scholarly journals Factors of Recurrence After Complete Response in Children with Neuroblastoma: A 16-Year Retrospective Study of 179 Cases

2022 ◽  
Vol Volume 14 ◽  
pp. 107-122
Author(s):  
Fan Li ◽  
Weiling Zhang ◽  
Huimin Hu ◽  
Yi Zhang ◽  
Jing Li ◽  
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2020 ◽  
Vol 22 (Supplement_2) ◽  
pp. ii120-ii121
Author(s):  
Jun-ping Zhang ◽  
Jing-jing Ge ◽  
Cheng Li ◽  
Shao-pei Qi ◽  
Feng-jun Xue ◽  
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Abstract OBJECTIVE To evaluate the efficacy and safety of high-dose methotrexate combined with temozolomide in the treatment of newly diagnosed primary central nervous system lymphoma. METHODS A retrospective study was performed to analyze the clinical data of patients with primary central nervous system lymphoma treated with high-dose methotrexate plus temozolomide in the Department of Neuro-oncology, Capital Medical University, Sanbo Brain Hospital from May 2010 to December 2018. RESULTS A total of 41 patients were identified. Median age was 57 years (range, 27–76 years). The maximal extent of surgery was total resection in 6, partial resection in 8, and biopsy in 27 patients. Of the 35 patients with evaluable lesions, 32 achieved complete response (CR) and 3 achieved partial response. CR rate was 91.4%. The median follow-up time was 36.5 months (range, 4.9–115.4 months). After treatment, the median progression-free survival (PFS) was 45.1 months. PFS rate at 1, 2, 5 years were 85.4%, 70.1% and 43.8%, respectively. The OS rate at 1, 2, 5 years were 92.7%, 82.4% and 66.5%, respectively. The median PFS of patients younger than 65 years was better than that of patients ≥65 years (98.8 months vs 27.9 months, p=0.039). There was no association between efficacy and extent of resection (p=0.836). After disease progression, 6 of the 21 patients received radiotherapy. There was no statistical difference in OS between the patients with or without radiotherapy (36.9 months vs 28.4 months). The main severe adverse events were myelosuppression (36.6%) and elevated transaminase (34.1%). Three patients were discontinued due to drug-related toxicities. CONCLUSIONS High-dose methotrexate combined with temozolomide is effective in the treatment of primary central nervous system lymphoma, with a low incidence of severe adverse reactions. This efficacy may be better than the historical control of methotrexate alone or methotrexate plus rituximab.


2020 ◽  
Vol 15 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Yuming Shao ◽  
Yang Xiang ◽  
Fang Jiang ◽  
Boju Pan ◽  
Xirun Wan ◽  
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Abstract Background Choriocarcinoma is a rare malignant neoplasm, which is classified as either gestational choriocarcinoma or nongestational choriocarcinoma. The purpose of this study was to examine the clinical characteristics of Chinese female nongestational choriocarcinoma patients and discuss our experience in treating this rare disease. Results We conducted a single-center retrospective study on a sample of 37 nongestational choriocarcinoma patients who were diagnosed and treated at Peking Union Medical College Hospital from March 1982 to March 2020. Their demographic, clinical, laboratory, and therapeutic data were collected. Detailed information was available for all 37 individuals in our sample. The primary lesions included 34 in the ovaries, 2 in the pituitary and 1 in the stomach. The median age of onset was 22 years, and the median follow-up period spanned 41 months. The lungs (40.5%) were the most commonly observed metastatic site. All subjects were treated with surgery and multidrug chemotherapies, and a median of 4.0 courses was required to achieve complete remission. The overall complete response rate, relapse rate, and 3-year and 5-year survival rates were 81.1%, 16.7%, 80.0%, and 75.5%, respectively. Conclusions Nongestational choriocarcinoma can be managed well using surgery and multidrug chemotherapies, but the overall outcome of nongestational choriocarcinoma is still worse than that of gestational choriocarcinoma. Mixed nongestational choriocarcinoma seems to have similar therapeutic outcomes as pure tumors.


