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BACKGROUND: Osteofibrous dysplasia-like adamantinoma (OFD-AD) and classic adamantinoma (AD) are rare, neoplastic diseases with only limited data supporting current treatment protocols. We believe that our retrospective multicenter cohort study is the largest analysis of patients with adamantinoma to date. The primary purpose of this study was to describe the disease characteristics and evaluate the oncological outcomes. The secondary purpose was to identify risk factors for local recurrence after surgical treatment and propose treatment guidelines. METHODS: Three hundred and eighteen confirmed cases of OFD-AD and AD for which primary treatment was carried out between 1985 and 2015 were submitted by 22 tertiary bone tumor centers. Proposed clinical risk factors for local recurrence such as size, type, and margins were analyzed using univariable and multivariate Cox regression analysis. RESULTS: Of the 318 cases, 128 were OFD-AD and 190 were AD. The mean age at diagnosis was 17 years (median, 14.5 years) for OFD-AD and 32 years (median, 28 years) for AD; 53% of the patients were female. The mean tumor size in the OFD-AD and AD groups combined was 7.8 cm, measured histologically. Sixteen percent of the patients sustained a pathological fracture prior to treatment. Local recurrence was recorded in 22% of the OFD-AD cases and 24% of the AD cases. None of the recurrences in the OFD-AD group progressed to AD. Metastatic disease was found in 18% of the AD cases and fatal disease, in 11% of the AD cases. No metastatic or fatal disease was reported in the OFD-AD group. Multivariate Cox regression analysis demonstrated that uncontaminated resection margins (hazard ratio [HR] = 0.164, 95% confidence interval [CI] = 0.092 to 0.290, p < 0.001), pathological fracture (HR = 1.968, 95% CI = 1.076 to 3.600, p = 0.028), and sex (female versus male: HR = 0.535, 95% CI = 0.300 to 0.952, p = 0.033) impacted the risk of local recurrence. CONCLUSIONS: OFD-AD and AD are parts of a disease spectrum but should be regarded as different entities. Our results support reclassification of OFD-AD into the intermediate locally aggressive category, based on the local recurrence rate of 22% and absence of metastases. In our study, metastatic disease was restricted to the AD group (an 18% rate). We advocate wide resection with uncontaminated margins including bone and involved periosteum for both OFD-AD and AD. LEVEL OF EVIDENCE: Prognostic Level IV. See Instructions for Authors for a complete description of levels of evidence.
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Adamantinoma/cirurgia , Doenças do Desenvolvimento Ósseo/cirurgia , Neoplasias Ósseas/cirurgia , Adamantinoma/patologia , Adolescente , Adulto , Doenças do Desenvolvimento Ósseo/patologia , Neoplasias Ósseas/patologia , Feminino , Humanos , Masculino , Recidiva Local de Neoplasia , Prognóstico , Fatores de Risco , Resultado do TratamentoRESUMO
OBJECTIVE: Aim of the manuscript is to discuss how to improve margins in sacral chordoma. BACKGROUND: Chordoma is a rare neoplasm, arising in half cases from the sacrum, with reported local failure in >50% after surgery. METHODS: A multidisciplinary meeting of the "Chordoma Global Consensus Group" was held in Milan in 2017, focusing on challenges in defining and achieving optimal margins in chordoma with respect to surgery, definitive particle radiation therapy (RT) and medical therapies. This review aims to report on the outcome of the consensus meeting and to provide a summary of the most recent evidence in this field. Possible new ways forward, including on-going international clinical studies, are discussed. RESULTS: En-bloc tumor-sacrum resection is the cornerstone of treatment of primary sacral chordoma, aiming to achieve negative microscopic margins. Radical definitive particle therapy seems to offer a similar outcome compared to surgery, although confirmation in comparative trials is lacking; besides there is still a certain degree of technical variability across institutions, corresponding to different fields of treatment and different tumor coverage. To address some of these questions, a prospective, randomized international study comparing surgery versus definitive high-dose RT is ongoing. Available data do not support the routine use of any medical therapy as (neo)adjuvant/cytoreductive treatment. CONCLUSION: Given the significant influence of margins status on local control in patients with primary localized sacral chordoma, the clear definition of adequate margins and a standard local approach across institutions for both surgery and particle RT is vital for improving the management of these patients.
