Primary iliocaval leiomyosarcomas : The path beyond surgery

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INTRODUCTION: Iliocaval leiomyosarcoma (ICLM) is a rare and aggressive form of sarcoma within the retroperitoneum. Surgery is the mainstay of treatment, with no consensus on the benefit of chemoradiotherapy in the neo/adjuvant setting. This study aims to describe the natural history of a chemotherapy-naïve ICLM treated in a tertiary cancer centre and to explore potential directions to improve oncological outcome.

MATERIALS AND METHODS: A prospective database was used to identify patient demographics, clinicopathological variables and oncological outcomes in 30 patients who underwent surgical resection in our institution for primary non-metastatic ICLM between 2003 and 2018.

RESULTS: There was no 90-day mortality. With a median follow-up time of 70.0 months (95% CI 52.6-87.4), 5/30 patients (16.7%) developed local recurrence while 11/30 (36.7%) developed distant metastatic disease. 1 patient (3.3%) developed both local and distant recurrence. Median overall survival of our cohort was 41.0 months (95% CI 33.6-48.4) and 5-year overall survival rate was 32.1%. Multivariate survival analysis using the Cox proportional hazard model identified tumour grade and blood loss of more than 600 mL as key prognostic factors in our model.

CONCLUSION: Management of ICLM should be centralised in high-volume sarcoma centres with expertise in the management of retroperitoneal sarcomas. Integration of tumour biology with a concerted effort to conduct conclusive multi-centre phase III in histological and molecularly defined sarcoma subgroups is necessary to improve patient outcome. We eagerly await the results of STRASS 2 study to gain more insights to the efficacy of neoadjuvant chemotherapy on patient prognosis.

Medienart:

E-Artikel

Erscheinungsjahr:

2020

Erschienen:

2020

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Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:46

Enthalten in:

European journal of surgical oncology : the journal of the European Society of Surgical Oncology and the British Association of Surgical Oncology - 46(2020), 5 vom: 15. Mai, Seite 893-897

Sprache:

Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

Ong, Chin-Ann J [VerfasserIn]
Smith, Myles J [VerfasserIn]
Snow, Hayden A [VerfasserIn]
Benson, Charlotte [VerfasserIn]
Jones, Robin L [VerfasserIn]
Hayes, Andrew J [VerfasserIn]
Strauss, Dirk C [VerfasserIn]

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Themen:

Chemotherapy
Iliocaval leiomyosarcoma
Inferior vena cava
Journal Article
Radiotherapy
Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't
Retroperitoneum
Surgery

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Date Completed 17.12.2020

Date Revised 07.12.2022

published: Print-Electronic

Citation Status MEDLINE

doi:

10.1016/j.ejso.2020.01.034

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PPN (Katalog-ID):

NLM306619296