Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Corporate Member of Freie Universität Berlin, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, and Berlin Institute of Health, Department of Infectious Diseases and Pulmonary Medicine, Berlin, Germany.
Department of Internal Medicine-Oncology, Carl v. Ossietzky University of Oldenburg, Pius-Hospital, Oldenburg, Germany; Department of Hematology and Oncology, Pius-Hospital, Oldenburg, Germany; Lung Cancer Network NOWEL Organisation, Pius-Hospital, Oldenburg, Germany.
Lung Cancer. 2022 Aug;170:165-175. doi: 10.1016/j.lungcan.2022.06.017. Epub 2022 Jul 2.
Local ablative therapy (LAT) improves survival in oligometastatic lung cancer (OMD), but there is limited information on recurrence patterns, re-treatments and in particular the role of brain metastases during the course of disease. We therefore conducted a retrospective multicenter analysis to evaluate course of disease, sequence of therapies and predictors for long-term disease-control in the brain and survival endpoints.
Clinical data of patients with synchronous, single organ OMD with ≤4 metastases were collected from 5 certified German lung cancer centers. All patients underwent thorough initial staging including a FDG-PET/CT scan, brain imaging and mediastinal staging, if necessary, and received LAT to all sites of disease.
In total, 164 patients were included (median age 62 years [range 41-84], non-squamous histology 80%, N0-1 64%, single metastasis 84%), 103 had brain (cohort A), 61 extracranial metastases (cohort B). With a median follow-up of 66 months, 115 patients (70%) experienced recurrent disease with a different distribution of sites: In cohort A vs. B, brain relapses occurred in 56% vs. 18% and new distant metastases in 5% vs. 40%. In total, LAT for every relapse was possible for 25% (29/115) of the patients. Patients with initial and secondary onset brain metastases experienced long-term disease-control in the brain and subsequently favorable survival with the application of repeated LAT (disease in the brain controlled vs. not-controlled, HR 0.21, p < 0.001). Comparable long-term overall survival was observed in patients with no or isolated brain relapses (5-years OS 74% and 92%) in contrast to patients with extracranial relapses (5-years OS 19.6%, p < 0.001).
Repeated LAT for recurrent synchronous single organ OMD results in a long-term favorable outcome. Disease control in the brain appears crucial and likely determines survival.
局部消融治疗(LAT)可提高寡转移肺癌(OMD)患者的生存率,但关于复发模式、再治疗,尤其是疾病过程中脑转移的作用,信息有限。因此,我们进行了一项回顾性多中心分析,以评估疾病过程、治疗顺序以及预测脑内和生存终点的长期疾病控制的因素。
从 5 个德国肺癌中心收集了 164 例同步、单一器官 OMD 且转移灶≤4 个的患者的临床数据。所有患者均接受了全面的初始分期,包括 FDG-PET/CT 扫描、脑成像和纵隔分期(如果需要),并对所有部位的疾病进行 LAT。
共纳入 164 例患者(中位年龄 62 岁[范围 41-84],非鳞状组织学 80%,N0-1 64%,单发转移灶 84%),其中 103 例有脑转移(队列 A),61 例有颅外转移(队列 B)。中位随访 66 个月后,115 例(70%)患者出现复发性疾病,且部位分布不同:队列 A 中脑转移复发率为 56%,而队列 B 中为 18%;新的远处转移发生率分别为 5%和 40%。总的来说,对于 115 例(29%)复发患者,LAT 可用于所有复发。对于初始和继发脑转移的患者,重复 LAT 可实现脑内长期疾病控制,并随后获得良好的生存(脑内疾病控制与未控制的 HR 0.21,p<0.001)。与颅外复发患者(5 年 OS 19.6%,p<0.001)相比,无脑或孤立性脑转移复发的患者观察到长期总生存获益(5 年 OS 分别为 74%和 92%)。
对于复发性同步单一器官 OMD,重复 LAT 可获得长期有利的结果。脑内疾病控制似乎至关重要,可能决定生存。