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1. GBA-Related Parkinson’s Disease:Dissection of Genotype–Phenotype Correlates in a LargeItalian Cohort

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Petrucci, S., Ginevrino, M., Trezzi, I., Monfrini, E., Ricciardi, L., Albanese, A., Avenali, M., Barone, P., Bentivoglio, A. R., Bonifati, V., Bove, F., Bonanni, L., Brusa, L., Cereda, C., Cossu, G., Criscuolo, C., Dati, G., De Rosa, A., Eleopra, R., Fabbrini, G., Fadda, L., Garbellini, M., Minafra, B., Onofrj, M., Pacchetti, C., Palmieri, I., Pellecchia, M. T., Petracca, M., Picillo, M., Pisani, A., Vallelunga, A., Zangaglia, R., Di Fonzo, A., Morgante, F., Valente, E. M., Altavista, M. C., Amboni, M., Ardolino, G., Berardelli, A., Cogiamanian, F., Colosimo, C., Costanti, D., De Michele, G., Bonaventura, C. D., Di Lazzaro, G., Di Lazzaro, V., Emanuele Elia, A., Erro, R., Ferrazzano, G., Guerra, A., Ialongo, T., Malaguti, M. C., Melis, M., Moro, E., Oppo, V., Ottaviani, D., Peluso, S., Quadri, M. L., Romito, L. M., Sarchioto, M., Schirinzi, T., Sorbera, C., Stefani, A., Thomas, A., Valente, M. L., Volpe, G, ITA-GENE-PD Study, Group., Petrucci, S, Ginevrino, M, Trezzi, I, Monfrini, E, Ricciardi, L, Albanese, A, Avenali, M, Barone, P, Bentivoglio, Ar, Bonifati, V, Bove, F, Bonanni, L, Brusa, L, Cereda, C, Cossu, G, Criscuolo, C, Dati, G, De Rosa, A, Eleopra, R, Fabbrini, G, Fadda, L, Garbellini, M, Minafra, B, Onofrj, M, Pacchetti, C, Palmieri, I, Pellecchia, Mt, Petracca, M, Picillo, M, Pisani, A, Vallelunga, A, Zangaglia, R, Di Fonzo, A, Morgante, F, Valente, Em, Clinical Genetics, Erasmus MC other, and Radiology & Nuclear Medicine

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0301 basic medicine, Oncology, medicine.medical_specialty, Parkinson's disease, Genotype, genotype–phenotype correlates, Disease, Settore MED/05, Genotype phenotype, dementia, GBA, impulsive–compulsive behavior, 03 medical and health sciences, symbols.namesake, 0302 clinical medicine, Internal medicine, medicine, Dementia, Humans, Sanger sequencing, business.industry, Dissection, Parkinson Disease, medicine.disease, Phenotype, Settore MED/26 - NEUROLOGIA, 030104 developmental biology, Glucosylceramidase, Italy, Mutation, Neurology, Cohort, symbols, Neurology (clinical), business, 030217 neurology & neurosurgery
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BACKGROUND Variants in GBA are the most common genetic risk factor for Parkinson's disease (PD). The impact of different variants on the PD clinical spectrum is still unclear. OBJECTIVES We determined the frequency of GBA-related PD in Italy and correlated GBA variants with motor and nonmotor features and their occurrence over time. METHODS Sanger sequencing of the whole GBA gene was performed. Variants were classified as mild, severe, complex, and risk. β-glucocerebrosidase activity was measured. The Kaplan-Meier method and Cox proportional hazard regression models were performed. RESULTS Among 874 patients with PD, 36 variants were detected in 14.3%, including 20.4% early onset. Patients with GBA-PD had earlier and more frequent occurrence of several nonmotor symptoms. Patients with severe and complex GBA-PD had the highest burden of symptoms and a higher risk of hallucinations and cognitive impairment. Complex GBA-PD had the lowest β-glucocerebrosidase activity. CONCLUSIONS GBA-PD is highly prevalent in Italy. Different types of mutations underlie distinct phenotypic profiles. © 2020 International Parkinson and Movement Disorder Society.

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2020

2. Anhedonia and cognitive impairment in Parkinson's disease: Italian validation of the Snaith-Hamilton Pleasure Scale and its application in the clinical routine practice during the PRIAMO study

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Santangelo, G, Morgante, L, Savica, R, Marconi, R, Grasso, L, Antonini, A, De Gaspari, D, Ottaviani, D, Tiple, D, Simoni, L, Barone, P, Priamo, Sg, Colosimo, C, Benincasa, D, Biguzzi, S, Braga, M, Capecci, M, Caravona, N, De Falco, Fa, Pezzoli, G, Di Giovanni, M, Floris, G, Gallerini, S, Gurgone, G, Kiferle, L, Meoni, S, Moschella, V, Morgante, F, Pepe, F, Petretta, V, Randisi, Mg, Romeno, M, Ianniciello, M, Sciortino, G, Guzzardi, Po, Sorbello, V, Fabbrini, G, Guidubaldi, A, Muoio, R, Toni, V, Ferrari, Po, Logi, C, Ciacci, G, Ulivelli, M, Perini, M, Lanfranchi, S, Griffini, S, Troianiello, B, Baratti, M, Amidei, S, Consoli, D, Iellamo, M, Cuomo, T, Scaglioni, A, Medici, D, Abbruzzese, Giovanni, Di Brigida, G, Cocco, Ga, Agnetti, V, Cossu, G, Deriu, M, Abrignani, M, Modica, C, Albani, G, Milan, E, Martinelli, P, Scaglione, C, Mucchiut, M, Zanini, S, Pennisi, F, Soliveri, P, Albanese, A, Bartolomei, L, L'Erario, R, Capus, L, Ferigo, L, Marano, R, Nastasi, V, Luciano, R, Maiello, L, Simone, P, Fogli, D, Lopiano, L, Pesare, M, Molinette, As, Nordera, G, Pilleri, E, Scaravilli, T, Giaccaglini, E, Alesi, C, Corbetta, T, Dumitriu, A, Ingelheim, B, Sgarbi, S, Rapisarda, A, Rizzoli, S, Zanoli, L, Manfredi, A., Santangelo, Gabriella, Morgante, L, Savica, R, Marconi, R, Grasso, L, Antonini, A, De Gaspari, D, Ottaviani, D, Tiple, D, Simoni, L, Barone, P, PRIAMO Study, Group, Santangelo, G, Barone, Paolo, and PRIAMO Study, G. r. o. u. p.

