Immunosuppressive treatment and radiotherapy in kidney transplant patients: A systematic review.

Autor: Lancellotta V; UOC Radioterapia Oncologica, Dipartimento di Diagnostica per Immagini, Radioterapia Oncologica ed Ematologia, Fondazione Policlinico Universitario A. Gemelli IRCCS, Rome 00168, Rome, Italy., D'Aviero A; UOC Radioterapia Oncologica, Dipartimento di Diagnostica per Immagini, Radioterapia Oncologica ed Ematologia, Fondazione Policlinico Universitario A. Gemelli IRCCS, Rome 00168, Rome, Italy., Fionda B; UOC Radioterapia Oncologica, Dipartimento di Diagnostica per Immagini, Radioterapia Oncologica ed Ematologia, Fondazione Policlinico Universitario A. Gemelli IRCCS, Rome 00168, Rome, Italy. bruno.fionda@yahoo.it., Casà C; UOC Radioterapia Oncologica, Dipartimento di Diagnostica per Immagini, Radioterapia Oncologica ed Ematologia, Fondazione Policlinico Universitario A. Gemelli IRCCS, Rome 00168, Rome, Italy., Esposito I; UOC Radioterapia Oncologica, Dipartimento di Diagnostica per Immagini, Radioterapia Oncologica ed Ematologia, Fondazione Policlinico Universitario A. Gemelli IRCCS, Rome 00168, Rome, Italy., Preziosi F; UOC Radioterapia Oncologica, Dipartimento di Diagnostica per Immagini, Radioterapia Oncologica ed Ematologia, Fondazione Policlinico Universitario A. Gemelli IRCCS, Rome 00168, Rome, Italy., Acampora A; Sezione di Igiene, Dipartimento Universitario di Scienze della Vita e Sanità Pubblica, Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Rome 00168, Rome, Italy., Marazzi F; UOC Radioterapia Oncologica, Dipartimento di Diagnostica per Immagini, Radioterapia Oncologica ed Ematologia, Fondazione Policlinico Universitario A. Gemelli IRCCS, Rome 00168, Rome, Italy., Kovács G; Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Gemelli-INTERACTS, Rome, 00168 Rome, Italy., Jereczek-Fossa BA; Department of Oncology and Hemato-oncology, European Institute of Oncology, University of Milan, Milan 20141, Italy., Morganti AG; Radiotherapy Center, IRCCS Azienda Ospedaliero-Universitaria di Bologna, Bologna 40121, Italy., Valentini V; UOC Radioterapia Oncologica, Dipartimento di Diagnostica per Immagini, Radioterapia Oncologica ed Ematologia, Fondazione Policlinico Universitario A. Gemelli IRCCS, Rome 00168, Rome, Italy., Gambacorta MA; UOC Radioterapia Oncologica, Dipartimento di Diagnostica per Immagini, Radioterapia Oncologica ed Ematologia, Fondazione Policlinico Universitario A. Gemelli IRCCS, Rome 00168, Rome, Italy., Romagnoli J; Renal Transplant Unit, Fondazione Policlinico Universitario A. Gemelli IRCCS, Rome 00168, Rome, Italy., Tagliaferri L; Renal Transplant Unit, Fondazione Policlinico Universitario A. Gemelli IRCCS, Rome 00168, Rome, Italy.
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Zdroj: World journal of radiology [World J Radiol] 2022 Mar 28; Vol. 14 (3), pp. 60-69.
DOI: 10.4329/wjr.v14.i3.60
Abstrakt: Background: Immunosuppression (IS) therapy may contribute to cancer development. Some authors have proposed to reduce immunosuppression drugs dose in case of viral infections, in immunosuppression-related diseases, and in patients undergoing radiotherapy. The present analysis reports the results of a systematic review on kidney transplant recipients undergoing immunosuppression and radiotherapy.
Aim: To define if it is necessary reduce immunosuppression drugs during radiotherapy.
Methods: The literature search was based on three electronic databases (Pubmed, Scopus, and Web of Science) using selected keywords linked through the "AND" and "OR" Boolean operators to build specific strings for each electronic search engine. Two researchers independently screened the citations, and disagreement was resolved by discussion or through the intervention of a third author. The review was conducted and reported according to the PRISMA statement. Extracted data were narratively synthesized, and, where possible, frequencies, percentages, and ranges were calculated.
Results: The literature search resulted in 147 citations. After abstracts screening, 21 records were selected for full-text evaluation. Fifteen of these were excluded, leaving six papers considered suitable for analysis. There is still no clear evidence that withdrawing antimetabolites and/or calcineurin inhibitors and/or mammalian target of rapamycin-inhibitors, as opposed to continuing maintenance IS, improves patient survival in kidney transplant recipients with cancer undergoing radiotherapy. Only few retrospective studies on small cancer patient cohorts are available in this setting, but without comparison of different immunosuppression treatments. Even where immunosuppression therapy was described, patient survival seemed to be correlated only with cancer stage and type.
Conclusion: The results of this systematic review do not support the reduction of immunosuppression dose in patients undergoing radiotherapy.
Competing Interests: Conflict-of-interest statement: the authors reported no potential competing interest.
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