Lopes-Brás Raquel, Muñoz Paula, Netto Eduardo, Fernández Juan Ángel, Serradilla-Martín Mario, Lozano Pablo, Esperança-Martins Miguel, Blanco-Fernández Gerardo, González-López José Antonio, Muñoz-Casares Francisco Cristóbal, Fernandes Isabel, Asencio-Pascual José Manuel, Vasques Hugo
Department of Medical Oncology, Hospital Santa Maria, Centro Hospitalar Universitário Lisboa Norte, 1649-028 Lisbon, Portugal.
Department of General Surgery and Surgical Oncology, Hospital Quironsalud Torrevieja, 03184 Torrevieja, Spain.
Cancers (Basel). 2025 Apr 11;17(8):1295. doi: 10.3390/cancers17081295.
Liver metastases from soft tissue sarcoma (STS) (excluding gastrointestinal stromal tumors) are rare and more commonly arise from retroperitoneal and intra-abdominal primary sites. Chemotherapy remains the mainstay of treatment for disseminated disease, but its effectiveness is limited and patients typically have a dismal prognosis with short survival. However, when metastases are confined to the liver (without pulmonary involvement), some patients may benefit from local techniques, either surgical or nonsurgical, that can provide long periods of disease-free survival. Due to the rarity of STS, especially with liver metastases, and the heterogeneity of histologies and biological behavior, there is a lack of standardized treatment guidelines and universally accepted criteria for this specific setting. To fill this gap, a multidisciplinary working group of experts in sarcoma and liver surgery reviewed the literature and available evidence and developed a set of clinical recommendations to be voted and discussed in the I Ibero-American Consensus on the Management of Metastatic Sarcoma, held at the III Spanish-Portuguese Update Meeting on the Treatment of Sarcomas in May 2024. Herein, the voting results of this meeting and the resulting consensus recommendations are presented, and their applicability, strengths, and limitations are discussed.
软组织肉瘤(不包括胃肠道间质瘤)的肝转移很少见,更常见于腹膜后和腹腔内的原发部位。化疗仍然是播散性疾病治疗的主要手段,但其有效性有限,患者通常预后不佳,生存期短。然而,当转移局限于肝脏(无肺部受累)时,一些患者可能从局部治疗技术中获益,包括手术或非手术治疗,这些技术可实现长期无病生存。由于软组织肉瘤罕见,尤其是伴有肝转移时,且组织学和生物学行为存在异质性,因此针对这种特定情况缺乏标准化的治疗指南和普遍接受的标准。为填补这一空白,肉瘤和肝脏外科专家多学科工作小组回顾了文献和现有证据,并制定了一套临床建议,供在2024年5月举行的第三届西班牙 - 葡萄牙肉瘤治疗更新会议上召开的伊比利亚 - 美洲转移性肉瘤管理共识会议进行投票和讨论。本文介绍了本次会议的投票结果以及由此产生的共识建议,并讨论了它们的适用性、优势和局限性。