A 66-year-old man underwent laparoscopic right nephrectomy for renal cell carcinoma (T2b, N0, M1, clear cell, Grade 3). He was treated with targeted therapy for lung metastases after nephrectomy. Despite the targeted therapy, he was paralyzed in the lower half of the body due to the spinal metastases. Therefore, an osteoplastic laminectomy and domelaminectomy for the spinal metastases was performed. The FDG-PET examination, which was performed after the operation, revealed lung, liver, bone, and small intestinal metastases. After a while, he suffered from continuous massive melena. Double balloon enteroscopy revealed a hemorrhagic tumor in the small intestine, and an emergency operation was performed. A partial resection of the small intestine was performed for the 3 tumors. The histopathological diagnosis was small intestinal metastasis from renal cell carcinoma. It is well known that renal cell carcinoma often develops metastases to the lung, bone, and liver. However, small intestinal metastasis from renal cell carcinoma is rare. Although small intestinal metastasis from renal cell carcinoma often accompanies metastases to other organs, a palliative operation might improve the quality of life in patients with symptomatic tumors.
The patient was a 68-year-old man who complained of hoarseness and dyspnea. Upper gastrointestinal endoscopy revealed a type 3 tumor located in the middle thoracic esophagus at 30 cm from the incisor tooth that involved one-fourth of the circumference of the esophagus. Histopathological examination revealed moderately differentiated squamous cell carcinoma. Chest computed tomography( CT) revealed severe tracheal stenosis due to compression by a metastatic lymph node along the left recurrent laryngeal nerve. The patient was diagnosed as having cT4( 106recL-trachea), N2( 101L, 106recL, 106recR), M0, Stage IVa unresectable esophageal carcinoma. After insertion of a tracheal stent tube( spiral Z stent: diameter, 18 mm; length, 80 mm) to improve dyspnea, combination chemotherapy with 5-fluorouracil( 5-FU) plus nedaplatin was administered. Subsequent CT and endoscopy showed that the main tumor and the metastatic lymph node had significantly reduced in size and that complete response (CR) had been achieved. Thirty months after the initial treatment, the patient showed no sign of disease recurrence, after completion of 19 cycles of chemotherapy. The patient did not experience any severe adverse events. We report a case of a patient with locally advanced squamous cell carcinoma of the esophagus successfully treated with 5-FU/nedaplatin combination chemotherapy following tracheal stent tube placement.
We retrospectively investigated the efficacy and safety of S-1 and oxaliplatin(SOX)as the first-line chemotherapy in patients with metastatic/recurrent gastric cancer. A total of 27 patients who received SOX as the first-line chemotherapy in our hospital were considered for the study. The SOX chemotherapy schedule consisted of 1 course every 3 weeks. S-1 was administered orally, at 80-120mg-body, every day for 14 days. Oxaliplatin was infused at 100mg/m2 on day 1 of each course. The median number of treatment courses was 7. The response rate and disease control rate were 47.6% and 76.2%, respectively. The observed adverse events of Grade 3 or more included neutropenia(33.3%); peripheral neuropathy and anorexia(11.1%); thrombocytopenia(7.4%); and anemia, diarrhea, fatigue, and hypercalcemia(3.7%). The median overall survival was not achieved, and the 1-year survival rate was 63.2%. Therefore, SOX is an effective and feasible first-line chemotherapy that is easily available for ambulatory treatment of patients with metastatic/recurrent gastric cancer.
History of male breast cancer and pancreatic cancer are important for diagnosis of hereditary breast and ovarian cancer syndrome(HBOC), while advanced pancreatic cancer is reported to have metastasis to mammary gland tissue. A 67-year-old man visited a local hospital because fever and right hypochondrial pain. Computed tomography scan revealed pancreatic cancer with multiple liver metastasis and peritoneal metastasis. He was referred to our hospital for further evaluation and treatment. No particular family history of malignancy was formed. A palpable lump was found in his left breast. Ultrasonography revealed 2.8 cm sized mass that had heterogenous internal echo and rough border. The background mammary gland showed gynecomastia. Since it was difficult primary breast cancer with metastatic tumor originated from pancreas cancer a core needle biopsy was performed. The finding of pathological examination showed invasive carcinoma with hormonal receptor negative and HER2 negative feature. CK7 and CK19 were both positive. Although it was difficult to male differentiation whether the tumor was primary a metastatic, we diagnosed as synchronous duplicated cancer of pancreas and breast due to existence of gynecomastia. Since hepatic failure due to tumor growth advanced prior to treatment start, the treatment policy became best supportive care.
