external elective nodal radiotherapy (ENRT) and studies analyzing recurrence patterns after local nodal treatment was performed. The DEGRO Prostate Cancer Expert Panel discussed the results and developed treatment recommendations. Results Metastasis-directed radiotherapy results in high local control (often > 90% within a follow-up of 1–2 years) and can be used to improve progression-free survival or defer androgen deprivation therapy (ADT) according to prospective randomized phase II data. Distant progression after involved-node SABR only occurs within a few months in the majority of patients. ENRT improves metastases-free survival rates with increased toxicity in comparison to SABR according to retrospective comparative studies. The majority of nodal recurrences after initial local treatment of pelvic nodal metastasis are detected within the true pelvis and common iliac vessels. Conclusion ENRT with or without a boost should be preferred to SABR in pelvic nodal recurrences. In oligometastatic prostate cancer with distant (extrapelvic) nodal recurrences, SABR alone can be performed in selected cases. Application of additional systemic treatments should be based on current guidelines, with ADT as first-line treatment for hormone-sensitive prostate cancer. Only in carefully selected patients can radiotherapy be initially used without additional ADT outside of the current standard recommendations. Results of (randomized) prospective studies are needed for definitive recommendations.


2020 ◽  
Vol 2 (Supplement_3) ◽  
pp. ii11-ii11
Author(s):  
Kenichi Sato ◽  
Taku Asanome ◽  
Yuuki Ishida ◽  
Hironori Sugio ◽  
Yoshimaru Ozaki ◽  
...  

Abstract Purpose: We report the treatment results of AVAgamma therapy combining gamma knife (GK) and bevacizumab for recurrent glioblastoma. Subjects: From August 2013 to April 2020, 44 patients (88 lesions) with recurrent glioblastoma treated with AVAgamma therapy as salvage therapy at the time of relapse after initial treatment. The average age is 61.5 years, with 26 men and 18 women. The tumor volume is 150 ml or less, and KPS is 40% or more as the indication of AVAgamma therapy. When the irradiation volume of GK is 15 ml or less, a single irradiation with a boundary dose of 20 to 26 Gy was performed, and when the irradiation volume was 15 ml or more, a single irradiation boundary dose was divided into two divided irradiations of 12 to 15 Gy. The mean therapeutic borderline dose was 24 Gy. Bevacizumab was administered 10 mg / kg or 15 mg / kg 1 to 10 times after GK. Methods: Median progression-free survival (mPFS), 6-month progression-free survival (PFS-6m), 6-month survival (OS-6m), median survival (mOS) from treatment with AVAgamma Considered mOS from initial treatment. Results: The mPFS from AVAgamma therapy was 5 months, PFS-6m was 37%, OS-6m was 79%, and mOS was 9 months. The mOS from initial treatment were 25 months. In relapsing glioma RPA classification, NABTT CNC class 5 mOS is 5.6 months, class 6 mOS is 6.4 months, but mOS from AVAgamma therapy is 9 months in class 5, 9 months in class 6. The survival time has been extended. Discussion: By AVAgamma therapy, it was thought that recurrent lesions were locally controlled and life prognosis was prolonged. Conclusion: AVAgamma therapy is thought to prolong the survival of recurrent glioblastoma and play an important role as salvage treatment.


2007 ◽  
Vol 61 (suppl_5) ◽  
pp. ONS202-ONS211 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nicholas C. Bambakidis ◽  
U. Kumar Kakarla ◽  
Louis J. Kim ◽  
Peter Nakaji ◽  
Randall W. Porter ◽  
...  

Abstract Objective: We examined the surgical approaches used at a single institution to treat petroclival meningioma and evaluated changes in method utilization over time. Methods: Craniotomies performed to treat petroclival meningioma between September of 1994 and July of 2005 were examined retrospectively. We reviewed 46 patients (mean follow-up, 3.6 yr). Techniques included combined petrosal or transcochlear approaches (15% of patients), retrosigmoid craniotomies with or without some degree of petrosectomy (59% of patients), orbitozygomatic craniotomies (7% of patients), and combined orbitozygomatic-retrosigmoid approaches (19% of patients). In 18 patients, the tumor extended supratentorially. Overall, the rate of gross total resection was 43%. Seven patients demonstrated progression over a mean of 5.9 years. No patients died. At 36 months, the progression-free survival rate for patients treated without petrosal approaches was 96%. Of 14 patients treated with stereotactic radiosurgery, none developed progression. Conclusion: Over the study period, a diminishing proportion of patients with petroclival meningioma were treated using petrosal approaches. Utilization of the orbitozygomatic and retrosigmoid approaches alone or in combination provided a viable alternative to petrosal approaches for treatment of petroclival meningioma. Regardless of approach, progression-free survival rates were excellent over short-term follow-up period.


