Liver resection after downstaging with neoadjuvant chemotherapy for "unresectable" colorectal metastases

Hepatic resection is the only treatment that offers a chance of long-term survival in patients with metastases from colorectal cancer. Nevertheless, a curative resection can be performed in only 10-20 per cent of patients: multiple bilobar metastases or "unresectable" disease are the greatest obstacles to surgical radicality. Techniques such as preoperative portal embolisation, preoperative portal ligation, two-stage hepatectomy, and neoadjuvant chemotherapy, have extended the possibility of liver surgery to patients with advanced metastatic colorectal cancer. The outcomes of two patients treated successfully with neoadjuvant chemotherapy (one case with FOL-F-OX, and one with FOL-F-IRI) followed by liver resection were analyzed. In both patients neoadjuvant chemotherapy enabled a curative liver resection to be performed without significant complications. In some patients, neoadjuvant chemotherapy permits the "downsizing" of metastatic disease to such an extent that a surgical approach proves feasible. This advance can dramatically improve the prognosis of patients with multiple or unresectable liver metastases from colorectal cancer.     

Staged surgical approach for metastatic GIST,how far should we go? Case report

IntroductionGastrointestinal stromal tumor (GIST) is an uncommon mesenchymal neoplasm that commonly arises from the stomach and proximal small intestine but can develop in any part of the gastrointestinal tract. The disease can range from primary localized to an advanced metastatic unresectable disease in up to 30% of patients. Usually, metastasis involves the liver, peritoneum, and occasionally the lungs. The current standard treatment of localized resectable tumors is complete oncological resection, while advanced metastatic GISTs treatment remains contentious.Case presentationWe report a case of a 34 years old pregnant female presenting with a 3 days history of multiple episodes of hematemesis and melena. Laboratory investigations were unremarkable except for severe anemia (Hgb 4.4 g/dL). After further investigations a diagnosis of duodenal GIST (DGIST) with liver metastasis was made. She received and showed good response to neoadjuvant Imatinib therapy, which was followed by a successful 2-stage surgery in the form of extended right hepatectomy and Whipple procedure with a good survival.Clinical dissectionThe evolution of Imatinib had a tremendous impact on surgery in metastatic GIST even in initially unresectable cases, thereby providing a better survival. However, the duration of neoadjuvant Imatinib course and the matter of resistance are still unclear those necessitating the use of different agents or the surgical approach.ConclusionAlthough with the advancements in surgical approaches and perioperative care, liver resection might be a curative option. The role of surgery in advanced GIST remains a controversial matter that needs critical selection of cases based on further future research.     

Current status of surgical management of patients with gastroenteropancreatic neuroendocrine neoplasms

Neuroendocrine neoplasms (NENs) of the gastroenteropancreatic system are rare and heterogeneous tumours, yet with increasing prevalence. The most frequent primary sites are the small intestine, rectum, pancreas, and stomach. For a localized disease, surgical resection with local lymph nodes is usually curative with good overall and disease free survival. More complex situation is the treatment of locally advanced lesions, liver metastases, and, surprisingly, small asymptomatic tumours of the rectum and pancreas. In this review, we focus on the current role of surgical management of gastroenteropancreatic NENs. We present surgical approach for the most frequent primary sites. We highlight the role of endoscopic surgery and the watch-and-wait strategy for selected cases. As liver metastases pose an important clinical challenge, we present current indications and contraindications for liver resection and a role of liver transplantation for metastatic NENs.     

Neoadjuvant therapy in the treatment of hilar cholangiocarcinoma:Review of the literature

Cholangiocarcinoma(CCA) is a malignant tumor of the biliary system and includes, according to the anatomical classification, intra hepatic CCA(iCCA),hilar CCA(hCCA) and distal CCA(dCCA). Hilar CCA is the most challenging type in terms of diagnosis, treatment and prognosis. Surgery is the only treatment possibly providing long-term survival, but only few patients are considered resectable at the time of diagnosis. In fact, tumor's extension to segmentary or subsegmentary biliary ducts, along with large lymph node involvement or intrahepatic metastases, precludes the surgical approach. To achieve R0 margins is mandatory for the disease-free survival and overall survival. In case of unresectable locally advanced hCCA, radiochemotherapy(RCT) as neoadjuvant treatment demonstrated to be a therapeutic option before either hepatic resection or liver transplantation. Before liver surgery, RCT is believed to enhance the R0 margins rate. For patients meeting the Mayo Clinic criteria, RCT prior to orthotopic liver transplant(OLT) has proved to produce acceptable 5-years survivals. In this review, we analyze the current role of neoadjuvant RCT before resection as well as before OLT.     

