Impact of mucin proportion in the pretreatment MRI on the outcomes of rectal cancer patients undergoing neoadjuvant chemoradiotherapy
- 주제(키워드) Magnetic resonance imaging , Mucinous rectal cancer , Neoadjuvant chemoradiotherapy
- 등재 SCIE, SCOPUS, KCI등재
- OA유형 Green Submitted, Green Published, gold
- 발행기관 Korean Cancer Association
- 발행년도 2019
- 총서유형 Journal
- URI http://www.dcollection.net/handler/ewha/000000161275
- 본문언어 영어
- Published As http://dx.doi.org/10.4143/crt.2018.434
- PubMed https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/30590006
초록/요약
Purpose The purpose of this study was to evaluate treatment response to neoadjuvant chemoradiotherapy (CRT) with regard to mucin status in pathology and pretreatment magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) in locally advanced rectal cancer. Materials and Methods Between 2003 and 2011, 306 patients with locally advanced rectal cancer received neoadjuvant CRT followed by surgery, and mucinous adenocarcinoma (MAC) was found in 27 (8.8%). All MAC patients had MRI before and after CRT and mucin proportion at MRI was measured. Therapeutic response was assessed by pathology after total mesorectal excision. To determine the optimal cut-off for mucin proportion in predicting good CRT response (near total or total regression) and negative circumferential resection margin (CRM), the receiver-operating characteristic analysis was performed. Results After neoadjuvant CRT, overall downstaging occurred in 44.4% of MAC and 72.4% of non-MAC (p=0.001), and positive CRM (! 1 mm) was observed more frequently in MAC (p < 0.001). The optimal threshold for treatment response was 30% for mucin proportion, and there are nine with low mucin proportion (< 30%) and 18 with high mucin proportion (" 30%) in pretreatment MRI. Negative CRM and tumor downstaging occurred more common in patients with mucin < 30%, although statistically insignificant (p=0.071 and p=0.072, respectively). Regarding oncologic outcomes, lower mucin proportion in pretreatment MRI was associated with better disease-free and overall survival in MAC group (p=0.092 and 0.056, respectively), but the difference did not reach statistical significance. Conclusion Poor treatment outcome with neoadjuvant CRT was observed in patients with MAC, especially those with high mucin proportion at pretreatment MRI. Copyright 2019 by the Korean Cancer Association This is an Open-Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/) which permits unrestricted non-commercial use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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