{"title":"Radiotherapy in Thoracic NUT Carcinoma: A Pooled Analysis of Long-term Survivors and Clinical Outcome Heterogeneity.","authors":"Fumihiro Kashizaki, Shohei Watanabe, Ryusuke Orii, Hanming Lin, Yoshiyuki Yasuura, Kentaro Yumoto, Hiroyuki Osawa, Harumi Koizumi","doi":"10.1016/j.arbres.2026.08.014","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.arbres.2026.08.014","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Background: </strong>Thoracic NUT carcinoma is a rare and highly aggressive malignancy. Real-world evidence to guide radiotherapy (RT) remains limited. We performed a pooled RT-focused analysis to characterize treatment contexts, outcomes, and the clinical features of long-term survivors (LTS).</p><p><strong>Methods: </strong>A systematic review of six databases identified 111 patients receiving thoracic RT. The earliest thoracic-directed course was defined as the index RT. Analyses were prespecified as descriptive and stratified by metastatic status at diagnosis. Outcomes included overall survival (OS), RT-progression-free survival (RT-PFS), symptom-control duration to next intervention (SCD-NI), and RECIST-based response. LTS were defined a priori as OS ≥24 months.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>Median OS for the overall cohort was 9.7 months. Patients with bone metastasis had shorter survival than those without bone metastasis. Fifteen patients met the definition of LTS. Compared with others, LTS had similar RECIST response patterns but smaller tumors, less metastatic disease, no documented bone metastasis, and more frequent complete resection and CRT. Median RT-PFS among curative RT/CRT cases was 5.3 months. In the palliative RT subgroup, median SCD-NI was 3.0 months, indicating short-term clinical stabilization. Trajectory analyses showed heterogeneous courses among long-term survivors.</p><p><strong>Conclusions: </strong>Thoracic RT in NUT carcinoma was used across diverse clinical contexts and was associated with short-term palliation and, in selected patients, prolonged disease control. Long-term survivors were enriched for lower metastatic burden, absence of bone metastasis, and multimodality treatment, suggesting that factors beyond initial radiographic response may contribute to prolonged survival, although these findings should be interpreted descriptively given the retrospective case-based design.</p>","PeriodicalId":8339,"journal":{"name":"Archivos De Bronconeumologia","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":8.7,"publicationDate":"2026-09-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148981817","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Esther Granero López, Rosa Isabel Cesteros Fernández
{"title":"Bronchial Villous Exophytic Mass as an Exceptional Manifestation of Invasive Pulmonary Aspergillosis.","authors":"Esther Granero López, Rosa Isabel Cesteros Fernández","doi":"10.1016/j.arbres.2026.08.002","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.arbres.2026.08.002","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":8339,"journal":{"name":"Archivos De Bronconeumologia","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":8.7,"publicationDate":"2026-09-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148975707","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Elvira Bondía Real, Joana Carolina Gómez Adrián, Luis Miguel Miravet Sorribes
{"title":"Endotracheal Mass: When We Need More Than a Bronchoscopic Biopsy.","authors":"Elvira Bondía Real, Joana Carolina Gómez Adrián, Luis Miguel Miravet Sorribes","doi":"10.1016/j.arbres.2026.07.015","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.arbres.2026.07.015","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":8339,"journal":{"name":"Archivos De Bronconeumologia","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":8.7,"publicationDate":"2026-09-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148975735","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Francisco Javier Gimena-Rodríguez, Raquel Barba-Martín, José Antonio Rueda-Camino
{"title":"Reply to: \"Venous Excess Ultrasound in Acute Pulmonary Embolism Reflects Right Ventricular Uncoupling Rather Than Congestion\".","authors":"Francisco Javier Gimena-Rodríguez, Raquel Barba-Martín, José Antonio Rueda-Camino","doi":"10.1016/j.arbres.2026.07.016","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.arbres.2026.07.016","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":8339,"journal":{"name":"Archivos De Bronconeumologia","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":8.7,"publicationDate":"2026-09-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148975668","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Juan Manuel Córcoles-Padilla, Antonio Arroyo-Sebastián, Alejandro Torres-Serna, José Luis Duro-Torrijos, Sergio Bolufer-Nadal, Jesús Sánchez-Más, Luis Sánchez-Guillén
