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{"title":"Clinical Analysis of Extrapulmonary Neuroendocrine Carcinoma: A Retrospective and Single Institution Experience.","authors":"Taiki Okumura,&nbsp;Takuro Noguchi,&nbsp;Nodoka Sekiguchi,&nbsp;Takashi Kobayashi,&nbsp;Shintaro Kanda,&nbsp;Koichi Ida,&nbsp;Tomonori Minagawa,&nbsp;Shigeo Tokumaru,&nbsp;Takeji Umemura,&nbsp;Tomonobu Koizumi","doi":"10.1159/000527377","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1159/000527377","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Introduction: </strong>Extrapulmonary neuroendocrine carcinoma (EPNEC) is a clinicopathological entity distinct from neuroendocrine carcinoma of the lung. Here, we reviewed the clinical features, treatment modalities, and prognosis of EPNEC patients in a single-institution series.</p><p><strong>Methods: </strong>We retrospectively reviewed the medical records of EPNEC patients and examined the clinical profiles and treatment outcomes at our hospital between 2013 and 2021.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>Thirty-one EPNEC patients (21 men and 10 women) with a median age of 65 years were included. The primary sites were as follows: stomach (n = 7); rectum and bladder (n = 3 each); prostate, esophagus, cervix, and pancreas (n = 2 each); maxillary sinus, parotid gland, gallbladder, anal canal, larynx, uterine body, ovary, appendix, anterior mediastinum, and unknown primary lesion (n = 1 each). Thirteen patients had locally advanced stage and 18 cases had distant metastases. Chemotherapy using platinum-combined CPT-11 or VP-16 was mainly performed. Various therapeutic modalities were used, especially in locally advanced cases. Ten patients underwent surgery, including initial surgery in 5 and conversion in 5 after chemotherapy. The response rate to initial chemotherapy was 56.5%, and the median overall survival in all patients was 12.8 (95% CI: 9.6-34.5) months. Survival was significantly longer in patients with locally advanced stage (80.3 months) and receiving surgery (not reached) than in those with metastatic disease (9.9 months) and without surgery (9.6 months).</p><p><strong>Conclusion: </strong>EPNEC occurs in various organs and has poor prognosis. Long-term survival may be possible with surgical resection in cases with early-stage disease or tumor shrinkage due to chemotherapy.</p>","PeriodicalId":10047,"journal":{"name":"Chemotherapy","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":3.3,"publicationDate":"2023-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"9936607","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Efficacy of PD-1 Inhibitors in First-Line Treatment for Advanced Gastroesophageal Junction and Gastric Cancer by Subgroups: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis.","authors":"Shengqi Fei, Yu Lu, Jing Chen, Jia Qi, Wenxuan Wu, Beidi Wang, Yaxuan Han, Kefan Wang, Xiaying Han, Haiyan Zhou, Jun Wang, Jian Chen","doi":"10.1159/000531457","DOIUrl":"10.1159/000531457","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Background: </strong>PD-1 inhibitors have been approved for the first-line treatment of patients with advanced gastric cancer, gastroesophageal junction cancer, or esophageal adenocarcinoma. However, the results of several clinical trials are not entirely consistent, and the dominant population of first-line immunotherapy for advanced gastric/gastroesophageal junction cancer still needs to be precisely determined.</p><p><strong>Objective: </strong>This objective of this study is to evaluate the efficacy of anti-PD-1/PD-L1 therapy in advanced gastric/gastroesophageal junction adenocarcinoma patients through a systematic review and meta-analysis of relevant clinical trials.</p><p><strong>Method: </strong>The PubMed, Embase, and Cochrane Library electronic databases were searched up to August 1, 2022, for clinical trials of anti-PD-1/PD-L1 immunotherapy for the first-line treatment of advanced gastroesophageal cancer. Hazard ratios and 95% confidence intervals for overall survival, progression-free survival, and objective response rates were extracted and pooled for meta-analysis. Prespecified subgroups included the following: agent type, PD-L1 expression, and high microsatellite instability.