Surgery alone has long been the standard treatment for patients with operable non-small-cell lung cancer (NSCLC). However, despite complete resection, 5-year survival rates have been disappointing, with about 50% of patients eventually suffering relapse and death from disease. Randomized trials conducted in the 1980s hinted at a survival benefit for postoperative cisplatin-based regimens, but they were underpowered. A meta-analysis published in 1995 found a nonsignificant 13% reduction in the risk of death associated with cisplatin-based chemotherapy, with an increase of survival of 5% at 5 years. This led to renewed interest in adjuvant chemotherapy in resected NSCLC. Thousands of patients have been included in a new generation of randomized trials in the last 10 years. Most of these recent studies have now been reported and several have demonstrated a clear survival advantage for patients treated with platin-based adjuvant therapy. These results also suggest a greater benefit with modern two-drug regimens. In view of the most recent data, postoperative platin-based chemotherapy can now be considered the standard of care for completely resected NSCLC patients with good performance status. 相似文献
FM sonography - a signal-processing technique that uses frequency and phase information as well as amplitude data - shows promise in evaluation of patients with diffuse liver disease. In a prospective blinded review of 37 patients with biopsy-proved liver disease and 42 healthy volunteers, FM sonography was clearly superior to traditional amplitude-based (AM) sonography in distinguishing healthy from diseased subjects. Statistically significant differences were seen in accuracy (FM, 98.7%; AM, 84.8%), sensitivity (FM, 97.3%; AM, 70.3%), and negative predictive value (FM, 97.7%; AM, 78.8%). Our data also suggest that current FM sonographic techniques cannot differentiate among histologic findings associated with different hepatic parenchymal abnormalities. It is unclear, therefore, whether FM imaging can reduce the numbers of patients who require biopsy for diagnosis or the frequency of biopsy procedures in patients with known disease. 相似文献
Background. The optimal management of patients with renal cell carcinoma with inferior vena cava tumor thrombus remains unresolved. Traditional approaches have included resection with or without the use of cardiopulmonary bypass. Chemotherapy has played a minor role except for biotherapeutic agents used for metastatic disease.
Methods. From January 1989 to January 1996, 37 patients with renal cell carcinoma and inferior vena cava tumor thrombus underwent surgical resection. The 27 men and 10 women had a median age of 57 years (range, 29 to 78 years). Thirty-six patients presented with symptoms; 21 had hematuria. Distant metastases were present in 12 patients. Tumor thrombi extended to the infrahepatic inferior vena cava (n = 16), the intrahepatic inferior vena cava (n = 16), the suprahepatic inferior vena cava (n = 3), and into the right atrium (n = 2). All tumors were resected by inferior vena cava isolation and, when necessary, extended hepatic mobilization and Pringle maneuver, with primary or patch closure of the vena cavotomy. Cardiopulmonary bypass was necessary in only 2 patients with intraatrial thrombus.
Results. Complications occurred in 11 patients, and 1 patient died 2 days postoperatively of a myocardial infarction (mortality, 2.7%). Twenty patients are alive; overall 2- and 5-year survival rates were 61.7% and 33.6%, respectively. For patients without lymph node or distant metastases (stage IIIa), 2- and 5-year survival rates were 74% and 45%, respectively. The presence of distant metastatic disease (stage IV) at the time of operation did not have a significant adverse effect on survival, as reflected by 2- and 5-year survival rates of 62.5% and 31.3%, respectively. Lymph node metastases (stage IIIc) adversely affected survival as there were no long-term survivors.
Conclusions. Resection of an intracaval tumor thrombus arising from renal cell carcinoma can be performed safely and can result in prolonged survival even in the presence of metastatic disease. In our experience, extracorporeal circulatory support was required only when the tumor thrombus extended into the heart. 相似文献
Background Significant tumor downstaging has been achieved in patients with localized gastric or gastroesophageal adenocarcinoma by induction
chemotherapy and preoperative chemoradiotherapy (CTX–CTXRT). However, the influence of CTX–CTXRT on operative morbidity and
mortality has not yet been clarified. The aim of the present study was to document the frequency and nature of morbidity and
mortality after surgery combined with CTX–CTXRT, and identify factors predictive of postoperative complications in patients
with localized gastric or gastroesophageal adenocarcinoma.
Methods A prospectively collected database on 71 consecutive patients who underwent CTX–CTXRT at M.D. Anderson Cancer Center between
January 1997 and August 2004 was reviewed. Postoperative morbidity and mortality were investigated, and risk factors for overall
complications were identified by multivariate logistic regression analysis.
Results Overall morbidity and mortality rates were 38.0% (27 patients) and 2.8% (2 patients), respectively. Age greater than 60 years
[relative risk 11.3 (95% confidence interval 2.50–50.6)] and body mass index (BMI) of 26 kg/m2 or above [relative risk 4.08 (95% confidence interval 1.08–15.4)] were significant risk factors for overall complications.
Conclusions CTX–CTXRT can be performed safely with an acceptable operative morbidity and a low operative mortality rate in patients with
gastric or gastroesophageal cancer, with careful consideration of added risk associated with age and obesity. 相似文献
Steroid 21-hydroxylase deficiency is among the most common inborn errors of
metabolism in man. Characterization of mutations in the 21- hydroxylase
gene (CYP21) has permitted genetic diagnosis, facilitated by the polymerase
chain reaction (PCR). The most common mutation is conversion of an A or C
at nt656 to a G in the second intron causing aberrant splicing of mRNA.
Homozygosity for nt656G is associated with profoundly deficient adrenal
cortisol and aldosterone synthesis, secondary hypersecretion of adrenal
androgens, and a severe form of congenital adrenal hyperplasia (CAH)
characterized by ambiguous genitalia and/or sodium wasting in newborns.
During the course of genetic analysis of CYP21 mutations in CAH families,
we and others have noticed a number of relatives genotyped as nt656G
homozygotes, yet showing no clinical signs of disease. A number of lines of
evidence have led us to propose that the putative asymptomatic nt656G/G
individuals are incorrectly typed due to dropout of one haplotype during
PCR amplification of CYP21. For prenatal diagnosis, we recommend that
microsatellite typing be used as a supplement to CYP21 genotyping in order
to resolve ambiguities at nt656.
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