1. Survival outcomes, prognostic factors, and effect of adjuvant radiotherapy and prophylactic neck dissection in salivary acinic cell carcinoma: A prospective multicenter REFCOR study of 187 patients
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Chatelet, Florian, Ferrand, François Régis, Atallah, Sarah, Thariat, Juliette, Mouawad, François, Fakhry, Nicolas, Malard, Olivier, Even, Caroline, de Monès, Erwan, Uro-Coste, Emmanuelle, Benzerdjeb, Nazim, Hans, Stéphane, Testelin, Sylvie, Mauvais, Olivier, Evrard, Diane, Bastit, Vianney, Salas, Sébastien, Espitalier, Florent, Classe, Marion, Digue, Laurence, Doré, Mélanie, Wong, Stéphanie, Dupin, Charles, Nguyen, France, Bettoni, Jeremie, Lapierre, Ariane, Colin, Emilien, Philouze, Pierre, Vergez, Sébastien, Baujat, Bertrand, Herman, Philippe, Verillaud, Benjamin, Constans, Jean-Marc, Coutte, Alexandre, Devauchelle, Bernard, Service d'ORL et de Chirurgie cervico-faciale - Hôpital Foch, CHU Tenon [AP-HP], Assistance publique - Hôpitaux de Paris (AP-HP) (AP-HP)-Sorbonne Université (SU), Laboratoire de physique corpusculaire de Caen (LPCC), Université de Caen Normandie (UNICAEN), Normandie Université (NU)-Normandie Université (NU)-École Nationale Supérieure d'Ingénieurs de Caen (ENSICAEN), Normandie Université (NU)-Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Faculté de Médecine Henri Warembourg - Université de Lille, Laboratoire Parole et Langage (LPL), Aix Marseille Université (AMU)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Hôpital de la Conception [CHU - APHM] (LA CONCEPTION), Centre Hospitalier Universitaire de Toulouse (CHU Toulouse), Hospices Civils de Lyon (HCL), Université de Versailles Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines - UFR Sciences de la santé Simone Veil (UVSQ Santé), Université de Versailles Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines (UVSQ), Département de chirurgie maxillofaciale et stomatologie [CHU d'Amiens-Picardie], CHU Amiens-Picardie, CHirurgie, IMagerie et REgénération tissulaire de l’extrémité céphalique - Caractérisation morphologique et fonctionnelle - UR UPJV 7516 (CHIMERE), Université de Picardie Jules Verne (UPJV), Réseau d’Expertise Français sur les Cancers ORL Rares - French Network of Rare Head and Neck Tumors (REFCOR), Centre Hospitalier Régional Universitaire de Besançon (CHRU Besançon), Hôpital Pellegrin, and CHU Bordeaux [Bordeaux]-Groupe hospitalier Pellegrin
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Salivary gland neoplasms ,Cancer Research ,Propensity score ,Radiotherapy ,Oncology ,Acinar cell ,Acinic cell carcinoma ,Carcinoma ,Neck dissection ,Prognosis ,[SDV.MHEP]Life Sciences [q-bio]/Human health and pathology - Abstract
International audience; Background: Acinic cell carcinomas (AciCCs) are malignant tumours of the salivary glands. The aim of this work was to analyse data from the national REFCOR multicenter cohort (i) to investigate the prognostic factors influencing survival outcomes in AciCC, (ii) to assess the impact on survival of postoperative radiotherapy (RT) in patients treated for AciCC without high-grade transformation and (iii) to explore the prognostic impact of prophylactic neck dissection (ND) in patients treated for AciCC of the major salivary glands.Patients and methods: Data from all the patients treated for salivary AciCC between 2009 and 2020 were extracted from the REFCOR database. Survival outcomes and prognostic factors influencing Disease-Free Survival (DFS) and Overall Survival (OS) were investigated using univariate and multivariate analyses. Propensity score matching was used to assess the impact of postoperative RT and prophylactic ND on DFS.Results: A total of 187 patients were included. After a median follow-up of 53 months, their 5-year OS and DFS rates were 92.8% and 76.2%, respectively. In multivariate analysis, male sex, older age, higher T and N status, and high grade were independently associated with a worse DFS. In the subpopulation analysed after propensity score matching, patients with cN0 AciCC without high-grade transformation who were treated by surgery and RT did not have an improved DFS compared to patients who were treated by surgery alone (hazard ratio (HR) = 0.87, p = 0.8). Factors associated with nodal invasion were T3-T4 status and intermediate/high histological grade. After propensity score matching, prophylactic ND was associated with a trend toward a better DFS (HR = 0.46, p = 0.16).Conclusions: These results suggest that (i) long-term follow-up (>5 years) should be considered in patients with AciCC, (ii) treatment by surgery alone could be an option in selected cN0 patients with AciCC without high-grade transformation and (iii) prophylactic ND may be considered preferentially in patients with T3-T4 status and/or intermediate/high histological grade.
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- 2023