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Niu S, Li Y, Shao H, Hu J, Wang J, Wang H, Zhang Y. Phase 2 Clinical Trial of Simultaneous Boost Intensity Modulated Radiation Therapy With 3 Dose Gradients in Patients With Stage I-II Nasal Type Natural Killer/T-Cell Lymphoma: Long-Term Outcomes of Survival and Quality of Life. Int J Radiat Oncol Biol Phys 2024; 118:770-780. [PMID: 37939733 DOI: 10.1016/j.ijrobp.2023.09.031] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/14/2023] [Revised: 09/05/2023] [Accepted: 09/18/2023] [Indexed: 11/10/2023]
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PURPOSE The aim of this study was to investigate the treatment results and long-term quality of life in patients with early-stage extranodal natural killer/T-cell lymphoma who were prospectively treated with simultaneous boost intensity modulated radiation therapy (SIB-IMRT) with 3 dose gradients. METHODS AND MATERIALS Sixty patients with stage I-II nasal cavity natural killer/T-cell lymphoma (NKTCL) and Waldeyer's ring NKTCL were enrolled in a single-arm, prospective, phase 2 clinical trial from August 2011 to April 2015. All patients were treated with definitive radiation therapy combined with short-course induction chemotherapy. A newly designed SIB-IMRT scheme was uniformly adopted, with 54.6 Gy for the gross tumor volume (GTV) of the primary tumor and GTV of the positive lymph nodes, 50.7 Gy for the high-risk clinical target volume (CTV), and 45.5 Gy for the low-risk CTV, all delivered in 26 daily fractions. Before SIB-IMRT, L-asparaginase-based induction chemotherapy was used in 95.0% (57/60) of patients. RESULTS With a median follow-up time of 95.8 months, the 5-year locoregional recurrence-free survival, progression-free survival, and overall survival rates were 83.3%, 81.7%, and 88.3%, respectively. Dosimetric analysis in the first 21 patients showed satisfying conformality for planning target volume of GTV, high-risk CTV, and low-risk CTV, while the organs at risk were well protected. The results of long-term quality-of-life investigations in patients without progression were favorable, and nasal discomfort was the most common symptom. No grade 3 or 4 acute or late toxicities were observed. CONCLUSIONS The scheme of target volume delineation and dose setting that we designed has favorable clinical effects with mild side effects in treating patients with stage I-II nasal cavity NKTCL and Waldeyer's ring NKTCL.
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- Shaoqing Niu
- Department of Radiation Oncology, State Key Laboratory of Oncology in South China, Sun Yat-sen University Cancer Center, Guangzhou, China; Department of Radiation Oncology, First Affiliated Hospital of Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou, China
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- Department of Radiation Oncology, State Key Laboratory of Oncology in South China, Sun Yat-sen University Cancer Center, Guangzhou, China; Department of Oncology, First Affiliated Hospital of Guangdong Pharmaceutical University, Guangzhou, China
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- Department of Radiation Oncology, State Key Laboratory of Oncology in South China, Sun Yat-sen University Cancer Center, Guangzhou, China
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- Department of Radiation Oncology, State Key Laboratory of Oncology in South China, Sun Yat-sen University Cancer Center, Guangzhou, China
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- Department of Radiation Oncology, State Key Laboratory of Oncology in South China, Sun Yat-sen University Cancer Center, Guangzhou, China
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- Department of Radiation Oncology, State Key Laboratory of Oncology in South China, Sun Yat-sen University Cancer Center, Guangzhou, China
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- Department of Radiation Oncology, State Key Laboratory of Oncology in South China, Sun Yat-sen University Cancer Center, Guangzhou, China.
