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Markus E, Trestman S, Cohen Y, Angel Y, Sofer Y, Mittelman M, Avivi I, Stern N, Izkhakov E. Components of metabolic syndrome in patients with multiple myeloma and smoldering multiple myeloma. BMC Cancer 2020; 20:489. [PMID: 32473631 PMCID: PMC7260792 DOI: 10.1186/s12885-020-06976-1] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/11/2019] [Accepted: 05/18/2020] [Indexed: 12/18/2022] Open
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BACKGROUND The prevalences of diabetes mellitus and hypertension, both of which are components of metabolic syndrome, are known to be increased among patients with multiple myeloma (MM), but remain undetermined among patients with smoldering MM (SMM). METHODS Changes in various components of metabolic syndrome were investigated during the follow-up of patients with either MM or SMM compared to healthy controls. The data of 153 patients (105 with MM and 48 with SMM) and 138 controls were accessed from our medical center's records between 2008 and 2015. We analyzed the patients' data at diagnosis (baseline) and after 1, 3, and 5 years of follow-up. RESULTS Patients with SMM had a significantly higher prevalence of diabetes, hypertension, and dyslipidemia at baseline compared to controls. A multivariate Cox regression analysis revealed a higher risk to develop dyslipidemia after 1, 3, and 5 years of follow-up among the SMM patients. The MM patients had a higher risk to develop diabetes after 1 year, hypertension after 5 years, and dyslipidemia after 1, 3, and 5 years of follow-up. CONCLUSIONS These data demonstrate that patients with SMM and those with MM are more prone to develop various components of metabolic syndrome, and they stress the importance of following-up metabolic syndrome components in both groups of patients.
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- Efrat Markus
- Institute of Endocrinology, Metabolism and Hypertension, Tel Aviv Sourasky Medical Center, Tel Aviv, Israel, affiliated to the Sackler Faculty of Medicine, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, Israel
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- Institute of Hematology, Tel Aviv Sourasky Medical Center, Tel Aviv, Israel, affiliated to the Sackler Faculty of Medicine, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, Israel
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- Institute of Hematology, Tel Aviv Sourasky Medical Center, Tel Aviv, Israel, affiliated to the Sackler Faculty of Medicine, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, Israel
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- Department of Internal Medicine C, Tel Aviv Sourasky Medical Center, Tel Aviv, Israel, affiliated to the Sackler Faculty of Medicine, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, Israel
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- Institute of Endocrinology, Metabolism and Hypertension, Tel Aviv Sourasky Medical Center, Tel Aviv, Israel, affiliated to the Sackler Faculty of Medicine, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, Israel
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- Department of Internal Medicine A, Tel Aviv Sourasky Medical Center, Tel Aviv, Israel, affiliated to the Sackler Faculty of Medicine, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, Israel
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- Institute of Hematology, Tel Aviv Sourasky Medical Center, Tel Aviv, Israel, affiliated to the Sackler Faculty of Medicine, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, Israel
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- Institute of Endocrinology, Metabolism and Hypertension, Tel Aviv Sourasky Medical Center, Tel Aviv, Israel, affiliated to the Sackler Faculty of Medicine, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, Israel
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- Institute of Endocrinology, Metabolism and Hypertension, Tel Aviv Sourasky Medical Center, Tel Aviv, Israel, affiliated to the Sackler Faculty of Medicine, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, Israel.