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Male, medicine.medical_specialty, Parkinson's disease, media_common.quotation_subject, Multilingualism, Pilot Projects, Test validity, Affect (psychology), behavioral disciplines and activities, Aged, Aged, 80 and over, Cognition Disorders, diagnosis/epidemiology/psychology, Depressive Disorder, Major, diagnosis/epidemiology/psychology, Female, Humans, Italy, epidemiology, Male, Middle Aged, Multilingualism, Parkinson Disease, diagnosis/epidemiology/psychology, Pilot Projects, Psychiatric Status Rating Scales, standards, Reproducibility of Results, Pleasure, medicine, 80 and over, Humans, Psychiatry, Depression (differential diagnoses), media_common, Aged, Aged, 80 and over, Psychiatric Status Rating Scales, Depressive Disorder, Major, Depressive Disorder, Parkinsonism, Anhedonia, Reproducibility of Results, Parkinson Disease, Middle Aged, medicine.disease, Test (assessment), Neurology, Italy, standards, Female, epidemiology, Neurology (clinical), Geriatrics and Gerontology, medicine.symptom, Psychology, Cognition Disorders, diagnosis/epidemiology/psychology, Clinical psychology
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To assess the psychometric properties of the Italian version of the Snaith-Hamilton Pleasure Scale (SHAPS) and to study the relationship between anhedonia, depression and cognitive impairment in patients with Parkinson's disease (PD).The SHAPS (14 items) was translated into Italian and pre-tested in a pilot study. Two items evaluating physical anhedonia related to sexual issues were added. The Italian version of SHAPS was validated in 274 consecutive PD patients, divided into patients with major depression according to DSM-IV criteria (dPD) and patients without depression (nPD), and in healthy subjects. To test the feasibility of the instrument and to determine whether clinical data affect anhedonia, we also administered SHAPS to 1307 patients with different types of parkinsonism.The Italian SHAPS proved to be easy to understand as regards the question and answer modes. Intraclass coefficient for test-retest reliability was 0.65 for the total score. KR index was 0.61. ANOVA of the SHAPS total score revealed that scores were higher in dPD patients than in healthy controls and nPD (p0.05). In the 1307 patients with various types of parkinsonism, the SHAPS data showed that anhedonia was related to age, type of parkinsonism, apathy, depression and cognitive impairment. Anhedonia was correlated with frontal dysfunctions in supranuclear palsy and PD patients (r=-0.682 and -0.264 respectively, p0.05).The Italian version of the SHAPS is a reliable tool with which to assess anhedonia in patients with PD and other forms of parkinsonism.

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2009

3. Natural history of bone metastasis in colorectal cancer: final results of a large Italian bone metastases study

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Bruno Vincenzi, Evaristo Maiello, Cristina Masini, Olga Venditti, Raffaele Addeo, Alfredo Falcone, Vincenzo Catalano, Vladimir Virzì, Cinzia Ortega, R. Giannicola, N. Calipari, Toni Ibrahim, Giuseppe Tonini, Paolo Giordani, Calogero Mazzara, Azzurra Ottone, Fausto Petrelli, Stefano Cascinu, Nicola Silvestris, Federica Bertolini, Daniele Santini, Lisa Salvatore, Sandro Barni, Tiziana Latiano, Maria Elisabetta Fratto, Marco Tampellini, Cinzia Caroti, Rossana Berardi, Massimo Aglietta, Giuseppe Badalamenti, Davide Ottaviani, Francesco Fabbri, Santini, D, Tampellini, M, Vincenzi, B, Ibrahim, T, Ortega, C, Virzi, V, Silvestris, N, Berardi, R, Masini, C, Calipari, N, Ottaviani, D, Catalano, V, Badalamenti, G, Giannicola, R, Fabbri, F, Venditti, O, Fratto, Me, Mazzara, C, Latiano, Tp, Bertolini, F, Petrelli, F, Ottone, A, Caroti, C, Salvatore, L, Falcone, A, Giordani, P, Addeo, R, Aglietta, M, Cascinu, Stefano, Barni, S, Maiello, E, Tonini, G., Santini d, Tampellini m, Vincenzi b, Ibrahim t, Ortega c, Virzi v, Silvestris n, Berardi r, Masini c, Calipari n, Ottaviani d, Catalano v, Badalamenti g, Giannicola r, Fabbri f, Venditti o, Fratto e, Mazzara c, Latiano tp, Bertolini f, Petrelli f, Ottone a, Caroti c, Salvatore l, Falcone a, Giordani p, Addeo r, Aglietta m, Cascinu, Barni s., Maiello e, and Tonini g

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Oncology, medicine.medical_specialty, Bone Density Conservation Agent, Settore MED/06 - Oncologia Medica, Colorectal cancer, Bone Neoplasms, Colorectal Neoplasm, Bone Neoplasm, drug therapy/pathology, Zoledronic Acid, Internal medicine, medicine, Humans, Imidazole, Pelvis, Retrospective Studies, drug therapy/secondary, bone metastases, colorectal cancer, zoledronic acid, Bone Density Conservation Agents, Diphosphonates, business.industry, Imidazoles, Bone metastasis, Cancer, Retrospective cohort study, Hematology, medicine.disease, Natural history, Zoledronic acid, medicine.anatomical_structure, Diphosphonate, therapeutic use, Colorectal Neoplasms, business, Human, medicine.drug
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Background Data are limited regarding bone metastases from colorectal cancer (CRC). The objective of this study was to survey the natural history of bone metastasis in CRC. Patients and methods This retrospective, multicenter, observational study of 264 patients with CRC involving bone examined cancer treatments, bone metastases characteristics, skeletal-related event (SRE) type and frequency, zoledronic acid therapy, and disease outcomes. Results Most patients with bone metastases had pathologic T3/4 disease at CRC diagnosis. The spine was the most common site involved (65%), followed by hip/pelvis (34%), long bones (26%), and other sites (17%). Median time from CRC diagnosis to bone metastases was 11.00 months; median time to first SRE thereafter was 2.00 months. Radiation and pathologic fractures affected 45% and 10% of patients, respectively; 32% of patients had no reported SREs. Patients survived for a median of 7.00 months after bone metastases diagnosis; SREs did not significantly affect survival. Subgroup analyses revealed that zoledronic acid significantly prolonged median time to first SRE (2.00 months versus 1.00 month, respectively, P = 0.009) and produced a trend toward improved overall survival versus no zoledronic acid. Conclusion This study illustrates the burden of bone metastases from CRC and supports the use of zoledronic acid in this setting.