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>This study analyzed 5 RCTs involving 3,355 patients. Compared with the chemotherapy group, the combined immunotherapy group had a significantly higher objective response rate (OR = 0.63, 95% CI: 0.55-0.72, p &lt; 0.00001) and prolonged overall survival (HR = 0.82, 95% CI: 0.76-0.88, p &lt; 0.00001) and progression-free survival (HR = 0.75, 95% CI: 0.69-0.82, p &lt; 0.00001). The combination of immunotherapy and chemotherapy prolonged OS in both MSI-H (HR = 0.38, p = 0.002) and MSS (HR = 0.78, p &lt; 0.00001) populations, but there was a significant difference between groups (p = 0.02). However, in improving ORR, the benefit of ICI combined with chemotherapy in the MSS group and MSI-H group was not significantly different between groups (p = 0.52). Combination therapy with ICIs was more effective than chemotherapy alone in prolonging OS in the subgroup with a high CPS, regardless of the CPS cutoff for PD-L1. However, when the cutoff of CPS was 1, the difference between subgroups did not reach statistical significance (p = 0.12), while the benefit ratio of the MSI-H group was higher when the cutoff was 10 (p = 0.004) than when the cutoff value was 5 (p = 0.002).</p><p><strong>Conclusions: </strong>For first-line treatment of advanced gastroesophageal cancer, an ICI combination strategy is more effective than chemotherapy. The subgroup of patients with a CPS ≥10 has a more significant benefit, and CPS ≥10 has the potential to be used as an accurate marker of the dominant population of immuno-combined therapy.</p>","PeriodicalId":10047,"journal":{"name":"Chemotherapy","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":3.3,"publicationDate":"2023-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"9657080","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Fulminant Type 1 Diabetes Mellitus Caused by Long-Term Nivolumab Administration Followed by Nivolumab plus Cabozantinib Combination.","authors":"Takamasa Homma,&nbsp;Norio Yoshida,&nbsp;Kuniaki Tanaka,&nbsp;Masaya Isemura,&nbsp;Shota Torii,&nbsp;Teruhisa Kinoshita,&nbsp;Hideki Esaki,&nbsp;Takashi Sakakibara,&nbsp;Norio Takimoto","doi":"10.1159/000527541","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1159/000527541","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Nivolumab, an immune checkpoint inhibitor (ICI), is now used to treat many advanced cancers, including non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) and renal cancer. Immune-related adverse events are characteristic side effects of ICIs. Among them, fulminant type 1 diabetes mellitus is an infrequent but potentially life-threatening and clinically significant concern. Cabozantinib is known as a multikinase inhibitor. In recent years, combination therapy with nivolumab and cabozantinib has begun to be used to treat renal cell carcinoma. A 74-year-old man with no history of diabetes was treated with nivolumab for 5 years for NSCLC, followed by the combination of nivolumab and cabozantinib for clear cell renal cell carcinoma. He was diagnosed with fulminant type 1 diabetes 5 weeks after starting combination therapy, with symptoms of nausea and dry mouth. He was admitted to the intensive care unit and improved clinically with continuous insulin infusion and saline. The involvement of cabozantinib in the development of fulminant type 1 diabetes with long-term nivolumab use, which has not been reported previously, is unknown, but caution may be necessary in terms of glycemic control in combination therapy with nivolumab and cabozantinib.</p>","PeriodicalId":10047,"journal":{"name":"Chemotherapy","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":3.3,"publicationDate":"2023-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"10599812","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Circulating Endothelial Cell Kinetic in Patients with Multiple Myeloma Who Receive Autologous Hematopoietic Stem Cell Transplantation.","authors":"Ombretta Annibali,&nbsp;Valeria Tomarchio,&nbsp;Chiara Gregorj,&nbsp;Melania Di Cerbo,&nbsp;Daniele Armiento,&nbsp;Lara Antonelli,&nbsp;Bruno Vincenzi,&nbsp;Carolina Nobile,&nbsp;Michele Vacca,&nbsp;Maria Cristina Tirindelli,&nbsp;Giuseppe Avvisati","doi":"10.1159/000529665","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1159/000529665","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Introduction: </strong>Neoangiogenesis has a crucial role in multiple myeloma (MM), and circulating endothelial cells (CECs) contribute to neovascularization by inducing tumor progression and metastasis and by repairing damage to bone marrow vasculature after stem cell transplantation (HSC). We recently proved in a national multicenter study the possibility to reach a high-level standardization in CEC count and analysis based on a polychromatic flow cytometry Lyotube (BD). Our study aimed at assessing the kinetics of CECs in patients with MM undergoing autologous hematopoietic stem cell transplantation (Au-HSCT).