Abstract [Background] Promising efficacy of the immunotherapy with anti-PD-1 antibody for esophageal squamous cell carcinoma (ESCC) is expected. Tumor-infiltrating lymphocytes (TILs)have been found to be associated with favorable outcome of patients in many cancers including ESCC. However, the contributing factor of TILs in the primary tumor remains unclear. Dendritic cells (DCs) are the most potent antigen-presenting cells to induce cytotoxic T lymphocytes. [Purpose] The aim of this study was to examine the correlation of mature dendritic cells with CD8+ cells in the tumor in order to clarify the impact of DCs on locally infiltrated lymphocytes in ESCC. [Object and Methods] Formalin-fixed, paraffin-embedded blocks of primary lesions were collected from 80 patients with ESCC who underwent surgical treatment at Osaka City University Hospital. Immunohistochemical analysis using anti-LAMP-3 antibody and CD8 antibody was used to evaluate intratumoral DCs and TILs. The number of LAMP-3+DCs and TILs were counted at ×400 magnification. We divided the 80 cases into two groups according to the median number of intratumoral DCs and TILs to examine the clinicopathological features. [Results] LAMP-3+DCs were predominantly observed in peritumoral area and sparsely found in intratumoral area, whereas CD8+T cells distributed between both peritumoral and intratumoral areas. The number of DCs was significantly associated with increasing TNM stage. For example, the median number of DCs was 59.9 in pathological T1, 34.2 in T2/3, 62.4 in pN1, 34.1 in pN1/2/3. In addition, many patients with high infiltaraion of DCs had positive lymphatic invasion (Ly). The number of intratumoral DCs was significantly correlated with the number of TILs which were observed in intratumoral regions. Patients in the high infiltration of DCs group showed a significant better prognosis than patients in the low infiltration group. Double staining showed that LAMP3+DC-CD8+T cell clusters were seen in peritumoral area. Citation Format: Junya Nishimura, Hiroaki Tanaka, Yuichiro Miki, Tatsuro Tamura, Tatsunari Fukuoka, Go Ohira, Masatsune Shibutani, Sadaaki Yamazoe, Kenjiro Kimura, Takahiro Toyokawa, Hisashi Nagahara, Ryosuke Amano, Kazuya Muguruma, Kiyoshi Maeda, Kosei Hirakawa, Masaichi Ohira. Impact of intratumoral mature dendritic cells on prognosis of the patients with esophageal squamous cell carcinoma [abstract]. In: Proceedings of the American Association for Cancer Research Annual Meeting 2017; 2017 Apr 1-5; Washington, DC. Philadelphia (PA): AACR; Cancer Res 2017;77(13 Suppl):Abstract nr 2945. doi:10.1158/1538-7445.AM2017-2945
Endoscopic treatment has been increasingly used for T1 esophageal squamous cell carcinoma (ESCC). However, this therapy is sometimes incomplete if the depth of the T1 primary tumor reaches the muscularis mucosae or submucosal layer because these tumors have a relatively high incidence of lymph node metastasis. However, to our knowledge, no previous reports on the prediction of nodal metastasis determined by evaluating primary tumor specimens of patients with ESCC are available.A total of 55 patients with T1 ESCC invading as deep as the submucosal layer who underwent curative esophagectomy were examined. We investigated the significance of the immunohistochemical staining of Vascular endothelial growth factor-C (VEGF-C) and E-cadherin in the primary tumor and Tumor budding for prediction of nodal metastasis.Metastasis to the regional lymph nodes was observed in 26 cases (47.3%) in this setting. VEGF-C expression and reduced E-Cadherin expression in the primary tumor was observed in 32 (58.1%) and 38 cases (69.1%), respectively. High-grade tumor budding was observed in 29 cases (52.7%). E-cadherin expression and tumor budding were closely correlated with nodal metastasis (p=0.04 and <0.01 respectively), whereas VEGF-C expression tended to correlate with lymph node metastasis (p=0.06). In addition, high-grade tumor budding was significantly correlated (p<0.01) with reduced E-cadherin expression. The accuracy of tumor budding and E-cadherin expression for nodal metastasis were 67.3% and 65.4% respectively, comparable with the one of lymphatic involvement (63%). Tumor budding (p<0.01), but not E-cadherin and VEGF-C expression, was significantly correlated with poor survival.After the endoscopic treatment, additional therapy, such as surgery or chemoradiotherapy, may be required if reduced E-cadherin expression and high-grade tumor budding are observed in primary tumor specimen.
ERas is a recently identified oncogene involved in the tumorgenic growth of embryonic stem cells. We examined the significance of ERas expression in scirrhous gastric carcinoma, and the possibility of ERas as a tumor-associated antigen of gastric cancer for developing a cancer vaccine. ERas expression was determined in scirrhous gastric carcinoma specimens by immunohistochemical staining. To assess the possibility of the ERas protein as an anticancer vaccine target, we examined whether ERas for HLA-A-restricted epitope peptides were capable of eliciting cytotoxic T lymphocyte activity. Immunohistochemical analysis identified ERas protein in the nucleus and cytoplasm of cancer cells, yet ERas was not expressed in normal gastric epithelium. By western blotting, lysates of the scirrhous gastric cancer cell lines, OCUM-8, OCUM-2MD3 and OCUM-2M were shown to contain a 25-kDa band of ERas protein. ERas mRNA was detected in these cell lines by RT-PCR. To investigate cytotoxicity, we successfully established cytotoxic T lymphocyte clones stimulated by HLA-A*2402-restricted ERas peptides (FALDDPSSL). These peptides have specific cytotoxicity against corresponding HLA-A*2402-positive target cells pulsed with the candidate peptide. We found that the cytotoxic T lymphocyte clones demonstrated cytotoxic activity against OCUM-8 cells that endogenously express ERas. Our results suggest that ERas is a novel tumor-associated antigen with the potential application to be a vaccine against scirrhous gastric cancer.