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2012

4. Time-Dependent COVID-19 Mortality in Patients With Cancer: An Updated Analysis of the OnCovid Registry

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Gianpiero Rizzo, Eudald Felip, Annalisa Guida, Alessio Cortellini, Francesca Mazzoni, Rachel Sharkey, Alice Baggi, Emeline Colomba, Sabrina Rossi, Salvatore Grisanti, Federica Zoratto, David J. Pinato, Daniela Ferrante, Claudia Andrea Cruz, Giampero Porzio, Lorenzo Chiudinelli, Alessandra Gennari, Alexia Bertuzzi, Gianluca Gaidano, Joan Brunet, Johann Colomba, Alessia Dalla Pria, Nadia Harbeck, Raffaele Giusti, Alberto Zambelli, Angela Loizidou, Clara Martinez-Vila, Daniele Generali, Matteo Lambertini, Isabel Ruiz-Camps, Paola Queirolo, Michela Libertini, Ana Sanchez de Torre, Ailsa Sita-Lumsden, Laura Fox, Federica Biello, Javier Marco-Hernández, Nikolaos Diamantis, Elia Seguí, Lorenza Rimassa, Nadia Saoudi-Gonzalez, Ariadna Roqué Lloveras, Armando Santoro, John D. Chester, Mieke Van Hemelrijck, Carlo Tondini, Marco Krengli, Saoirse Dolly, Raquel Liñan, Elisa Roldán, Charlotte Moss, Diego Ottaviani, Fanny Pommeret, Uma Mukherjee, Andrea Patriarca, Aleix Prat, Joanne Evans, Rossana Berardi, Meera Patel, Mark Bower, Marco Tagliamento, Paolo Pedrazzoli, Juan Aguilar-Company, Lorenza Scotti, Bruno Vincenzi, Irina Earnshaw, M Carmen Carmona-García, Anna Pous, Thomas Newsom-Davis, Riccardo Bruna, Krishnie Srikandarajah, Rossella Bertulli, Josep Tabernero, Vittoria Fotia, Alessandro Parisi, Anna Sureda, Ramon Salazar, Beth Russell, Michela Franchi, Roxana Reyes, Pinato, D. J., Patel, M., Scotti, L., Colomba, E., Dolly, S., Loizidou, A., Chester, J., Mukherjee, U., Zambelli, A., Dalla Pria, A., Aguilar-Company, J., Bower, M., Salazar, R., Bertuzzi, A., Brunet, J., Lambertini, M., Tagliamento, M., Pous, A., Sita-Lumsden, A., Srikandarajah, K., Colomba, J., Pommeret, F., Segui, E., Generali, D., Grisanti, S., Pedrazzoli, P., Rizzo, G., Libertini, M., Moss, C., Evans, J. S., Russell, B., Harbeck, N., Vincenzi, B., Biello, F., Bertulli, R., Ottaviani, D., Linan, R., Rossi, S., Carmona-Garcia, M. C., Tondini, C., Fox, L., Baggi, A., Fotia, V., Parisi, A., Porzio, G., Queirolo, P., Cruz, C. A., Saoudi-Gonzalez, N., Felip, E., Roque Lloveras, A., Newsom-Davis, T., Sharkey, R., Roldan, E., Reyes, R., Zoratto, F., Earnshaw, I., Ferrante, D., Marco-Hernandez, J., Ruiz-Camps, I., Gaidano, G., Patriarca, A., Bruna, R., Sureda, A., Martinez-Vila, C., Sanchez De Torre, A., Berardi, R., Giusti, R., Mazzoni, F., Guida, A., Rimassa, L., Chiudinelli, L., Franchi, M., Krengli, M., Santoro, A., Prat, A., Tabernero, J., Van Hemelrijck, M., Diamantis, N., Gennari, A., and Cortellini, A.

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Male, Cancer Research, medicine.medical_specialty, Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19), Severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2), solid cancer, Internal medicine, Neoplasms, Tumor stage, COVID-19, real-world data, hematologic cancer, medicine, Humans, In patient, Registries, Pandemics, Aged, Original Investigation, business.industry, SARS-CoV-2, Hazard ratio, Outbreak, Cancer, Infant, medicine.disease, Female, Oncology, business, Case series
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IMPORTANCE Whether the severity and mortality of COVID-19 in patients with cancer have improved in terms of disease management and capacity is yet to be defined. OBJECTIVE To test whether severity and mortality from COVID-19 among patients with cancer have improved during the course of the pandemic. DESIGN, SETTING, AND PARTICIPANTS OnCovid is a European registry that collects data on consecutive patients with solid or hematologic cancer and COVID-19. This multicenter case series study included real-world data from 35 institutions across 6 countries (UK, Italy, Spain, France, Belgium, and Germany). This update included patients diagnosed between February 27, 2020, and February, 14, 2021. Inclusion criteria were confirmed diagnosis of SARS-CoV-2 infection and a history of solid or hematologic cancer. EXPOSURES SARS-CoV-2 infection. MAIN OUTCOMES AND MEASURES Deaths were differentiated at 14 days and 3 months as the 2 landmark end points. Patient characteristics and outcomes were compared by stratifying patients across 5 phases (February to March 2020, April to June 2020, July to September 2020, October to December 2020, and January to February 2021) and across 2 major outbreaks (February to June 2020 and July 2020 to February 2021). RESULTS At data cutoff, 2795 consecutive patients were included, with 2634 patients eligible for analysis (median [IQR] age, 68 [18-77] years ; 52.8% men). Eligible patients demonstrated significant time-dependent improvement in 14-day case-fatality rate (CFR) with estimates of 29.8% (95% CI, 0.26-0.33) for February to March 2020; 20.3% (95% CI, 0.17-0.23) for April to June 2020;12.5% (95% Cl, 0.06-22.90) for July to September 2020; 17.2% (95% CI, 0.15-0.21) for October to December 2020; and 14.5% (95% CI, 0.09-0.21) for January to February 2021(all P < .001) across the predefined phases. Compared with the second major outbreak, patients diagnosed in the first outbreak were more likely to be 65 years or older (974 of 1626 [60.3%] vs 564 of 1008 [56.1%]; P = .03), have at least 2 comorbidities (793 of 1626 [48.8%) vs 427 of 1008 [42.4%); P = .001), and have advanced tumors (708 of 1626 [46.4%) vs 536 of 1008 [56.1%]: P < .001). Complications of COVID-19 were more likely to be seen (738 of 1626 [45.4%) vs 342 of 1008 [33.9%]; P < .001) and require hospitalization (969 of 1626 [59.8%) vs 418 of 1008 [42.1%); P < .001) and anti-COVID-19 therapy (1004 of 1626 [61.7%) vs 501of 1008 [49.7%); P < .001) during the first major outbreak. The 14-day CFRs for the first and second major outbreaks were 25.6% (95% CI, 0.23-0.28) vs 16.2% (95% CI, 0.13-0.19; P < .001), respectively. After adjusting for country, sex, age, comorbidities, tumor stage and status, anti-COVID-19 and anticancer therapy, and COVID-19 complications, patients diagnosed in the first outbreak had an increased risk of death at 14 days (hazard ratio [HR], 1.85; 95% CI, 1.47-2.32) and 3 months (HR, 1.28; 95% CI, 1.08-1.51) compared with those diagnosed in the second outbreak. CONCLUSIONS AND RELEVANCE The findings of this registry-based study suggest that mortality in patients with cancer diagnosed with COVID-19 has improved in Europe; this improvement may be associated with earlier diagnosis, improved management, and dynamic changes in community transmission over time.

