{"title":"RE: Outcomes after solid organ transplantation in survivors of childhood, adolescent, and young adult cancer: a population-based study.","authors":"Linkun Shen, Sheng Li","doi":"10.1093/jnci/djaf185","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/jnci/djaf185","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":14809,"journal":{"name":"JNCI Journal of the National Cancer Institute","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":9.9,"publicationDate":"2025-07-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144637052","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Paul C Nathan, Cindy Lau, Vicky L Ng, Mar Miserachs, Chia Wei Teoh, Melinda Solomon, Anne I Dipchand, Maria Locke, Sumit Gupta
{"title":"Response to Shen and Li.","authors":"Paul C Nathan, Cindy Lau, Vicky L Ng, Mar Miserachs, Chia Wei Teoh, Melinda Solomon, Anne I Dipchand, Maria Locke, Sumit Gupta","doi":"10.1093/jnci/djaf186","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/jnci/djaf186","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":14809,"journal":{"name":"JNCI Journal of the National Cancer Institute","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":9.9,"publicationDate":"2025-07-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144637053","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"RE: Post-diagnosis dietary and lifestyle factors and mortality outcomes among colorectal cancer patients: a meta-analysis.","authors":"Jingda Xu, Ting Lou, Long Xu","doi":"10.1093/jnci/djaf168","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/jnci/djaf168","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":14809,"journal":{"name":"JNCI Journal of the National Cancer Institute","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":9.9,"publicationDate":"2025-07-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144560176","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Response to Xu, Lou, and Xu.","authors":"Qiao-Yi Chen, NaNa Keum, Edward L Giovannucci","doi":"10.1093/jnci/djaf169","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/jnci/djaf169","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":14809,"journal":{"name":"JNCI Journal of the National Cancer Institute","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":9.9,"publicationDate":"2025-07-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144560177","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Margherita Rimini, Lorenzo Fornaro, Federica Lo Prinzi, Mario Domenico Rizzato, Anna Saborowski, Lorenzo Antonuzzo, Federico Rossari, Tomoyuki Satake, Frederik Peeters, Caterina Vivaldi, Tiziana Pressiani, Jessica Lucchetti, Jin Won Kim, Oluseyi Abidoye, Ilario Giovanni Rapposelli, Stefano Tamberi, Fabian Finkelmeier, Guido Giordano, Federico Nichetti, Hong Jae Chon, Chiara Braconi, Aitzaz Qaisar, Chiara Pirrone, Florian Castet, Emiliano Tamburini, Changhoon Yoo, Alessandro Parisi, Anna Diana, Mario Scartozzi, Gerald W Prager, Antonio Avallone, Salvatore Corallo, Marta Schirripa, Il Hwan Kim, Lukas Perkhofer, Ester Oneda, Monica Verrico, Jorge Adeva, Stephen L Chan, Gian Paolo Spinelli, Nicola Personeni, Ingrid Garajova, Maria Grazia Rodriquenz, Silvana Leo, Cecilia Melo Alvim, Ricardo Roque, Giovanni Farinea, Francesca Salani, Antonio De Rosa, Daniele Lavacchi, Silvia Camera, Masafumi Ikeda, Jeroen Dekervel, Monica Niger, Rita Balsano, Giuseppe Tonini, Minsu Kang, Tanios Bekaii-Saab, Luca Esposito, Alessandra Boccaccino, Vera Himmelsbach, Matteo Landriscina, Selma Ahcene Djaballah, Valentina Zanuso, Umberto Malapelle, Francesco Pepe, Gianluca Masi, Arndt Vogel, Sara Lonardi, Lorenza Rimassa, Andrea Casadei-Gardini
{"title":"The impact of molecular alterations in patients with advanced biliary tract cancer receiving cisplatin, gemcitabine and durvalumab: a large real-life worldwide population.","authors":"Margherita Rimini, Lorenzo Fornaro, Federica Lo Prinzi, Mario Domenico Rizzato, Anna Saborowski, Lorenzo Antonuzzo, Federico Rossari, Tomoyuki Satake, Frederik Peeters, Caterina Vivaldi, Tiziana Pressiani, Jessica Lucchetti, Jin Won Kim, Oluseyi Abidoye, Ilario Giovanni Rapposelli, Stefano Tamberi, Fabian Finkelmeier, Guido Giordano, Federico Nichetti, Hong Jae Chon, Chiara Braconi, Aitzaz Qaisar, Chiara Pirrone, Florian Castet, Emiliano Tamburini, Changhoon Yoo, Alessandro Parisi, Anna Diana, Mario Scartozzi, Gerald W Prager, Antonio Avallone, Salvatore Corallo, Marta Schirripa, Il Hwan Kim, Lukas Perkhofer, Ester Oneda, Monica Verrico, Jorge Adeva, Stephen L Chan, Gian Paolo Spinelli, Nicola Personeni, Ingrid Garajova, Maria Grazia Rodriquenz, Silvana Leo, Cecilia Melo Alvim, Ricardo Roque, Giovanni Farinea, Francesca Salani, Antonio De Rosa, Daniele Lavacchi, Silvia Camera, Masafumi Ikeda, Jeroen Dekervel, Monica Niger, Rita Balsano, Giuseppe Tonini, Minsu Kang, Tanios Bekaii-Saab, Luca Esposito, Alessandra Boccaccino, Vera Himmelsbach, Matteo Landriscina, Selma Ahcene Djaballah, Valentina Zanuso, Umberto Malapelle, Francesco Pepe, Gianluca Masi, Arndt Vogel, Sara Lonardi, Lorenza Rimassa, Andrea Casadei-Gardini","doi":"10.1093/jnci/djaf155","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/jnci/djaf155","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Background & aims: </strong>Cisplatin, gemcitabine, and durvalumab (CGD) combination is a standard first-line treatment for advanced biliary tract cancer (BTC). This study aimed to assess the impact of genetic alterations on outcomes in patients with advanced BTC treated with CGD in real-world clinical practice.