Synchronous versus metachronous brain metastasis from testicular germ cell tumors (TGCT): an analysis from the Spanish Germ Cell Cancer Group data base
| Autor: | Sergio Vazquez-Estevez, X. Garcia del Muro, J. P. Maroto, Alfredo Sanchez-Hernandez, A. Saenz, Enrique Gallardo, N. Sagastibelza, J.A. Arranz Arija, Alba Hernández, Jorge Aparicio, D. Almenar-Cubells, Javier Sastre, J. Terrasa, J. R. Germa-Lluch, M. López Brea, Carmen Santander, Elena Cillan, Enrique Gonzalez-Billalabeitia, Regina Gironés, P. Roure |
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| Rok vydání: | 2014 |
| Předmět: |
Oncology
Adult Male Cancer Research medicine.medical_specialty Data base Adolescent Survival Epidemiology medicine.medical_treatment Testicular Germ Cell Tumor Germ cell tumors Neurosurgery Prognostic factors Embryonal carcinoma Young Adult Testicular Neoplasms Internal medicine Antineoplastic Combined Chemotherapy Protocols medicine Humans Chemotherapy Survival analysis business.industry Brain Neoplasms Holocraneal radiotherapy Brain metastases General Medicine Middle Aged Neoplasms Germ Cell and Embryonal medicine.disease Primary tumor Survival Analysis medicine.anatomical_structure business Germ cell Brain metastasis |
| Zdroj: | Clinical & Translational Oncology r-IIB SANT PAU. Repositorio Institucional de Producción Científica del Instituto de Investigación Biomédica Sant Pau instname |
| ISSN: | 1699-048X |
| Popis: | Brain metastases of testicular germ cell tumor (TGCT) are a rare event. Prognostic is poor and there is not much evidence on optimal management of these patients. A review of case records of germ cell tumor patients within the Spanish Germ Cell Cancer Group data base from 1994 to 2012 was conducted. Thirty-three out of 6,200 cases (0.5 %). Nineteen patients (57 %) group 1: synchronous, 13 (40 %) group 2: metachronous and only one developed brain metastasis during cisplatin-based chemotherapy (excluded from the analysis). Median serum BHCG levels at initial diagnosis was higher in group 1, whereas elevated AFP serum levels were more common in group 2. Histology in the primary tumor: chorionic carcinoma for group 1 versus embryonal carcinoma for group 2. Mainly solitary brain metastasis in group 2 (54 versus 21 %, respectively). The median overall survival from the diagnosis of central nervous system involvement was 16 months for group 1 (CI 95 % 13.9-18) and 23 months (95 % CI 0-165) for group 2 (log rank p = 0.84). Long-term survivors were practically identical in the two groups (38.9 % group 1 versus 38.5 % group 2). Regardless of the timing of brain metastasis, those patients that achieved complete response to the treatment had better survival (log rank p 0.003). Although some distinctive clinical characteristics have been found between patients with synchronous versus metachronous brain metastasis from TGCT, the timing of brain metastasis did not seem to have prognostic influence, but due to the retrospective nature of the analysis and the results should be interpreted with caution. |
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