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Cordoma/radioterapia , Cordoma/cirurgia , Margens de Excisão , Sacro/cirurgia , Humanos , Terapia com Prótons/efeitos adversos , Dosagem RadioterapêuticaAssuntos
Oncologia/normas , Participação do Paciente , Sarcoma/terapia , Adulto , Assistência ao Convalescente/métodos , Assistência ao Convalescente/normas , Protocolos de Quimioterapia Combinada Antineoplásica/normas , Protocolos de Quimioterapia Combinada Antineoplásica/uso terapêutico , Biópsia , Europa (Continente) , Humanos , Incidência , Metástase Linfática/diagnóstico por imagem , Metástase Linfática/patologia , Imageamento por Ressonância Magnética/métodos , Imageamento por Ressonância Magnética/normas , Oncologia/métodos , Terapia Neoadjuvante/métodos , Terapia Neoadjuvante/normas , Gradação de Tumores , Estadiamento de Neoplasias , Radioterapia Adjuvante/métodos , Radioterapia Adjuvante/normas , Sarcoma/diagnóstico , Sarcoma/epidemiologia , Sarcoma/patologia , Grupos de Autoajuda/normas , Sociedades Médicas/normas , Procedimentos Cirúrgicos Operatórios/métodos , Procedimentos Cirúrgicos Operatórios/normas , Tomografia Computadorizada por Raios X/métodos , Tomografia Computadorizada por Raios X/normas , Resultado do TratamentoAssuntos
Tumores do Estroma Gastrointestinal/terapia , Oncologia/normas , Participação do Paciente , Adulto , Assistência ao Convalescente/métodos , Assistência ao Convalescente/normas , Protocolos de Quimioterapia Combinada Antineoplásica/normas , Protocolos de Quimioterapia Combinada Antineoplásica/uso terapêutico , Quimioterapia Adjuvante/métodos , Quimioterapia Adjuvante/normas , Procedimentos Cirúrgicos do Sistema Digestório/métodos , Procedimentos Cirúrgicos do Sistema Digestório/normas , Endossonografia , Europa (Continente) , Tumores do Estroma Gastrointestinal/diagnóstico , Tumores do Estroma Gastrointestinal/epidemiologia , Tumores do Estroma Gastrointestinal/patologia , Humanos , Biópsia Guiada por Imagem/métodos , Biópsia Guiada por Imagem/normas , Incidência , Intestinos/diagnóstico por imagem , Intestinos/patologia , Intestinos/cirurgia , Laparoscopia/métodos , Laparoscopia/normas , Margens de Excisão , Oncologia/métodos , Estadiamento de Neoplasias , Grupos de Autoajuda/normas , Sociedades Médicas/normas , Estômago/diagnóstico por imagem , Estômago/patologia , Estômago/cirurgia , Tomografia Computadorizada por Raios X , Resultado do TratamentoRESUMO
BACKGROUND: Data on temozolomide (TEM) and irinotecan (IRI) activity in recurrent Ewing sarcoma (EWS), especially in adult patients, are limited. METHODS: Patients receiving TEM 100 mg/m2/day oral, and IRI 40 mg/m2/day intravenous, days 1-5, every 21 days, were included in this multi-institutional retrospective study. Disease control rate (DCR) [overall response rate (ORR) [complete response (CR) + partial response (PR)] + stable disease (SD)], 6-months progression-free survival (6-mos PFS) and 1-year overall survival (OS) were assessed. RESULTS: The median age of the 51 patients was 21 years (range 3-65 years): 34 patients (66%) were adults (≥18 years of age), 24 (48%) had ECOG 1 and 35 (69%) were presented with multiple site recurrence. TEMIRI was used at first relapse/progression in 13 (25%) patients, while the remainder received TEMIRI for second or greater relapse/progression. Fourteen (27%) patients had received prior myeloablative therapy with busulfan and melphalan. We observed five (10%) CR, 12 (24%) PR and 19 (37%) SD, with a DCR of 71%. 6-mos PFS was 49% (95% CI 35-63) and it was significantly influenced by ECOG (6-mos PFS 64% [95% CI 45-83] for ECOG 0, 34% [95% CI 14-54] for ECOG ≥1; p = .006) and LDH (6-mos PFS 62% [95% CI 44-79] for normal LDH, 22% [95% CI 3-42] for high LDH; p = .02), with no difference according to line of treatment, age and metastatic pattern. One-year OS was 55% (95% CI 39-70), with RECIST response (p = .001) and ECOG (p = .0002) independently associated with outcome. Grade 3 and 4 toxicity included neutropenia in 12% of patients, thrombocytopenia in 4%, diarrhea in 4%. CONCLUSIONS: This series confirms the activity of TEMIRI in both adults and pediatric patients. This schedule offers a 71% DCR, independently of the line of chemotherapy. Predictive factors of response are ECOG and LDH.