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Geron Y, Benbassat C, Shteinshneider M, Or K, Markus E, Hirsch D, Levy S, Ziv-Baran T, Muallem-Kalmovich L. Multifocality Is not an Independent Prognostic Factor in Papillary Thyroid Cancer: A Propensity Score-Matching Analysis. Thyroid 2019; 29:513-522. [PMID: 30799769 DOI: 10.1089/thy.2018.0547] [Citation(s) in RCA: 25] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/25/2022]
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BACKGROUND Papillary thyroid carcinoma (PTC) is the most common endocrine malignancy. Despite its low mortality rate, the disease has a recurrence rate of up to 30%. The mainstay of treatment for PTC is surgery, followed by radioiodine ablation and thyroxine therapy in appropriately selected patients. PTC can appear as a unifocal solitary tumor, but also as two or more anatomically separate foci. A great deal of controversy surrounds the significance of multifocality as a prognostic factor, and it is considered a poor prognostic factor that prompts more aggressive treatment. The aim of this study was to investigate the prognostic value of tumor multifocality on disease recurrence and mortality in PTC patients. METHODS Data of 1039 consecutive PTC patients from two tertiary medical centers were reviewed. The baseline characteristics and short- and long-term outcome were analyzed to evaluate the prognostic significance of multifocal disease. The application of two different propensity score models followed multivariate analysis. RESULTS The median follow-up was 10.1 years, and 534 (51.4%) patients had multifocal disease and 505 (48.6%) unifocal disease. Patients with the multifocal disease were significantly older, were more frequently male, had more extrathyroidal extension, more lymph node metastases, more advanced disease (stage III/IV), and a higher American Thyroid Association recurrence risk. Multifocal PTC patients had more persistence at one year (26.6% vs. 16.4%; p < 0.001), more recurrence during follow-up (12.7% vs. 6.6%; p = 0.002), and a higher overall mortality rate (15.5% vs. 9.7%; p = 0.002). However, there were no significant differences in recurrence, last-visit persistency, and mortality rates when adjusting for confounding variables by using propensity score matching. CONCLUSION This propensity score-matching study provides the best available data to support the assertion that multifocality in PTC patients is a marker of more extensive disease at presentation, but not an independent prognostic factor for long-term outcomes.
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- Yossi Geron
- 1 Endocrine Institute, Assaf Harofeh Medical Center, Zerifin, Israel
- 2 Sackler Faculty of Medicine, Tel-Aviv University, Tel-Aviv, Israel
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- 1 Endocrine Institute, Assaf Harofeh Medical Center, Zerifin, Israel
- 2 Sackler Faculty of Medicine, Tel-Aviv University, Tel-Aviv, Israel
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- 1 Endocrine Institute, Assaf Harofeh Medical Center, Zerifin, Israel
- 2 Sackler Faculty of Medicine, Tel-Aviv University, Tel-Aviv, Israel
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- 1 Endocrine Institute, Assaf Harofeh Medical Center, Zerifin, Israel
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- 1 Endocrine Institute, Assaf Harofeh Medical Center, Zerifin, Israel
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- 2 Sackler Faculty of Medicine, Tel-Aviv University, Tel-Aviv, Israel
- 3 Endocrine Institute, Rabin Medical Center, Petah-Tikva, Israel
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- 4 Academic College of Tel-Aviv-Yaffo, Tel-Aviv, Israel
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- 2 Sackler Faculty of Medicine, Tel-Aviv University, Tel-Aviv, Israel
- 5 Department of Epidemiology and Preventive Medicine, Tel-Aviv University Sackler Faculty of Medicine, Tel-Aviv, Israel
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- 2 Sackler Faculty of Medicine, Tel-Aviv University, Tel-Aviv, Israel
- 6 Head and Neck Surgery Unit, Department of ENT, Assaf Harofeh Medical Center, Zerifin, Israel
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Cavallone L, Adriana AM, Aldamry M, Lafleur J, Cathy L, Alirezaie N, Bareke E, Majewski J, Ferrario C, Mihalciou C, Roy JA, Markus E, Robidoux A, Pelmus M, Aleynikova O, Discepola F, Basik M. Abstract P2-02-02: Dynamics of ctDNA changes during neoadjuvant chemotherapy in triple-negative breast cancer patients. Cancer Res 2018. [DOI: 10.1158/1538-7445.sabcs17-p2-02-02] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/16/2022]
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Background:
Liquid biopsies to monitor response to treatment are a minimally invasive and highly attractive method for clinical application. Detection of ctDNA in plasma is now highly sensitive thanks to the use of novel highly sensitive and specific techniques such as ddPCR. In the present study we set out to analyze the utility of using ctDNA to monitor response to treatment in patients receiving standard neoadjuvant chemotherapy in triple negative breast cancer.
Methods:
Serial blood was collected from triple negative breast cancer patients participating in the Q-CROC-03 clinical trial (NCT01276899). The trial recruited triple negative breast cancer patients undergoing standard neoadjuvant chemotherapy. Paired biopsies were collected prior and at the end of treatment and serial bloods collected throughout the study. Whole exome sequencing was performed on tissues collected and we identified mutated genes of interest. Cell free DNA (cfDNA) was extracted from 3 ml of plasma and 4-10 variants per patient were analyzed by ddPCR in serial plasma samples collected before and during treatment. Response was measured by evaluating residual cancer burden (RCB), and non-responders were RCBII-III, responders RCB0-I.
