卡培他滨联合放疗与单纯放疗治疗消化道恶性肿瘤的临床可行性

目的分析卡培他滨联合放疗与单纯放疗治疗消化道恶性肿瘤临床可行性和疗效,为临床治疗提供参考。方法选取消化道恶性肿瘤患者72例为研究对象,采取抽签法随机分为观察组和对照组,对照组患者实施单纯放疗,观察组患者实施卡培他滨联合放疗,依照WHO制定实体肿瘤评价标准判断治疗效果,并采用WHO抗癌药物剂型反应分度标准评价不良反应。结果观察组总有效率(75.0%)显著高于对照组(52.8%)(P<0.05)。两组患者1年生存率差异不明显(P>0.05),观察组患者2年生存率(47.2%)显著高于对照组(16.7%)(P<0.05)。在治疗中,观察组患者主要不良反应为血液毒性白细胞毒性、手足综合征等,经对症处理后缓解,患者均耐受,没有出现退出试验者。观察组患者不良反应发生率显著低于对照组(P<0.05)。结论消化道恶性肿瘤患者实施卡培他滨联合放疗能够提高疗效,提高生存率,同时能够减少不良反应的出现,具有使用价值。     

Radiotherapy of esthesioneuroblastoma

PURPOSE: Only 3% of all malignant intranasal tumors are esthesioneuroblastomas (ENB). As the tumor is very rare, the number of ENB treated in individual departments is small. In order to evaluate the efficacy of radiotherapy (RT), patients' data of 2 centres were analysed with reference to new reports in literature. METHODS AND MATERIALS: From 1981 to 1998, 17 patients with ENB, 8 men and 9 women aged between 6 and 81 years, were treated in the departments of radiotherapy of the universities of Cologne and Muenster. The tumors were Kadish Stage B in 4/17 patients and Stage C in 13/17 patients. Treatment included incomplete surgery and irradiation in 2/17 patients, adjuvant RT postoperatively in 6/17 patients, definitive RT in 7/17 patients and RT after incomplete surgery of recurrent tumors in 2/17 patients. Postoperatively, the median target dose of EBRT was 56 (range 50-60) Gy; for definitive RT it was 58 (range 40-70) Gy. RESULTS: After a median follow-up period of 86 (range 2-208) months 10/17 patients showed no evidence of disease (NED). There were 6 patients treated with radical complete surgery plus postoperative irradiation and 5 of them were NED. There were 7 patients treated with only irradiation and 3 of those patients were NED. Of 2 patients with incomplete surgery and irradiation there was one patient NED. Of 2 patients with incomplete resection of recurrent tumor who received irradiation, there was one patient NED. 2 of the patients with NED died after 22 and 94 months respectively. 4/17 patients died as a result of local recurrence and 2/17 patients as a result of distant metastases (liver, brain). One patient with a recurrent tumor is alive. Median survival of all 17 patients was 94 months. Progressive disease after definitive RT occurred after a median of 11 months. CONCLUSION: Esthesioneuroblastomas are radiocurable tumors. In correlation to literature a primarily complete tumor resection followed by adjuvant RT (50-60 Gy) offers the best disease free survival.     

Radiotherapy for mesothelioma

Three to four thousand cases of malignant pleural mesothelioma will occur in the United States this year. Single-modality therapy with radiation plays a role for palliation. Radiation can prevent tumor recurrence at drain/instrumentation sites and provide symptomatic relief of pain and other complaints. Combinations of surgery and radiation also have been attempted with curative intent. The best local control has been found--EPP followed by radiotherapy. Locoregional tumor recurrence can be dramatically reduced with combinations of extrapleural pneumonectomy and radiation therapy. Survival in aggressively treated early-stage patients is excellent. However, the preponderance of death from distant metastases makes the development of better systemic therapy essential. Better therapy also must be developed for patients who are not candidates for extrapleural pneumonectomy.     

Radiotherapy for meningiomas

Because of a substantial overall recurrence rate of meningiomas, the role of surgery as the sole treatment for every case must be evaluated. Also, occasionally, the patient's age and/or the location of the tumor precludes considering him/her as a candidate for surgery. In these instances, radiotherapy or radiosurgery may be advisable. The article presents two cases treated at M. D. Anderson Cancer Center, those of a 65-year-old male with a tumor in the left temporal lobe and 74-year-old female with a tumor in the right petroclival region. It also reviews the roles that radiotherapy plays in treating patients with meningiomas. Retrospective analyses of outcomes provide ample evidence that conventional radiation after incomplete resection reduces the incidence of progression of tumor over a long period. Information on patients who have had only external radiation is meager, since most patients have at least a partial resection. Complete resection for benign meningiomas is sufficient. For malignant meningiomas, adjuvant radiation should be administered, regardless of the extent of surgical excision. When surgery poses a high risk of morbidity or mortality, radiation therapy and radiosurgery are promising alternatives.     

Whole Brain Radiotherapy Combined with Stereotactic Radiotherapy Versus Stereotactic Radiotherapy Alone for Brain Metastases: a Meta-analysis

Aim: This study was to evaluate the effect of whole brain radiation (WBRT) combined with stereotacticradiotherapy (SRS) versus stereotactic radiotherapy alone for patients with brain metastases using a metaanalysis.Materials and Methods: We searched PubMed, EMBASE, Cochrane Library from their inceptionup to October 2013. Randomized controlled trials involving whole brain radiation combined with stereotacticradiotherapy versus stereotactic radiotherapy alone for brain metastases were included. Statistical analyseswere performed using RevMan5.2 software. Results: Four randomized controlled trials including 903 patientswere included. The meta-analysis showed statistically significant lowering of the local recurrence rate (OR=0.29,95%CI: 0.17~0.49), new brain metastasis rate (OR=0.45, 95%CI: 0.28~0.71) and symptomatic late neurologicradiation toxicity rate (OR=3.92, 95%CI: 1.37~11.20) in the combined group. No statistically significant differenceexisted in the 1-year survival rate (OR=0.78, 95%CI: 0.60~1.03). Conclusions: The results indicate that wholebrain radiotherapy combined with stereotactic radiotherapy has advantages in local recurrence and new brainmetastasis rates, but stereotactic radiotherapy alone is associated with better neurological function. However, asthe samples included were not large, more high-quality, large-sample size studies are necessary for confirmation.