scholarly journals Adenocarcinoma with mixed subtypes in the early and advanced gastric cancer.

Author(s):  
Xixian Zhao ◽  
Yizhang Li ◽  
Zhenwei Yang ◽  
Hailin Zhang ◽  
Hongling Wang ◽  
...  

Abstract Background Based on the WHO classification, adenocarcinoma with mixed subtypes (AM) is a histological classification. We aimed to compare the prognosis among AM, classic adenocarcinoma (CA), mucinous adenocarcinoma (MAC), and signet-ring cell carcinoma (SRCC) in early and advanced gastric cancer (EGC, AGC), respectively. Methods We compared the clinicopathologic features and prognosis between AM and other histologic subtypes of CA, SRCC and MAC in ECG and ACG, respectively. A nomogram was established to predict the cancer-specific survival (CSS) of gastric cancer (GC) patients with AM. C-index, calibration curves, Receiver Operating Characteristic (ROC) and Decision Curve Analysis (DCA) curves were applied to examine the accuracy and clinical benefits. Results In the prognosis among these four histological subtypes in EGC patients, there are no differences. For AGC patients, AM had a significantly poorer prognosis compared with CA and MAC (P = 0.003, 0.029), but similar prognosis to SRCC. A nomogram based on race, T stage, N stage, M stage and surgical modalities were proposed to predict 1- and 3- year CSS for GC patients with AM (C-index: training cohort: 0.804, validation cohort: 0.748. 1-, 3-year CSS AUC: training cohort: 0.871, 0.914, validation cohort: 0.810, 0.798). 1- and 3-year CSS DCA curves showed good net benefits. Conclusions EGC patients with AM had similar survival to those with CA, MAC and SRCC. AM was an independent predictor of poor prognosis in AGC. A nomogram for predicting the prognosis of GC patients with AM was proposed to quantitatively assess the long-term survival.

2021 ◽  
Vol 2021 ◽  
pp. 1-13
Author(s):  
Xixian Zhao ◽  
Yizhang Li ◽  
Zhenwei Yang ◽  
Hailin Zhang ◽  
Hongling Wang ◽  
...  

Objective. Adenocarcinoma with mixed subtypes (AM) is a histological classification based on the WHO classification. We aimed to compare the prognosis among AM, classic adenocarcinoma (CA), mucinous adenocarcinoma (MAC), and signet-ring cell carcinoma (SRCC) in early and advanced gastric cancer (EGC and AGC), respectively. Methods. The Surveillance, Epidemiology, and End Results (SEER) database was queried from 2001 to 2016. Univariate and multivariate Cox analyses were performed to compare prognosis between AM and histologic subtypes of CA, SRCC, and MAC in ECG and ACG. A nomogram was established to predict the cancer-specific survival (CSS) of gastric cancer (GC) patients with AM. C-index, calibration curves, and receiver operating characteristic (ROC) and decision curve analysis (DCA) curves were applied to examine the accuracy and clinical benefits. Results. In the prognosis among these four histological subtypes in EGC patients, there are no differences. For AGC patients, AM had a significantly poorer prognosis compared with CA and MAC ( P = 0.003 , 0.029) but similar prognosis to SRCC. A nomogram based on race, T stage, N stage, M stage, and surgical modalities was proposed to predict 1- and 3-year CSS for GC patients with AM (C-index: training cohort: 0.804, validation cohort: 0.748. 1- and 3-year CSS AUC: training cohort: 0.871 and 0.914, validation cohort: 0.810 and 0.798). 1- and 3-year CSS DCA curves showed good net benefits. Conclusions. EGC patients with AM had similar survival to those with CA, MAC, and SRCC. AM was an independent predictor of poor prognosis in AGC. A nomogram for predicting the prognosis of GC patients with AM was proposed to quantitatively assess the long-term survival.


2011 ◽  
Vol 29 (4_suppl) ◽  
pp. 59-59 ◽  
Author(s):  
B. Martinez Amores ◽  
M. Alsina ◽  
E. Jiménez ◽  
M. Jorge ◽  
J. Martin Valades ◽  
...  