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Protocolos de Quimioterapia Combinada Antineoplásica/uso terapêutico , Camptotecina/análogos & derivados , Dacarbazina/análogos & derivados , Recidiva Local de Neoplasia/tratamento farmacológico , Sarcoma de Ewing/tratamento farmacológico , Sarcoma de Ewing/patologia , Adolescente , Adulto , Idoso , Camptotecina/administração & dosagem , Camptotecina/efeitos adversos , Criança , Pré-Escolar , Dacarbazina/administração & dosagem , Dacarbazina/efeitos adversos , Feminino , Humanos , Irinotecano , Masculino , Pessoa de Meia-Idade , Recidiva Local de Neoplasia/mortalidade , Recidiva Local de Neoplasia/patologia , Recidiva , Estudos Retrospectivos , Sarcoma de Ewing/mortalidade , Temozolomida , Adulto JovemRESUMO
Extra-axial chordoma is an exceedingly rare tumor, with only 28 cases reported in the literature to date. Axial and extra-axial chordoma exhibits complete morphologic and immunophenotypic (expression of brachyury) overlap. However, in consideration of the non-canonical presentation, extra-axial chordoma is under-recognized and often misdiagnosed, most often as extraskeletal myxoid chondrosarcoma or myoepithelioma. To increase our understanding of the clinicopathologic features of extra-axial chordoma, six cases have been retrieved from the files of the Istituto Ortopedico Rizzoli and of the General Hospital of Treviso. The clinicoradiologic, morphologic, and molecular features have been analyzed, and the follow-up was updated. Our series included four female and two male patients; their ages ranged from 20 to 67 years (mean 45.8 years). All patients presented with a single mass localized in four cases in the soft tissue (posterior arm, left leg, dorsal aspect of the foot, and popliteal fossa), and in two cases in the bone (radius and second metacarpal bone). Grossly, the neoplasm was lobulated, with a fleshy cut surface and a diameter ranging between 0.8 and 8 cm (mean 3.4 cm). Morphologically, all six cases showed an epithelioid cell proliferation organized in nests and cords demarcated by fibrous septa and set in an abundant extracellular myxoid matrix. Neoplastic cells featured hyperchromatic nuclei and abundant vacuolated cytoplasm. Immunohistochemically, all six cases were strongly positive for EMA, cytokeratin AE1/AE3, S100, and brachyury. INI1 nuclear expression was retained. Smooth muscle actin, calponin, p63, and GFAP were all negative. Fluorescent in situ hybridization (FISH) analysis did not reveal rearrangements involving NR4A3, FUS, and EWSR1 genes. At follow-up (mean 55 months), all patients were alive without disease after local surgical treatment. One patient underwent thigh amputation following multiple local recurrences and inguinal node metastases treated with marginal resection. In conclusion, primary extra-axial chordoma is an extremely rare neoplasm with distinct morphological and immunohistochemical features. Immunomorphology and molecular analysis allow distinction from both extraskeletal myxoid chondrosarcoma and myoepithelioma. Complete surgical resection appears to be curative.
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Cordoma/patologia , Recidiva Local de Neoplasia/patologia , Adulto , Idoso , Biomarcadores Tumorais/análise , Condrossarcoma/genética , Cordoma/genética , Feminino , Humanos , Imuno-Histoquímica/métodos , Hibridização in Situ Fluorescente/métodos , Masculino , Recidiva Local de Neoplasia/genética , Neoplasias de Tecido Conjuntivo e de Tecidos Moles/genética , Neoplasias de Tecidos Moles/patologia , Adulto JovemRESUMO
INTRODUCTION: The diagnosis of synovial sarcoma (SS) is currently based on clinical, morphological, immunohistochemical and cytogenetic data. Some of these factors such as grade and histology, specific translocations (SS18-SSX1 vs. SS18-SSX2) and the reduced expression of INI1, were proposed as prognostic variables. The aim of this study was to verify whether histological (grading and histology) and molecular (type of SSX translocation and INI1 expression) characteristics of SS influence the prognosis of the disease. MATERIAL AND METHODS: We retrospectively evaluated 196 patients affected by SS of the extremities treated at our Institution (Istituto Ortopedico Rizzoli, Bologna, Italy). All cases were histologically revised and tumor grade was assessed according to the FNLCC system. Tissue specimens were retrospectively evaluated to check for SS18-SSX fusion type and INI1 expression. RESULTS: Most SS were monophasic, 28% were biphasic. Eighty tumors (41%) were grade 3. Sixty percent harbored SSX1 translocation, 40% SSX2; 51% maintained the expression of INI1. Sarcoma specific survival (OS) was 56.6% at 5 years and 46.9% at 10 years. Prognosis was worse in those patients monophasic SS (p = 0.011) as in those with a grade 3 tumors (p = 0.083). No correlation was found neither between SSX fusion type nor INI1 expression and survival. LR-free survival was 78.9% at 5 years and 75.9% at 10 years. A higher LR rate was observed in tumors with SSX2 translocation and (p = 0.049) in grade 3 SS (0 = 0.028). DISCUSSION: Our data confirm that not all cases of SS present the same severe outcome. High-risk patients identified on the basis of these parameters may qualify for an aggressive treatment approach.
