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Eighty-five patients (37 female, 48 male; median age 14 years) with non-metastatic Ewing's sarcoma received definitive treatment at the University of Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer Center between 1969 and 1988. Multidisciplinary therapy was administered as follows: combination chemotherapy (CC) and local radiotherapy (XRT): 65 patients; CC, XRT and surgery, 19 patients; and XRT and surgery, 1 patient. This permitted a 10-20 year follow-up for 75% of our patients. The overall survival at 5 and 10-20 years was 46.1%, and 37.2%, respectively. At 5 years, 80.5% of live patients had control of local disease. The influence of sex, age, ethnicity, primary site, size, lactic dehydrogenase (LDH) level, presence or absence of systemic symptoms, and XRT dose (<60 Gy and =60 Gy) was analyzed and was not found to be of prognostic significance in survival. The presence of a soft tissue mass at diagnosis was found to be a significant unfavorable prognostic variable. Nine of 11 patient who underwent resection after CC and/or XRT had residual tumor in the surgical specimen. Patients who received surgery as part of the planned treatment of their primary tumor had significantly better local control and disease-free survival than those who did not undergo resection. Complications in long-term survivors are described.
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Neoplasias Óseas/cirugía , Sarcoma de Ewing/cirugía , Adolescente , Adulto , Neoplasias Óseas/tratamiento farmacológico , Neoplasias Óseas/radioterapia , Neoplasias Óseas/secundario , Niño , Preescolar , Terapia Combinada , Supervivencia sin Enfermedad , Femenino , Estudios de Seguimiento , Humanos , Masculino , Pronóstico , Estudios Retrospectivos , Sarcoma de Ewing/tratamiento farmacológico , Sarcoma de Ewing/radioterapia , Sarcoma de Ewing/secundarioRESUMEN
OBJECTIVE: The perceived function of wild-type p53 is suppression of cell proliferation. An alteration in the p53 tumor suppressor gene is a common defect in human malignancies. The purpose of this study was to prospectively determine whether p53 expression, as quantified by image analysis, was related to traditional prognostic indicators as well as survival in patients epithelial ovarian cancer. METHODS: Eighty-three consecutive patients with epithelial ovarian cancer had their p53 expression studied by immunohistochemical staining and quantified by image analysis. Unless otherwise noted, p53 expression was reported as the percentage positive nuclear area staining. RESULTS: The mean follow-up was 37 months (median, 30 months; range 24-55 months). In patients with serous carcinomas of the ovary, the mean p53 expression was 29.4%, whereas in patients with other histologies, the mean was 10.5% (P < 0.001). The tumors of patients with stage III or IV tumors stained significantly higher (mean 28. 7%) than the tumors of patients with stage I or II disease (mean 8. 36%) (P < 0.001). The tumors of patients with disease which could be optimally cytoreduced stained significantly lower (mean 23.0%) than the tumors of patients whose disease was unable to be optimally cytoreduced (mean 28.6%) (P = 0.041). Utilizing survival as the endpoint for multivariate analysis, FIGO stage (P = 0.006), p53 expression (P = 0.046), and the level of cytoreduction (P < 0.001) were independent prognostic indicators. CONCLUSION: Image analysis allows quantitative measurements of p53 staining. p53 staining is significantly higher in advanced-stage, high-grade tumors which are unable to be cytoreduced than in early-stage, low-grade tumors which can be optimally cytoreduced. p53 expression is an independent prognostic indicator of survival in patients with epithelial ovarian carcinomas.
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Neoplasias Glandulares y Epiteliales/química , Neoplasias Ováricas/química , Proteína p53 Supresora de Tumor/análisis , Adulto , Anciano , Anciano de 80 o más Años , Análisis de Varianza , Femenino , Humanos , Inmunohistoquímica , Persona de Mediana Edad , Estadificación de Neoplasias , Neoplasias Glandulares y Epiteliales/mortalidad , Neoplasias Glandulares y Epiteliales/patología , Neoplasias Ováricas/mortalidad , Neoplasias Ováricas/patología , Pronóstico , Estudios Prospectivos , Análisis de SupervivenciaRESUMEN
From 1956 to 1987, 60 patients with either lymphangiogram-staged or laparotomy-staged I-II lower torso presentations of Hodgkin's disease were treated with radiation with or without Mustargen (mechlorethamine), vincristine, procarbazine, and prednisone (MOPP). In 22 with inguinal/femoral or pelvic disease and 24 with abdominal disease, treatment consisted of radiation only. Fourteen other patients with abdominal disease received MOPP chemotherapy before radiotherapy. In 11, the chemotherapy was limited to two cycles. At 10 years, the determinate survival and freedom from progression rates for all patients were 82% and 72%, respectively. For patients with inguinal/femoral or pelvic disease who were treated with radiation only, the corresponding rates were 90% and 86%. For patients with abdominal disease who received radiation only, the determinate survival and the freedom from progression rates were only 66% and 50%, respectively. However, corresponding results for 14 patients with abdominal disease who were treated with MOPP and radiation were 100% and 92% (P = 0.033 and P = 0.009, respectively.
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Protocolos de Quimioterapia Combinada Antineoplásica/uso terapéutico , Enfermedad de Hodgkin/terapia , Neoplasias Abdominales/tratamiento farmacológico , Neoplasias Abdominales/radioterapia , Neoplasias Abdominales/terapia , Adulto , Terapia Combinada , Femenino , Estudios de Seguimiento , Enfermedad de Hodgkin/tratamiento farmacológico , Enfermedad de Hodgkin/patología , Enfermedad de Hodgkin/radioterapia , Humanos , Conducto Inguinal/patología , Ganglios Linfáticos/patología , Masculino , Mecloretamina/administración & dosificación , Estadificación de Neoplasias , Neoplasias Pélvicas/tratamiento farmacológico , Neoplasias Pélvicas/radioterapia , Neoplasias Pélvicas/terapia , Prednisona/administración & dosificación , Procarbazina/administración & dosificación , Vincristina/administración & dosificaciónRESUMEN
The authors discuss an angiosarcoma that developed in a 50-year-old woman's breast 10 years after she underwent conventional postoperative irradiation with cobalt 60 teletherapy. Although angiosarcoma developing in a lymphedematous arm after radical mastectomy is a well-known phenomenon, and several cases of angiosarcoma are known to have occurred in the chest wall after mastectomy with or without irradiation, only one other case of angiosarcoma in an irradiated breast has been reported. The possible role of therapeutic irradiation in inducing this malignancy is discussed.