Vascular ◽  
2021 ◽  
pp. 170853812199985
Author(s):  
Daniele Adami ◽  
Michele Marconi ◽  
Alberto Piaggesi ◽  
Davide M Mocellin ◽  
Raffaella N Berchiolli ◽  
...  

Objectives Revascularization according to the angiosome concept is of proven importance for limb salvage in chronic limb threatening ischaemia but it is not always practicable. Bifurcated bypasses could be considered as an option when an endovascular approach is not feasible or has already failed and a single bypass would not allow direct revascularization of the ischaemic area. Bifurcated bypasses are characterized by landing on two different arteries, the main artery (in direct continuity with the foot vessels) and the secondary one (perfusing the angiosome district). The aim of this study is to evaluate the safety and effectiveness of bifurcated bypass in chronic limb threatening ischaemia. Methods Thirty-five patients were consecutively treated with a bifurcated bypass for chronic limb threatening ischaemia from January 2014 to December 2019 in a single vascular surgery centre. Data from clinical records and operative registers were collected prospectively in an electronic database and retrospectively analysed. Primary and primary assisted bypass patency, amputation-free survival, morbidity and mortality rates at 12 and 24 months were analysed. Results Mean follow-up period was 25.1 months (range 2–72 months). Thirty-six bifurcated bypasses were performed on 35 patients (age 75.3 ± 7.2 years; 69.4% were male). According to Wound, Ischemia, foot Infection classification 22.2% belonged to stage 3 and 77.8% to stage 4 and the mean Rutherford’s class was 5.1 ± 0.7. Immediate technical success was 100%. Early mortality and morbidity rates were respectively 5.5%, and 33.3%; foot surgery was performed in 50% of cases with wound healing in all patients. Primary patency and primary assisted bypass patency were 96.7% and 100% at 6 months; 85.2% and 92% at 12 months, 59.9% and 73.4% at 24 months, respectively. Amputation-free survival at 12 and 24 months was, respectively, 95.6% and 78.8%. Overall survival rates at 12 and 24 months were respectively 94.4% and 91.6%. Conclusions Bifurcates bypass can provide good results in patients with chronic limb threatening ischaemia without endovascular option, especially in diabetic ones. Bifurcated bypass is a complex surgical solution, both to be planned and performed, and it is quite invasive for frail patients that should be accurately selected.


1997 ◽  
Vol 2 (3) ◽  
pp. E1
Author(s):  
Roger J. Packer ◽  
Joanne Ater ◽  
Jeffrey Allen ◽  
Peter Phillips ◽  
Russell Geyer ◽  
...  

The optimum treatment of nonresectable low-grade gliomas of childhood remains undecided. There has been increased interest in the use of chemotherapy for young children, but little information concerning the long-term efficacy of such treatment. Seventy-eight children with a mean age of 3 years (range 3 months-16 years) who had newly diagnosed, progressive low-grade gliomas were treated with combined carboplatin and vincristine chemotherapy. The patients were followed for a median of 30 months from diagnosis, with 31 patients followed for more than 3 years. Fifty-eight children had diencephalic tumors, 12 had brainstem gliomas, and three had diffuse leptomeningeal gliomas. Forty-four (56%) of 78 patients showed an objective response to treatment. Progression-free survival rates were 75 ± 6% at 2 years and 68 ± 7% at 3 years. There was no statistical difference in progression-free survival rates between children with neurofibromatosis Type 1 and those without the disease (2-year, progression-free survival 79 ± 11% vs. 75 ± 6%, respectively). The histological subtype of the tumor, its location, and its maximum response to chemotherapy did not have an impact on the duration of disease control. The only significant prognostic factor was age: children 5 years old or younger at the time of treatment had a 3-year progression-free survival rate of 74 ± 7% compared with a rate of 39 ± 21% in older children (p < 0.01). Treatment with carboplatin and vincristine is effective, especially in younger children, in controlling newly diagnosed progressive low-grade gliomas.


2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Xiaoyao Feng ◽  
Jing Li ◽  
Aomei Li ◽  
Han Zhou ◽  
Xixu Zhu ◽  
...  