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Neoplasias Ósseas/secundário , Neoplasias Pulmonares/secundário , Recidiva Local de Neoplasia/genética , Proteína SMARCB1/genética , Sarcoma Sinovial/patologia , Sarcoma Sinovial/terapia , Adolescente , Adulto , Idoso , Idoso de 80 Anos ou mais , Quimioterapia Adjuvante , Criança , Intervalo Livre de Doença , Extremidades , Feminino , Humanos , Masculino , Pessoa de Meia-Idade , Mutação , Gradação de Tumores , Proteínas de Neoplasias/genética , Proteínas de Fusão Oncogênica/genética , Radioterapia Adjuvante , Reoperação , Proteínas Repressoras/genética , Estudos Retrospectivos , Proteína SMARCB1/análise , Sarcoma Sinovial/genética , Sarcoma Sinovial/secundário , Taxa de Sobrevida , Translocação Genética , Adulto JovemRESUMO
Extraskeletal myxoid chondrosarcoma is a rare neoplasm of soft tissue. The usual location is in deep parts of the proximal extremities and limb girdles in middle-aged adults. The bone location as primary location is extremely rare and few cases are reported. We present three cases arising in bone with molecular confirmation using both RT-PCR and FISH analysis. Patients include two men and one woman with an age of 62, 69 and 73 years old. The mean size of the lesion was 13cm (range 8-18cm). Tumors arose in the iliac bone in two cases and in the proximal humerus in the other case. At time of diagnosis the three cases show bone cortex and soft tissue involvement. On imaging, lesions have a lobular pattern, are purely lytic, but take up contrast medium after injection. Two patients are alive with disease (local recurrence and lung metastasis) after five years and five years and six months, respectively and one patient died of disease two years after the diagnosis. The primary extraskeletal myxoid chondrosarcoma of bone seems to have a more aggressive behavior than the soft tissue counterpart. The molecular confirmation of diagnosis using RT-PCR is necessary to do the differential diagnosis with other entities, in particular with myoepithelioma that shows similar morphological features and EWSR1 and FUS genes rearrangement.
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Condrossarcoma/diagnóstico por imagem , Proteínas de Ligação a DNA/genética , Mioepitelioma/diagnóstico por imagem , Neoplasias de Tecido Conjuntivo e de Tecidos Moles/diagnóstico por imagem , Proteína EWS de Ligação a RNA/genética , Receptores de Esteroides/genética , Receptores dos Hormônios Tireóideos/genética , Translocação Genética/genética , Idoso , Osso e Ossos/diagnóstico por imagem , Osso e Ossos/patologia , Condrossarcoma/genética , Condrossarcoma/patologia , Diagnóstico Diferencial , Feminino , Humanos , Hibridização in Situ Fluorescente , Imageamento por Ressonância Magnética , Masculino , Pessoa de Meia-Idade , Mioepitelioma/genética , Mioepitelioma/patologia , Recidiva Local de Neoplasia , Neoplasias de Tecido Conjuntivo e de Tecidos Moles/genética , Neoplasias de Tecido Conjuntivo e de Tecidos Moles/patologiaRESUMO
BACKGROUND: Giant-cell tumours of bone (GCTB) are RANK/RANK-ligand (RANKL) positive, aggressive and progressive osteolytic tumours. Denosumab, a RANKL inhibitor, was FDA-approved for adults and skeletally mature adolescents with unresectable GCTB or when surgical resection is likely to result in severe morbidity. Data on long-term toxicity and activity of denosumab monthly 'GCTB-schedule' (120 mg per 12/year, 1440 mg total dose/year) are lacking. METHODS: Patients with GCTB receiving denosumab, 120 mg on days 1, 8, 15, 29 and every 4 weeks thereafter, from 2006 to 2015 treated in two centres were included. Long-term toxicity was evaluated. RESULTS: Ninety-seven patients were identified. 43 patients underwent resection of the tumour with a median time on denosumab treatment of 12 months (range 6-45 months). Fifty-four patients had unresectable GCTB's (male/female 23/31, median age 35 years [range: 13-76 years], 26% presented with lung metastases, 31% had primary tumor located to the spine, 63% were relapsed after previous surgery) with a median time on denosumab of 54 months (9-115 months). In the unresectable GCTB group, tumour control and clinical benefits were observed in all patients undergoing denosumab, whereas 40% of patients discontinuing denosumab had tumour progression after a median of 8 months (range 7-15 months). ADVERSE EVENTS: Overall, six (6%) patients developed osteonecrosis of jaw (ONJ): 1/43 (2%) in the resectable group, 5/54 (9%) in the unresectable group, with a 5-year ONJ-free survival of 92% (95% CI 84-100). Only patients with prolonged treatment experienced mild peripheral neuropathy (6/54, 11%), skin rash (5/54, 9%), hypophosphataemia (2/54, 4%) and atypical femoral fracture (2/54, 4%). CONCLUSIONS: Prolonged treatment with denosumab has sustained activity in GCTB, with a mild toxicity profile. The dose-dependent toxicity observed recommends a careful and strict monitoring of patients who need prolonged treatment. Decreased dose-intensity schedules should be further explored in unresectable GCTB.
