制订2009第7版食管癌TNM分期标准

目的报告参与制订2009第7版食管癌国际TNM分期的国际协作研究结果。方法收集全世界13个协作单位的4628例食管癌单纯切除病例的资料，采用全新的统计学模型，综合各预后影响因素反向归纳至最合理的TNM分期。结果全组总的1、5、10年死亡率分别为78％、42％、31％。远期生存的主要影响因素为肿瘤侵犯深度、淋巴结转移数目、有无远处转移、肿瘤的组织学类型和分化程度。将其优化组合后新的TNM分期中T1应细化为T1a和T1b，T4应细化为T4a和T4b，N应当根据淋巴结的转移数目分级，M1的亚分级应当取消，且应加入肿瘤组织学类型（H）和分化程度（G）因素。结论2009第7版食管癌分期标准重新定义了T、N、M，并分期为0、Ⅰa、Ⅰb、Ⅱ、Ⅲa、Ⅲb、Ⅳ期，可更好地预测食管癌患者手术切除治疗的预后。     

胃癌第7版TNM分期的临床应用

目的:分析胃癌第7版与第6版TNM分期之间的差别.方法:回顾性分析316例胃癌患者的临床病理资料,按第6版及第7版TNM分期标准分别进行分期,并分析各期5年生存率.结果:两版TNM分期在同一期之间生存差异无统计学意义(P>0.05);第7版Ⅰ期、Ⅱ期、Ⅲ期、Ⅳ期5年生存率分别为64.2%、49.9%、17.8%、0.0%,4个分期5年生存率差异有统计学意义(P<0.05);ⅢA期、ⅢB期、ⅢC期5年生存率分别为32.2%、28.2%、5.0%,3个亚期5年生存率差异具有统计学意义(P ＜0.05).结论:第7版TNM分期更加细化,并对患者预后做出科学的评估.对不同分期的患者进行个体化综合治疗,具有临床应用价值.     

Reframing Histological Risk Assessment of Oral Squamous Cell Carcinoma in the Era of UICC 8th Edition TNM Staging

ObjectivesTo assess whether application of the risk model originally proposed by Brandwein-Gensler, influences survival and disease progression in patients treated for oral squamous cell carcinoma (OSCCs)Materials and MethodsTumours from 134 T1 and T2 OSCC resections (7th edition) were scored independently by 3 histopathologists according to worst pattern of invasion (WPOI), lymphocytic host response (LHR) and perineural invasion (PNI) and categorised according to risk score. Local recurrence, locoregional recurrence, disease progression and overall survival were study endpoints. Interobserver variability of pathologist scoring was also assessed.ResultsSeventy-two patients (54%) were classified with low or intermediate risk and 62 (46%) patients were ‘high risk’. The inter-observer agreement was in moderate to strong agreement with the consensus scores (k range = 0.45–0.82). There was statistical significance between distant metastasis and ‘high risk’ tumours. Thirty tumours were upstaged to T3 in the 8th edition TNM staging, of which 83% had high risk scores. Overall risk score and TNM8 T stage has significant correlation with overall survival in comparison to the TNM 7 T stage.Conclusion‘High risk’ tumours were significantly associated with distant metastasis possibly due to the greater likelihood of aggressive features such as WPOI and PNI. Primary tumours are more likely to express high risk features with increasing T stage. None of the patients classified as ‘low risk’ died perhaps suggesting these tumours represent a rare variant of OSCC with excellent prognosis.     

Establishment of an Intraoperative Staging System (iStage) by Improving UICC TNM Classification System for Papillary Thyroid Carcinoma

Background

Papillary thyroid carcinoma generally has an indolent nature, but cases demonstrating certain features are progressive. UICC TNM classification is the most widely adopted system to evaluate the biological behavior of this carcinoma, but it is doubtful whether this system that evaluates only the preoperative findings can appropriately reflect patient prognosis. In this study, we established a new staging system (iStage) based on not only preoperative but also intraoperative findings.

Methods

We investigated the prognoses of 5,911 patients with papillary carcinoma without distant metastasis at diagnosis who underwent initial surgery between January 1987 and January 2005 and compared the utility of iStage with that of conventional classification systems, such as UICC Stage, MACIS score (>7 and ≤7), AMES, and CIH classification.