59 Background: The available evidence suggests that selection of treatment for advanced gastric cancer (AGC) correlates with age and ECOG PS. This study was conducted to analyze whether previously mentioned variables are relevant for the choice of doublet or triplet regimens with capecitabine and determining prognosis. Methods: Multicenter, cross-sectional, observational study in patients with AGC who received at least 2-cycles of capecitabine-based doublet or triplet chemotherapy, with or without measurable disease. The age, as a continuous and categorical (> 64 vs ≤ 64) variable, and ECOG PS were analyzed by logistic regression. Results: A total of 175 patients were evaluated. Median age 65.5 (56-72) years, male: 68% ECOG 0/1/2: 32.7%/55.6%/11.1%. 33% underwent doublet and 67% triplet chemotherapy. Tumour histology: signet-ring cell carcinoma (29%), papillary (13%), mucinous (12%) and tubular (3.5%). Most common sites of metastases: lymph nodes (48%), peritoneum (41%), liver (38%) and lung (12%). Multivariante analysis demonstrated that age ≤ 64 (OR 2.326; p = 0.016) and ECOG 0 (vs 2) (OR 3.937; p = 0.016) were risk factors for the choice of triplet chemotherapy, and failed to show an association between ECOG 1 and regimen. While in patients underwent triplet regimen 51% were aged ≤ 64 and 49% > 64, in those treated with doublet these rates were 32% and 68% respectively; (p = 0.016, Chi-square test). A statistical difference was found for ECOG 0/1/2/4 and regimen chosen. Concretely, among patients who received triplet regimen, 15% had ECOG 2 and 85% ECOG 0 while in case of doublet regimen these rates changed to 43 and 57%; (p = 0.01, Fisher's exact test). Main grade 1/2 capecitabine-related toxicities: diarrhea (10%), mucositis (7%), hand-foot syndrome (5%) and emesis (4%). Most frequent grade 3 were diarrhea in 5% and emesis, asthenia and febrile neutropenia in 2%. No toxicity grade 4 occurred. Conclusions: Age ≤ 64 years and ECOG 0 are risk factors of choice of capecitabine-based triplet chemotherapy in AGC. These results support previous reports showing that age and ECOG PS are associated with treatment choices for AGC. No significant financial relationships to disclose.


2019 ◽  
Vol 37 (15_suppl) ◽  
pp. e15515-e15515
Author(s):  
Ligang Xing ◽  
Wei Cao ◽  
Gang Cui ◽  
Huanhu Zhang ◽  
Yiran Shi ◽  
...  

e15515 Background: Apatinib, a small molecule tyrosine kinase inhibitor, has been approved to use in patients with advanced gastric adenocarcinoma or gastroesophageal junction adenocarcinoma after at least two systemic chemotherapy regimens in China. This study aims to observe the efficacy and safety of apatinib in real word clinical practice and preliminarily explore the characteristics of population with more clinical benefit. Methods: This study included patients with non-operative or advanced gastric cancer confirmed by histopathology or cytology, and did not intervene the regimen which was entirely determined by the clinicians and patients. Results: From April 16, 2018 to January 12, 2019, 732 patients enrolled, and all patients had been followed up at least once. Total 342 patients were eligible for efficacy evaluation. Among them, 43 patients achieved partial response (PR), 209 patients achieved stable disease (SD) and 90 patients experienced progression disease (PD). The overall response rate (ORR) was 12.55%, and the disease control rate was 73.6%. The mPFS have not yet reached. For patients ≥65 years, the ORR was 26.32%, and for patients < 65 years, ORR was 8.33%. For patients with non-signet ring cell carcinoma and signet ring cell carcinoma, the ORRs were 15.22% and 6.0%. For patients with and without organ metastasis, the ORRs were 15.25% and 3.75% respectively. The PFS analysis showed that, Combined chemotherapy and age > 65 may predict longer PFS. The OS analysis showed that, ECOG 0-1, combined chemotherapy, AFP positive and male predict longer OS. The overall incidence of adverse events was 84%. The most common adverse events were hypertension (28.8%), fatigue (22.4%), hand-foot syndrome (17.3%), anorexia (12.8%) and nausea (10.5%). Conclusions: Apatinib showed promising antitumor activity in patients with non- operable or advanced Gastric Cancer in this real word study. The prolonging survival benefits maybe could be attenuated by age <65, without organ metastasis, ECOG score >1, treatment regimen, normal AFP, and pathological diagnosis of non-signet ring cell carcinoma. Clinical trial information: ChiCTR1800015701.