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Conservadores da Densidade Óssea/administração & dosagem , Neoplasias Ósseas/tratamento farmacológico , Denosumab/administração & dosagem , Tumor de Células Gigantes do Osso/tratamento farmacológico , Neoplasias Pulmonares/tratamento farmacológico , Adolescente , Adulto , Idoso , Osteonecrose da Arcada Osseodentária Associada a Difosfonatos/epidemiologia , Osteonecrose da Arcada Osseodentária Associada a Difosfonatos/etiologia , Neoplasias Ósseas/diagnóstico por imagem , Neoplasias Ósseas/patologia , Estudos de Coortes , Progressão da Doença , Relação Dose-Resposta a Droga , Feminino , Neoplasias Femorais/tratamento farmacológico , Neoplasias Femorais/patologia , Tumor de Células Gigantes do Osso/diagnóstico por imagem , Tumor de Células Gigantes do Osso/secundário , Humanos , Ísquio , Neoplasias Pulmonares/diagnóstico por imagem , Neoplasias Pulmonares/secundário , Masculino , Pessoa de Meia-Idade , Rádio (Anatomia)/diagnóstico por imagem , Estudos Retrospectivos , Sacro , Neoplasias Cranianas/tratamento farmacológico , Neoplasias Cranianas/patologia , Neoplasias da Coluna Vertebral/tratamento farmacológico , Neoplasias da Coluna Vertebral/patologia , Tíbia , Fatores de Tempo , Adulto JovemRESUMO
Chordomas are rare, malignant bone tumors of the skull-base and axial skeleton. Until recently, there was no consensus among experts regarding appropriate clinical management of chordoma, resulting in inconsistent care and suboptimal outcomes for many patients. To address this shortcoming, the European Society of Medical Oncology (ESMO) and the Chordoma Foundation, the global chordoma patient advocacy group, convened a multi-disciplinary group of chordoma specialists to define by consensus evidence-based best practices for the optimal approach to chordoma. In January 2015, the first recommendations of this group were published, covering the management of primary and metastatic chordomas. Additional evidence and further discussion were needed to develop recommendations about the management of local-regional failures. Thus, ESMO and CF convened a second consensus group meeting in November 2015 to address the treatment of locally relapsed chordoma. This meeting involved over 60 specialists from Europe, the United States and Japan with expertise in treatment of patients with chordoma. The consensus achieved during that meeting is the subject of the present publication and complements the recommendations of the first position paper.
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Cordoma/terapia , Guias de Prática Clínica como Assunto , Humanos , Recidiva Local de NeoplasiaRESUMO
BACKGROUND: Despite the effectiveness of current treatment protocols for Ewing sarcoma (ES), many patients still experience relapse, and survival following recurrence is <15%. We aimed to identify genetic variants that predict treatment outcome in children diagnosed with ES. PATIENTS AND METHODS: We carried out a pharmacogenetic study of 384 single-nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) in 24 key transport or metabolism genes relevant to drugs used to treat in pediatric patients (<30 years) with histologically confirmed ES. We studied the association of genotypes with tumor response and overall survival (OS) in a discovery cohort of 106 Spanish children, with replication in a second cohort of 389 pediatric patients from across Europe. RESULTS: We identified associations with OS (P < 0.05) for three SNPs in the Spanish cohort that were replicated in the European cohort. The strongest association observed was with rs7190447, located in the ATP-binding cassette subfamily C member 6 (ABCC6) gene [discovery: hazard ratio (HR) = 14.30, 95% confidence interval (CI) = 1.53-134, P = 0.020; replication: HR = 9.28, 95% CI = 2.20-39.2, P = 0.0024] and its correlated SNP rs7192303, which was predicted to have a plausible regulatory function. We also replicated associations with rs4148737 in the ATP-binding cassette subfamily B member 1 (ABCB1) gene (discovery: HR = 2.96, 95% CI = 1.08-8.10, P = 0.034; replication: HR = 1.60, 95% CI = 1.05-2.44, P = 0.029), which we have previously found to be associated with poorer OS in pediatric osteosarcoma patients, and rs11188147 in cytochrome P450 family 2 subfamily C member 8 gene (CYP2C8) (discovery : HR = 2.49, 95% CI = 1.06-5.87, P = 0.037; replication: HR = 1.77, 95% CI = 1.06-2.96, P = 0.030), an enzyme involved in the oxidative metabolism of the ES chemotherapeutic agents cyclophosphamide and ifosfamide. None of the associations with tumor response were replicated. CONCLUSION: Using an integrated pathway-based approach, we identified polymorphisms in ABCC6, ABCB1 and CYP2C8 associated with OS. These associations were replicated in a large independent cohort, highlighting the importance of pharmacokinetic genes as prognostic markers in ES.