Dermatofibrosarcoma Protuberans: Recent Clinical Progress

Background Dermatofibrosarcoma protuberans (DFSP) is a rare cutaneous tumor of low malignant grade characterized by a pattern of slow, infiltrative growth and a marked tendency to recur locally after surgical excision. Wide surgical resection is generally accepted as optimal treatment for DFSP. However, despite optimal surgical management, distant metastases may develop in up to 5% of patients. More than 90% of DFSP are characterized by a reciprocal chromosomal translocation, t(17;22). This rearrangement leads to constitutive activation of the platelet-derived growth factor receptor (PDGFR) as a result of deregulated ligand expression, thus providing a rationale for targeted inhibition of PDGFR as a treatment strategy for patients with unresectable locally advanced or metastatic DFSP. Methods This article reviews the current understanding of DFSP, with emphasis on molecular-level pathogenetic events and their implications for management, and evidence for the role of tyrosine kinase inhibition in improving the outcomes of patients with unresectable locally advanced or metastatic DFSP. Results Surgery with wide margins remains the cornerstone in the management of DFSP. Recently, imatinib, a potent, selective inhibitor of the PDGFR alpha and PDGFR beta protein-tyrosine kinases, has been reported to induce complete or partial remissions in most patients treated for advanced DFSP. Conclusions Imatinib is approved for treatment of adult patients with unresectable, recurrent, and/or metastatic DFSP who are not eligible for surgery. Future investigations will determine whether imatinib can also be used in the neoadjuvant setting to reduce tumor volume, thereby allowing resection of very large DFSP that would otherwise not be resectable.     

肝内胆管癌新辅助治疗共识与争议

肝内胆管癌（ICC）恶性程度高，症状隐匿，早期症状不明显，由于缺乏有效的筛查，确诊时多处于进展期，大多失去手术切除机会。目前，根治性手术仍是惟一可以使病人获得长期生存的治疗方式，但存在切除率低、术后易复发等难题。新辅助治疗能缩小原有病灶及转移的淋巴结，提高R0切除率，对于无法切除的局部晚期ICC，新辅助治疗可使局部进展的ICC降期为可切除，也可改善肝移植病人的预后。但目前对ICC行新辅助治疗的潜在效用仍存在争议。     

Surgery and Imatinib in the Management of GIST: Emerging Approaches to Adjuvant and Neoadjuvant Therapy

Gastrointestinal stromal tumor (GIST) is a neoplasm of the gastrointestinal tract, mesentery, or omentum that expresses the protein-tyrosine kinase KIT (CD117) and is the most common mesenchymal tumor arising at these sites. Surgical resection is the first-line intervention for operable GISTs, particularly localized primary tumors, and it was historically the only effective treatment. However, more than half of all GIST patients present with locally advanced, recurrent, or metastatic disease. The 5-year survival rate ranges from 50% to 65% after complete resection of a localized primary GIST and decreases to approximately 35% for patients with advanced disease who undergo complete surgical resection. A total of 40% to 90% of all GIST surgical patients subsequently have postoperative recurrence or metastasis. Imatinib is a potent, specific inhibitor of KIT that has demonstrated significant activity and tolerability in the treatment of malignant unresectable or metastatic GIST, inducing tumor shrinkage of 50% or more or stabilizing disease in most patients. A key strategy for prolonging the survival of patients with GIST is to improve the outcome of surgery. It is possible that the adjuvant and neoadjuvant use of imatinib (e.g., rendering initially inoperable tumors resectable) in the overall management approach to advanced GIST may contribute to surgeons success in attaining this objective.     