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The Novel Prognostic Index Model of Combining Circulating Tumor DNA and PINK-E Predicts the Clinical Outcomes for Newly Diagnosed Extranodal NK/T-cell Lymphoma. Hemasphere 2022; 7:e822. [PMID: 36570690 PMCID: PMC9771254 DOI: 10.1097/hs9.0000000000000822] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/18/2022] [Accepted: 11/21/2022] [Indexed: 12/27/2022] Open
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Extranodal NK/T-cell lymphoma (ENKTL) is a highly aggressive and heterogeneous disease with poor clinical outcome. Our previous work had demonstrated that circulating tumor DNA (ctDNA) analyses were feasible in ENKTL, and dynamic tracing of ctDNA could be used to monitor the disease status. However, the prognostic value of ctDNA in ENKTL has not been fully investigated. Patients with newly diagnosed ENKTL from February 2017 to December 2021 (n = 70) were enrolled. The pretreatment ctDNA concentration (hGE/mL) was measured. The prognostic value of ctDNA, international prognostic index (IPI), Korean prognostic index (KPI), PINK-E, and the combination of PINK-E and ctDNA (PINK-EC) were investigated in our cohort. The IPI and PINK-E risk categories had a significant difference in progression-free survival (PFS) and overall survival (OS) between the low-risk and intermediate-risk groups. The KPI risk category had a difference in PFS and OS between the intermediate-risk and high-risk groups. Furthermore, integrating ctDNA into the PINK-E model could overcome the shortcomings of other prognostic models, which could significantly distinguish the different-risk groups. Overall, our results demonstrated that PINK-EC showed a superior prognostic prediction value and stability compared with IPI, KPI, and PINK-E. The integration of molecular features of the tumor into classic risk categories might better characterize a high-risk group where novel treatment approaches are most needed.
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Wang Y, Tan H, Yu T, Ma X, Chen X, Jing F, Zou L, Shi H. The identification of gene signatures in patients with extranodal NK/T-cell lymphoma from a pair of twins. BMC Cancer 2021; 21:1303. [PMID: 34872521 PMCID: PMC8650233 DOI: 10.1186/s12885-021-09023-9] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/20/2021] [Accepted: 11/17/2021] [Indexed: 02/08/2023] Open
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Background There is no unified treatment standard for patients with extranodal NK/T-cell lymphoma (ENKTL). Cancer neoantigens are the result of somatic mutations and cancer-specific. Increased number of somatic mutations are associated with anti-cancer effects. Screening out ENKTL-specific neoantigens on the surface of cancer cells relies on the understanding of ENKTL mutation patterns. Hence, it is imperative to identify ENKTL-specific genes for ENKTL diagnosis, the discovery of tumor-specific neoantigens and the development of novel therapeutic strategies. We investigated the gene signatures of ENKTL patients. Methods We collected the peripheral blood of a pair of twins for sequencing to identify unique variant genes. One of the twins is diagnosed with ENKTL. Seventy samples were analyzed by Robust Multi-array Analysis (RMA). Two methods (elastic net and Support Vector Machine-Recursive Feature Elimination) were used to select unique genes. Next, we performed functional enrichment analysis and pathway enrichment analysis. Then, we conducted single-sample gene set enrichment analysis of immune infiltration and validated the expression of the screened markers with limma packages. Results We screened out 126 unique variant genes. Among them, 11 unique genes were selected by the combination of elastic net and Support Vector Machine-Recursive Feature Elimination. Subsequently, GO and KEGG analysis indicated the biological function of identified unique genes. GSEA indicated five immunity-related pathways with high signature scores. In patients with ENKTL and the group with high signature scores, a proportion of functional immune cells are all of great infiltration. We finally found that CDC27, ZNF141, FCGR2C and NES were four significantly differential genes in ENKTL patients. ZNF141, FCGR2C and NES were upregulated in patients with ENKTL, while CDC27 was significantly downregulated. Conclusion We identified four ENKTL markers (ZNF141, FCGR2C, NES and CDC27) in patients with extranodal NK/T-cell lymphoma.
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- Yang Wang
- Laboratory of Aging Research and Cancer Drug Target, State Key Laboratory of Biotherapy, National Clinical Research Center for Geriatrics, West China Hospital, Sichuan University, No. 17, Block 3, Southern Renmin Road, Chengdu, Sichuan, 610041, PR China
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- Laboratory of Aging Research and Cancer Drug Target, State Key Laboratory of Biotherapy, National Clinical Research Center for Geriatrics, West China Hospital, Sichuan University, No. 17, Block 3, Southern Renmin Road, Chengdu, Sichuan, 610041, PR China
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- Department of Pathology and Laboratory of Pathology, State Key Laboratory of Biotherapy, West China Hospital, West China School of Medicine, Sichuan University, Chengdu, China
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- Department of Biotherapy, Cancer Center, West China Hospital, Sichuan University, Chengdu, China.,Department of Radiotherapy, Cancer Center and State Key Laboratory of Biotherapy, West China Hospital, Sichuan University, Chengdu, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Oral Diseases, National Clinical Research Center for Oral Diseases, West China Hospital of Stomatology, Sichuan University, Chengdu, 610041, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Oral Diseases, National Clinical Research Center for Oral Diseases, West China Hospital of Stomatology, Sichuan University, Chengdu, 610041, China
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- Department of Head and Neck Cancer, Cancer Center, West China Hospital, Sichuan University, Chengdu, China
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- Department of Biotherapy, Cancer Center, West China Hospital, Sichuan University, Chengdu, China. .,Department of Radiotherapy, Cancer Center and State Key Laboratory of Biotherapy, West China Hospital, Sichuan University, Chengdu, China.
