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{"title":"The differences in the distribution characteristics and prognostic value of tumor-infiltrating T lymphocyte subsets between lung adenocarcinoma and lung squamous cell carcinoma.","authors":"Zhen Zhang, Shaoyan Zhang, Yalai Xu, Xiaoning Liu, Wenjie Dong","doi":"10.21037/cco-24-62","DOIUrl":"10.21037/cco-24-62","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Background: </strong>The characteristics of tumor immune microenvironment are important factors affecting the efficacy of immunotherapy, and there are differences in the distribution of tumor-infiltrating lymphocyte (TIL) subsets in different types of tumors. This study aims to compare the distributions of cluster of differentiation (CD) 4+ and CD4+ T cell subsets of TILs and their clinical significance between lung adenocarcinoma (LUAD) and lung squamous cell carcinoma (LUSC).</p><p><strong>Methods: </strong>The tumor tissues of 78 LUAD and 56 LUSC patients who underwent surgery at The Second Affiliated Hospital of Zhengzhou University between October 2020 and October 2022 were collected, TIL level were detected by pathological observation, and the proportions of CD4+, CD4+ T cell subsets and CD4+/CD4+ ratio in TILs were detected by flow cytometry. These indicators were compared between LUAD and LUSC, and their correlations with clinicopathological characteristics and patient survival were analyzed.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>There was no significant difference in the TILs level between LUAD and LUSC (P>0.05). The CD4+/CD4+ ratio in LUSC was lower, and proportion of CD4+ T cells was higher than those in LUAD (all P<0.05). In LUAD, the proportions of CD4+, CD4+ T cells and CD4+/CD4+ were correlated with tumor size or tumor-node-metastasis (TNM) stage, while in LUSC, only the proportions of CD4+ and CD4+ T cells were correlated with tumor size, degree of differentiation or TNM stage. In LUAD patients, higher proportions of CD4+, CD4+ T cells and lower CD4+/CD4+ predicted longer survival, and high CD4+/CD4+ (>1.04) was an independent risk factor for PFS and OS (P<0.05); In LUSC patients, there was no correlation between the proportions of CD4+ T cells, CD4+ T cells and CD4+/CD4+ ratio, and patient prognosis (P>0.05).</p><p><strong>Conclusions: </strong>There were differences in the distribution and balance of CD4+ and CD4+ TIL subsets between LUAD and LUSC, among which CD4/CD4+ ratio closely affected the prognosis of LUAD patients but had relatively weak prognostic value in LUSC patients due to the restriction of CD4+ T cells.</p>","PeriodicalId":9945,"journal":{"name":"Chinese clinical oncology","volume":"13 6","pages":"83"},"PeriodicalIF":2.1,"publicationDate":"2024-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142977969","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":"Benefit from addition of local therapy in oligometastatic oesophageal squamous cell carcinoma.","authors":"Yuvnik Trada, Fiona Day, Jarad Martin","doi":"10.21037/cco-24-41","DOIUrl":"10.21037/cco-24-41","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":9945,"journal":{"name":"Chinese clinical oncology","volume":" ","pages":"90"},"PeriodicalIF":2.1,"publicationDate":"2024-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142281029","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":"The feasibility of the deep hypothermal cryotherapy plus immune checkpoint inhibitor for treatment of severe malignant central airway obstruction.","authors":"Zhibing Luo, Changwen Deng, Shaoyong Gao, Xiaodong Wu, Xia Fang, Xiaoping Zhu, Qiang Li, Wujian Xu","doi":"10.21037/cco-24-74","DOIUrl":"10.21037/cco-24-74","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Background: </strong>The recurrence shortly after interventional therapy poses a great challenge in managing malignant central airway obstruction (MCAO). While cryotherapy has shown potential benefits when combined with immunotherapy in lung cancer, its effectiveness for improving local control of malignant central airway tumors is not well understood. This study aims to evaluate the clinical efficacy and safety of combining these strategies.</p><p><strong>Methods: </strong>A total of 12 patients with MCAO who had been treated with a combination of cryotherapy and immune checkpoint inhibitors (ICIs) were compiled for analysis in a tertiary hospital in Shanghai East Hospital, China. The primary endpoint is the duration of efficacy (DoE) for MACO after the combined therapy, which was defined as the time interval of the airway stayed patency without additional repeated interventional treatment. Secondary endpoints encompassed an assessment of objective response rate, overall survival and the adverse events.