</p><p><strong>Methods: </strong>Blood samples for analysis were collected at different time points before (T0, T1) and after (T2, T3, T4) Au-HSCT. For each sample, 20 × 106 leukocytes were processed as already described (Lanuti 2016 e 2018) through a multistep procedure. CECs were eventually identified as 7-ADDneg/Syto16pos/CD45neg/CD34pos/CD146pos.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>Twenty-six MM patients were enrolled in the study. Overall, we observed a constant increase of CECs values from T0 to T3 (day of neutrophil engraftment) followed by decrease at T4 (100 days after transplantation). Using the median value of CECs at T3, we could define a cut-off concentration of 618/mL, with patients with more infective complications having CECs above that value (9/13 vs. 2/13; p = 0.005).</p><p><strong>Conclusion: </strong>CECs value may be a function of endothelial damage caused by conditioning regimen, as suggested by the increase of their level during the engraftment period. A more severe endothelial damage is reflected by the increase of infective complications in patients with higher CECs value at T3.</p>","PeriodicalId":10047,"journal":{"name":"Chemotherapy","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":3.3,"publicationDate":"2023-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"10226057","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Contents Vol. 67, 2022","authors":"","doi":"10.1159/000527907","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1159/000527907","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":10047,"journal":{"name":"Chemotherapy","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":3.3,"publicationDate":"2022-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"87360440","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Front & Back Matter","authors":"Girish M. Shah, Julia C. Stingl","doi":"10.1159/000526655","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1159/000526655","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":10047,"journal":{"name":"Chemotherapy","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":3.3,"publicationDate":"2022-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"87856991","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Paraneoplastic Demyelinating Inflammatory Neuropathy Revealing Metastatic Seminoma: A Case Report","authors":"F. Cherifi, O. Dereeper, A. Forestier, F. Joly, N. Penel","doi":"10.1159/000525154","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1159/000525154","url":null,"abstract":"Paraneoplastic neurological syndrome (PNS) is uncommon and not well known. PNS can reveal cancer, but its role in seminomas has not been described explicitly. We report the case of a 36-year-old man with unremarkable medical history and no comorbidities who was diagnosed with a retroperitoneal metastatic seminoma. The patient’s general condition deteriorated, and he developed progressive neurological palsy without other clinical anomalies. Electromyography revealed demyelinating, non-lengthy neuropathy. Guillain-Barré syndrome was initially suspected. However, a positron emission tomography scan revealed a retroperitoneal mass, and blood markers revealed increased human chorionic gonadotropin. The patient was diagnosed with PNS, and a computed tomography-guided biopsy revealed a metastatic seminoma without a primary tumor. No circulating neural antibodies were detected. Human polyvalent immunoglobulin was simultaneously administered with chemotherapy. After three cycles of a cisplatin-etoposide-bleomycin, a complete biological and metabolic response rate was observed, and his neurological symptoms rapidly improved. Four years later, the patient responded completely, without any neurological complaints. Paraneoplastic demyelinating inflammatory neuropathy can lead to advanced seminoma diagnosis. Prompt management of seminomas with cisplatin-based regimens provides the best chance of cure for both advanced seminoma and paraneoplastic syndrome.","PeriodicalId":10047,"journal":{"name":"Chemotherapy","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":3.3,"publicationDate":"2022-06-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"72592288","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Circular RNA hsa_circ_0068252 Functions in Cisplatin Resistance and Immune Response via miR-1304-5p/PD-L1 Axis in Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer","authors":"Jingjing