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2021

5. Prevalence and impact of COVID-19 sequelae on treatment and survival of patients with cancer who recovered from SARS-CoV-2 infection: evidence from the OnCovid retrospective, multicentre registry study

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David J Pinato, Josep Tabernero, Mark Bower, Lorenza Scotti, Meera Patel, Emeline Colomba, Saoirse Dolly, Angela Loizidou, John Chester, Uma Mukherjee, Alberto Zambelli, Alessia Dalla Pria, Juan Aguilar-Company, Diego Ottaviani, Amani Chowdhury, Eve Merry, Ramon Salazar, Alexia Bertuzzi, Joan Brunet, Matteo Lambertini, Marco Tagliamento, Anna Pous, Ailsa Sita-Lumsden, Krishnie Srikandarajah, Johann Colomba, Fanny Pommeret, Elia Seguí, Daniele Generali, Salvatore Grisanti, Paolo Pedrazzoli, Gianpiero Rizzo, Michela Libertini, Charlotte Moss, Joanne S Evans, Beth Russell, Nadia Harbeck, Bruno Vincenzi, Federica Biello, Rossella Bertulli, Raquel Liñan, Sabrina Rossi, Maria Carmen Carmona-García, Carlo Tondini, Laura Fox, Alice Baggi, Vittoria Fotia, Alessandro Parisi, Giampero Porzio, Maristella Saponara, Claudia Andrea Cruz, David García-Illescas, Eudald Felip, Ariadna Roqué Lloveras, Rachel Sharkey, Elisa Roldán, Roxana Reyes, Irina Earnshaw, Daniela Ferrante, Javier Marco-Hernández, Isabel Ruiz-Camps, Gianluca Gaidano, Andrea Patriarca, Riccardo Bruna, Anna Sureda, Clara Martinez-Vila, Ana Sanchez de Torre, Luca Cantini, Marco Filetti, Lorenza Rimassa, Lorenzo Chiudinelli, Michela Franchi, Marco Krengli, Armando Santoro, Aleix Prat, Mieke Van Hemelrijck, Nikolaos Diamantis, Thomas Newsom-Davis, Alessandra Gennari, Alessio Cortellini, Judith Swallow, Chris Chung, Gino Dettorre, Neha Chopra, Alvin JX Lee, Christopher CT Sng, Yien Ning Sophia Wong, Myria Galazi, Sarah Benafif, Palma Dileo, Grisma Patel, Anjui Wu, Alasdair Sinclair, Gehan Soosaipillai, Eleanor Jones, Amanda Jackson, Martine Piccart, Emeline Colomba-Blameble, Claudia A Cruz, Elia Segui, David Garcia Illescas, Oriol Mirallas, Anna Carbó, Isabel Garcia, Rachel Wuerstlein, Ricard Mesia, Clara Maluquer, Francesca D'Avanzo, Giuseppe Tonini, Salvatore Provenzano, Valeria Tovazzi, Corrado Ficorella, Paola Queirolo, Raffaele Giusti, Francesca Mazzoni, Federica Zoratto, Marco Tucci, Rossana Berardi, Annalisa Guida, Sergio Bracarda, Maria Iglesias, Pinato, D. J., Tabernero, J., Bower, M., Scotti, L., Patel, M., Colomba, E., Dolly, S., Loizidou, A., Chester, J., Mukherjee, U., Zambelli, A., Dalla Pria, A., Aguilar-Company, J., Ottaviani, D., Chowdhury, A., Merry, E., Salazar, R., Bertuzzi, A., Brunet, J., Lambertini, M., Tagliamento, M., Pous, A., Sita-Lumsden, A., Srikandarajah, K., Colomba, J., Pommeret, F., Segui, E., Generali, D., Grisanti, S., Pedrazzoli, P., Rizzo, G., Libertini, M., Moss, C., Evans, J. S., Russell, B., Harbeck, N., Vincenzi, B., Biello, F., Bertulli, R., Linan, R., Rossi, S., Carmona-Garcia, M. C., Tondini, C., Fox, L., Baggi, A., Fotia, V., Parisi, A., Porzio, G., Saponara, M., Cruz, C. A., Garcia-Illescas, D., Felip, E., Roque Lloveras, A., Sharkey, R., Roldan, E., Reyes, R., Earnshaw, I., Ferrante, D., Marco-Hernandez, J., Ruiz-Camps, I., Gaidano, G., Patriarca, A., Bruna, R., Sureda, A., Martinez-Vila, C., Sanchez de Torre, A., Cantini, L., Filetti, M., Rimassa, L., Chiudinelli, L., Franchi, M., Krengli, M., Santoro, A., Prat, A., Van Hemelrijck, M., Diamantis, N., Newsom-Davis, T., Gennari, A., Cortellini, A., Swallow, J., Chung, C., Dettorre, G., Chopra, N., Lee, A. J., Sng, C. C., Wong, Y. N. S., Galazi, M., Benafif, S., Dileo, P., Patel, G., Wu, A., Sinclair, A., Soosaipillai, G., Jones, E., Jackson, A., Piccart, M., Colomba-Blameble, E., Garcia Illescas, D., Mirallas, O., Carbo, A., Garcia, I., Wuerstlein, R., Mesia, R., Maluquer, C., D'Avanzo, F., Tonini, G., Provenzano, S., Tovazzi, V., Ficorella, C., Queirolo, P., Giusti, R., Mazzoni, F., Zoratto, F., Tucci, M., Berardi, R., Guida, A., Bracarda, S., and Iglesias, M.

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Adult, Aged, Aged, 80 and over, Antineoplastic Agents, Belgium, COVID-19, Disease Progression, Female, France, Germany, Hospitalization, Humans, Italy, Kaplan-Meier Estimate, Male, Middle Aged, Neoplasms, Prevalence, Registries, Retrospective Studies, Spain, United Kingdom, medicine.medical_specialty, Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19), Registry study, Severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2), OnCovid, cancer treatment, Post-Acute COVID-19 Syndrome, Internal medicine, medicine, 80 and over, In patient, business.industry, Cancer, Retrospective cohort study, Articles, medicine.disease, Oncology, Research centre, Population study, business
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Background: The medium-term and long-term impact of COVID-19 in patients with cancer is not yet known. In this study, we aimed to describe the prevalence of COVID-19 sequelae and their impact on the survival of patients with cancer. We also aimed to describe patterns of resumption and modifications of systemic anti-cancer therapy following recovery from SARS-CoV-2 infection. Methods: OnCovid is an active European registry study enrolling consecutive patients aged 18 years or older with a history of solid or haematological malignancy and who had a diagnosis of RT-PCR confirmed SARS-CoV-2 infection. For this retrospective study, patients were enrolled from 35 institutions across Belgium, France, Germany, Italy, Spain, and the UK. Patients who were diagnosed with SARS-CoV-2 infection between Feb 27, 2020, and Feb 14, 2021, and entered into the registry at the point of data lock (March 1, 2021), were eligible for analysis. The present analysis was focused on COVID-19 survivors who underwent clinical reassessment at each participating institution. We documented prevalence of COVID-19 sequelae and described factors associated with their development and their association with post-COVID-19 survival, which was defined as the interval from post-COVID-19 reassessment to the patients’ death or last follow-up. We also evaluated resumption of systemic anti-cancer therapy in patients treated within 4 weeks of COVID-19 diagnosis. The OnCovid study is registered in ClinicalTrials.gov, NCT04393974. Findings: 2795 patients diagnosed with SARS-CoV-2 infection between Feb 27, 2020, and Feb 14, 2021, were entered into the study by the time of the data lock on March 1, 2021. After the exclusion of ineligible patients, the final study population consisted of 2634 patients. 1557 COVID-19 survivors underwent a formal clinical reassessment after a median of 22·1 months (IQR 8·4–57·8) from cancer diagnosis and 44 days (28–329) from COVID-19 diagnosis. 234 (15·0%) patients reported COVID-19 sequelae, including respiratory symptoms (116 [49·6%]) and residual fatigue (96 [41·0%]). Sequelae were more common in men (vs women; p=0·041), patients aged 65 years or older (vs other age groups; p=0·048), patients with two or more comorbidities (vs one or none; p=0·0006), and patients with a history of smoking (vs no smoking history; p=0·0004). Sequelae were associated with hospitalisation for COVID-19 (p