进展期胃癌新辅助化疗后手术时机的选择

进展期胃癌的同手术期化疗、尤其新辅助化疗（NAC）的效果备受瞩目。美国、英国和日本开展的诸多NAC试验结果显示．NAC能够使肿瘤和转移淋巴结缩小．降低T分期和N分期,使不能切除的肿瘤在NAC后实现R0切除,具有良好的改善生存的效果。由于NAC及其方案对不同个体的影响不同,手术时机、手术方案及治疗目标也有所不同。选择低毒、无不良反应及不增加手术风险的NAC方案同然重要,但在充分熟悉了解药物的药理和药代动力学及对人体组织细胞学影响的基础上．对于NAC后的外科手术应谨慎选择和严格质控。     

分子靶向药物在胃肠道肿瘤综合治疗中的应用

分子靶向药物在晚期胃肠道肿瘤治疗中,被证实可提高患者的客观缓解率并延长总生存期.因此,其在局部进展期胃肠道肿瘤综合治疗中的价值被逐渐重视.曲妥珠单抗用于HER-2基因阳性的局部进展期胃癌新辅助化疗中的临床研究正在进行中,结果值得期待.大量研究证明,西妥昔单抗联合化疗对于KRAS基因野生型潜在可切除的结直肠癌肝转移患者,能提高手术切除率并延长总生存期;而贝伐珠单抗在KRAS基因突变型结直肠癌肝转移术前转化治疗中的作用正在评估中.对于可切除的结直肠癌肝转移,虽现有的证据显示,分子靶向药物在新辅助治疗中未能带来长期生存益处,但最终结论仍存议甚多.对于局部进展期直肠癌患者,新辅助化疗中的西妥昔单抗在二期临床研究中未能显示治疗获益,贝伐珠单抗的作用同样需要在三期临床研究后进一步证实.与晚期肿瘤单一治疗模式不同,在肿瘤综合治疗中,需要系统评估分子靶向药物与细胞毒药物、手术以及放疗之间可能的相互影响及协同作用,制定出科学并适用于临床实践的综合治疗模式.     

局部晚期和远处转移胰腺癌的姑息治疗

More than 25％ pancreatic cancers are locally advanced and unresectable.For patients underwent pancreatectomy,about 80％ of patients had pancreatic cancer recurrence in 2 years.The aim of palliative treatment for locally advanced and metastatic pancreatic cancer is to relieve the disease-associated symptoms,including biliary obstruction,duodenal obstruction,and intractable abdominal pain.Surgical strategies,such as palliative resection (R1 resection ),biliary drainage and gastroenterostomy have been widely used.During recent years,neoadjuvant chemotherapy and radiation have been recommended as the palliative treatment of choice for patients with locally advanced and metastatic pancreatic cancer.However,The controversy still exists.This article summarized current data of surgical and non-surgical strategies for the treatment of locally advanced and metastatic pancreatic cancer.     

Strategy for the treatment of unresectable hepatoblastoma: neoadjuvant chemotherapy followed by delayed primary operation or liver transplantation

We present our experience in using neoadjuvant regional and systemic chemotherapy together with surgical resection as a strategy for the treatment of unresectable hepatoblastoma. Neoadjuvant chemotherapy was given prior to surgical treatment in six children with unresectable hepatoblastoma. Furthermore, the neoadjuvant chemotherapy was intensified according to response to the initial treatment. Surgical resection was performed when the tumor was judged to be resectable. The adjuvant chemotherapy was given after delayed primary operation. Five of six children receiving neoadjuvant chemotherapy responded to the treatment and subsequently received delayed primary operation or living donor liver transplantation. All five children who had successful surgery have completed treatment and show no evidence of disease to date (27-115 months after surgery). It is concluded that neoadjuvant chemotherapy given as a combination of regional and systemic chemotherapy was effective for tumor reduction in cases with early stage or stage III disease. Also, to increase the cure rate of children with localized disease that was still unresectable after chemotherapy, living donor liver transplantation, which offers some advantage in timing of transplant compared with cadaveric liver transplantation, seems to be a possible procedure.     

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Abstract Neoadjuvant therapy is often used in locally advanced pancreatic carcinoma patients in order to down tumor stage, and increase the resectability. However, for the optimal time for surgery after neoadjuvant therapy is still controversy. Surgical resection is recommended for patients who have undergone successful neoadjuvant therapy with reduced stage. Combining prospective and retrospective studies and neoadjuvant treatment data from the authors’ center, the paper suggests that the optimal time for surgery is 4-8 weeks after 4-6 cycles of neoadjuvant therapy. For the choice of surgical approach, laparoscopic exploration can be considered to confirm whether metastatic diseases exist and preliminary identification of resectability as well, then for further surgical resection.     

