Anti-VEGF Therapy Possibly Extends Survival in Patients With Colorectal Brain Metastasis by Protecting Patients From Neurologic Disability

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BACKGROUND: Colorectal brain metastases (CBMs) are rare with poor prognosis. There is still no standard systemic treatment for multiple or unresectable CBM. our study aimed to explore the impact of anti-VEGF therapy on overall survival, brain-specific disease control, and neurologic symptom burden in patients with CBM.

METHODS: A total of 65 patients with CBM under treatment were retrospectively enrolled and divided into anti-VEGF based systemic therapy or non-anti-VEGF based therapy. A total of 25 patients who received at least 3 cycles of anti-VEGF agent and 40 patients without anti-VEGF therapy were analyzed by endpoints of overall survival (OS), progression-free survival (PFS), intracranial PFS (iPFS) and neurogenic event-free survival (nEFS). Gene expression in paired primary metastatic colorectal cancer (mCRC), liver, lung and brain metastasis from NCBI data was analyzed using top Gene Ontology (GO) and cBioPortal.

RESULTS: Patients who treated with anti-VEGF therapy had significantly longer OS (19.5 vs. 5.5 months, P = .009), iPFS (14.6 vs. 4.1 months, P < .001) and nEFS (17.6 vs. 4.4 months, P < .001). Patients who received anti-VEGF therapy beyond any disease progression presented with superior OS (19.7 vs. 9.4 months, P = .039). Top GO and cBioPortal analysis revealed a stronger molecular function of angiogenesis in intracranial metastasis.

CONCLUSIONS: Anti-VEGF based systemic therapy showed favorable efficacy that was reflected in longer overall survival, iPFS and NEFS in patients with CBM.

Medienart:

E-Artikel

Erscheinungsjahr:

2023

Erschienen:

2023

Enthalten in:

Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:22

Enthalten in:

Clinical colorectal cancer - 22(2023), 3 vom: 23. Sept., Seite 267-279

Sprache:

Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

Chen, Chih-Wen [VerfasserIn]
Ou, Tao-Shen [VerfasserIn]
Chen, Wei-Shone [VerfasserIn]
Jiang, Jeng-Kai [VerfasserIn]
Yang, Shung-Haur [VerfasserIn]
Wang, Huann-Sheng [VerfasserIn]
Chang, Shih-Ching [VerfasserIn]
Lan, Yuan-Tzu [VerfasserIn]
Lin, Chun-Chi [VerfasserIn]
Lin, Hung-Hsin [VerfasserIn]
Huang, Sheng-Chieh [VerfasserIn]
Cheng, Hou-Hsuan [VerfasserIn]
Yang, Yi-Wen [VerfasserIn]
Lin, Yu-Zu [VerfasserIn]
Chao, Yee [VerfasserIn]
Wang, Ling-Wei [VerfasserIn]
Teng, Hao-Wei [VerfasserIn]

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Themen:

Anti-angiogenesis therapy
Colorectal cancer
Gene Ontology
Journal Article
Overall Survival

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Date Completed 29.08.2023

Date Revised 30.08.2023

published: Print-Electronic

Citation Status MEDLINE

doi:

10.1016/j.clcc.2023.03.003

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PPN (Katalog-ID):

NLM356020940