Li, Jinhua Xu, Guofeng Wu, Yajun Ren, Xue Wang, Qianyun Zhang","doi":"10.1159/000525231","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1159/000525231","url":null,"abstract":"Background: Research suggests that circRNAs play important roles in non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC). The function of hsa_circ_0068252 in NSCLC, especially in cisplatin (DDP) resistance and the mechanisms, was explored in this study. Methods: NSCLC patient samples and two NSCLC cell lines along with corresponding DDP-resistant cell lines were used. Expression levels of circ_0068252 were detected. SiRNA for circ_0068252 and inhibitor for miRNA were used in all functional analyses. A co-culture system of NSCLC cells with CD8+ T cells was used. The cellular location of circ_0068252 was detected and its target miRNA was predicted and verified. Finally, the mechanism responsible for circ_0068252 function on PD-L1 was analyzed using luciferase reporter assay in the two DDP-resistant cell lines, as well as in the co-culture system. The cytotoxicity of T cells was detected by lactate dehydrogenase assay. Results: Our findings revealed that a high level of circ_0068252 was correlated with poor prognosis of NSCLC and DDP resistance. Knockdown of circ_0068252 could promote the sensitivity of DDP-resistant NSCLC cells to DDP. Moreover, knockdown of circ_0068252 could regulate the immune microenvironment which was mediated via CD8+ T cells. Finally, circ_0068252 could up-regulate PD-L1 expression by adsorbing miR-1304-5p. Conclusion: The circ_0068252/miR-1304-5p/PD-L1 signal axis participates in the regulation of DDP resistance and immune escape of NSCLC cells. Our results suggest that circ_0068252 may be a potential diagnostic marker and therapeutic target for DDP-resistant NSCLC.","PeriodicalId":10047,"journal":{"name":"Chemotherapy","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":3.3,"publicationDate":"2022-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"76023749","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Hepatosplenic T-Cell Non-Hodgkin Lymphoma Cured with Tandem Autologous and Allogeneic Stem Cell Transplantation","authors":"G. Lolli, B. Casadei, V. Stefoni, L. Argnani, F. Bonifazi, P. Zinzani","doi":"10.1159/000524891","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1159/000524891","url":null,"abstract":"Hepatosplenic T-cell lymphoma is a very difficult lymphoma to deal with, almost impossible to cure. “Tandem” consolidation therapy with auto-stem cell transplant and allo-stem cell transplant can induce a long-lasting response and potentially cure this disease.","PeriodicalId":10047,"journal":{"name":"Chemotherapy","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":3.3,"publicationDate":"2022-05-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"81350926","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Venetoclax in Combination with Hypomethylating Agents for the Treatment of Treatment-Naive B/Myeloid Mixed-Phenotype Acute Leukemia and Relapsed/Refractory Acute Myeloid Leukemia: A Report of 3 Cases","authors":"Na Wang, Jing He, Fang Liu","doi":"10.1159/000519882","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1159/000519882","url":null,"abstract":"B/myeloid mixed-phenotype acute leukemia (MPAL) is an uncommon and aggressive leukemia without well-established treatment guidelines and has an inferior outcome. Relapsed/refractory (R/R) acute myeloid leukemia (AML) that is ineligible for aggressive chemotherapy regimens and allogeneic hematopoietic stem-cell transplantation has an extremely poor prognosis. The novel regimen of venetoclax (VEN) combined with hypomethylating agents (HMAs) has a synergistic therapeutic effect and a tolerable safety profile, which has been officially approved by the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for newly diagnosed AML in adults who are 75 years or older or patients precluding intensive induction chemotherapy. For R/R and other rare types of AML, no consensus has been reached on the efficacy of VEN-HMA. In addition, there is no available report on treatment-naive B/myeloid MPAL with VEN-HMA. Herein, we present 3 cases of VEN-HMA in treatment-naive B/myeloid MPAL and R/R AML. Its potential efficacy is worthy of further exploration in future researches.","PeriodicalId":10047,"journal":{"name":"Chemotherapy","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":3.3,"publicationDate":"2022-03-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"79897918","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}