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  1. Baratti D, Kusamura S, Azmi N, Guaglio M, Montenovo M, Deraco M
    Ann Surg Oncol, 2020 Jan;27(1):98-106.
    PMID: 31691116 DOI: 10.1245/s10434-019-07935-2
    BACKGROUND: The Prodige-7 trial has questioned the role of hyperthermic intraperitoneal chemotherapy (HIPEC) in the treatment of peritoneal metastases from colorectal cancer (CRC-PM).

    PATIENTS AND METHODS: We compared a prospectively collected group of 48 patients undergoing oxaliplatin/irinotecan-based perioperative systemic chemotherapy (s-CT) with targeted agents, and cytoreductive surgery (CRS) (no-HIPEC group) with 48 controls undergoing the same perioperative s-CT and CRS/HIPEC (HIPEC group). Patients were matched (1:1) according to the Peritoneal Surface Disease Severity Score, completeness of cytoreduction, history of extraperitoneal disease (EPD), and Peritoneal Cancer Index.

    RESULTS: The groups were comparable, except for a higher number of patients in the HIPEC group with World Health Organization performance status 0, pN2 stage primary tumor, and treated with preoperative s-CT. Forty-one patients in the no-HIPEC group and 43 patients in the HIPEC group had optimal comprehensive treatment (P = 0.759), defined as complete cytoreduction of PM and margin-negative EPD resection. Median follow-up was 31.6 months in the no-HIPEC group and 39.9 months in the HIPEC group. Median overall survival was 39.3 months in the no-HIPEC group and 34.8 months in the HIPEC group (P = 0.702). In the two groups, severe morbidity occurred in 14 (29.2%) and 13 (27.1%) patients, respectively (P = 1.000), with no operative deaths. On multivariate analysis, left-sided primary and curative treatment independently correlated with better survival while HIPEC did not (hazard ratio 0.73; 95% confidence interval 0.47-1.15; P = 0.178).

    CONCLUSIONS: Our results confirmed that, in selected patients, perioperative s-CT and surgical treatment of CRC-PM resulted in unexpectedly high survival rates. Mitomycin C-based HIPEC did not increase morbidity but did not impact prognosis.

    Matched MeSH terms: Mitomycin/administration & dosage
  2. Sivanesaratnam V, Jayalakshmi P
    Cancer, 1989 Aug 15;64(4):798-800.
    PMID: 2501019
    Patients undergoing radical surgical treatment for Stage IB and IIA cervical carcinoma are at high risk of developing local recurrence and/or distant metastases when one or more of the following factors are present: presence of metastatic pelvic lymph nodes, a large primary growth, full-thickness tumor invasion of the cervix, clinically undetected parametrial extension, and lymphatic/vascular channel permeation in the cervix by tumor cells. Carcinoma of the cervix appears to be behaving like a systemic disease. Therefore, systemic measures should be considered in its therapy. The authors report the initial experience with the use of mitomycin C as a single agent adjuvant in 16 patients with Stage IB carcinoma of the cervix who had undergone Wertheim radical hysterectomy and were thought to be in this high-risk group. Fourteen of the patients are alive and free of disease after durations of follow-up ranging from 16 to 38 months, the disease-free survival at a median follow-up of 29 months being 87.5%. One patient required discontinuation of adjuvant chemotherapy because of severe marrow toxicity; however, in view of the presence of a multiple risk factors, pelvic irradiation was given instead. She died 13 months later from disseminated disease. A second patient died 6 months later from congestive cardiac failure.
    Matched MeSH terms: Mitomycins/adverse effects; Mitomycins/therapeutic use*; Mitomycin
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