Paul Franques, Pierre Moreau, Camille Evrard, Arnaud Chong-Si-Tsaon, Éric Frouin, Marie-Luce Auriault, Valérie Moulin, Audelaure Junca, Julie Godet, Lucie Lebeau, Roxane Aguillon, Gaëlle Tachon, Lucie Karayan-Tapon, David Tougeron
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Abstract
Background: Colorectal cancers (CRC) with deficient mismatch repair system and/or microsatellite instability-high (dMMR/MSI-H) phenotype represent about 12% of CRC. dMMR/MSI-H CRC is due to a germline mutation (Lynch syndrome, LS) or an age-related epigenetic mechanism, mostly by hypermethylation of MLH1 promoter (sporadic cases). It is well recognized that patients with LS have a high lifetime risk of various dMMR/MSI-H cancers, but there are no data concerning the risk of a second cancer in sporadic dMMR/MSI-H CRC.
Objectives: The main objective of this study was to determine the risk of having another primary cancer (APC) in patients with dMMR/MSI-H CRC. We also collected these tumors to determine their MMR phenotype.
Design: We used a prospective cohort of 484 well-characterized patients with dMMR/MSI-H CRC to describe their risk of having APC.
Methods: We evaluated the occurrence of APC (before or after the occurrence of the dMMR/MSI-H CRC) according to LS versus sporadic status, whatever the stage or the tumor site. The characteristics of the two groups, with and without APC, and LS versus sporadic status were compared.
Results: Among the 484 patients with dMMR/MSI-H CRC, we identified 116 patients with a previous or a second primary tumor (24.0%), with an average of 1.4 tumors per patient in addition to the dMMR/MSI-H CRC. The most frequent tumor sites were skin (24.7%) and breast (18.5%). Regarding the occurrence of APC, we found no difference between patients with LS-related dMMR/MSI-H CRC group (25.0%) and those with sporadic dMMR/MSI-H CRC (24.8%). No risk factor was associated with the occurrence of APC in our cohort, in the LS or sporadic cases subgroup. In the sporadic group, 3.8% of APC had a dMMR/MSI-H phenotype as compared to 50.0% in the LS group.
Conclusion: It seems important to follow patients with a history of dMMR/MSI-H CRC due to the high risk of second tumors, even in sporadic cases. Second cancers in patients with sporadic dMMR/MSI-H CRC are rarely associated with a dMMR/MSI-H phenotype.
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Therapeutic Advances in Gastroenterology is an open access journal which delivers the highest quality peer-reviewed original research articles, reviews, and scholarly comment on pioneering efforts and innovative studies in the medical treatment of gastrointestinal and hepatic disorders. The journal has a strong clinical and pharmacological focus and is aimed at an international audience of clinicians and researchers in gastroenterology and related disciplines, providing an online forum for rapid dissemination of recent research and perspectives in this area.
The editors welcome original research articles across all areas of gastroenterology and hepatology.
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