2021 ◽  
pp. 67-72
Author(s):  
Sung Jin Oh

Liver metastasis from gastric cancer has a very poor prognosis. Herein, we present two cases of liver metastases (synchronous and metachronous) from advanced gastric cancer. In the first case, the patient underwent radical subtotal gastrectomy. Liver metastases occurred 6 months after surgery while the patient was receiving adjuvant chemotherapy, but two hepatic tumors were successfully removed by radiofrequency ablation (RFA). In the second case, liver metastases occurred 15 months after surgery for gastric cancer. The patient also received RFA for one hepatic tumor, and other suspicious metastatic tumors were treated with systemic chemotherapy. Although these case presentations are limited for the efficacy of RFA treatment with systemic chemotherapy for hepatic metastases from gastric cancer, our findings showed long-term survival (overall survival for 108 and 67 months, respectively) of the affected patients, without recurrence. Therefore, we suggest that RFA treatment with systemic chemotherapy could be an effective alternative treatment modality for hepatic metastases from gastric cancer.


2021 ◽  
Vol 39 (15_suppl) ◽  
pp. 6046-6046
Author(s):  
Sik-Kwan Chan ◽  
Cheng Lin ◽  
Shao Hui Huang ◽  
Tin Ching Chau ◽  
Qiaojuan Guo ◽  
...  

6046 Background: The eighth edition TNM (TNM-8) classified de novo metastatic (metastatic disease at presentation) nasopharyngeal carcinoma (NPC) as M1 without further subdivision. However, survival heterogeneity exists and long-term survival has been observed in a subset of this population. We hypothesize that certain metastatic characteristics could further segregate survival for de novo M1 NPC. Methods: Patients with previously untreated de novo M1 NPC prospectively treated in two academic institutions (The University of Hong Kong [n = 69] and Provincial Clinical College of Fujian Medical University [n = 114] between 2007 and 2016 were recruited and re-staged based on TNM-8 in this study. They were randomized in 2:1 ratio to generate a training cohort (n = 120) and validation cohort (n = 63) respectively. Univariable and multivariable analyses (MVA) were performed for the training cohort to identify the anatomic prognostic factors of overall survival (OS). We then performed recursive partitioning analysis (RPA) which incorporated the anatomic prognostic factors identified in multivariable analyses and derived a new set of RPA stage groups (Anatomic-RPA groups) which predicted OS in the training cohort. The significance of Anatomic-RPA groups in the training cohort was then validated in the validation cohort. UVA and MVA were performed again on the validation cohorts to identify significant OS prognosticators. Results: The training and the validation cohorts had a median follow-up of 27.2 months and 30.2 months, respectively, with the 3-year OS of 51.6% and 51.1%, respectively. Univariable analysis (UVA) and multivariable analysis (MVA) revealed that co-existing liver and bone metastases was the only factor prognostic of OS. Anatomic-RPA groups based on the anatomic prognostic factors identified in UVA and MVA yielded good segregation (M1a: no co-existing liver and bone metastases and M1b: co-existing both liver and bone metastases; median OS 39.5 and 23.7 months respectively; P =.004). RPA for the validation set also confirmed good segregation with co-existing liver and bone metastases (M1a: no co-existing liver and bone metastases and M1b: co-existing liver and bone metastases), with median OS 47.7 and 16.0 months, respectively; P =.008). It was also the only prognostic factor in UVA and MVA in the validation cohort. Conclusions: Our Anatomic-RPA M1 stage groups with anatomical factors provided better subgroup segregation for de novo M1 NPC. The study results provide a robust justification to refine M1 categories in future editions of TNM staging classification.