Surgical Resection after Downsizing Chemotherapy for Initially Unresectable Locally Advanced Biliary Tract Cancer: A Retrospective Single-center Study

Background

Surgical resection is the only method for curative treatment of biliary tract cancer (BTC). Recently, an improved efficacy has been revealed in patients with initially unresectable locally advanced BTC to improve the prognosis by the advent of useful cancer chemotherapy. The aim of this study was to evaluate the effect of downsizing chemotherapy in patients with initially unresectable locally advanced BTC.

Methods

Initially unresectable locally advanced cases were defined as those in which therapeutic resection could not be achieved even by proactive surgical resection. Gemcitabine was administered intravenously once a week for 3 weeks followed by 1 week’s respite. Patients whose disease responded to chemotherapy were reevaluated to determine whether their tumor was resectable.

Results

Chemotherapy with gemcitabine was provided to 22 patients with initially unresectable locally advanced BTC. Tumor was significantly downsized in nine patients, and surgical resection was performed in 8 (36.4%) of 22 patients. Surgical resection resulted in R0 resection in four patients and R1 resection in four patients. Patients who underwent surgical resection had a significantly longer survival compared with those unable to undergo surgery.

Conclusions

Preoperative chemotherapy enables the downsizing of initially unresectable locally advanced BTC, with radical resection made possible in a certain proportion of patients. Downsizing chemotherapy should be proactively carried out as a multidisciplinary treatment strategy for patients with initially unresectable locally advanced BTC with the aim of expanding the surgical indication.     

Neoadjuvant chemotherapy as a treatment strategy for multiple bilobar liver metastases from colorectal carcinoma

Hepatic resection remains the only potentially curative therapy for patients with colorectal liver metastases. Because most have multiple bilobar liver metastases, surgical resection is possible in only 25-58% of patients with colorectal liver metastases. Currently, attention is focused on the potential for neoadjuvant chemotherapy to render formerly unresectable patients resectable. The availability of more efficacious chemotherapy agents and an inventive approach to delivery schedules have resulted in an increase in the number of candidates for hepatic resection after neoadjuvant chemotherapy. Although tumor response varies with regimen and/or route of chemotherapy for colorectal liver metastases, with 16-63% tumor response rates, hepatic resection for responders after neoadjuvant chemotherapy gives survival benefits, with 20-48% 5-year survival rates after surgery. Provided that neoadjuvant chemotherapy controls multiple bilobar liver metastases well, aggressive hepatic resection should be considered for patients with those lesions. As a treatment strategy for multiple bilobar liver metastases, neoadjuvant chemotherapy is a useful to increase resection rates and may contribute to the improvement of prognosis in patients with such lesions.     

Surgical Resection of Gastrointestinal Stromal Tumors After Treatment with Imatinib

Background Surgical resection of gastrointestinal stromal tumors (GISTs) has been the most effective therapy for these rare tumors. Imatinib has been introduced as systemic therapy for locally advanced and metastatic GIST. In this study, the surgical resection rates and long-term outcomes of patients treated with preoperative imatinib for locally advanced primary, recurrent, or metastatic GISTs were evaluated. Methods Patients were retrospectively assessed for completeness of surgical resection and for disease-free and overall survival after resection. Results Forty-six patients underwent surgery after treatment with imatinib. Eleven were treated for locally advanced primary GISTs for a median of 11.9 months, followed by complete surgical resection. All eleven were alive at a median of 19.5 months, and ten were free of disease. Thirty-five patients were treated for recurrent or metastatic GIST. Of these, eleven underwent complete resection. Six of the eleven patients had recurrent disease at a median of 15.1 months. All eleven patients were alive at a median of 30.7 months. Patients with a partial radiographic tumor response to imatinib had significantly higher complete resection rates than patients with progressive disease (91% vs. 4%; P < .001). Of the 24 patients with incomplete resection, 18 initially responded to imatinib but were unable to undergo complete resection after they progressed before surgery. Conclusions Preoperative imatinib can decrease tumor volume and is associated with complete surgical resection in locally advanced primary GISTs. Early surgical intervention should be considered for imatinib-responsive recurrent or metastatic GIST, since complete resection is rarely achieved once tumor progression occurs. Presented in part at the Annual Meeting of the Society of Surgical Oncology, Atlanta, GA, March 2005.     