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>Twelve patients received a combination therapy between January 2021 and December 2023. Median age was 66 years, 91.7% male. Fifty percent were squamous carcinoma. 50.0% had medium to low programmed cell death-ligand 1 (PD-L1) levels. 41.7% patients' performance status scored higher than 2. 91.7% (11/12) of the patients objectively respond to the combined therapy, with a median DoE of 10.0 (95% confidence interval: 3.7-21.7) months. The 6-, 12- and 18-month survival rate was 75.0%, 50.0% and 41.8%, respectively. The most common adverse event was granulation. Other events included mild rash, pneumonitis, and hypothyroidism. No severe procedure-related adverse events occurred.</p><p><strong>Conclusions: </strong>In patients with endoluminal or mixed MCAO, our findings suggest that combining endobronchial cryotherapy with ICIs may help maintain airway patency, offering a promising preliminary signal for this therapeutic approach.</p>","PeriodicalId":9945,"journal":{"name":"Chinese clinical oncology","volume":"13 6","pages":"84"},"PeriodicalIF":2.1,"publicationDate":"2024-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142977974","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":"Dural metastases in breast cancer: progression pattern, treatment and prognosis-a single center experience.","authors":"Yujie Wang, Yimin Han, Yanzhao Yang, Cheng Xu","doi":"10.21037/cco-24-30","DOIUrl":"10.21037/cco-24-30","url":null,"abstract":"&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Background: &lt;/strong&gt;Dural metastasis (DM) remains one of the most challenging clinical scenarios in breast cancer treatment. To date, no clear standard care of dural metastases has been established. We sought to identify the progression pattern or treatment strategies that could possibly improve prognosis of breast cancer patients with DM.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Methods: &lt;/strong&gt;Patients with breast cancer diagnosed with radiological confirmed dural metastases excluding leptomeningeal invasion alone or meningeal invasion subsequent to brain parenchyma metastases between 2014 and 2021 in single center were reviewed. All patients underwent head-enhanced magnetic resonance imaging (MRI). Imaging information, treatment and prognostic data were recorded.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Results: &lt;/strong&gt;A total of 66 breast cancer patients were analyzed in this study, with 50 survival status including 43 deaths. Hormone receptors positive [estrogen receptor (ER)/progesterone receptor (PR)] accounted for 43.9% of the study cohorts followed by triple-negative breast cancer (TNBC) and HER2+ subtypes successively. Most cases (34, 51.5%) were diagnosed without parenchymal brain metastases prior to or at time of DM diagnosis. Three morphological patterns were determined by MRI including nodular, thickened with nodules, and diffuse thickened types. The frontoparietal dura was the most frequently involved site, accounting for 43.9% (29/66) of the patients, followed by temporal dura and parietal dura, ranking second and third (21/66 and 15/66, respectively). Fifty-four patients had extensive bone metastasis before the diagnosis of DM, within them, the median duration from bone metastasis to the diagnosis of DM was 419 days. Forty-two patients received radiotherapy for DM, including 25 with whole brain radiotherapy (WBRT), 4 with craniospinal axis irradiation (CSI), and 13 with DM and/or brain parenchyma lesions. Multivariate analysis indicates that initial diagnosis age, brain metastasis status, neurological symptoms and systemic treatment status and are significant prognostic factors (P=0.002, 0.03, 0.02, 0.001 and 0.02, respectively). The median survival time from the diagnosis of DM was 458 days in patients who received radiotherapy compared with 225 days in patients who did not receive radiotherapy, with a hazard ratio (HR) 0.65 [95% confidence interval (CI): 0.302-1.305] and P value of 0.06. Leptomeningeal invasion, parenchymal brain metastases and number of DM-involved sites were associated with the medical decision of WBRT. There were more leptomeningeal invasion cases distributed to WBRT group (17/29 vs. 7/37, P=0.001), and a higher likelihood of concurrent parenchymal brain lesions (19/27 vs. 13/37, P=0.01).