2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Donglang Jiang ◽  
Xing Chen ◽  
Zhiwen You ◽  
Hao Wang ◽  
Xiaoyun Zhang ◽  
...  

Abstract Introduction Early and precise diagnosis and staging of gastric cancer are important for its treatment and management. However, the low sensitivity of 18F-fluorodeoxyglucose (18F-FDG) for gastric cancer diagnosis limits its application. Currently, the tracer 68Ga-FAPI, which targets fibroblast activation protein (FAP), is widely used to diagnose various cancers. However, the diagnostic value of 68Ga-FAPI in gastric cancer is still unclear. In this study, we aimed to investigate the potential advantage of 68Ga-FAPI-04 over 18F-FDG in the evaluation of gastric cancer.Methods: Thirty-eight patients with gastric cancer (31 with adenocarcinoma and 7 with signet ring cell carcinoma) were recruited for this study. All of the participants underwent 68Ga-FAPI-04 and 18F-FDG imaging by positron emission tomography (PET)/computed tomography (CT) or PET/magnetic resonance (MR). The results were interpreted by two experienced nuclear medicine physicians, and the maximum standardized uptake value (SUVmax) was calculated.Results: For the detection of primary gastric cancer, the sensitivities of 68Ga-FAPI-04 PET and 18F-FDG PET were 100% (38/38) and 81.6% (31/38), respectively. Four cases of adenocarcinoma and three cases of signet ring cell carcinoma were missed by 18F-FDG PET. The SUVmax of 68Ga-FAPI-04 in tumors greater than 4 cm (11.0 ± 4.5) was higher than tumors less than 4 cm (4.5 ± 3.2) (P = 0.0015). The SUVmax of 68Ga-FAPI-04 was higher in T2-4 tumors (9.7 ± 4.4) than in T1 tumors (3.1 ± 1.5) (P = 0.0002). For the detection of metastatic lesions, the sensitivities of 68Ga-FAPI-04 PET and 18F-FDG PET in 10 patients with regional lymph node metastasis and distant metastasis were 6/10 and 5/10, respectively.Conclusion: Compared to 18F-FDG PET, 68Ga-FAPI-04 PET had superior potential in detecting primary gastric cancers and metastatic lymph nodes, 68Ga-FAPI-04 PET also had a better performance on small gastric cancer detection. 68Ga-FAPI-04 PET could provide better performance for gastric cancer diagnosis and staging.


2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yangyang Xie ◽  
Xue Song ◽  
Haimin Jin ◽  
Zhongkai Ni ◽  
Xiaowen Li ◽  
...  

Abstract Background: The dismal prognosis of gastric signet ring cell carcinoma (GSRC) is a global problem. The current study is conducted to comprehensively evaluate clinicopathological features and survival outcomes in GSRC patients stratified by anatomic subsites. Then predictive nomograms are constructed and validated to improve the effectiveness of personalized management.Method: The patients diagnosed with GSRC were recruited from the online SEER database. The influence of anatomic subsites on overall survival (OS) and cancer-specific survival (CSS) was evaluated using multivariate Cox regression and Kaplan-Meier analysis. Then we employed propensity score matching (PSM) technique to decrease selection bias and balance patients’ epidemiological factors. Predictive nomograms were constructed and validated.Results: Multivariate Cox regression demonstrated that the patients with overlapping gastric cancer (OGC) suffered the highest mortality risk for OS (HR, 1.29; 95%CI, 1.23-1.36; P<0.001) and CSS (HR, 1.33; 95%CI, 1.28-1.37; P<0.001). Age, TNM stage, tumor localization, tumor size, surgery and chemotherapy presented a highly significant relationship with OS and CSS. Following subgroup and PSM analysis, OGC patients were confirmed to have the worst OS and CSS. Then nomograms predicting 6 months, 12 months and 36 months OS and CSS were constructed. The calibration curves and reveiver operating characteristic curves demonstrated the great performance of the nomograms.Conclusion: We identified anatomic subsites as a predictor of survival in those with GSRC. Patients with OGC suffered the highest mortality risk. The proposed nomograms allowed a relatively accurate survival prediction for GSRC patients.


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