Published
2021

6. Cognitive phenotypes in Parkinson's disease: A latent profile analysis

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Floriana Giardina, Edoardo Barvas, Costanza Papagno, Giulia Mattavelli, Francesca Zappini, Donatella Ottaviani, Barvas, E, Mattavelli, G, Zappini, F, Giardina, F, Ottaviani, D, and Papagno, C

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cognition, Male, Parkinson's disease, neuropsychology, Anxiety, Neuropsychological Tests, M-PSI/02 - PSICOBIOLOGIA E PSICOLOGIA FISIOLOGICA, Executive Function, Cognition, Social cognition, Memory, latent profile analysis, 80 and over, medicine, Cluster Analysis, Humans, Attention, Cognitive Dysfunction, Depression (differential diagnoses), Aged, Language, MED/26 - NEUROLOGIA, Aged, 80 and over, Movement Disorders, Depression, Parkinson’s disease, Cognition Disorders, Female, Parkinson Disease, Phenotype, Space Perception, Neuropsychology, medicine.disease, Executive functions, Neuropsychology and Physiological Psychology, medicine.symptom, Psychology, Neurocognitive, latent profile analysi, Clinical psychology
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Objectives Neurocognitive disorders in Parkinson's disease (PD) are common and heterogeneous. The aim of this study was to use a data-driven method to describe different cognitive phenotypes in PD and to explore anxiety, depression, and motor disturbances across the different cognitive profiles. Method Latent profile analysis was applied to the neuropsychological performances of 65 patients with idiopathic PD assessed by means of a battery of tests that encompass measures of attention, memory, executive functions, social cognition, language, and visuospatial abilities. Results A three-cluster model produced the best solution: Cluster A (21.54%) included patients with intact cognition or with a relatively slight cognitive impairment in memory and executive functioning; Cluster B (53.85%) included patients with an intermediate level of cognitive impairment; and Cluster C (24.61%) included patients with the most severe cognitive impairment, with greater deficit compared to Cluster B in executive functioning, and, notably, in tasks with a predominantly posterior cortical basis (naming and visuospatial abilities). The three subgroups did not differ in terms of age, gender, disease duration, motor symptom severity or side of onset, levodopa equivalent daily dose, level of anxiety, or depression; however, patients from Cluster C showed greater impairment than patients from Cluster A in measures of everyday functioning. Conclusions We presented a qualitative description of three distinct cognitive phenotypes emerging from a sample of 65 PD patients. The three clusters seem to be related to daily functioning but are independent from the stage of disease, motor functioning, anxiety, and depression. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2021 APA, all rights reserved).

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2021

7. COVID-19 in breast cancer patients: a subanalysis of the OnCovid registry

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Laia Garrigós, Cristina Saura, Clara Martinez-Vila, Alberto Zambelli, Mark Bower, Barbara Pistilli, Matteo Lambertini, Diego Ottaviani, Nikolaos Diamantis, Ailsa Lumsden, Sonia Pernas, Daniele Generali, Elia Seguí, Gemma Viñas, Eudald Felip, Ana Sanchez, Gianpiero Rizzo, Armando Santoro, Alessio Cortellini, Ylenia Perone, John Chester, Maria Iglesias, Marta Betti, Bruno Vincenzi, Michela Libertini, Francesca Mazzoni, Federica Zoratto, Rossana Berardi, Annalisa Guida, Rachel Wuerstlein, Angela Loizidou, Rachel Sharkey, Juan Aguilar Company, Marta Matas, Chiara Saggia, Lorenzo Chiudinelli, Emeline Colomba-Blameble, Myria Galazi, Uma Mukherjee, Mieke Van Hemelrijck, Mar Marin, Carla Strina, Aleix Prat, Helena Pla, Eva Maria Ciruelos, Alexia Bertuzzi, Lucia del Mastro, Giampiero Porzio, Thomas Newsom-Davis, Isabel Ruiz, Maria Belen Delany, Marco Krengli, Vittoria Fotia, Alessandro Viansone, Neha Chopra, Margarita Romeo, Ramon Salazar, Ignacio Perez, Francesca d’Avanzo, Michela Franchi, Manuela Milani, Fanny Pommeret, Marco Tucci, Paolo Pedrazzoli, Nadia Harbeck, Daniela Ferrante, David J. Pinato, Alessandra Gennari, Garrigos, L., Saura, C., Martinez-Vila, C., Zambelli, A., Bower, M., Pistilli, B., Lambertini, M., Ottaviani, D., Diamantis, N., Lumsden, A., Pernas, S., Generali, D., Segui, E., Vinas, G., Felip, E., Sanchez, A., Rizzo, G., Santoro, A., Cortellini, A., Perone, Y., Chester, J., Iglesias, M., Betti, M., Vincenzi, B., Libertini, M., Mazzoni, F., Zoratto, F., Berardi, R., Guida, A., Wuerstlein, R., Loizidou, A., Sharkey, R., Aguilar Company, J., Matas, M., Saggia, C., Chiudinelli, L., Colomba-Blameble, E., Galazi, M., Mukherjee, U., Van Hemelrijck, M., Marin, M., Strina, C., Prat, A., Pla, H., Ciruelos, E. M., Bertuzzi, A., del Mastro, L., Porzio, G., Newsom-Davis, T., Ruiz, I., Delany, M. B., Krengli, M., Fotia, V., Viansone, A., Chopra, N., Romeo, M., Salazar, R., Perez, I., D'Avanzo, F., Franchi, M., Milani, M., Pommeret, F., Tucci, M., Pedrazzoli, P., Harbeck, N., Ferrante, D., Pinato, D. J., Gennari, A., Institut Català de la Salut, [Garrigós L] Servei d’Oncologia Mèdica, Vall d’Hebron Hospital Universitari, Barcelona, Spain. Vall d’Hebron Institute of Oncology (VHIO), Barcelona, Spain. [Saura C] Vall d’Hebron Hospital Universitari, Barcelona, Spain. Head Breast Cancer Unit, Vall d’Hebron Institute of Oncology (VHIO), Barcelona, Spain. [Martinez-Vila C] Department of Oncology, Hospital Althaia Manresa, Barcelona, Spain. [Zambelli A] Oncology Unit, ASST Papa Giovanni XXIII, Bergamo, Italy. [Bower M] Department of Oncology and National Centre for HIV Malignancy, Chelsea and Westminster Hospital, London, UK. [Pistilli B] Department of Medical Oncology, Institute Gustave-Roussy, Villejuif, France. [Aguilar Company J] Servei d’Oncologia Mèdica i Servei de Malalties Infeccioses, Vall d’Hebron Hospital Universitari, Barcelona, Spain. Vall d’Hebron Institute of Oncology (VHIO), Barcelona, Spain. [Ruiz I] Servei de Malalties Infeccioses, Vall d’Hebron Hospital Universitari, Barcelona, Spain. [Pla H] Departament d'Oncologia Institut Català d'Oncologia, Hospital Universitari de Girona Doctor Josep Trueta, Institut Català de la Salut (ICS), Girona, Spain, and Vall d'Hebron Barcelona Hospital Campus