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Citocromo P-450 CYP2C8/genética , Proteínas Associadas à Resistência a Múltiplos Medicamentos/genética , Sarcoma de Ewing/genética , Subfamília B de Transportador de Cassetes de Ligação de ATP/genética , Adolescente , Adulto , Criança , Pré-Escolar , Feminino , Estudos de Associação Genética , Genótipo , Humanos , Lactente , Masculino , Recidiva Local de Neoplasia/tratamento farmacológico , Recidiva Local de Neoplasia/genética , Recidiva Local de Neoplasia/patologia , Polimorfismo de Nucleotídeo Único , Sarcoma de Ewing/tratamento farmacológico , Sarcoma de Ewing/patologia , Análise de Sobrevida , Resultado do Tratamento , Adulto JovemRESUMO
BACKGROUND: Few new compounds are available for relapsed osteosarcoma. We retrospectively evaluated the activity of gemcitabine (G) plus docetaxel (D) in patients with relapsed high-grade osteosarcoma and high-grade spindle cell sarcoma of bone (HGS). METHODS: Patients receiving G 900 mg/m(2) d 1, 8; D 75 mg/m(2) d 8, every 21 days were eligible. Primary end-point: progression-free survival (PFS) at 4 months; secondary end-point: overall survival (OS) and response rate. RESULTS: Fifty-one patients were included, with a median age of 17 years (8-71), 26 (51%) were pediatric patients. GD line of treatment: 2nd in 14 patients, ≥3rd in 37. 25 (49%) patients had metastases limited to lungs, 26 (51%) multiple sites. HISTOLOGY: 40 (78%) osteosarcoma, 11 (22%) HGS. Eight (16%) patients achieved surgical complete response (sCR2) after GD. Four-month PFS rate was 46%, and significantly better for patients with ECOG 0 (ECOG 0: 54% vs ECOG 1: 43% vs ECOG 2: 0%; p = 0.003), for patients undergoing metastasectomy after GD (sCR2 75% vs no-sCR2 40 %, p = 0.02) and for osteosarcoma (osteosarcoma 56% vs HGS 18%; p = 0.05), with no differences according to age, line of treatment, and pattern of metastases. Forty-six cases had RECIST measurable disease: 6 (13%) patients had a partial response (PR), 20 (43%) had stable disease (SD) and 20 (43%) had progressive disease (PD). The 1-year OS was 30%: 67% for PR, 54% for SD and 20% for PD (p = 0.005). CONCLUSIONS: GD is an active treatment for relapsed high-grade osteosarcoma, especially for ECOG 0 patients, and should be included in the therapeutic armamentarium of metastatic osteosarcoma.
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Recidiva Local de Neoplasia/tratamento farmacológico , Osteossarcoma/tratamento farmacológico , Sarcoma/tratamento farmacológico , Adolescente , Adulto , Idoso , Criança , Desoxicitidina/administração & dosagem , Desoxicitidina/análogos & derivados , Intervalo Livre de Doença , Docetaxel , Feminino , Humanos , Estimativa de Kaplan-Meier , Masculino , Pessoa de Meia-Idade , Gradação de Tumores , Recidiva Local de Neoplasia/patologia , Osteossarcoma/patologia , Recidiva , Sarcoma/patologia , Taxoides/administração & dosagem , Resultado do Tratamento , GencitabinaRESUMO
Sarcomas are mesenchymal tumors characterized by blocked differentiation process. In Ewing sarcoma (EWS) both CD99 and EWS-FLI1 concur to oncogenesis and inhibition of differentiation. Here, we demonstrate that uncoupling CD99 from EWS-FLI1 by silencing the former, nuclear factor-κB (NF-κB) signaling is inhibited and the neural differentiation program is re-established. NF-κB inhibition passes through miR-34a-mediated repression of Notch pathway. CD99 counteracts EWS-FLI1 in controlling NF-κB signaling through the miR-34a, which is increased and secreted into exosomes released by CD99-silenced EWS cells. Delivery of exosomes from CD99-silenced cells was sufficient to induce neural differentiation in recipient EWS cells through miR-34a inhibition of Notch-NF-κB signaling. Notably, even the partial delivery of CD99 small interfering RNA may have a broad effect on the entire tumor cell population owing to the spread operated by their miR-34a-enriched exosomes, a feature opening to a new therapeutic option.