Outcomes after resection of locally advanced or borderline resectable pancreatic cancer after neoadjuvant therapy

BackgroundNeoadjuvant treatment frequently is performed in unresectable/borderline resectable pancreatic cancer. The aim of this study was to retrospectively compare postoperative outcomes and survival of patients who underwent pancreatectomy after neoadjuvant treatment for locally advanced/borderline resectable pancreatic cancer (neoadjuvant treatment group) with those of patients with resectable disease who underwent upfront surgery.MethodsBetween 2000 and 2008, there were 403 patients who underwent pancreatic cancer resection, 41 (10.1%) patients after neoadjuvant treatment for initially unresectable tumors and 362 (89.9%) patients had upfront surgery. Univariate and multivariable analyses were performed.ResultsMortality/morbidity rates were similar in the 2 groups. Nodal metastases were significantly lower in the neoadjuvant treatment group (31.7% vs 86.2%; P < .001). A complete pathologic response was observed in 13.6% after neoadjuvant treatment. Median disease-specific survival from resection was 35 and 27 months in the neoadjuvant treatment and upfront groups, respectively (P = .74). In the neoadjuvant treatment group survival rates were similar in N0/N1 patients.ConclusionsPostoperative mortality and morbidity do not significantly increase after neoadjuvant treatment. Neoadjuvant treatment in locally advanced pancreatic cancer can lead to an objective pathologic response, but this does not significantly improve survival after resection.     

不可切除的肝门部胆管癌的治疗进展

肝门部胆管癌（hCCA）是位于二级肝管与胆囊管开口之间的胆管上皮起源的恶性肿瘤,又称为Klatskin瘤。手术是hCCA唯一潜在的治愈性方法。切缘性质是行切除手术的患者获得长期生存最关键的因素,而作为胆管癌最常见的亚型,hCCA的病理学类型多为低-中分化腺癌,侵袭能力强,恶性程度高,早期症状不明显且无有效的检出手段,所以多数患者在诊断时已处于疾病晚期,丧失手术指征。虽然新辅助放化疗联合原位肝移植已经被证实是部分局部晚期不可切除的hCCA的有效治疗方式,但纳入标准严格,肝源短缺,部分患者在等待肝源的期间肿瘤进展,失去移植条件,因此该治疗方式无法成为大多数患者的治疗方案。传统的放化疗虽然在一定程度上延长了不可切除hCCA患者的生存时间,但其治疗效果始终有限。有研究表明新辅助放化疗能够将部分不可切除的hCCA降期为可切除,提高R₀切除率,但相关数据较少且陈旧,缺乏可信度。随着科技的进步,包括立体定向放疗、三维适行放疗、放射粒子植入等在内的新型放疗技术和光动力疗法的出现,hCCA的局部治疗进入了更加精准的时代。近年来,随着基因检测的发展和对肿瘤微环境的深入研究,在分子生物学层面抑制肿瘤进展是各种实体肿瘤研究的热门方向,针对不同靶点的靶向药物、免疫检查点抑制剂（PD1/PD-L1抗体、CTLA4抗体）层出不穷,并取得了突飞猛进的进展,为不可切除的hCCA的治疗提供了新的方向。但就目前的研究来看,靶向治疗、免疫治疗虽然在肝内胆管癌的治疗中取得了相当不错的成绩,但是在hCCA治疗中的表现仍令人不满意。不可切除的hCCA的单一治疗效果较差,多种治疗方式联合治疗是当前研究的重点。本文主要综述不可切除的hCCA的治疗进展及新辅助治疗在实现R₀切除方面的可行性,旨在为此类患者的治疗提供一定的参考。     

Resektion beim fortgeschrittenen Pankreaskarzinom nach multimodaler Vorbehandlung

