Objective To study the long-term effect of neoadjuvant chemotherapy on advanced breast cancer. Methods The CAF neoadjuvant chemotherapy 〔CTX 500 mg/m2(1st day, 8th day), 5-FU 500 mg/m2(1st day, 8th day), and ADM 30 mg/m2 (1st day) every 3 weeks〕 was carried out in 31 breast cancer patients (stageⅢ,Ⅳ) for 2 cycles before operation, compared with 30 patients (stage Ⅲa) whose therapies were never done and operations could be feasible. Results The overall response rate was 87.1%(27/31). The stages of 19 patients among 31 (61.3%) declined (6 patients to stage Ⅲa, 8 to stageⅡb, 4 to stageⅡa, 1 to stage 0, 1 to complete response and none to pathological complete response). The diseasefree survival time of the patients was 56.3 months which was obviously longer than that of the patients without neoadjuvant chemotherapy (43.5 months, P<0.05). The 5-year diseasefree survival rate of the patients with neoadjuvant chemotherapy was 38.7% which was a little higher than that (33.3%) of the patients without the chemotherapy, and the two groups had no significant difference. Conclusion The neoadjuvant chemotherapy can reduce the stages of patients with advanced breast cancer, obviously prolong the diseasefree survival time of patients, and reduce or delay recurrence or metastasis.
Objective To investigate the impacts of neoadjuvant chemotherapy on the expression of insulin-like growth factor-1 receptor (IGF-1R) and on operation procedure and the significance of prognosis. Methods The expression of IGF-1R in 40 patients with breast cancer before and after neoadjuvant chemotherapy was measured by immunohistochemistry. The diagnosis was proved by core biopsy. All the patients took the TAC chemotherapy regimen. Modified radical operation was performed after two chemotherapy cycles and the IGF-1R expression was measured again. The clinical effect of neoadjuvant chemotherapy was assessed according to WHO criterion by measuring the size of tumor by physical examination and B type ultrasound. Results After neoadjuvant chemotherapy the tumor size shrank in 29 patients, there was no CR (complete response) or PD (progressed disease) to be documented. IGF-1R expression could be downregulated in 25 patients. Conclusion Neoadjuvant chemotherapy can inhibit the tumor growth by downregulation of the expression of IGF-1R.
ObjectiveTo study the latest progress of neoadjuvant chemotherapy in breast cancer. MethodsLiteratures of neoadjuvant chemotherapy in breast cancer, involving with theoretical basis, clinical significance, indications, drugs, predictors, and its relationship of breastconserving surgery, sentinel lymph node biopsy were reviewed. ResultsNeoadjuvant chemotherapy could reduce the clinical stage, increase opportunity of breast-conserving surgery, learn the sensitivity of drugs, prevent distant metastases, but the impact of the sentinel lymph node biopsy was still in dispute. ConclusionNeoadjuvant chemotherapy is an important part of a systemic treatment for breast cancer, but how to select sensitive drugs, develop individualized treatment programs and forecast the outcome needs further study.
ObjectiveTo evaluate the efficacy and toxicity of TEC and CEF regimen in preoperative chemotherapy for patients with breast cancer. MethodsA total of one hundred breast cancer patients undergoing preoperative chemotherapy were divided into TEC group (n=50) and CEF group (n=50) by the pairgroup method and received surgical therapy after three courses of chemotherapy. The efficacy and toxicity of preoperative chemotherapy of patients in two groups were analyzed. ResultsFour patients with stage ⅢB breast cancer quit from CEF group after two courses of treatment because of the worse satisfaction. Clinical complete remission (cCR) was 7 cases, clinic partial remission (cPR) was 34 cases, stable disease (SD) was 9 cases, therefore, the remission rate (RR) was 82.0% (41/50), and reduction rate of tumor was 64.0% (32/50) in TEC group. cCR was 2 cases, cPR was 32 cases, SD was 12 cases, thus the RR was 680% (34/50), and reduction rate of tumor was 40.0% (20/50) in CEF group. The clinical efficacy and reduction rate of tumor of patients in TEC group were significantly superior than those in CEF group (Plt;0.05). The negative conversion ratio of lymph nodes were 54.1% (20/37) and 57.1% (20/35) in TEC group and CEF group, which was not statistically different (Plt;0.05). The occurrence of hair loss and leukopenia of patients in TEC group were significantly higher than those in CEF group (Plt;0.05), while the differences in thrombocytopenia, low concentration of hemoglobin, nausea, vomiting, diarrhea, cardiac toxicity, and neurotoxicity were not significant (Pgt;0.05). ConclusionTEC regimen is better than CEF regimen in the efficacy and safety of neo-adjuant therapy for patients with breast cancer, and well tolerated.