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Antígeno 12E7/fisiologia , MicroRNAs/fisiologia , NF-kappa B/fisiologia , Receptores Notch/fisiologia , Sarcoma de Ewing/patologia , Transdução de Sinais/fisiologia , Diferenciação Celular , Humanos , Proteínas de Fusão Oncogênica/fisiologia , Proteína Proto-Oncogênica c-fli-1/fisiologia , RNA Interferente Pequeno/genética , Proteína EWS de Ligação a RNA/fisiologiaRESUMO
PURPOSE: Ewing sarcoma (EWS) is the second most common sarcoma of bone in children and young adults. Patients with disseminated disease at diagnosis or early relapse have a poor prognosis. Our goal was to identify novel predictive biomarkers for these patients, focusing on chemokines, specifically genes involved in the CXCR4-pathway because of their established role in metastasis and tumour growth. METHODS: Total RNA isolated from therapy-naïve tumour samples (n=18; panel I) and cell lines (n=21) was used to study expression of CXCR4-pathway related genes and CXCR4 splice variants (CXCR4-2: Small and CXCR4-1: Large) by RT-Q-PCR. Expression levels were correlated to overall survival (OS) and event free survival (EFS). Study results were validated in an independent series of 26 tumour samples (panel II) from therapy-naïve tumour samples. RESULTS: CXCL12, CXCR4, CXCR7 and CXCL14 were expressed and high CXCR7 and CXCL14 expression showed a positive correlation with EFS and OS and a negative correlation with metastasis development. Both splice variants CXCR4 were expressed in cell lines and tumour samples and CXCR4-1/CXCR4-2 ratio was significantly higher in tumour samples compared to cell lines and correlated with an improved EFS and OS. The results from the test panel were validated in an independent sample panel. CONCLUSIONS: We identified a set of genes involved in CXCR4 signalling that may be used as a marker to predict survival and metastasis development in Ewing sarcoma.
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Neoplasias Ósseas/genética , Quimiocinas CXC/genética , Regulação Neoplásica da Expressão Gênica , Receptores CXCR4/genética , Receptores CXCR/genética , Sarcoma de Ewing/genética , Adolescente , Adulto , Neoplasias Ósseas/patologia , Linhagem Celular Tumoral , Quimiocina CXCL12/genética , Criança , Pré-Escolar , Intervalo Livre de Doença , Feminino , Humanos , Estimativa de Kaplan-Meier , Masculino , Pessoa de Meia-Idade , Metástase Neoplásica , Isoformas de Proteínas/genética , Splicing de RNA , Reação em Cadeia da Polimerase Via Transcriptase Reversa , Sarcoma de Ewing/patologia , Transdução de Sinais/genética , Adulto JovemRESUMO
We report two cases of sclerosing epithelioid fibrosarcoma occurring in the deep soft tissue of the thigh, confirmed by molecular analysis and associated with bone metastases in the lumbar vertebrae and the iliac wing at the time of diagnosis. Synchronous bone metastases of sclerosing epithelioid fibrosarcoma are extremely difficult to diagnose because clinical and radiological features are not specific. In addition, the range of differential diagnoses is very wide, including metastatic carcinoma and osteosarcoma. At present, all but three published cases of sclerosing epithelioid fibrosarcoma with bone metastases showed bone metastases during follow-up. We confirm in our two cases that the distinct pattern of immunohistochemical staining for MUC4, associated with the absence of staining for both SATB2, a marker of osteoblastic differentiation, and pan-cytokeratin, allows differentiating between sclerosing epithelioid fibrosarcoma and metastatic carcinoma or osteosarcoma.