Results

Disease-free survival (DFS) and cause-specific survival (CSS) of patients with stage IVA were better than those of high-risk patients on other systems, and CSS of stage III patients did not differ from stage IVA patients. We established iStage by improving the original UICC stage. We set cutoff age to 55 years, instead of 45. Patients showing significant, not minimal, extrathyroid extension on intraoperative findings underwent T upgrading: tumor size 2 cm or smaller to T3 and larger than 2 cm to T4a. N classification was revised based on the size of node metastasis and extranodal tumor extension: N0, no preoperatively detected regional node metastasis; N1, preoperatively detected regional node metastasis measuring 3 cm or less and without extranodal tumor extension on intraoperative findings; N2, regional node metastasis >3 cm or having extranodal tumor extension on intraoperative examination. Five-year and 10-year DFS and CSS of iStage IVA patients were worse than high-risk patients on other classification systems, and iStage III patients showed a worse DFS, but not CSS, than iStage I or II patients.

Conclusions

We established a new classification system, iStage, based not only on preoperative but also on intraoperative findings, which has high utility. Appropriate intraoperative evaluation is mandatory to grade biological characteristics, including prognosis, of papillary carcinoma.     

Comparison of 6th and 7th AJCC TNM Staging Classification for Carcinoma of the Stomach in China

Background  

The 7th edition of American Joint Committee on Cancer tumor-node-metastasis (AJCC TNM) staging system was put into use recently. The study aimed to evaluate its predictive ability on survival and compare the difference between the 6th and 7th editions of AJCC TNM system in gastric carcinoma.     

Validation of the Updated 7th Edition AJCC TNM Staging Criteria for Gastric Adenocarcinoma

Introduction  

The recently published 7th edition of the American Joint Committee on Cancer (AJCC) TNM staging criteria for gastric adenocarcinoma contains important revisions to T and N classifications, as well as overall stage grouping. Our goal was to validate the new staging system using a cancer registry.     

Restaging of Differentiated Thyroid Carcinoma by the Sixth Edition AJCC/UICC TNM Staging System: Stage Migration and Predictability

BACKGROUND: The AJCC/UICC TNM staging system (TNM) is a widely accepted system for differentiated thyroid carcinoma (DTC). The objective of the present study was to evaluate the potential changes in cancer-specific survival (CSS) after reclassification from fifth to sixth edition TNM. METHODS: A total of 760 DTC patients managed at our institution from 1961 to 2001 were retrospectively restaged from the fifth to sixth edition TNM. CSS were calculated using Kaplan-Meier method and were compared by the log-rank test. The relative ability of each edition in predicting CSS was calculated by the proportion of variance explained (PVE). RESULTS: Upon reclassification, the proportion of T1 and T3 tumors increased from 14.2 to 33.4% and 10.0 to 33.7%; T2 and T4 decreased from 44.2 to 25.0% and 31.6 to 7.9%, respectively; N0 remained unchanged at 66.0%; N1a decreased from 25.7 to 4.7%; N1b increased from 8.4 to 29.3%; stages I and IV tumors increased from 55.7 to 60.3% and 3.4 to 17.6%, respectively; stages II and III tumors decreased from 20.5 to 13.9% and 20.4 to 8.2%, respectively. The sixth edition had a higher PVE value than the fifth edition. Significant differences in CSS were observed between stage III (fifth edition) and stage III (sixth edition) and between stage IV (fifth edition) and stage IVA (sixth edition). CONCLUSIONS: The sixth edition TNM caused marked changes in the pT, pN and allocation of patients into different tumor stages. It appeared to have superior predictability over the fifth edition.     

Comparison of the 6th and 7th Editions of the UICC TNM Staging System for Gastric Cancer: Results of a Chinese Single-Institution Study of 1,503 Patients

Aim

To evaluate the prognostic efficacy of the 7th edition tumor–node–metastasis (TNM) classification compared with the 6th edition in gastric cancer patients.

Methods

A total of 1,503 gastric cancer patients undergoing surgical resection were staged using the 6th and 7th edition staging systems. Homogeneity, discriminatory ability, and monotonicity of gradients of the two systems were compared using linear trend χ², likelihood ratio χ² statistics, and Akaike information criterion (AIC) calculations.

Results

Significant differences in 5-year survival rates were observed for the T, N, and M subgroups using the 7th edition system, except for stage N2 and N3 patients in the 6th edition system. There were no significant differences in survival between IB and IIA in the 7th edition system. Patients with stage IV disease due to T4/N3 in the 6th edition system who were downstaged to stage III in the 7th edition system had significantly better survival than those who remained at stage IV. The 7th edition system had higher linear trend and likelihood ratio χ² scores, and smaller AIC values compared with those for the 6th edition, which represented the optimum prognostic stratification.

Conclusions

Our study suggests that the 7th edition system performs better than the 6th edition in several aspects.     

