scholarly journals Long-term survival after self-expanding metallic stent or stoma decompression as bridge to surgery in acute malignant large bowel obstruction

BJS Open ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 5 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
T Axmarker ◽  
M Leffler ◽  
M Lepsenyi ◽  
H Thorlacius ◽  
I Syk
Keyword(s):  
Bowel Obstruction ◽  
Large Bowel ◽  
Disease Free Survival ◽  
Large Bowel Obstruction ◽  
Bridge To Surgery ◽  
Term Survival ◽  
Free Survival ◽  
Sems Group ◽  
Disease Free

Abstract Aim Self-expanding metallic stents (SEMS) as bridge to surgery have been questioned due to the fear of perforation and tumour spread. This study aimed to compare SEMS and stoma as bridge to surgery in acute malignant large bowel obstruction in the Swedish population. Method Medical records of patients identified via the Swedish Colorectal Cancer Register 2007–2009 were collected and scrutinized. The inclusion criterion was decompression intended as bridge to surgery due to acute malignant large bowel obstruction. Patients who underwent decompression for other causes or had bowel perforation were excluded. Primary endpoints were 5-year overall survival and 3-year disease-free survival. Secondary endpoints were 30-day morbidity and mortality rates. Results A total of 196 patients fulfilled the inclusion criterion (SEMS, 71, and stoma, 125 patients). There was no significant difference in sex, age, ASA score, TNM stage and adjuvant chemotherapy between the SEMS and stoma groups. No patient was treated with biological agents. Five-year overall survival was comparable in SEMS, 56 per cent (40 patients), and stoma groups, 48 per cent (60 patients), P = 0.260. Likewise, 3-year disease-free survival did not differ statistically significant, SEMS 73 per cent (43 of 59 patients), stoma 65 per cent (62 of 95 patients), P = 0.32. In the SEMS group, 1.4 per cent (one patient) did not fulfil resection surgery compared to 8.8 per cent (11 patients) in the stoma group (P = 0.040). Postoperative complication and 30-day postoperative mortality rates did not differ, whereas the duration of hospital stay and proportion of permanent stoma were lower in the SEMS group. Conclusion This nationwide registry-based study showed that long-term survival in patients with either SEMS or stoma as bridge to surgery in acute malignant large bowel obstruction were comparable. SEMS were associated with a lower rate of permanent stoma, higher rate of resection surgery and shorter duration of hospital stay.

Survival and long-term toxicities of biochemotherapy for metastatic melanoma

2007 ◽  
Vol 25 (18_suppl) ◽  
pp. 8553-8553
Author(s):  
D. R. Minor ◽  
J. Miller ◽  
M. Kashani-Sabet
Keyword(s):  
Residual Disease ◽  
Disease Free Survival ◽  
Progression Free Survival ◽  
High Dose ◽  
Consecutive Series ◽  
Term Survival ◽  
Free Survival ◽  
Long Term Survivors ◽  
Disease Free

8553 Purpose: Because long-term survival after therapy for advanced stage IV melanoma is rare, we thought it would be useful to examine our series of survivors treated with biochemotherapy for melanoma to analyze the characteristics of survivors and their chronic toxicities. Patients and Methods: We reviewed our previously reported (J Clin Oncol. 2005:23:16s suppl, abstract 7547) consecutive series of 38 patients treated between 9/02 and 7/04. They received 6 cycles of inpatient temozolomide, cisplatin, vinblastine, decrescendo high- dose iv IL-2 , and interferon followed by maintenance immunotherapy using IL-2 and sargramostim using the O’Day regimen (Clinical Cancer Res. 2002:8:2775).Two of the ten long-term survivors received surgery for resection of residual disease after achieving a partial response with biochemotherapy. Maintenance immunotherapy was given for 6 to 24 months after biochemotherapy. Results: The median progression- free survival was 7.3 months. No patient developed progression later than 17 months after the start of therapy with the progression-free survival curve level at 24%. Median overall survival was 16.2 months. 10 of the 38 patients are alive and disease-free off therapy after an average of 3.3 years follow-up. Durable complete responses were seen in visceral sites including lung, bone, and pericardium, with 8 of 10 long- term survivors having M1B or M1C disease. 3 patients have significant lymphedema related to prior surgery, radiation therapy, or both. 2 patients, one with pre-existing diabetes, have significant persisting neuropathy. 5 of the 10 patients are hypothyroid. Menstrual function returned in the three women under age 45 in this study. Conclusion: This series supports the findings from other series that biochemotherapy, like high-dose IL-2, can give prolonged disease-free survival. Survivors have a high incidence of hypothyroidism but neuropathy and lymphedema, which affected a minority of patients, were the most bothersome long-term toxicities. No significant financial relationships to disclose.