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Huang L, Sim AYL, Wu Y, Liang Z, Li K, Du Y, Ong EHW, Tan HQ, Wee JTS, Xie Y, Shu X, Wang Y, Chua MLK, Zhu X. Lactate dehydrogenase kinetics predict chemotherapy response in recurrent metastatic nasopharyngeal carcinoma. Ther Adv Med Oncol 2020; 12:1758835920970050. [PMID: 33240398 PMCID: PMC7672732 DOI: 10.1177/1758835920970050] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/21/2020] [Accepted: 10/02/2020] [Indexed: 12/15/2022] Open
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Background: Lactate dehydrogenase (LDH) is a known prognostic biomarker for the endemic variant of nasopharyngeal carcinoma (NPC). Here, we investigate whether serial changes in LDH level between chemotherapy (CT) cycles are associated with tumour response to CT. Methods: Patients with biopsy-proven, recurrent or treatment-naïve metastatic NPC (mNPC) were recruited. All patients had received at least two cycles of platinum-based doublet or triplet CT, with serial assessment of LDH prior to every cycle of chemotherapy (CT1–6). Patients harbouring conditions that affect LDH levels (IU/L) were excluded. Tumour response was assessed after every two cycles of CT by RECIST v1.1. Results: A total of 158 patients were analysed, including 77 with recurrent and 81 with treatment-naïve mNPC. High pre-CT LDH was associated with an inferior overall survival [hazard ratio 1.93 for ⩾240 versus <240 (1.34–2.77), p < 0.001], which is consistent with published literature. We found that both absolute LDH levels and LDH ratios (LDHCTn: LDHCTn–1) were associated with tumour response [partial response versus progressive disease: median value across CT1–6 = 168–190 versus 222–398 (absolute); 0.738–0.988 versus 1.039–1.406 (ratio)], albeit LDH ratio had a tighter variance between patients. Finally, we showed that an LDH ratio cut-off of 1.0 at CT1, CT3 and CT5 was predictive of progressive disease at CT2, CT4, CT6 [area under the curve of 0.73 (0.65–0.80)]. Conclusion: Herein, we characterised the longitudinal variation of LDH in response to CT in mNPC. Our findings suggest the potential utility of interval LDH ratio to predict subsequent tumour response to CT.
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- Luo Huang
- Department of Radiation Oncology, Guangxi Medical University Cancer Hospital, Nanning, China
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- Division of Medical Sciences, National Cancer Centre Singapore, Singapore
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- Department of Radiation Oncology, Chongqing University Cancer Hospital, Chongqing, China
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- Department of Radiation Oncology, Guangxi Medical University Cancer Hospital, Nanning, China
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- Department of Radiation Oncology, Guangxi Medical University Cancer Hospital, Nanning, China
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- Department of Radiation Oncology, Guangxi Medical University Cancer Hospital, Nanning, China
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- Division of Radiation Oncology, National Cancer Centre Singapore, Singapore
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- Division of Radiation Oncology, National Cancer Centre Singapore, Singapore
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- Division of Radiation Oncology, National Cancer Centre Singapore, Singapore
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- Department of Radiation Oncology, Chongqing University Cancer Hospital, Chongqing, China
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- Department of Radiation Oncology, Chongqing University Cancer Hospital, Chongqing, China
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- Department of Radiation Oncology, Chongqing University Cancer Hospital, 181 Han Yu Road, Chongqing, 400030, China
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- Division of Radiation Oncology, National Cancer Centre Singapore, 11 Hospital Crescent, Singapore, 169610, Singapore
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- Department of Radiation Oncology, Guangxi Medical University Cancer Hospital, 77 He Di Road, Nanning, 530021, China
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