&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Conclusions: &lt;/strong&gt;Dural metastases can occur as a subsequent event in patients with poorly controlled extensive bone metastases, with the frontoparietal area being the most commonly involved site. Radiotherapeutic strategy is highly influenced","PeriodicalId":9945,"journal":{"name":"Chinese clinical oncology","volume":" ","pages":"81"},"PeriodicalIF":2.1,"publicationDate":"2024-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142806161","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":"E203K mutation in MAP2K1 (MEK1) causes acquired resistance to PD-1 blockade but responds to trametinib: a case report.","authors":"Weibing Leng, Guixia Wei, Leiming Sheng, Dan Jiang, Meng Qiu","doi":"10.21037/cco-24-61","DOIUrl":"10.21037/cco-24-61","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Background: </strong>Epstein-Barr virus-associated gastric cancer (EBVaGC) is characterized by higher lymphocytic infiltration, which predicts sensitivity to immunotherapy. However, there are few studies investigating the mechanisms of acquired resistance to programmed cell death protein 1 (PD-1) blockade and its subsequent treatment strategies for EBVaGC.</p><p><strong>Case description: </strong>We describe the case of a patient with EBVaGC who was initially treated with first-line chemotherapy plus Sintilimab, a fully humanized anti-PD-1 monoclonal antibody, resulting in a near-complete response. However, the acquired resistance to the immunotherapy treatment emerged shortly after consolidating radiotherapy, and subsequent second-line chemotherapy plus Sintilimab proved ineffective, confirming the true acquired resistance to PD-1 blockade. Re-biopsy of the treatment-resistant tumors revealed that a secondary gain-of-function mutation in mitogen-activated protein kinase kinase 1 (MAP2K1/MEK1) E203K had been acquired. Subsequently, the patient received an off-label MEK inhibitor trametinib and achieved a rapid and durable response.</p><p><strong>Conclusions: </strong>This study highlights the aberrant activation of the mitogen-activated protein kinase (MAPK) pathway as another important mechanism of resistance to immunotherapy. This case provides direct clinical evidence that MEK1 E203K is involved in resistance to immune checkpoint inhibitors (ICIs). Furthermore, for the first time, the MEK inhibitor trametinib has shown promising results in treating tumors with this mutation.</p>","PeriodicalId":9945,"journal":{"name":"Chinese clinical oncology","volume":"13 6","pages":"87"},"PeriodicalIF":2.1,"publicationDate":"2024-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142977810","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":"Advancing therapeutic frontiers in urothelial carcinoma: targeted strategies and clinical implications.","authors":"Marcela G B Guimarães, Thiago A Miranda, Fernanda N C Haum, Gabriel Clemente B Pereira, Daniel M Girardi","doi":"10.21037/cco-24-67","DOIUrl":"10.21037/cco-24-67","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Urothelial carcinoma poses significant challenges in clinical management due to its aggressive nature and high prevalence. While most diagnoses involve localized disease, advanced urothelial carcinoma (aUC) often leads to short overall survival (OS). Historically, platinum-based chemotherapy has been the primary treatment for aUC, although its efficacy is limited. However, recent therapeutic advancements, such as immune checkpoint inhibitors (ICIs) and targeted therapy using antibody-drug conjugates (ADCs) and tyrosine kinase inhibitors (TKIs), have shown promise in clinical trials, initially among patients who have undergone platinum-based chemotherapy. Recently, phase III clinical trials have assessed the effectiveness of ICIs, ADCs, and TKIs either in combination or as monotherapy in the first line setting for patients with aUC. As a result of this expanding knowledge, the combination of enfortumab vedotin (EV) with pembrolizumab in the front-line scenario became the new standard of care for aUC, demonstrating significant enhancements in OS and progression-free survival compared to platinum-based chemotherapy. Additionally, other ADCs and targeted therapies have exhibited promising efficacy in clinical trials. This review summarizes recent advancements in the treatment landscape of aUC, focusing on the efficacy and safety profiles of ICIs, ADCs, and TKIs, highlighting the evolving standards and promising combination approaches in the management of this challenging malignancy.</p>","PeriodicalId":9945,"journal":{"name":"Chinese clinical oncology","volume":"13 6","pages":"86"},"PeriodicalIF":2.1,"publicationDate":"2024-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142977808","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":"Tumour plasticity and tumour microenvironment interactions as potential immunologic targets for pancreatic cancer treatment.","authors":"Xu Zhou, Christoph Springfeld, Susanne Roth, Teresa Peccerella, Peter Bailey, Markus W Büchler, John Neoptolemos","doi":"10.21037/cco-24-72","DOIUrl":"10.21037/cco-24-72","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma (PDAC) is a malignant cancer with a high mortality and limited treatment options. Systemic chemotherapy