</p><p><strong>Methods: </strong>Patients with unresectable, locally advanced, or metastatic BTC treated with CGD across 39 centers in 11 countries (Europe, United States, and Asia) were included in this analysis.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>The cohort included 513 patients with advanced BTC. The five most frequently altered genes were TP53 (22.1%), KRAS (13.7%), CDKN2A/B (13.6%), ARID1A (12.2%), and IDH1 (9.2%). In multivariate analysis, SMAD4 mutations were associated with improved progression-free survival (PFS) (HR 0.49, p = .018) and overall survival (OS) (HR 0.11, p = .023), while TP53 mutations were linked to worse PFS (HR 1.62, p = .0047) and TERT mutations to worse OS (HR 8.92, p = .0012). No other genomic alterations were significantly associated with outcomes.Subgroup analysis showed that TP53 mutations negatively impacted PFS and OS in intrahepatic cholangiocarcinoma (iCCA), while KRAS mutations were associated with poorer PFS in extrahepatic cholangiocarcinoma (eCCA). No gene alterations were linked to outcomes in gallbladder cancer.</p><p><strong>Conclusions: </strong>This large-scale analysis, with comprehensive molecular profiling, supports the positive prognostic impact of SMAD4 mutations for PFS and OS and highlights the negative prognostic roles of TP53 (PFS) and TERT (OS) mutations, providing valuable insights for personalized treatment strategies in BTC.</p>","PeriodicalId":14809,"journal":{"name":"JNCI Journal of the National Cancer Institute","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":9.9,"publicationDate":"2025-07-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144560178","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"RE: Influence of endoxifen on mammographic density: results from the KARISMA-Tam trial.","authors":"Tong Zhu, Yinping Jiang, Xudong Zhu","doi":"10.1093/jnci/djaf159","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/jnci/djaf159","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":14809,"journal":{"name":"JNCI Journal of the National Cancer Institute","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":9.9,"publicationDate":"2025-07-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144540264","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Leticia M Nogueira, K Robin Yabroff, Elizabeth Yates, James M Shultz, R Burciaga Valdez, Amruta Nori-Sarma
{"title":"Facility exposure to wildfire disasters and hospital length of stay following lung cancer surgery.","authors":"Leticia M Nogueira, K Robin Yabroff, Elizabeth Yates, James M Shultz, R Burciaga Valdez, Amruta Nori-Sarma","doi":"10.1093/jnci/djaf040","DOIUrl":"10.1093/jnci/djaf040","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Background: </strong>Wildfires pose substantial health and safety threats to patients recovering from lung cancer surgery. Without specific disaster preparedness guidelines, surgical oncologists might resort to improvisational strategies, such as extending post-operative length of stay (LOS) to support surgical recovery and better protect the health and safety of patients.</p><p><strong>Methods: </strong>Individuals aged ≥18 years who received curative-intent lobectomy or pneumonectomy for stage I-III non-small-cell lung cancer between 2004 and 2021 were selected from the National Cancer Database. Exposure was defined as a Federal Emergency Management Agency wildfire Presidential Disaster Declaration in the county of the treating facility between the date of surgery and the date of discharge from the hospital. Differences in the cumulative distribution function of LOS were evaluated between exposed and propensity score-matched unexposed patients treated at the same facility.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>Patients exposed to a wildfire disaster declaration in the county of the treating facility had longer LOS than unexposed patients (9.4 days compared to 7.5 days, respectively; P < .001) overall and for each stage (I-III) for which surgery is the recommended treatment modality.