Classification of Lymph Node Metastases from Carcinoma of the Stomach: Comparison of the Old (1987) and New (1997) TNM Systems

The pN classification of gastric cancer is currently based on the distance of metastatic nodes from the primary tumor (TNM—1987). The UICC (Union Internationale Contre le Cancer) has recently proposed a new classification system based on the number of the involved nodes (TNM—1997). The present prospective study is aimed at verifying whether the two classifications (1) assign approximately a similar rank to individual patients and (2) give comparable prognostic information. The Cox regression model was used to evaluate the prognostic significance of either the distance or the number of positive nodes, controlling for sex, age, site, histology and depth of tumor invasion, in a group of 175 patients who underwent curative surgery for gastric cancer from March 1988 to October 1997. Among the patients classified as N1 and N2 according to TNM—1987, 81.8% (36/44) and 35.8% (19/53), respectively, were coded as N1 and N2 by the new classification. The survival probabilities of N1 and N2 categories were similar in both classifications. The N2 category of TNM—1987 comprised also 10 cases with >15 positive nodes (N3 category of TNM—1997), who presented a large excess mortality (RR = 35.14 with respect to N0). When the site and number of positive nodes are combined in a new variable, both appear to be important from a prognostic point of view. Both anatomic location and number of nodes with metastasis are important predictors of survival in gastric cancer patients. Caution should be used when replacing the old classification with the new one, as they group patients in a different way.     

Analysis and Comparison of the 7th Edition American Joint Committee on Cancer (AJCC) Nodal Staging System for Metastatic Cutaneous Squamous Cell Carcinoma of the Head and Neck

Background

The American Joint Committee on Cancer (AJCC) substantially changed the staging of cutaneous squamous cell carcinoma (cSCC) in the 7th edition of its staging manual. We aim to compare the 7th edition AJCC staging of nodal metastases from cSCC with the N1S3 staging system.

Methods

Analysis of 603 patients from two prospective cancer center databases was performed. Multivariable analysis was performed using a Cox proportional hazards competing risk model adjusting for the effect of immunosuppression, treating institution, adjuvant radiotherapy, nodal margins, and extracapsular spread. Criteria used for comparing staging systems were distribution of patients, stratification of patients according to risk of death from cSCC, and model performance.

Results

The N1S3 staging system functioned well in terms of distribution and stratification of patients. The distribution of patients within the AJCC staging system was problematic with three groups (N2a, N2c, and N3) containing less than 10?% of patients without any prognostic relevance. Stratification of patients within the AJCC staging system was poor in terms of monotonicity (N2c) and distinctiveness (N2a). The performance of the AJCC and N1S3 staging systems was similar despite the AJCC staging being more complex.

Conclusions

The N1S3 staging system for cSCC is preferred on the grounds of better distribution, stratification, and parsimony.     

TNM classification for perihilar cholangiocarcinoma: comparison between 5th and 6th editions of the AJCC/UICC staging system

Background A few investigators have evaluated the TNM classification for perihilar cholangiocarcinoma. The new sixth edition of the American Joint Committee on Cancer (AJCC)/Internal Union Against Cancer (UICC) staging system focuses on vascular invasion and regional lymph node metastasis.Methods For 166 patients with perihilar cholangiocarcinoma undergoing R0 resection, survival curves stratified according to TNM classifications were compared between fifth and sixth editions.Results The previous T3 now is divided into T3 and T4. Most new pT4 patients had invasion of the portal bifurcation; their survival was poorer than that for new pT3 patients. The 5-, 10-, and 15-year survival rates were worse in the previous stage III than in the previous stage IVA, although the difference fell short of significance. The previous stage IVA (T3AnyNM0) is divided into new stages: IIA (T3N0M0), IIB (T1-3N1M0), and III (T4AnyNM0). All patients in stage III had invasion of the portal bifurcation. Survival was similar between stages IA, IB, and IIA, while patients with T4N0M0 tumors survived longer than those with T4N1M0 tumors and similarly to those with stage IIB tumors.Conclusions The sixth edition provided improved prediction of survival in patients with perihilar cholangiocarcinoma; for still better prediction, cancer invasion of the portal bifurcation and regional lymph node metastasis should be weighted equally.     

Prognostic Significance of Non-curative Gastrectomy for Incurable Gastric Carcinoma

Background

To date, there is no convincing evidence regarding the benefits of non-curative gastrectomy for gastric carcinoma. In the present study, we reviewed the outcomes of patients who underwent surgery for incurable gastric carcinoma and evaluated the prognostic significance of non-curative gastrectomy.