Pancreatic cancer patients presenting with borderline resectable or locally advanced unresectable tumors remain a therapeutic challenge. Despite the lack of high quality randomized controlled trials, perioperative neoadjuvant treatment strategies are often employed for this group of patients. At present the FOLFIRINOX regimen, which was established in the palliative setting, is the backbone of neoadjuvant therapy, whereas local ablative treatment, such as stereotactic irradiation and irreversible electroporation are currently under investigation. Resection after modern multimodal neoadjuvant therapy follows the same principles and guidelines as upfront surgery specifically regarding the extent of resection, e.g. lymphadenectomy, vascular resection and multivisceral resection. Because it is still exceedingly difficult to predict tumor response after neoadjuvant therapy, a special treatment approach is necessary. In the case of localized stable disease following neoadjuvant therapy, aggressive surgical exploration with serial frozen sections at critical (vascular) margins might be necessary to minimize the risk of debulking procedures and maximize the chance of a curative resection. A multidisciplinary and individualized approach is mandatory in this challenging group of patients.     

Downstaging of hepatocellular carcinoma and liver metastases from colorectal cancer by selective intra-arterial chemotherapy

BACKGROUND: Although resection is the sole chance of cure in patients with hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) or metastatic colorectal cancer to the liver, most patients are not candidates for surgery at the time of diagnosis. Strategies aiming at downstaging large or multifocal tumors to enable curative resection are appealing. The aim of this study was to evaluate the effects of neoadjuvant selective intra-arterial chemotherapy in noncirrhotic patients with unresectable HCC or metastatic colorectal cancer to the liver in the absence of extrahepatic disease. METHODS: Selective chemotherapy was provided by using a subcutaneous pump device via a catheter placed in the gastroduodenal artery. Chemotherapy regimen included floxuridine (0.2 mg/kg/day for 14 days) in each patient with additional boluses of cisplatin and doxorubicin on day 1 of each cycle in the presence of HCC. Patients were evaluated at 3, 6, 9, and 12 months for possible curative resection. Complete follow-up was available for each patient. RESULTS: Twenty-eight patients with unresectable liver tumors (5 HCC and 23 metastatic colorectal cancer) were included in this study. There were no surgical complications related to pump insertion, and local chemotherapy was started within 1 week of surgery in each patient. The median follow-up in survivors was 31 months (range, 30 months to 5 years). Chemotherapy was well tolerated in 18 (64%) patients. Chemotherapy was discontinued in 4 patients because of abnormal liver function test results, and 2 of them required a biliary stent to relieve a biliary stricture. In 9 patients downstaging enabled curative resection (3 HCC, 6 colorectal metastasis). Seven of these patients were alive and tumor free at the completion of the study, with at least 2 years of follow-up. The actuarial survival rates at 3 years for HCC and colorectal metastases were 60% and 50%, respectively. CONCLUSIONS: About one third of patients with unresectable liver tumors can be successfully treated by neoadjuvant intra-arterial chemotherapy followed by curative resection. This strategy appears particularly promising in patients with large HCC. This approach should be investigated further.     

Treatment with 5-Fluorouracil/Folinic Acid, Oxaliplatin, and Irinotecan Enables Surgical Resection of Metastases in Patients With Initially Unresectable Metastatic Colorectal Cancer

Background The prognosis of unresectable metastatic colorectal cancer might be improved if a radical surgical resection of metastases could be performed after a response to chemotherapy. Methods We treated 74 patients with unresectable metastatic colorectal cancer (not selected for a neoadjuvant approach) with irinotecan, oxaliplatin, and 5-fluorouracil/leucovorin (FOLFOXIRI and simplified FOLFOXIRI). Because of the high activity of these regimens (response rate, 72%), a secondary curative operation could be performed in 19 patients (26%). Results Four patients underwent an extended hepatectomy, nine patients underwent a right hepatectomy, three patients underwent a left hepatectomy, and three patients had a segmental resection. In five patients, surgical removal of extrahepatic disease was also performed. In seven patients, surgical resection was combined with intraoperative radiofrequency ablation. The median overall survival of the 19 patients who underwent operation is 36.8 months, and the 4-year survival rate is 37%. The median overall survival of the 34 patients who were responsive to chemotherapy, but who did not undergo operation, is 22.2 months (P = .0114). Conclusions The FOLFOXIRI regimens we studied have significant antitumor activity and allow a radical surgical resection of metastases in patients with initially unresectable metastatic colorectal cancer not selected for a neoadjuvant approach and also those with extrahepatic disease. The median survival of patients with resected disease is promising.