Adult urologic sarcoma: Experience during 2 decades

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Contributors

  • Michael Froehner - , University Hospital Carl Gustav Carus Dresden, Department of Urology (Author)
  • Rebecca R. Schober - , University Hospital Carl Gustav Carus Dresden, Department of Urology (Author)
  • Rainer Koch - , University Hospital Carl Gustav Carus Dresden, Institute for Medical Informatics and Biometry (Author)
  • Arndt Lossnitzer - , University Hospital Carl Gustav Carus Dresden, Institute of Pathology (Author)
  • Michael Laniado - , Institute and Polyclinic of Diagnostic and Interventional Radiology, University Hospital Carl Gustav Carus Dresden (Author)
  • Manfred P. Wirth - , University Hospital Carl Gustav Carus Dresden, Department of Urology (Author)

Abstract

Objective: To identify factors associated with long-term outcome and to report possibly meaningful clinical features in a unicentric sample of adult urologic sarcomas. Materials and methods: Thirty-five patients treated between 1992 and 2011 were studied. Except for 3 patients, surgery was the initial treatment. The median follow-up in the surviving (censored) patients was 11.3 years. Kaplan-Meier method and competing risk analysis were used to evaluate outcome. Disease recurrence, disease-specific mortality, and overall mortality were the study endpoints. Comparisons were made with the log rank and the Pepe-Mori tests. Cox proportional hazard models were used to identify independent predictors of disease recurrence. Results: Only disease grade was significantly associated with all 3 study endpoints. The primary tumor site was significantly associated with disease-specific and recurrence-free survival but did not reach the significance level concerning overall survival. In the multivariate analysis, primary site and tumor grade were identified as predictors of disease recurrence. Whereas 10-year disease-specific survival was 100% in patients with low grade inguinoscrotal tumors, it was 0% in patients with high grade disease arising from other sites. Conclusions: Low grade and inguinoscrotal origin are factors associated with favorable outcome in urologic sarcomas. Repeat interventions to remove or to inactivate recurrent tumors or metastases seem to provide clinical benefit in individual cases.

Details

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)985-989
Number of pages5
JournalUrologic Oncology: Seminars and Original Investigations
Volume31
Issue number7
Publication statusPublished - Oct 2013
Peer-reviewedYes

External IDs

PubMed 22093763

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Keywords

  • Grade, Inguinoscrotal, Long-term outcome, Overall survival, Prognostic factors, Retroperitoneal, Sarcoma, Urologic neoplasms