2016 ◽  
Vol 27 (1) ◽  
pp. 28-36 ◽  
Author(s):  
Angiolo Gadducci ◽  
Stefania Cosio ◽  
Valentina Zizioli ◽  
Sara Notaro ◽  
Roberta Tana ◽  
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ObjectiveThe objective of this retrospective study was to assess the clinical outcome of patients with advanced epithelial ovarian cancer in complete response after primary debulking surgery (PDS) or neoadjuvant chemotherapy followed by interval debulking surgery (IDS]).MethodsThe authors reviewed the hospital records of 384 patients who underwent PDS (n = 322) or IDS (n = 62) and who were in complete response after primary treatment.ResultsOptimal (residual disease [RD] < 1 cm) and complete (no gross RD) cytoreduction rates were higher after IDS than after PDS (71.0% vs 55.9%;P= 0.001 and 51.6% vs 35.7%, respectively;P= 0.02). Tumor recurred in 73.0% of the 322 complete responders after PDS versus 87.1% of the 62 complete responders after IDS (P= 0.01). The IDS group showed a higher recurrence rate within 6 months (11.3% vs 3.1%:P= 0.01) and a trend to higher recurrence rate between 6 and 12 months (30.6% vs 19.9%). Tumor recurred in 57.4% of the 115 completely cytoreduced patients after PDS versus 87.5% of the 32 completely cytoreduced patients after IDS (P= 0.001). The IDS group showed a trend to higher recurrence rate within 6 months (6.2% vs 1.7%) and a higher recurrence rate between 6 and 12 months (37.5% vs 15.6%;P= 0.01). Two-year, 5-year, and 7-year progression-free survival were 65.8%, 40.8%, and 39.3% for completely cytoreduced patients after PDS versus 43.8%, 12.5%, and 12.5% for completely cytoreduced patients after IDS (P= 0.001); and 2-year, 5-year, and 7-year overall survival were 96.4%, 69.3%, and 50.4% for the former versus 87.1%, 41.8%, and 32.6% for the latter (P= 0.001).ConclusionsThe clinical outcome of completely cytoreduced patients was significantly better for PDS group than for IDS group, and therefore, the achievement of no gross RD after surgery seemed to have a different prognostic relevance for the 2 groups.


2021 ◽  
Vol 6 (2) ◽  
pp. 37-44
Author(s):  
Bindu SM ◽  
PL Rema ◽  
Praveen Jacob Ninan

Introduction: Breast cancer is the most common cancer, majority of patients present in advanced stage and 30% develop distant metastasis. Metastatic Breast Cancer (MBC) is not curable and treatment aims at prolongation of life with good palliation. There is no standard treatment, though the usual first and second lines of chemotherapy include anthracyclines and taxanes. The third line chemo drugs available are gemcitabine, capecitabine, vinorelbine and eribulinmesylate Materials and Methods: This is a retrospective study of MBC patients pretreated with anthracyclines and taxanes and then received 4 cycles of eribulin during the period March 2015-2017 in Medical College, Alappuzha and aims at studying the tumor response and drug toxicities. The tumor response is studied using CR-complete response, PR- partial response, PD-progressive disease and SD-stable disease. Results: There were a total of 18 patients, majority of whom were below 50 years. ECOG performance status of 0-1 was found in 83.3% and 77.8% were receptor positive. No patient had CR, 66.7% of patients had PR, 22.2% had PD and 11.1% had SD. 61.1% of patients who had a PR had good performance status.55.6% of patients who were ERPR positive had a PR and 44.4% patients who were Her2neu positive had a PR. Most common toxicities detected were alopecia (83.3%), neutropenia (72.2%), fatigue (72.2%) and neurotoxicity (55.6%). Conclusion: Eribulin mesylate is a drug having good response with tolerable toxicities and can be considered in our population. Keywords: Metastatic breast cancer, eribulin mesylate, capecitabine.


2017 ◽  
Vol 35 (15_suppl) ◽  
pp. 11065-11065 ◽  
Author(s):  
Anna Maria Frezza ◽  
Naofumi Asano ◽  
Robin Jones ◽  
Ravin Ratan ◽  
Pawel Teterycz ◽  
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11065 Background: To report on a multi-institution retrospective study on the activity of anthracycline-based (Ab) and gemcitabine-based (Gb) regimens as well as pazopanib (P) in patients with advanced epithelioid sarcoma (ES) treated within 16 sarcoma reference centres in Europe, US and Japan. Methods: Patients with a histologically confirmed diagnosis of locally advanced/metastatic ES were selected. Classic and distal subtypes were defined based on morphology (WHO 2014). INI1 expression is under evaluation.Response was evaluated by RECIST.Progression-free survival (PFS) and overall survival (OS) were computed by Kaplan-Meier method. Results: Ninety ES patients were identified (Table 1). They were treated with Ab (72), Gb (30) and P (20); 25 pts received more than one treatment. The median follow-up for Ab, Gb and P groups was 32, 24 and 22 months, respectively. The response rate (RR) for Ab was 25% (95% CI 16%-37%), with a median PFS and OS of 6 and 17 months. The RR for Gb was 23% (95% CI 10% - 42%), with 1 complete response and a median PFS and OS of 5 and 20 months. In the P group, no objective responses were reported, and median PFS and OS were 3 and 9 months. A non-statistically significant trend towards a greater RR in proximal than classic subtype was seen in both Ab (27% vs 22%) and Gb (30% vs 13%) groups. Conclusions: This retrospective series, the largest currently available, confirms the activity of Ab and Gb in ES, with a similar RR and PFS in both groups. In this population, the value of P seems limited. These data may serve as a benchmark for trials of novel agents in ES. [Table: see text]


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