Results:
For the present analysis, we identified 60 variants in tumors from 12 patients (9 RCBII-III and 3 RCB0-I). Except for TP53, none of the genes were shared among the tumors. 20% of the variants were not detected in ctDNA at any time point and we did not find any correlation between cfDNA levels and tumor size or response to treatment. The average variant allele frequency (VAF) of all detected variants at baseline was higher in RCBII-III patients than in RCB0-I patients (7.0 vs 0.7 respectively). Interestingly, variants that were detected either only in the pre-chemo tumor or in the post-chemo tumor were frequently detected throughout neoadjuvant therapy, highlighting the ability of ctDNA to capture tumor heterogeneity. In almost all cases, we observed a dramatic decrease in ctDNA VAF after one cycle of chemotherapy, including 30% to non-detectable levels. By the 5th cycle of chemotherapy 97% of detected variants had decreased (average 95% decrease). This decrease in ctDNA VAF was independent of RCB score. In some RCBII-III cases, ctDNA VAF increased prior to surgery, reflecting residual tumor presence.
Conclusion:
ctDNA could be detected in plasma of all early TNBC patients undergoing neoadjuvant chemotherapy with the majority of variants detected in plasma collected at baseline prior to chemotherapy. Once treatment started, the abundance of ctDNA markedly decreased in plasma independently of tumor response. The effect of chemotherapy on levels of ctDNA needs further investigation.
Citation Format: Cavallone L, Adriana A-M, Aldamry M, Lafleur J, Cathy L, Alirezaie N, Bareke E, Majewski J, Ferrario C, Mihalciou C, Roy J-A, Markus E, Robidoux A, Pelmus M, Aleynikova O, Discepola F, Basik M. Dynamics of ctDNA changes during neoadjuvant chemotherapy in triple-negative breast cancer patients [abstract]. In: Proceedings of the 2017 San Antonio Breast Cancer Symposium; 2017 Dec 5-9; San Antonio, TX. Philadelphia (PA): AACR; Cancer Res 2018;78(4 Suppl):Abstract nr P2-02-02.
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- L Cavallone
- Lady Davis Institute for Medical Research, Montreal, QC, Canada; Jewish General Hospital, Montreal, QC, Canada; McGill University, Montreal, QC, Canada; Hopital Sacre Coeur, Montreal, QC, Canada; John H. Stroger Jr. Hospital, Chicago, IL; Centre Hospitalier de l'Université de Montreal, Montreal, QC, Canada
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- Lady Davis Institute for Medical Research, Montreal, QC, Canada; Jewish General Hospital, Montreal, QC, Canada; McGill University, Montreal, QC, Canada; Hopital Sacre Coeur, Montreal, QC, Canada; John H. Stroger Jr. Hospital, Chicago, IL; Centre Hospitalier de l'Université de Montreal, Montreal, QC, Canada
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- Lady Davis Institute for Medical Research, Montreal, QC, Canada; Jewish General Hospital, Montreal, QC, Canada; McGill University, Montreal, QC, Canada; Hopital Sacre Coeur, Montreal, QC, Canada; John H. Stroger Jr. Hospital, Chicago, IL; Centre Hospitalier de l'Université de Montreal, Montreal, QC, Canada
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- Lady Davis Institute for Medical Research, Montreal, QC, Canada; Jewish General Hospital, Montreal, QC, Canada; McGill University, Montreal, QC, Canada; Hopital Sacre Coeur, Montreal, QC, Canada; John H. Stroger Jr. Hospital, Chicago, IL; Centre Hospitalier de l'Université de Montreal, Montreal, QC, Canada
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- Lady Davis Institute for Medical Research, Montreal, QC, Canada; Jewish General Hospital, Montreal, QC, Canada; McGill University, Montreal, QC, Canada; Hopital Sacre Coeur, Montreal, QC, Canada; John H. Stroger Jr. Hospital, Chicago, IL; Centre Hospitalier de l'Université de Montreal, Montreal, QC, Canada
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- Lady Davis Institute for Medical Research, Montreal, QC, Canada; Jewish General Hospital, Montreal, QC, Canada; McGill University, Montreal, QC, Canada; Hopital Sacre Coeur, Montreal, QC, Canada; John H. Stroger Jr. Hospital, Chicago, IL; Centre Hospitalier de l'Université de Montreal, Montreal, QC, Canada