remains the only approach for improving survival in patients with unresectable locally advanced and/or metastatic disease which comprises most patients. Targeted therapies have so far been disappointing with limited applicability and improvement in overall survival. Patients with resectable PDAC have improved survival with adjuvant chemotherapy, whereas neoadjuvant chemotherapy is the best option for borderline resectable PDAC. In patients with locally advanced unresectable PDAC, resection rates may be improved with induction chemotherapy and possibly radiotherapy. Immunotherapy has proved to be relatively effective in multiple solid cancer types, and yet has shown poor or no efficacy in PDAC treatment. With the development of tumour and tumour microenvironment (TME) stratification by transcriptomic and histological profiling, we are able to have a deeper understanding of the clinical implications of TME heterogeneity and tumour plasticity. PDAC and stromal cells within the TME including cancer associated fibroblasts can be reprogrammed under certain treatment conditions to switch, at least to some extent, the whole immune-cold complex towards a more immune-hot and chemo-sensitive state. This approach may provide us with a new perspective in the design of immunotherapy and chemotherapy combination regimens.</p>","PeriodicalId":9945,"journal":{"name":"Chinese clinical oncology","volume":"13 6","pages":"85"},"PeriodicalIF":2.1,"publicationDate":"2024-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142977924","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":"Combination makes strength: a narrative review of transarterial radioembolization plus immune checkpoint inhibitors for hepatocellular carcinoma.","authors":"Rusi Chen, Giovanni Monaco, Bernardo Stefanini, Mariarosaria Marseglia, Stefania De Lorenzo, Francesco Tovoli","doi":"10.21037/cco-24-27","DOIUrl":"10.21037/cco-24-27","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Background and objective: </strong>Immune checkpoint inhibitors (ICIs) and transarterial radioembolization (TARE) are now regarded as promising and versatile therapies for hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC). Combining TARE and ICIs may offer synergistic antineoplastic effects by integrating local and systemic tumor control. This review critically discusses recent preclinical evidence supporting the TARE-ICI combination strategy, completed and ongoing clinical trials, and the challenges in identifying optimal target populations and treatment protocols.</p><p><strong>Methods: </strong>A comprehensive literature search was conducted in multiple electronic databases (PubMed, Scopus, and Web of Science) from January 1999 to January 2024. The first part of the search was directed at identifying concluded studies regarding the TARE-ICIs combination. The second part aimed at identifying ongoing clinical trials exploring the Clinicaltrials.gov database.</p><p><strong>Key content and findings: </strong>The combination of TARE and ICIs is a promising strategy, supported by preclinical evidence of immune activation post-TARE and potential synergies with ICIs. Early-phase clinical trials have reported encouraging efficacy. However, significant heterogeneity exists among these studies, particularly concerning target populations and treatment schedules.</p><p><strong>Conclusions: </strong>The current evidence on TARE-ICI is favorable and promising in improving outcomes of patients with HCC. Further conclusive and higher levels of evidence are pending.</p>","PeriodicalId":9945,"journal":{"name":"Chinese clinical oncology","volume":" ","pages":"71"},"PeriodicalIF":2.1,"publicationDate":"2024-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142399556","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":"A meta-analysis and systematic review of randomized controlled trials in combination gemcitabine with erlotinib in the pancreatic cancer.","authors":"Longxiang Yan, Wenming Lu, Wenjin Huang, Alexis Bindzi Zoa, Jiang Zheng, Mingbai Qin, Jing Du, Qiuxiang Xiao, Zhiping Liu, Yuantong Tian","doi":"10.21037/cco-24-45","DOIUrl":"10.21037/cco-24-45","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Background: </strong>Previous studies have demonstrated the efficacy and safety of combining gemcitabine and erlotinib (Gem-Erlo) for the treatment of pancreatic cancer (PaC). However, there is a limited number of clinical studies and multiple prospective randomized controlled trials (RCTs) have yielded inconsistent conclusions. The question of whether Gem-Erlo has significant advantages over conventional chemotherapy in the treatment of PaC has been controversial. In order to provide valuable insights for PaC treatment, this study conducted a meta-analysis based on the current evidence from RCTs.