Abstract BackgroundSoft tissue sarcoma(STS) is a malignant tumor of highly heterogeneous mesenchymal origin. STS has a biologic pattern and clinical transformation with localized invasive growth and susceptibility to hematogenous metastasis. Metastatic and recurrent soft tissue sarcoma may be treated by local therapeutic options, including surgery and radiation therapy. This study evaluated the safety and efficacy of SBRT for metastatic and recurrent soft tissue sarcoma.MethodsWe performed a retrospective analysis of 37 STS patients with 58 lesions treated with SBRT from 2009-2019 at our institution. We analyze the local control (LC), overall survival (OS), progression free survival (PFS) and toxicity rates of the patients.ResultThe median follow-up was 20 months(range 2 to 120 months). One and two year LC rates were 75.3% and 55.2% [95% confidence interval (CI) 20–25 months]. Median OS was 24 months and the survival rates were 66.6%, 45% and 26.6% at 1, 2 and 3-year after SBRT. Median PFS were 11months (95% CI 8–18 months). No acute or chronic grade ≥ 3 toxicity was observed.ConclusionsIn patients with metastatic and recurrent STS, LC, OS and PFS were higher than expected. SBRT should be a proper treatment option for STS.


2021 ◽  
Vol 11 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lichao Huang ◽  
Jingmin Bai ◽  
Yanyang Zhang ◽  
Zhiqiang Cui ◽  
Zhizhong Zhang ◽  
...  

PurposeHemangiopericytomas are aggressive tumors known for their recurrence. The purpose of this study was to evaluate the management of residual, recurrent, and metastatic intracranial hemangiopericytomas using CyberKnife (CK) stereotactic radiotherapy (SRT).Materials and MethodsData were collected from 15 patients (28 tumors; eight men and seven women; 32–58 years) with residual, recurrent, or metastatic intracranial hemangiopericytomas, who were treated with stereotactic radiotherapy using CyberKnife between January 2014 and August 2019. All patients had previously been treated with surgical resection. Initial tumor volumes ranged from 0.84 to 67.2 cm3, with a mean volume of 13.06 cm3. The mean marginal and maximum radiosurgical doses to the tumors were 21.1 and 28.76 Gy, respectively. The mean follow-up time for tumors was 34.5 months, ranging from 13 to 77 months.Results15 patients were alive after treatment; the mean post-diagnosis survival at censoring was 45.6 months (range 13–77 months). The volumes of the 28 tumors in the 15 followed patients were calculated after treatment. Postoperative magnetic resonance imaging revealed a mean tumor volume of 6.72 cm3 and a range of 0–67.2 cm3, with the volumes being significantly lower than pretreatment values. Follow-up imaging studies demonstrated tumor disappearance in seven (25%) of 28 tumors, reduction in 14 (50%), stability in one (3.57%), and recurrence in six (21.4%). Total tumor control was achieved in 22 (78.5%) of 28 tumors. The tumor grade and fraction time were not significantly associated with progression-free survival. Intracranial metastasis occurred in three patients, and extraneural metastasis in one patient.ConclusionsOn the basis of the current results, stereotactic radiotherapy using CyberKnife is an effective and safe option for residual, recurrent, and metastatic intracranial hemangiopericytomas. Long-term close clinical and imaging follow-up is also necessary.


2021 ◽  
Vol 12 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Kenneth L. Kehl ◽  
Wenxin Xu ◽  
Alexander Gusev ◽  
Ziad Bakouny ◽  
Toni K. Choueiri ◽  
...  

AbstractTo accelerate cancer research that correlates biomarkers with clinical endpoints, methods are needed to ascertain outcomes from electronic health records at scale. Here, we train deep natural language processing (NLP) models to extract outcomes for participants with any of 7 solid tumors in a precision oncology study. Outcomes are extracted from 305,151 imaging reports for 13,130 patients and 233,517 oncologist notes for 13,511 patients, including patients with 6 additional cancer types. NLP models recapitulate outcome annotation from these documents, including the presence of cancer, progression/worsening, response/improvement, and metastases, with excellent discrimination (AUROC > 0.90). Models generalize to cancers excluded from training and yield outcomes correlated with survival. Among patients receiving checkpoint inhibitors, we confirm that high tumor mutation burden is associated with superior progression-free survival ascertained using NLP. Here, we show that deep NLP can accelerate annotation of molecular cancer datasets with clinically meaningful endpoints to facilitate discovery.


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