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medicine.medical_specialty, Outcome assessment (Medical care), breast cancer, COVID-19, COVID-19 outcomes, OnCovid, SARS-CoV-2, Neoplasms::Neoplasms by Site::Breast Neoplasms [DISEASES], Population, Context (language use), COVID-19 (Malaltia) - Mortalitat, Disease, técnicas de investigación::métodos epidemiológicos::recopilación de datos::estadísticas vitales::mortalidad [TÉCNICAS Y EQUIPOS ANALÍTICOS, DIAGNÓSTICOS Y TERAPÉUTICOS], Càncer de mama, Otros calificadores::Otros calificadores::/complicaciones [Otros calificadores], Breast cancer, Mama - Càncer, Internal medicine, virosis::infecciones por virus ARN::infecciones por Nidovirales::infecciones por Coronaviridae::infecciones por Coronavirus [ENFERMEDADES], Medicine, education, COVID-19 outcome, RC254-282, COVID-19 (Malaltia) - Complicacions, Original Research, education.field_of_study, neoplasias::neoplasias por localización::neoplasias de la mama [ENFERMEDADES], business.industry, Mortality rate, Cancer, Neoplasms. Tumors. Oncology. Including cancer and carcinogens, Virus Diseases::RNA Virus Infections::Nidovirales Infections::Coronaviridae Infections::Coronavirus Infections [DISEASES], medicine.disease, Comorbidity, Oncology, Investigative Techniques::Epidemiologic Methods::Data Collection::Vital Statistics::Mortality [ANALYTICAL, DIAGNOSTIC AND THERAPEUTIC TECHNIQUES, AND EQUIPMENT], Avaluació de resultats (Assistència mèdica), business, Complication, Other subheadings::Other subheadings::/complications [Other subheadings]
Abstract

COVID-19; SARS-CoV-2; Cáncer de mama COVID-19; SARS-CoV-2; Càncer de mama COVID-19; SARS-CoV-2; Breast cancer Background: Cancer patients are at higher risk of COVID-19 complications and mortality than the rest of the population. Breast cancer patients seem to have better prognosis when infected by SARS-CoV-2 than other cancer patients. Methods: We report a subanalysis of the OnCovid study providing more detailed information in the breast cancer population. Results: We included 495 breast cancer patients with a SARS-CoV-2 infection. Mean age was 62.6 years; 31.5% presented more than one comorbidity. The most frequent breast cancer subtype was luminal-like (n = 245, 49.5%) and 177 (35.8%) had metastatic disease. A total of 332 (67.1%) patients were receiving active treatment, with radical intent in 232 (47.6%) of them. Hospitalization rate was 58.2% and all-cause mortality rate was 20.3%. One hundred twenty-nine (26.1%) patients developed one COVID-19 complication, being acute respiratory failure the most common (n = 74, 15.0%). In the multivariable analysis, age older than 70 years, presence of COVID-19 complications, and metastatic disease were factors correlated with worse outcomes, while ongoing anticancer therapy at time of COVID-19 diagnosis appeared to be a protective factor. No particular oncological treatment was related to higher risk of complications. In the context of SARS-CoV-2 infection, 73 (18.3%) patients had some kind of modification on their oncologic treatment. At the first oncological reassessment (median time: 46.9 days ± 36.7), 255 (51.6%) patients reported to be fully recovered from the infection. There were 39 patients (7.9%) with long-term SARS-CoV-2-related complications. Conclusion: In the context of COVID-19, our data confirm that breast cancer patients appear to have lower complications and mortality rate than expected in other cancer populations. Most breast cancer patients can be safely treated for their neoplasm during SARS-CoV-2 pandemic. Oncological treatment has no impact on the risk of SARS-CoV-2 complications, and, especially in the curative setting, the treatment should be modified as little as possible. D.J. Pinato is supported by grant funding from the Wellcome Trust Strategic Fund (PS3416) and acknowledges grant support from the Cancer Treatment and Research Trust (CTRT), infrastructural and grant support by the Cancer Research UK Imperial Centre and the NIHR Imperial Biomedical Research Centre. A. Gennari is supported by the AIRC IG Grant, No. 14230, Associazione Italiana per la Ricerca sul Cancro Foundation, Milan, Italy and acknowledge also support from the UPO Aging Project.

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2021

8. Systemic pro-inflammatory response identifies patients with cancer with adverse outcomes from SARS-CoV-2 infection: the OnCovid Inflammatory Score

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Dettorre, Gino M., Dolly, Saoirse, Loizidou, Angela, Chester, John, Jackson, Amanda, Mukherjee, Uma, Zambelli, Alberto, Aguilar Company, Juan, Bower, Mark, Sng, Christopher C. T., Salazar Soler, Ramón, Bertuzzi, Alexia, Brunet, Joan, Mesia, Ricard, Sita-Lumsden, Ailsa, Seguí, Elia, Biello, Federica, Generali, Daniele, Grisanti, Salvatore, Seeva, Pavetha, Rizzo, Gianpiero, Libertini, Michela, Maconi, Antonio, Moss, Charlotte, Russell, Beth, Harbeck, Nadia, Vincenzi, Bruno, Bertulli, Rossella, Ottaviani, Diego, Liñan, Raquel, Marrari, Andrea, Carmona García, M. Carmen, Chopra, Neha, Tondini, Carlo Alberto, Mirallas, Oriol, Tovazzi, Valeria, Fotia, Vittoria, Cruz, Claudia Andrea, Saoudi González, Nadia, Felip, Eudald, Roqué, Ariadna, Lee, Alvin J. X., Newsom-Davis, Tom, García Illescas, David, Reyes, Roxana, Wong, Yien Ning Sophia, Ferrante, Daniela, Scotti, Lorenza, Marco Hernández, Javier, Ruiz Camps, Isabel, Patriarca, Andrea, Rimassa, Lorenza, Chiudinelli, Lorenzo, Franchi, Michela, Santoro, Armando, Prat Aparicio, Aleix, Gennari, Alessandra, Van Hemelrijck, Mieke, Tabernero Caturla, Josep, Diamantis, Nikolaos, Pinato, David J., OnCovid study group, Dettorre, G. M., Dolly, S., Loizidou, A., Chester, J., Jackson, A., Mukherjee, U., Zambelli, A., Aguilar-Company, J., Bower, M., Sng, C. C. T., Salazar, R., Bertuzzi, A., Brunet, J., Mesia, R., Sita-Lumsden, A., Segui, E., Biello, F., Generali, D., Grisanti, S., Seeva, P., Rizzo, G., Libertini, M., Maconi, A., Moss, C., Russell, B., Harbeck, N., Vincenzi, B., Bertulli, R., Ottaviani, D., Linan, R., Marrari, A., Carmen Carmona-Garcia, M., Chopra, N., Tondini, C. A., Mirallas, O., Tovazzi, V., Fotia, V., Cruz, C. A., Saoudi-Gonzalez, N., Felip, E., Roque, A., Lee, A. J. X., Newsom-Davis, T., Garcia-Illescas, D., Reyes, R., Wong, Y. N. S., Ferrante, D., Scotti, L., Marco-Hernandez, J., Ruiz-Camps, I., Patriarca, A., Rimassa, L., Chiudinelli, L., Franchi, M., Santoro, A., Prat, A., Gennari, A., Van Hemelrijck, M., Tabernero, J., Diamantis, N., Pinato, D. J., Wellcome Trust, Institut Català de la Salut, [Dettorre GM] Department of Surgery and Cancer, Imperial College London, Hammersmith Hospital, London, UK. [Dolly S] Medical Oncology, Guy’s and St Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust (GSTT), London, UK. [Loizidou A] Department of Infectious Diseases, Internal Medicine, Institut Jules Bordet, Université Libre de Bruxelles, Brussels, Belgium. [Chester J] Medical Oncology, School of Medicine, Cardiff University, Cardiff, UK. Medical Oncology, Velindre Cancer Centre, Cardiff, UK. [Jackson A] Clinical Trials, Velindre Cancer Centre, Cardiff, UK. [Mukherjee U] Medical Oncology, Barts Health NHS Trust, London, UK. [Aguilar-Company J] Servei d’Oncologia Mèdica, Vall d'Hebron Hospital Universitari, Barcelona, Spain. Vall d’Hebron Institute of Oncology (VHIO), Barcelona, Spain. Servei de Malalties Infeccioses, Vall d'Hebron Hospital Universitari, Barcelona, Spain. [Mirallas O, Saoudi-Gonzalez N, García-Illescas D] Servei d’Oncologia Mèdica, Vall d'Hebron Hospital Universitari, Barcelona, Spain. Vall d’Hebron Institute of Oncology (VHIO), Barcelona, Spain. [Ruiz-Camps I] Servei de Malalties Infeccioses, Vall d'Hebron Hospital Universitari, Barcelona, Spain. [Tabernero J] Servei d’Oncologia Mèdica, Vall d'Hebron Hospital Universitari, Barcelona, Spain. Vall d’Hebron Institute of Oncology (VHIO), Barcelona, Spain. IOB-Quiron, UVic-UCC, Barcelona, Spain, and Vall d'Hebron Barcelona Hospital Campus