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- Lady Davis Institute for Medical Research, Montreal, QC, Canada; Jewish General Hospital, Montreal, QC, Canada; McGill University, Montreal, QC, Canada; Hopital Sacre Coeur, Montreal, QC, Canada; John H. Stroger Jr. Hospital, Chicago, IL; Centre Hospitalier de l'Université de Montreal, Montreal, QC, Canada
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- Lady Davis Institute for Medical Research, Montreal, QC, Canada; Jewish General Hospital, Montreal, QC, Canada; McGill University, Montreal, QC, Canada; Hopital Sacre Coeur, Montreal, QC, Canada; John H. Stroger Jr. Hospital, Chicago, IL; Centre Hospitalier de l'Université de Montreal, Montreal, QC, Canada
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- Lady Davis Institute for Medical Research, Montreal, QC, Canada; Jewish General Hospital, Montreal, QC, Canada; McGill University, Montreal, QC, Canada; Hopital Sacre Coeur, Montreal, QC, Canada; John H. Stroger Jr. Hospital, Chicago, IL; Centre Hospitalier de l'Université de Montreal, Montreal, QC, Canada
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- Lady Davis Institute for Medical Research, Montreal, QC, Canada; Jewish General Hospital, Montreal, QC, Canada; McGill University, Montreal, QC, Canada; Hopital Sacre Coeur, Montreal, QC, Canada; John H. Stroger Jr. Hospital, Chicago, IL; Centre Hospitalier de l'Université de Montreal, Montreal, QC, Canada
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- Lady Davis Institute for Medical Research, Montreal, QC, Canada; Jewish General Hospital, Montreal, QC, Canada; McGill University, Montreal, QC, Canada; Hopital Sacre Coeur, Montreal, QC, Canada; John H. Stroger Jr. Hospital, Chicago, IL; Centre Hospitalier de l'Université de Montreal, Montreal, QC, Canada
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- Lady Davis Institute for Medical Research, Montreal, QC, Canada; Jewish General Hospital, Montreal, QC, Canada; McGill University, Montreal, QC, Canada; Hopital Sacre Coeur, Montreal, QC, Canada; John H. Stroger Jr. Hospital, Chicago, IL; Centre Hospitalier de l'Université de Montreal, Montreal, QC, Canada
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- Lady Davis Institute for Medical Research, Montreal, QC, Canada; Jewish General Hospital, Montreal, QC, Canada; McGill University, Montreal, QC, Canada; Hopital Sacre Coeur, Montreal, QC, Canada; John H. Stroger Jr. Hospital, Chicago, IL; Centre Hospitalier de l'Université de Montreal, Montreal, QC, Canada
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- Lady Davis Institute for Medical Research, Montreal, QC, Canada; Jewish General Hospital, Montreal, QC, Canada; McGill University, Montreal, QC, Canada; Hopital Sacre Coeur, Montreal, QC, Canada; John H. Stroger Jr. Hospital, Chicago, IL; Centre Hospitalier de l'Université de Montreal, Montreal, QC, Canada
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- Lady Davis Institute for Medical Research, Montreal, QC, Canada; Jewish General Hospital, Montreal, QC, Canada; McGill University, Montreal, QC, Canada; Hopital Sacre Coeur, Montreal, QC, Canada; John H. Stroger Jr. Hospital, Chicago, IL; Centre Hospitalier de l'Université de Montreal, Montreal, QC, Canada
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- Lady Davis Institute for Medical Research, Montreal, QC, Canada; Jewish General Hospital, Montreal, QC, Canada; McGill University, Montreal, QC, Canada; Hopital Sacre Coeur, Montreal, QC, Canada; John H. Stroger Jr. Hospital, Chicago, IL; Centre Hospitalier de l'Université de Montreal, Montreal, QC, Canada
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- Lady Davis Institute for Medical Research, Montreal, QC, Canada; Jewish General Hospital, Montreal, QC, Canada; McGill University, Montreal, QC, Canada; Hopital Sacre Coeur, Montreal, QC, Canada; John H. Stroger Jr. Hospital, Chicago, IL; Centre Hospitalier de l'Université de Montreal, Montreal, QC, Canada
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