Affiliation:
1. Department of Surgery, City of Hope National Medical Center, Duarte, CA 91010, USA
Abstract
Bone metastases from gastroenteropancreatic neuroendocrine neoplasms (GEPNENs) have been associated with poor prognosis, but it is unclear whether patients with concurrent bone metastases who receive liver-directed therapy (LDT) would derive survival benefit. The California Cancer Registry dataset, merged with data from the California Office of Statewide Health Planning and Development, was used to perform a retrospective study of GEPNENs metastatic to both liver and bone between 2000 and 2012. A total of 203 patients were identified. Of these, 14.8% underwent LDT after bone metastasis diagnosis, 22.1% received LDT prior to that diagnosis, and 63.1% never received LDT. The median overall survival from the time of bone metastasis diagnosis was significantly longer in those that received LDT after diagnosis when compared with those that never received LDT (p = 0.005) and was not significantly different from the median overall survival of those that had received LDT prior to diagnosis (p = 0.256). LDT may still be associated with improved survival even after a diagnosis of bone metastasis.
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