{"title":"ERAS Program in Major Pulmonary Surgery: Clinical Outcomes and Cost-Effectiveness of Uniportal VATS Resection With Robotic-Arm Assistance.","authors":"Juan Manuel Córcoles-Padilla, Antonio Arroyo-Sebastián, Alejandro Torres-Serna, José Luis Duro-Torrijos, Sergio Bolufer-Nadal, Jesús Sánchez-Más, Luis Sánchez-Guillén","doi":"10.1016/j.arbres.2026.07.001","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.arbres.2026.07.001","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":8339,"journal":{"name":"Archivos De Bronconeumologia","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":8.7,"publicationDate":"2026-09-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148905000","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Miguel Angel Martinez-Garcia, Timothy Aksamit, Takanori Asakura, Lucy Burr, Chang Chia-Ling, Rosa Maria Giron, Wei-jie Guan, Deniz Kizilirmak, Yeon-Mok Oh, Miguel Penizzotto, Felix C. Ringshausen, Anthony de Soyza, Christina Thornton, Conroy Wong
{"title":"The Worldwide Puzzle of Bronchiectasis Etiology in Adults","authors":"Miguel Angel Martinez-Garcia, Timothy Aksamit, Takanori Asakura, Lucy Burr, Chang Chia-Ling, Rosa Maria Giron, Wei-jie Guan, Deniz Kizilirmak, Yeon-Mok Oh, Miguel Penizzotto, Felix C. Ringshausen, Anthony de Soyza, Christina Thornton, Conroy Wong","doi":"10.1016/j.arbres.2025.11.012","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.arbres.2025.11.012","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Bronchiectasis represents in frequency the third chronic inflammatory airway disease after chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) and asthma. It is produced by more than one hundred causes, both pulmonary and extrapulmonary. Despite advances in recent years in the understanding of this condition and the publication of several national and international guidelines on its management, in most cases the etiology remains unknown. Among the identified etiological forms, post-infectious and post-tuberculous are the most frequent. It is also striking how bronchiectasis associated with COPD and severe asthma has been progressively increasing over the years, probably due to greater awareness among healthcare professionals of the importance of such associations and the wider use of chest computed tomography (the diagnostic method of choice for bronchiectasis from a radiological perspective). However, it is remarkable, according to data obtained from national and international bronchiectasis registries, the considerable geographic heterogeneity in their etiology. Thus, in socially disadvantaged regions or in those with poorer healthcare access, post-infectious and particularly post-tuberculous forms clearly predominate. It is always necessary to perform the appropriate complementary tests, as highlighted in all bronchiectasis guidelines, to exclude at least the treatable etiologies (treatable trait), since this is undoubtedly associated with a better patient prognosis.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":8339,"journal":{"name":"Archivos De Bronconeumologia","volume":"62 9","pages":"Pages 644-652"},"PeriodicalIF":8.7,"publicationDate":"2026-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145800075","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Extensive Ground-Glass Nodules With Sequential Responses to the FLAURA2 and MARIPOSA Regimens in EGFR-Mutated NSCLC","authors":"Fumihiro Kashizaki, Ryusuke Orii, Mai Kaneko","doi":"10.1016/j.arbres.2026.03.004","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.arbres.2026.03.004","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":8339,"journal":{"name":"Archivos De Bronconeumologia","volume":"62 9","pages":"Pages 682-683"},"PeriodicalIF":8.7,"publicationDate":"2026-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147618272","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Response to: “Reconsidering the Diagnostic Utility of the Six-Biomarker Panel in Pulmonary Rapid Diagnosis Units”","authors":"Antonio Barco-Sánchez, Jaume Trapé","doi":"10.1016/j.arbres.2026.05.012","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.arbres.2026.05.012","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":8339,"journal":{"name":"Archivos De Bronconeumologia","volume":"62 9","pages":"Pages 672-673"},"PeriodicalIF":8.7,"publicationDate":"2026-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148275842","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Bizhou Li, Xiaolong Ji, Ziyuan Xiang, Fengming Zhao, Haopeng Zhi, Zhangyu Sun, Tao Liu, Yiting Luo, Xiaoying Chen, Rui Feng, Xinhua Tan, Jiayi Chen, Chen Zhan, Ruchong Chen, Yinhuan Li
{"title":"CD126+ Central Memory CD8+ T Cells Are Enriched in the Airway in Asthma and Associated With Disease Severity","authors":"Bizhou Li, Xiaolong Ji, Ziyuan Xiang, Fengming Zhao, Haopeng Zhi, Zhangyu Sun, Tao Liu, Yiting Luo, Xiaoying Chen, Rui Feng, Xinhua Tan, Jiayi Chen, Chen Zhan, Ruchong Chen, Yinhuan Li","doi":"10.1016/j.arbres.2026.03.001","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.arbres.2026.03.001","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":8339,"journal":{"name":"Archivos De Bronconeumologia","volume":"62 9","pages":"Pages 657-660"},"PeriodicalIF":8.7,"publicationDate":"2026-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147626987","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}