</p><p><strong>Methods: </strong>We searched several databases including PubMed/Medline, Web of Science, Cochrane Library, and Embase, as well as relevant conference abstracts from the beginning of their inception to July 2023. We used the patient/population, intervention, comparison, outcomes and study design (PICOS) principle to screen the literature. After title, abstract and full text filtering, we extract the data from each study to assess the risk of bias by examining the quality of the literature. We used a meta-analysis with random effects model to synthesize and summarize the results regarding objective response rate (ORR), disease control rate (DCR), median progression-free survival (median PFS), median overall survival (median OS) and 1-year survival rate.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>Seven RCTs were included, involving 2,152 PaC patients treated with either Gem-Erlo or gemcitabine alone. The results showed that Gem-Erlo significantly improved DCR [odds ratio (OR) =1.74; 95% confidence interval (CI): 1.03 to 2.92; P=0.04]; but did not significantly improve median OS [standardized mean difference (SMD) =-0.20; 95% CI: -1.46 to 1.06; P=0.75], median PFS (SMD =-0.97; 95% CI: -4.01 to 2.07; P=0.53), ORR (OR =1.29; 95% CI: 0.84 to 1.97), or 1-year survival rate (OR =1.18; 95% CI: 0.88 to 1.57). In addition, sensitivity analysis of the median OS showed the Gem-Erlo group significantly prolonged the median OS compared to the gemcitabine alone group [weighted mean difference (WMD) =-1.74; 95% CI: -1.87 to -1.62; P<0.001]. The most common adverse events (AEs) were rash, diarrhea, fatigue, neutropenia and thrombocytopenia in both groups, but the Gem-Erlo group is more often than the gemcitabine alone (OR =1.40, 95% CI: 1.19 to 1.65; P<0.001), and all AEs were within the acceptable range for patients.</p><p><strong>Conclusions: </strong>Gem-Erlo can improve DCR when compared to gemcitabine. There was no statistically significant improvement in median PFS, median OS, ORR and 1-year survival rate. However, sensitivity analysis showed a statistical difference in the median OS. Our study indicated that Gem-Erlo had better efficacy than gemcitabine alone in PaC therapy. The occurrence of AEs is under the acceptable range for patients.</p>","PeriodicalId":9945,"journal":{"name":"Chinese clinical oncology","volume":" ","pages":"66"},"PeriodicalIF":2.1,"publicationDate":"2024-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142399554","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":"Current status, evolution, and future perspectives in robotic platform systems for prostate cancer treatment: a narrative review.","authors":"Flavia Tamborino, Guglielmo Dello Stritto, Gaetano Salzano, Peppino Lannutti, Marco Mascitti, Alessio Digiacomo, Martina Basconi, Rossella Cicchetti, Angelo Orsini, Matteo Ferro, Riccardo De Archangelis, Luigi Schips, Michele Marchioni","doi":"10.21037/cco-24-47","DOIUrl":"10.21037/cco-24-47","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Background and objective: </strong>Robotic surgery has contributed greatly to the shift from traditional surgery to minimally invasive surgery. Urology is the major field of application of robotic surgery. Several urological procedures, especially radical prostatectomy, benefit from the use of robotic surgery.</p><p><strong>Methods: </strong>Non-systematic research of the literature was performed using \"Robot-assisted radical prostatectomy\" and \"Robotic platforms\" as keywords to understand the actual situation and the future perspectives of this technology in prostate cancer treatment.</p><p><strong>Key content and findings: </strong>The robotic platform landscape is constantly evolving. DaVinci has always been the mainstay in this field, particularly after the advent of the new single port platforms. New platforms are emerging, providing an alternative option to the well-known DaVinci system. Since in literature, few studies compare the use of different robotic platforms, their application in urological procedures is not yet widely used, for both oncological and non-oncological procedures. Furthermore, artificial intelligence begins to play a role in this landscape and could be useful for future developments. So further studies are warranted to give a full comprehension of the whole scenario.</p><p><strong>Conclusions: </strong>This review aims to analyze the current state of the use of robotic platforms in urology, particularly in radical prostatectomy, and to understand the evolution.</p>","PeriodicalId":9945,"journal":{"name":"Chinese clinical oncology","volume":" ","pages":"74"},"PeriodicalIF":2.1,"publicationDate":"2024-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142399557","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}