Methods

Between 2004 and 2011, a total of 197 patients undergoing elective surgery for incurable gastric carcinoma were divided into the gastric resection and non-resection groups. Patient survival was compared between the two groups, and the prognostic significance of non-curative gastrectomy was investigated using multivariate analysis.

Results

Overall, 162 (82.2 %) patients underwent non-curative gastrectomy with morbidity and mortality of 21.0 and 1.2 %, respectively. The median survival of patients undergoing non-curative gastrectomy was significantly longer than that of patients without gastrectomy (12.4 vs. 7.1 months, p = 0.003). Patients who received postoperative chemotherapy also showed significantly better survival than those without chemotherapy (13.2 vs. 4.3 months, p < 0.001). Multivariate analysis revealed that non-curative gastrectomy was an independent prognostic factor (hazard ratio 0.61, 95 % CI 0.40–0.93, p = 0.023) after adjusting for postoperative chemotherapy and other clinical factors. Median survival in patients receiving non-curative gastrectomy combined with postoperative chemotherapy was 13.9 months, which was significantly longer than gastrectomy alone (5.4 months), chemotherapy alone (9.6 months), and no treatment (3.2 months) (p < 0.001).

Conclusion

Primary tumor resection and postoperative chemotherapy are the most important prognostic factors for incurable gastric carcinoma. The survival benefits of non-curative gastrectomy need to be confirmed in a large-scale, randomized trial.     

16排螺旋CT胃癌诊断和CT-TNM分期的价值

目的评价16排螺旋CT平扫及双期增强扫描在胃癌诊断和TNM分期的价值,探讨胃癌的影像学征象及其与手术病理检查结果的关系。方法以53例经手术病理检查证实为胃癌的患者为研究对象,分析其平扫、动脉期及静脉期扫描和多平面重建(MPR)图像。结果16排螺旋CT对胃癌T分期、N分期和M分期的准确性分别为83.02%、80.00%和92.45%,对胃癌TNM分期总准确性为84.91%。结论利用16排螺旋CT平扫及双期增强扫描尤其是局部薄层重建、MPR和恰当的窗技术,能较全面、准确地进行胃癌病灶的诊断和TNM分期,有助于临床选择恰当的手术切除范围、手术方式和制定综合治疗方案。     

胃癌超声内镜分期和术中分期之比较

目的：比较内镜超声（EUS）和手术时触摸法对判断胃癌浸润深度及胃周淋巴结转移的准确性。方法：73例经病理证实的胃癌病例，于术前接受EUS检查并在术时按Rhode原则进行评估，其结果与术后组织病理分期学相比较。结果：在判断胃癌浸润深度（T）上，EUS的准确性为80．8％（59／73），手术时评估的准确性为58．9％（43／73）。在判断淋巴结转移（N）上，前者的准确性为60．3％，后者为65．8％；但在26例NO病例中，EUS分期的准确性为92．3％而手术时评估的准确性仅为57．7％。结论：EUS判断胃癌的T及N0，较术中临床评估更为准确。     

Expression and Prognostic Significance of Pepsinogen C in Gastric Carcinoma

Background: In this study we evaluated the expression and clinical significance of pepsinogen C, an aspartic proteinase involved in the digestion of proteins in the stomach, in patients with gastric cancer.Methods: Pepsinogen C expression was examined by immunohistochemical methods in a series of 95 gastric carcinomas. The prognostic value of pepsinogen C was retrospectively evaluated by multivariate analysis taking into account conventional prognostic parameters. Follow-up period of patients was 21.4 months.Results: A total of 25 (26.3%) gastric carcinomas stained positively for pepsinogen C. The percentage of pepsinogen C-positive tumors was higher in well-differentiated (50%) than in moderately differentiated (19.5%) and poorly differentiated (21.9%) tumors (P < .05). Similarly, significant differences in pepsinogen C immunostaining were found between node-negative and node-positive tumors (47.1% vs. 14.7%; P < .001). In addition, statistical analysis revealed that pepsinogen C expression was associated with clinical outcome in gastric cancer patients. Low pepsinogen C levels predicted short overall survival periods in the overall group of patients with gastric cancer (P < .001), and in 71 patients with resectable carcinomas (P < .005). Multivariate analysis according to Coxs model indicated that pepsinogen C immunostaining was an independent predictor of outcome for both overall and resectable gastric cancer patients (P < .05, for both).Conclusions: The expression of pepsinogen C in gastric cancer may represent a useful biological marker able to identify subgroups of patients with different clinical outcomes.