Controversy on the time to progression of pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma
Controversy on the time to progression of pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma
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胰腺导管腺癌进展时间的争议
DOI:
10.1136/gutjnl-2014-309066
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发表时间:
2015
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影响因子:
24.5
通讯作者:
Gress TM
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作者:
Gallmeier E;Hernaez R;Gress TM
Pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma (PDAC) is considered to be a highly aggressive and rapidly progressive disease by clinicians, which is one of the reasons why patients usually present at advanced stages of the disease and have a poor prognosis. 1 In fact, this appears to be confirmed by the low number of small pancreatic cancers documented in population-based registries. Only 1.4% of 13 131 patients with pancreatic cancer in the SEER database (US National Cancer Institute’s Surveillance, Epidemiology, and End Results) had tumours< 1 cm, and even in these cases 30.1% had regional and 10.1% had distant metastases. 2 These observations have been challenged by computational modelling of genome sequence data generated by comparative lesion sequencing of matched primary pancreatic cancers and distinct metastases of seven patients with end-stage pancreatic cancer. 3 Yachida et al 3 predicted a long time interval of approximately 21 years from the initiating PDAC mutation until the patient’s death, 4 and estimated that pancreatic cancers remain confined to the pancreas for almost a decade, thus opening a broad window of opportunity to screen for preneoplastic lesions or early cancer. Yu et al 2 present a study that was designed to estimate the time it takes for a pancreatic cancer to progress through different localised or locally advanced tumour stages. For this purpose, the authors analysed patient age, tumour size, stage and demographic information of 13131 patients with pancreatic cancer registered in the SEER database over an extensive time period (2004–2011). The study is based on the hypothesis that the average time required for pancreatic cancers to progress through different tumour stages should be reflected in the average age of patients diagnosed at each stage of the disease. By comparing the mean age of patients with different tumour sizes at diagnosis, the authors conclude that disease progression is rapid, with an average estimated time of 14 months for a T1 pancreatic cancer to progress to the T4 stage. The authors suggest that these results are consistent with the hypothesis that once PDACs become clinically detectable, their progression from low-stage to advanced-stage disease is rapid.These data are relevant for the design of pancreatic cancer screening programmes for high-risk individuals and treatment strategies for resectable PDAC. In view of the limited effectiveness of systemic treatment options for patients with advanced disease, 1 identification of preneoplastic lesions or early stages of pancreatic cancer that are curable by surgical resection must be one of our major goals. This is, in particular, true for patients at high risk for pancreatic cancer such as members of familial pancreatic cancer families. Most clinicians involved in screening programmes using endoscopic ultrasound (EUS) and/or MRI in high-risk individuals for familial pancreatic cancer would consider the detection and treatment of invasive cancer-T1N0M0 at baseline and follow-up, as well as of invasive cancer> T1N0M0 resected with negative margins at baseline as a success of the programme. 5–7 In the absence of pancreatic abnormalities at baseline, the majority of experts who attended a recent consensus conference (CAPS-summit) suggested that a 12-month screening interval is sufficient, since most abnormalities are usually detected at, or develop> 12 months after baseline screening. If progression from T1 to T4 indeed takes only around 14 months as estimated by Yu and colleagues, this screening interval may be too long and we may have to reconsider screening intervals. In addition, the data presented by Yu et al may be …
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发表时间:
1997
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影响因子:
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作者:
K. Bull;D. Spiegelhalter
通讯作者:
D. Spiegelhalter
影响因子:
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作者:
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通讯作者:
American Cancer of the Pancreas Screening (CAPS) Consortium
影响因子:
2
作者:
K. Bull;D. Spiegelhalter
通讯作者:
D. Spiegelhalter
DOI:
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发表时间:
2015
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影响因子:
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作者:
M. A. Ani;A. Moinie;E. Ekalakouti;Q. Iqbal;A. Prabhudesai
通讯作者:
A. Prabhudesai
影响因子:
2.6
作者:
Park, Henry S;Lloyd, Shane;Yu, James B
通讯作者:
Yu, James B