Resection of Single Metachronous Liver Metastases from Breast Cancer Stage I-II Yield Excellent Overall and Disease-Free Survival. Single Center Experience and Review of the Literature

2015 ◽  
Vol 32 (1) ◽  
pp. 52-59 ◽  
Author(s):  
Céline Vertriest ◽  
Giammauro Berardi ◽  
Federico Tomassini ◽  
Rudy Vanden Broucke ◽  
Herman Depypere ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Breast Cancer ◽  
Liver Metastases ◽  
Metastatic Cancer ◽  
Disease Free Survival ◽  
Stage I ◽  
Review Of The Literature ◽  
Term Survival ◽  
Free Survival ◽  
Disease Free

Purpose: Improved survival after liver resection for breast cancer liver metastases (BCLM) has been proven; however, there is still controversy on predictive factors influencing outcomes. The analysis of factors related to primary and metastatic cancer eventually influencing long-term outcomes and a review of the literature are presented in this report. Methods: Twenty-seven patients diagnosed with metachronous BCLM between 1996 and 2013 were retrospectively reviewed. Patients who had a minimum disease-free interval between primary tumor and liver metastasis of 12 months, no more than 3 liver lesions, no macroscopic extra-hepatic disease and in which systemic therapy showed a good response were included. Results: Twenty-two patients (82%) were initially diagnosed with a stage I-II disease. Twelve patients presented with multiple liver metastases. The 5 years overall survival (OS) rate was 78%, while the 5 years disease-free survival (DFS) rate was 36%. Initial tumor stage III-IV at first diagnosis and number of metastases >1 was significantly associated with a shorter DFS at multivariate analysis (p = 0.03 and p = 0.04 respectively). Patients with multiple lesions had a median DFS of 15 months compared to 47 months in patients with a single lesion (p = 0.03). Conclusions: Resection of single BCLM from primary stage I-II cancer offers very good long-term survival rates and a low morbidity.

Factors Predicting Long Term Survival after Reduced Intensity Allogeneic Stem Cell Transplantation in Acute Myeloid Leukemia.

Blood ◽  
2007 ◽  
Vol 110 (11) ◽  
pp. 326-326
Author(s):  
Charles F. Craddock ◽  
Sudhir Tauro ◽  
Joanne E. Gregory ◽  
Laura Buckley ◽  
Janice Ward ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Older Patients ◽  
Conditioning Regimen ◽  
Disease Free Survival ◽  
Term Survival ◽  
Free Survival ◽  
Long Term Follow Up ◽  
Disease Free ◽  
Reduced Intensity

Abstract Allogeneic stem cell transplantation (SCT) performed using a reduced intensity conditioning (RIC) regimen represents an important new treatment modality in older patients with high risk acute myeloid leukaemia (AML) whose outlook with conventional chemotherapy would be poor. However assessment of its role has been hampered by the absence of long term follow-up data. Furthermore factors determining survival after RIC SCT have not been rigorously defined. In order to examine the anti-leukemic activity of RIC allografts in more detail we have examined the outcome of 170 patients with AML transplanted using a uniform conditioning regimen over a ten year period. Long term follow-up data (maximum 119 months) was collected on patients transplanted using a conditioning regimen consisting of fludarabine (30 mg/m2 x 5 days), melphalan 140 mg/m2 x 1 day and alemtuzemab (10 mg x 5 days). The median age of transplanted patients was 54 years (range 18–71). 88 patients were in CR1 at the time of transplant, 63 CR2/3 and 19 had relapsed or refractory disease. Cytogenetic information was available on 149 patients and of these 33 patients had adverse risk and 116 intermediate risk cytogenetics by MRC criteria. 83 transplants were performed using an HLA identical sibling donor and 87 using a volunteer unrelated donor. The 100 day transplant related mortality was 9%. 29% of patients developed Grade II-IV acute GVHD and 22% chronic GVHD. The 3 year overall survival (OS) for the whole group was 48% and 3 year disease free survival (DFS) 45%. 20 patients remain in remission more than five years post-transplant. Survival was significantly influenced by status at transplant (p=0.01), patient age (p= 0.01) and presentation cytogenetics (p=0.05) as determined by multivariate Cox proportional hazards regression. The 3 yr OS for patients transplanted in CR1 or CR2 was 51% and 52% respectively compared to 13% for patients with relapsed/refractory disease. Three year OS for patients with intermediate risk cytogenetics was 52% compared with 34% for adverse risk patients. Three year OS for patients under 60 years was 51% compared with 36% for older patients. This study demonstrates the ability of RIC allografts to deliver encouraging long term disease free survival rates in high risk AML. Pre-transplant characteristics can be used to predict outcome after a RIC allograft and older patients with active disease at the time of transplant or adverse cytogenetics require novel strategies in order to improve long term survival.