</p><p><strong>Conclusions: </strong>Patients whose facility was impacted by a wildfire disaster during recovery from lung cancer surgery had longer LOS than similar patients treated at the same facility but at times when no disaster occurred. Such findings complicate the use of LOS as a post-operative quality metric. Future studies should evaluate whether extended hospital stay improves surgical care outcomes during disasters. Moreover, these findings should be considered for disaster preparedness guidelines tailored to vulnerable patient populations.</p>","PeriodicalId":14809,"journal":{"name":"JNCI Journal of the National Cancer Institute","volume":" ","pages":"1360-1365"},"PeriodicalIF":9.9,"publicationDate":"2025-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143596993","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Archie Bleyer, Lynn A G Ries, Danielle B Cameron, Sara A Mansfield, Stuart E Siegel, Ronald D Barr
{"title":"Response to Siegel, Kratzer, Smith et al.","authors":"Archie Bleyer, Lynn A G Ries, Danielle B Cameron, Sara A Mansfield, Stuart E Siegel, Ronald D Barr","doi":"10.1093/jnci/djaf096","DOIUrl":"10.1093/jnci/djaf096","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":14809,"journal":{"name":"JNCI Journal of the National Cancer Institute","volume":" ","pages":"1518-1519"},"PeriodicalIF":9.9,"publicationDate":"2025-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144173614","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Correction to: Survival in Young-Onset Metastatic Colorectal Cancer: Findings From Cancer and Leukemia Group B (Alliance)/SWOG 80405.","authors":"","doi":"10.1093/jnci/djaf124","DOIUrl":"10.1093/jnci/djaf124","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":14809,"journal":{"name":"JNCI Journal of the National Cancer Institute","volume":" ","pages":"1525"},"PeriodicalIF":9.9,"publicationDate":"2025-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144187043","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Payal Kapur, Hua Zhong, Alana Christie, Haitao Xu, Qi Cai, Ellen Araj, David Kim, Jeffrey Miyata, Vanina T Tcheuyap, Colleen T Ball, David D Thiel, Alexander Parker, Samuel O Antwi, Brad C Leibovich, Zora Modrusan, John C Cheville, James Brugarolas
{"title":"Determinants of late metastases in renal cell carcinoma.","authors":"Payal Kapur, Hua Zhong, Alana Christie, Haitao Xu, Qi Cai, Ellen Araj, David Kim, Jeffrey Miyata, Vanina T Tcheuyap, Colleen T Ball, David D Thiel, Alexander Parker, Samuel O Antwi, Brad C Leibovich, Zora Modrusan, John C Cheville, James Brugarolas","doi":"10.1093/jnci/djaf060","DOIUrl":"10.1093/jnci/djaf060","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Background: </strong>The mechanisms underlying metastatic latency in renal cell carcinoma (RCC) remain poorly understood.</p><p><strong>Methods: </strong>This study evaluated 2 large independent cohorts for differences in tumor biology between patients who developed metastases early (≤1 year after nephrectomy) and those with late onset (>3 years).</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>In the discovery cohort (n = 161), late metastatic RCC was associated with clear cell histology (88.9% vs 78.7%), lower pathological stage (pT1-2; 40.3% vs 18.0%), and favorable histopathological features including low grade (40.0% vs 2.3%), less sarcomatoid (5.6% vs 21.8%), and reduced necrosis (37.7% vs 78.3%; all P < .02). Late metastatic RCC tumors exhibited increased angiogenesis (63.5% vs 19.4%) and reduced inflammation (78.8% vs 50.0%; all P < .02) profiles. Genomic driver analyses revealed comparable rates of PBRM1 and SETD2 loss in late and early metastatic RCC, while BAP1 loss was significantly less common in late metastatic RCC (7.5% vs 27.1%; P < .02). In multivariable models, BAP1/PBRM1/SETD2 status and tumor necrosis emerged as key discriminators of late metastatic RCCs. These findings were confirmed in the second cohort (n = 307). Late metastatic RCC was enriched for fatty acid oxidation and angiogenesis pathways, supporting a less aggressive phenotype. This was further evidenced by a lower engraftment rate in murine models (0% vs 36.5%; P < .001) and significantly longer overall survival from the time of metastasis (median survival doubled, P < .001). Interestingly, late metastatic RCC shared genomic and phenotypic features with RCC that metastasizes to the pancreas, suggesting a common underlying biology influencing both metastatic latency and pancreatic tropism.</p><p><strong>Conclusions: </strong>Overall, these findings advocate for recognition of late metastatic RCC because of its distinct biology and improved prognosis.</p>","PeriodicalId":14809,"journal":{"name":"JNCI Journal of the National Cancer Institute","volume":" ","pages":"1387-1400"},"PeriodicalIF":9.9,"publicationDate":"2025-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC12229465/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143596991","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}