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Neoplasias Ósseas/secundário , Fibrossarcoma/secundário , Neoplasias de Tecidos Moles/patologia , Adulto , Biomarcadores Tumorais/análise , Feminino , Humanos , Imuno-Histoquímica , Hibridização in Situ Fluorescente , Proteínas de Ligação à Região de Interação com a Matriz/análise , Proteínas de Ligação à Região de Interação com a Matriz/biossíntese , Mucina-4/análise , Mucina-4/biossíntese , Reação em Cadeia da Polimerase Via Transcriptase Reversa , Esclerose/patologia , Coxa da Perna , Fatores de Transcrição/análise , Fatores de Transcrição/biossínteseRESUMO
BACKGROUND: microRNAs (miRs) are small non-coding RNAs involved in the fine regulation of several cellular processes by inhibiting their target genes at post-transcriptional level. Osteosarcoma (OS) is a tumor thought to be related to a molecular blockade of the normal process of osteoblast differentiation. The current paper explores temporal transcriptional modifications comparing an osteosarcoma cell line, Saos-2, and clones stably transfected with CD99, a molecule which was found to drive OS cells to terminally differentiate. METHODS: Parental cell line and CD99 transfectants were cultured up to 14 days in differentiating medium. In this setting, OS cells were profiled by gene and miRNA expression arrays. Integration of gene and miRNA profiling was performed by both sequence complementarity and expression correlation. Further enrichment and network analyses were carried out to focus on the modulated pathways and on the interactions between transcriptome and miRNome. To track the temporal transcriptional modification, a PCA analysis with differentiated human MSC was performed. RESULTS: We identified a strong (about 80 %) gene down-modulation where reversion towards the osteoblast-like phenotype matches significant enrichment in TGFbeta signaling players like AKT1 and SMADs. In parallel, we observed the modulation of several cancer-related microRNAs like miR-34a, miR-26b or miR-378. To decipher their impact on the modified transcriptional program in CD99 cells, we correlated gene and microRNA time-series data miR-34a, in particular, was found to regulate a distinct subnetwork of genes with respect to the rest of the other differentially expressed miRs and it appeared to be the main mediator of several TGFbeta signaling genes at initial and middle phases of differentiation. Integration studies further highlighted the involvement of TGFbeta pathway in the differentiation of OS cells towards osteoblasts and its regulation by microRNAs. CONCLUSIONS: These data underline that the expression of miR-34a and down-modulation of TGFbeta signaling emerge as pivotal events to drive CD99-mediated reversal of malignancy and activation of differentiation in OS cells. Our results describe crucial and specific interacting actors providing and supporting their relevance as potential targets for therapeutic differentiative strategies.
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Diferenciação Celular/genética , Perfilação da Expressão Gênica , MicroRNAs/genética , Osteossarcoma/patologia , Antígeno 12E7 , Antígenos CD/genética , Moléculas de Adesão Celular/genética , Linhagem Celular Tumoral , Células Clonais/metabolismo , Regulação para Baixo/genética , Humanos , Osteoblastos/patologia , Osteossarcoma/genética , Fenótipo , RNA Mensageiro/genética , Transdução de Sinais/genética , Fatores de Tempo , Transfecção , Fator de Crescimento Transformador beta/metabolismoRESUMO
Osteochondroma is the most common benign tumor of bone, usually asymptomatic. Fracture of an osteochondroma is a rare complication and has been recognized as a cause of pain. Treatment of this fracture is controversial and some authors suggest fracture as an indication for surgical excision. We present a case of fractured osteochondroma that healed without complication.
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Fraturas do Fêmur/etiologia , Neoplasias Femorais/complicações , Fraturas Espontâneas/etiologia , Osteocondroma/complicações , Criança , Feminino , Fraturas do Fêmur/terapia , Fraturas Espontâneas/terapia , Humanos , Remissão EspontâneaRESUMO
Giant cell tumor of bone (GCTB) displays worrisome clinical features such as local recurrence and occasionally metastatic disease which are unpredictable by morphology. Additional routinely usable biomarkers do not exist. Gene expression profiles of six clinically defined groups of GCTB and one group of aneurysmal bone cyst (ABC) were determined by microarray (n = 33). The most promising differentially expressed genes were validated by Q-PCR as potential biomarkers in a larger patient group (n = 41). Corresponding protein expression was confirmed by immunohistochemistry. Unsupervised hierarchical clustering reveals a metastatic GCTB cluster, a heterogeneous, non-metastatic GCTB cluster, and a primary ABC cluster. Balanced score testing indicates that lumican (LUM) and decorin (DCN) are the most promising biomarkers as they have lower level of expression in the metastatic group. Expression of dermatopontin (DPT) was significantly lower in recurrent tumors. Validation of the results was performed by paired and unpaired t test in primary GCTB and corresponding metastases, which proved that the differential expression of LUM and DCN is tumor specific rather than location specific. Our findings show that several genes related to extracellular matrix integrity (LUM, DCN, and DPT) are differentially expressed and may serve as biomarkers for metastatic and recurrent GCTB.