目的 评价凋亡相关基因bcl-2、p53的表达与乳腺癌新辅助化学疗法(化疗)疗效的关系。 方法 计算机检索Cochrane、Pubmed、Embase、中国知网、万方、维普等数据库,2003年4月-2013年4月bcl-2、p53蛋白与乳腺癌新辅助化疗的病例对照研究,应用RevMan 4.2统计软件进行定量分析。 结果 共纳入15篇病例对照研究,bcl-2与乳腺癌新辅助化疗6篇,治疗有效279例,其中bcl-2表达阳性159例;治疗无效115例,其中bcl-2表达阳性57例。p53与乳腺癌新辅助化疗13篇,治疗有效679例,其中p53表达阳性249例;治疗无效341例,其中p53表达阳性195例。Meta分析结果显示,bcl-2表达的阳性率与乳腺癌新辅助化疗疗效无统计学意义[OR=1.40,95%CI(0.89,2.18),P=0.14],而p53表达的阳性率与乳腺癌新辅助化疗疗效有统计学意义[OR=0.46,95%CI(0.26,0.80),P=0.007]。 结论 p53可以作为乳腺癌新辅助化疗疗效敏感性的一个指标,对乳腺癌新辅助化疗有提示作用。
目的:探讨ⅢA-N2期非小细胞肺癌(NSCLC)完全切除术后三维适形放疗联合辅助化疗疗效。方法:对48例ⅢA-N2期NSCLC完全切除术后患者,术后病理为腺癌18例、鳞癌27例、腺鳞癌3例,按信封法随机分为放疗组(24例)与非放疗组(24例)。放疗组采用术后三维适形放疗,4~5个非共面野,以90%~95%等剂量曲线包绕PTV,每次2 Gy,1次/日,5次/周,共照射25次,总剂量DT 50 Gy,放疗后予TP方案化疗3~4周期;非放疗组术后予TP方案化疗3~4周期。结果:放疗组1、2、3年生存率分别为95.8%、79.2%、62.5%,非放疗组分别为91.7%、58.3%、37.5%;放疗组1、2、3年无病生存率分别75.0%、58.3%、45.8%,非放疗组分别为54.2%、41.7%、25.0%;放疗组与非放疗组3年胸腔内复发分别12.5%和37.5%;放疗组与非放疗组中位生存时间分别为28个月和18个月;放疗组白细胞减少、急性放射性肺炎、气管炎发生率分别为25.0%、8.3%、12.5%,均为Ⅰ或Ⅱ级;Ⅰ级急性放射性食管炎发生率为20.8%。结论:ⅢA-N2期非小细胞肺癌完全切除术后三维适形放疗联合辅助化疗,可以降低患者胸腔内肿瘤复发、提高术后生存率。
This paper aims to investigate the value of diffusiion weighted imaging (DWI) and different apparent diffusion coefficient (ADC) methods to predict the curative effects of neoadjuvant chempotherapy (NAC) for breast cancer. From March 2010 to December 2012, seventy-one patients were pathologically confirmed invasive breast cancer by needle puncture biopsy received before surgery, and underwent magnetic resonance before and after NAC, the ADC were measured by mean ADC method and lower ADC method. The pathologic response after NAC was divided to major histological response (MHR) group and non-major histological response (NMHR) group according to Miller & Payne system. Results displayed that ADC values obtained before NAC, at the end of the second cycle of NAC, and after whole course of treatment, had good correlations between mean and lower ADC methods (the Pearson's correlation=0.699, 0.749 and 0.895, respectively). Significant difference in ADC obtained both with mean and lower ADC methods could be found between MHR and NMHR groups after the second cycle of NAC (P<0.05). After the second cycle of NAC, significant difference in the change rate of ADC could be found between MHR and NMHR groups by using lower ADC method (P<0.05), but not be found by using mean ADC method (P>0.05). In conclusion, DWI could monitor the pathologic changes of breast cancer after NAC, and the lower ADC method might be used to evaluate the curative effect of NAC with the change rate of ADC.
ObjectiveTo evaluate the effect of neoadjuvant chemotherapy and find the mechanism of multidrug resistance. MethodsTwenty patients with gastric cancer and 31 patients with colorectal cancer underwent neoadjuvant chemotherapy and then operations. The preoperative specimens were stained by immunohistochemical techniques for testing p53,multidrug resistanceassociated protein (MRP), glutathione S transferase(GST), telomerase. Resection specimens were evaluated for chemotherapy effect by routine histology; at the same time, the postoperative morbidity and mortality were observed. ResultsIn 51 patients, the response rate of neoadjuvant chemotherapy was 27.45%(14/51),so multidrug resistance was a kind of common phenomena in gastrointestinal carcinomas. The postoperative morbidity was 15.69%(8/15), the main operation complication was infection,the mortality was 1.96%(1/51),only one person died from severe infection.The expression rate of p53, MRP, GST, telomerase was 58.0%,51.0%,66.7%,74.0%respectively, the location of p53 was at cell nucleus,location of MRP,GST was at cell memberane and cytoplasm,location of telomerase was at cytoplasm.The response rate had nothing to do with age, sex and metastasis. But it was related with p53 and telomerase expression. ConclusionNeoadjuvant chemotherapy is an effective, safe therapy. But the rate of drug resistance is high in gastrointestinal carcinomas, and the response rate is related to p53, telomerase expression.
ObjectiveTo summarize the research progress of neoadjuvant chemotherapy in advanced gastric cancer. MethodThe literatures about the research progress of neoadjuvant chemotherapy in the advanced gastric cancer were reviewed. ResultsThe neoadjuvant chemotherapy in the advanced gastric cancer could significantly improve the R0 resection rate, improve the long-term survival rate, and reduce the risk of death.The course of neoadjuvant chemotherapy for locally advanced gastric cancer without distant metastasis generally was 6-9 weeks, and then according to the results of the curative effect evaluation to decide whether to undergo surgery treatment.Further the clinical research and improvement of chemotherapy sensitivity detection method were helpful to the unity of the standard of neoadjuvant chemotherapy. ConclusionsThe curative effect of neoadjuvant chemotherapy in advanced gastric cancer is clear.But there is no uniform standard on such as indications, chemotherapy regimens, medication time, and curative effect evaluation index, and so on.It is still needed the further research of multicenter and large clinical trials.