Chronological interplay, clinical features, and treatments among patients with cancer and primary Sjögren's syndrome

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OBJECTIVE: While the incidence and type of blood malignancies are well documented amid primary Sjögren's syndrome patients (pSS), data focusing on solid neoplasms are more conflicting. We aimed to describe clinical, pathological, and immunological characteristics of pSS patients with cancers, along with the chronological interplay between the two conditions.

METHODS: Outcomes concerning both pSS and cancer were retrospectively collected from Montpellier University Hospital (tertiary center) between 2019 and 2020. pSS characteristics were compared to a control group of pSS patients without cancer.

RESULTS: A total of 165 patients with pSS were included: 55 patients with cancer (52 female, mean age 58.4 ± 10.4 years at pSS diagnosis; mean follow-up 10.5 ± 10.1 years, 12 patients had multiple cancers) and 110 controls without cancer. Characteristics of pSS patients with cancers were different from controls mostly for lymphoma prognosis factors. Among the 70 cancers, we recorded 55 solid neoplasms (whom 27 breast cancers and 8 lung cancers, and 82% of adenocarcinomas), with no evidence of disease at the end of follow-up in 85% of them. Among the 15 recorded blood malignancies, ten were lymphomas with an excellent prognosis. Regarding chronological interplay between cancer and pSS, most cancers (43%) were diagnosed close (± 5 years) to pSS diagnosis. Breast cancers were diagnosed before or close to pSS diagnosis (mean delay - 1.8 ± 13.0 years), at an early stage, with only two relapses (no cancer-related death), while lung cancers were diagnosed late after.

CONCLUSIONS: The tight chronological interplay between breast cancer and pSS and the intriguing pathological and immunological pattern of pSS in these patients suggest a hypothesis of immune control of cancer.

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E-Artikel

Erscheinungsjahr:

2023

Erschienen:

2023

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Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:72

Enthalten in:

Cancer immunology, immunotherapy : CII - 72(2023), 12 vom: 07. Dez., Seite 4309-4322

Sprache:

Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

Witkowski Durand Viel, Philine [VerfasserIn]
Henry, Kim [VerfasserIn]
Morel, Jacques [VerfasserIn]
Jacot, William [VerfasserIn]
Jorgensen, Christian [VerfasserIn]
Riviere, Sophie [VerfasserIn]
Maria, Alexandre Thibault Jacques [VerfasserIn]
Rigau, Valérie [VerfasserIn]
Le Quellec, Alain [VerfasserIn]
Goulabchand, Radjiv [VerfasserIn]
Guilpain, Philippe [VerfasserIn]

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Breast cancer
Cancer
Cancer–immune system interactions
Journal Article
Onco-immunology
Sjögren’s syndrome

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Date Completed 11.12.2023

Date Revised 26.04.2024

published: Print-Electronic

Citation Status MEDLINE

doi:

10.1007/s00262-023-03565-6

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NLM364301171