Factors Affecting Long-Term Survival in Non-Transplanted Acute Myeloid Leukemia Patients.

Blood ◽  
2007 ◽  
Vol 110 (11) ◽  
pp. 4371-4371
Author(s):  
Anna H. Lof ◽  
Soren Lehmann
Keyword(s):  
Myeloid Leukemia ◽  
Disease Free Survival ◽  
Risk Groups ◽  
Intensive Chemotherapy ◽  
Survival Group ◽  
Term Survival ◽  
Free Survival ◽  
Disease Free ◽  
Acute Myeloid

Abstract Background: Acute myeloid leukemia (AML) is a heterogeneous clonal disorder of haemopoetic progenitor cells that can occur at any age but is most common in adults. Patients with AML are usually treated with combinations of chemotherapy and survial can be increased by allogenic hematopoietic stem cell transplantation (HSCT) in the intermediate and adverse cytogenetic risk groups. Few patients in these risk groups are long term survivors without HSCT. In order to study factors that are associated with long-term survival without HSCT, we performed a single center study on non-transplanted patients with disease-free survival more than two years. Methods: Non-transplanted AML patients alive and in CR at least two years after diagnose (survival group (S)) were compared to non-transplanted patients that died within two years of the AML diagnose (non-survival group (non-S)). The data collected were age, gender, months with AML, hemoglobine, white blood cells, platelets, peripheral blast cells and percentage of blasts in the bone marrow at the time of diagnose, FAB classification, karyotype, mode of treatment, infectious complications such as Hepatosplenic candidiasis (HSC). All patients were diagnosed with AML at The Hematology Center, Karolinska University Hospital in Huddinge from 1997 to 2007. Results: Of a total of 425 patients, only 18 patients were non-transplanted patients that could be assigned to the the S group.There were 94 persons in the control non-S group. There was a statistically significant difference in the gender distribution with more women in the S group than in the non-S group 89% versus 54% (p=0.02) and the average age was 61 years in the S group and 69 years in the non-S group (p=0.02). All the patients in the survival group had received intensive induction treatment compared to 59 (63%) patients in the non-S group. The patients not receiving intensive chemotherapy, received either substancially decreased doses of chemotherapy, including palliation, or decreased amount of days of chemotherapy. As expected, more patients in the S group had a favouble cytogenetic karyotype, 4 patients (22%) compared to 4 patients (4%) in the non-S group. Two patients in the S group had an adverse cytogenetic karyotype and these patients were 24 and 36 months from diagnose, repsectievely. Surprisingly, patients with HSC, considered to be a severe complication of AML and AML treatment, were significantly more frequent in the survival group 4 patients compared to 2 patients in the non-S group (p= <0.005). The diffrences in gender and HSC were still present when patients with favouble cytogenetic karyotype were excluded. Also when excluding patients who survived more then 60 days in the non-S group, and thus has the chance to develop HSC, the differences remained. Although, being a small study where the results need to be confirmed in a larger patient group, the results suggest that intensive chemotherapy is a prerequisite for long-term disease-free survival and that female gender is a good prognostic factor in these AML patients. Concerning the role of HSC for survival, more data is needed. from larger studies. However, our data supports the idea that the occurrence of HSC does not confer a worse prognosis in non-transplanted AML patients, and there may even be a association with improved survival. Possible reasons for this association may be immunologic activation by the fungal infection or interindividual differences in the pharmacokinetics of the chemotherapy agents, resulting in an association between higher drug concentrations, long neutropenia, fungal infections and improved antileukemic effect.

Long-term disease-free survival in small-cell carcinoma of the lung: a study of clinical determinants.

1986 ◽  
Vol 4 (9) ◽  
pp. 1307-1313 ◽  
Author(s):  
K Osterlind ◽  
H H Hansen ◽  
M Hansen ◽  
P Dombernowsky ◽  
P K Andersen
Keyword(s):  
Disease Free Survival ◽  
Small Cell ◽  
Long Term Results ◽  
Disease Extent ◽  
Term Survival ◽  
Free Survival ◽  
Long Term Survival ◽  
Stage Disease ◽  
Disease Free