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Male, 0301 basic medicine, Oncology, Cancer Research, Comorbidity, Systemic inflammation, Otros calificadores::Otros calificadores::/complicaciones [Otros calificadores], COVID-19 Testing, 0302 clinical medicine, Neoplasms, Immunotherapy Biomarkers, virosis::infecciones por virus ARN::infecciones por Nidovirales::infecciones por Coronaviridae::infecciones por Coronavirus [ENFERMEDADES], 80 and over, Immunology and Allergy, Medicine, Hypoalbuminemia, Young adult, Càncer, Multivariate Analysi, RC254-282, COVID-19 (Malaltia) - Complicacions, Cancer, Aged, 80 and over, OnCovid study group, Neoplasms. Tumors. Oncology. Including cancer and carcinogens, Virus Diseases::RNA Virus Infections::Nidovirales Infections::Coronaviridae Infections::Coronavirus Infections [DISEASES], Middle Aged, Prognosis, Inflamació, Systemic Inflammatory Response Syndrome, 030220 oncology & carcinogenesis, Cohort, Pathological Conditions, Signs and Symptoms::Pathologic Processes::Inflammation::Systemic Inflammatory Response Syndrome [DISEASES], Molecular Medicine, Female, medicine.symptom, Life Sciences & Biomedicine, Human, Adult, medicine.medical_specialty, Prognosi, Càncer - Epidemiologia, Immunology, neoplasias [ENFERMEDADES], inflammation mediator, Young Adult, 03 medical and health sciences, Internal medicine, Humans, afecciones patológicas, signos y síntomas::procesos patológicos::inflamación::síndrome de respuesta inflamatoria sistémica [ENFERMEDADES], Aged, Pharmacology, Science & Technology, business.industry, SARS-CoV-2, COVID-19, medicine.disease, inflammation, inflammation mediators, Blood Cell Count, Multivariate Analysis, Neoplasms [DISEASES], Systemic inflammatory response syndrome, 030104 developmental biology, Neoplasm, Lymphocytopenia, business, Other subheadings::Other subheadings::/complications [Other subheadings]
Abstract

Coronavirus SARS-CoV-2; COVID-19; 2019-nCoV; Inflamació; Mediadors d'inflamació Coronavirus SARS-CoV-2; COVID-19; 2019-nCoV; Inflamación; Mediadores de la inflamación Coronavirus SARS-CoV-2; COVID-19; 2019-nCoV; Inflammation; Inflammation mediators Background Patients with cancer are particularly susceptible to SARS-CoV-2 infection. The systemic inflammatory response is a pathogenic mechanism shared by cancer progression and COVID-19. We investigated systemic inflammation as a driver of severity and mortality from COVID-19, evaluating the prognostic role of commonly used inflammatory indices in SARS-CoV-2-infected patients with cancer accrued to the OnCovid study. Methods In a multicenter cohort of SARS-CoV-2-infected patients with cancer in Europe, we evaluated dynamic changes in neutrophil:lymphocyte ratio (NLR); platelet:lymphocyte ratio (PLR); Prognostic Nutritional Index (PNI), renamed the OnCovid Inflammatory Score (OIS); modified Glasgow Prognostic Score (mGPS); and Prognostic Index (PI) in relation to oncological and COVID-19 infection features, testing their prognostic potential in independent training (n=529) and validation (n=542) sets. Results We evaluated 1071 eligible patients, of which 625 (58.3%) were men, and 420 were patients with malignancy in advanced stage (39.2%), most commonly genitourinary (n=216, 20.2%). 844 (78.8%) had ≥1 comorbidity and 754 (70.4%) had ≥1 COVID-19 complication. NLR, OIS, and mGPS worsened at COVID-19 diagnosis compared with pre-COVID-19 measurement (p

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2021

9. Facial expressions recognition and discrimination in Parkinson's disease

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Edoardo Barvas, Donatella Ottaviani, Francesca Zappini, Maria Chiara Malaguti, Maria Pellegrini, Chiara Longo, Giulia Mattavelli, Costanza Papagno, Mattavelli, G, Barvas, E, Longo, C, Zappini, F, Ottaviani, D, Malaguti, M, Pellegrini, M, and Papagno, C