The influence of treatment and of pretreatment patient characteristics on the probability of long-term disease-free survival in small-cell lung cancer (SCLC) was investigated in a consecutive series of 874 patients. The patients were included in six controlled treatment trials from 1973 to 1981, using different combinations of chemotherapy with or without irradiation. All patients underwent pretreatment staging, including bronchoscopy, peritoneoscopy with liver biopsy, and bone marrow examination. The same procedures were repeated in patients without overt signs of disease 18 months from initiation of treatment, and patients without evidence of SCLC were regarded as long-term survivors. Seventy-two patients were disease-free at restaging, corresponding to 13% of 443 patients with limited-stage disease and 3% of 431 patients with extensive-stage disease. The possible relationship between different pretreatment variables and the probability of 18 months' disease-free survival was investigated by multiple regression analysis. Disease extent was the most important determinant of long-term survival. Being a woman was a positive factor and hypouricemia had negative influence on the long-term results, while features such as performance status and serum lactate dehydrogenase (LDH) did not have significant influence in the regression model. Differences between the efficacy of the applied treatment regimens were less in limited disease than they were in extensive disease, in which six-agent regimens of alternating chemotherapy was significantly better than treatment with three- or four-agent regimens. Accordingly, disease extent seems to be the most pivotal determinant of long-term survival in SCLC, but influence of the patient's sex and serum urate concentration should also be considered.

Evolving Role of Hepatic Resection for Metastatic Urologic Malignancies

2017 ◽  
Vol 83 (6) ◽  
pp. 628-632 ◽  
Author(s):  
John B. Hamner ◽  
Mustafa Raoof ◽  
Sinziana Dumitra ◽  
Hans F. Schoellhammer ◽  
Carly Crowder ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Liver Resection ◽  
Hepatic Resection ◽  
Disease Free Survival ◽  
Perioperative Outcomes ◽  
R0 Resection ◽  
Term Survival ◽  
Free Survival ◽  
Urologic Malignancies ◽  
Disease Free

Liver resection for noncolorectal, nonneuroendocrine metastases remains controversial. Here, we evaluate a single institutional experience with hepatic resection for metastatic urologic malignancies. A single-institution review of patients who underwent hepatic resection for metastatic urologic tumors between the years of 2000 and 2013 was performed. Patient charts were analyzed for pathologic data and perioperative outcomes including short- and long-term morbidity, mortality, and overall and disease-free survival. Eleven patients were identified who underwent hepatic resection for metastatic urologic malignancy. The mean age was 63.5 years. All patients had an R0 resection. There were three major complications. Mean length of stay was 6.5 days and there was no 90-day mortality. Three patients have died of recurrent disease at an average of 11.2 months from resection to death. The remaining patients are still alive during a mean follow-up of 31.5 months. Five-year overall and disease-free survival was 50 and 21 months, respectively. Hepatic resection for metastatic urologic tumors is safe with low morbidity and mortality and durable long-term survival can be achieved. Liver resection for isolated hepatic disease should be considered for this rare metastatic disease to the liver.

P159 THE IMPACT OF POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS ON LONG-TERM SURVIVAL AND DISEASE RECURRENCE FOLLOWING OESOPHAGO-GASTRIC CANCER RESECTION

2019 ◽  
Vol 32 (Supplement_2) ◽  
Author(s):  
J H Saunders ◽  
F Yanni ◽  
M S Dorrington ◽  
C R Bowman ◽  
R S Vohra ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Overall Survival ◽  
Postoperative Complications ◽  
Disease Free Survival ◽  
Disease Recurrence ◽  
Term Survival ◽  
Free Survival ◽  
Long Term Survival ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Disease Free

Abstract Aim Postoperative complications following the resection of oesophago-gastric carcinoma can result in considerable early morbidity and mortality, however the long-term effects are less clear. Literature reports are mixed, so it remains unclear if complications reduce survival, as has been demonstrated in colorectal cancer. Background & Methods Some 1100 patients who underwent oesophago-gastric resection between 2006-16 were stratified by complication severity to determine the effect of leak and severe non-leak related complications on overall survival, recurrence and disease free survival. Results The median age was 69 years, 48% had stage III disease, with cancer recurrence in 39%. Clavien-Dindo (CD) complications ≥ III occurred in 22.2% of patients. The most common complications were pulmonary (30%), with a 13% incidence of pneumonia, 10% atrial dysrhythmia and 9.6% anastomotic leak. In comparison to CD 0-I complication free patients, those with CD III-IV leak did not suffer a significantly reduced survival. However patients with CD III-IV non-leak related complications were associated with a significant reduction in median overall survival (19.7 vs. 42.7 months) and disease free survival (18.4 vs. 36.4 months). Cox regression revealed age, stage, resection margin, and CD III-IV non-leak complications as independently associated with poor overall and disease free survival. Conclusion This cohort demonstrates that whilst leak does not affect long-term survival, other severe postoperative complications do significantly reduce overall survival and disease recurrence. A reduction in these complications, such as pneumonia, seen with adoption of hybrid / minimally invasive surgery may help change this pattern of disease recurrence and reduced survival.

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