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medicine.medical_specialty, Parkinson's disease, Cognitive Neuroscience, media_common.quotation_subject, Emotions, Audiology, Neuropsychological Tests, 050105 experimental psychology, 03 medical and health sciences, Behavioral Neuroscience, 0302 clinical medicine, Perception, emotion recognition, medicine, Humans, 0501 psychology and cognitive sciences, Backward masking, media_common, Facial expression, cognitive symptom, 05 social sciences, Neuropsychology, Cognition, Parkinson Disease, Recognition, Psychology, medicine.disease, Expression (mathematics), Facial Expression, Neuropsychology and Physiological Psychology, Parkinson’s disease, Happiness, emotion discrimination, Psychology, Facial Recognition, 030217 neurology & neurosurgery
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Emotion processing impairment is a common non-motor symptom in Parkinson’s Disease (PD). Previous literature reported conflicting results concerning, in particular, the performance for different emotions, the relation with cognitive and neuropsychiatric symptoms and the affected stage of processing. This study aims at assessing emotion recognition and discrimination in PD. Recognition of six facial expressions was studied in order to clarify its relationship with motor, cognitive and neuropsychiatric symptoms. Sensitivity in discriminating happy and fearful faces was investigated to address controversial findings on impairment in early stages of emotion processing. To do so, seventy PD patients were tested with the Ekman 60 Faces test and compared with 46 neurologically unimpaired participants. Patients’ performances were correlated with clinical scales and neuropsychological tests. A subsample of 25 PD patients and 25 control participants were also tested with a backward masking paradigm for sensitivity in happiness and fear discrimination. Results showed that PD patients were impaired in facial emotion recognition, especially for fearful expressions. The performance correlated with perceptual, executive and general cognitive abilities, but facial expression recognition deficits were present even in cognitively unimpaired patients. In contrast, patients’ sensitivity in backward masking tasks was not reduced as compared to controls. Taken together our data demonstrate that facial emotion recognition, and fear expression in particular, is critically affected by neurodegeneration in PD and related to cognitive abilities; however, it appears before other cognitive impairments. Preserved performances in discriminating shortly presented facial expressions, suggest unimpaired early stages of emotion processing.

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2020

10. Presenting Features and Early Mortality from SARS-CoV-2 Infection in Cancer Patients during the Initial Stage of the COVID-19 Pandemic in Europe

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Rachel Sharkey, Roxana Reyes, Josep Tabernero, Joanne Evans, Daniela Ferrante, Joan Brunet, Andrea Patriarca, Mattia Bellan, Gianluca Gaidano, Isabel Garcia-Fructuoso, Anna Carbó, Christopher C T Sng, Alessandra Gennari, Mark Bower, Sarah Benafif, Alessia Dalla Pria, Lorenza Scotti, Elia Seguí, Riccardo Bruna, Francesca D'Avanzo, Aleix Prat, Claudia Andrea Cruz, Diego Ottaviani, Gianpiero Rizzo, Yien Ning Sophia Wong, Meritxell Mollà, Mario Pirisi, Pier Paolo Sainaghi, Thomas Newsom-Davis, Isabel Ruiz-Camps, Gian Carlo Avanzi, Myria Galazi, Javier Marco-Hernández, David J. Pinato, Federica Biello, Alvin J.X. Lee, Neha Chopra, Juan Aguilar-Company, Carme Carmona, Luigi Mario Castello, Wellcome Trust, Pinato, D, Lee, A, Biello, F, Segui, E, Aguilar-Company, J, Carbo, A, Bruna, R, Bower, M, Rizzo, G, Benafif, S, Carmona, C, Chopra, N, Cruz, C, D'Avanzo, F, Evans, J, Galazi, M, Garcia-Fructuoso, I, Pria, A, Newsom-Davis, T, Ottaviani, D, Patriarca, A, Reyes, R, Sharkey, R, Sng, C, Wong, Y, Ferrante, D, Scotti, L, Avanzi, G, Bellan, M, Castello, L, Marco-Hernandez, J, Molla, M, Pirisi, M, Ruiz-Camps, I, Sainaghi, P, Gaidano, G, Brunet, J, Tabernero, J, Prat, A, Gennari, A, Institut Català de la Salut, [Pinato DJ] Department of Surgery & Cancer, Imperial College London, Hammersmith Hospital, London, UK. [Lee AJX] Department of Oncology, University College London Hospitals, London, UK. [Biello F] Department of Translational Medicine, Division of Oncology, University of Piemonte Orientale and Maggiore della Carita’ Hospital, Novara, Italy. [Seguí E] Department of Medical Oncology, Hospital Clinic, Barcelona, Spain. [Aguilar-Company J] Servei d’Oncologia Mèdica, Vall d’Hebron Hospital Universitari, Barcelona, Spain. Vall d’Hebron Institute of Oncology (VHIO), Barcelona, Spain. Servei de Malalties Infeccioses, Vall d’Hebron Hospital Universitari, Barcelona, Spain. [Carbó A] Department of Medical Oncology, Catalan Institute of Oncology, University Hospital Josep Trueta, Girona, Spain. [Ruiz-Camps I] Servei de Malalties Infeccioses, Vall d’Hebron Hospital Universitari, Barcelona, Spain. [Tabernero J] Servei d’Oncologia Mèdica, Vall d’Hebron Hospital Universitari, Barcelona, Spain. Vall d’Hebron Institute of Oncology (VHIO), Barcelona, Spain, and Vall d'Hebron Barcelona Hospital Campus

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0301 basic medicine, Cancer Research, medicine.medical_specialty, Coronaviru, coronavirus, Disease, Malignancy, outcomes, lcsh:RC254-282, survival, Article, neoplasias [ENFERMEDADES], 03 medical and health sciences, Otros calificadores::Otros calificadores::/complicaciones [Otros calificadores], 0302 clinical medicine, Internal medicine, Intensive care, Other subheadings::Other subheadings::Other subheadings::/mortality [Other subheadings], Pandemic, Càncer - Mortalitat, medicine, virosis::infecciones por virus ARN::infecciones por Nidovirales::infecciones por Coronaviridae::infecciones por Coronavirus [ENFERMEDADES], cancer, 1112 Oncology and Carcinogenesis, Stage (cooking), COVID-19 (Malaltia) - Complicacions, Outcome, Otros calificadores::Otros calificadores::Otros calificadores::/mortalidad [Otros calificadores], business.industry, SARS-CoV-2, Outbreak, Cancer, COVID-19, Virus Diseases::RNA Virus Infections::Nidovirales Infections::Coronaviridae Infections::Coronavirus Infections [DISEASES], medicine.disease, lcsh:Neoplasms. Tumors. Oncology. Including cancer and carcinogens, mortality, Neoplasms [DISEASES], 030104 developmental biology, Oncology, 030220 oncology & carcinogenesis, business, Complication, Other subheadings::Other subheadings::/complications [Other subheadings]
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We describe the outcomes in cancer patients during the initial outbreak of the COVID-19 in Europe from the retrospective, multi-center observational OnCovid study. We identified 204 cancer patients from eight centers in the United Kingdom, Italy, and Spain aged &gt, 18 (mean = 69) and diagnosed with COVID-19 between February 26th and April 1st, 2020. A total of 127 (62%) were male, 184 (91%) had a diagnosis of solid malignancy, and 103 (51%) had non-metastatic disease. A total of 161 (79%) had &gt, 1 co-morbidity. A total of 141 (69%) patients had &gt, 1 COVID-19 complication. A total of 36 (19%) were escalated to high-dependency or intensive care. A total of 59 (29%) died, 53 (26%) were discharged, and 92 (45%) were in-hospital survivors. Mortality was higher in patients aged &gt, 65 (36% versus 16%), in those with &gt, 2 co-morbidities (40% versus 18%) and developing &gt, 1 complication from COVID-19 (38% versus 4%, p = 0.004). Multi-variable analyses confirmed age &gt, 65 and &gt, 2 co-morbidities to predict for patient mortality independent of tumor stage, active malignancy, or anticancer therapy. During the early outbreak of SARS-CoV-2 infection in Europe co-morbid burden and advancing age predicted for adverse disease course in cancer patients. The ongoing OnCovid study will allow us to compare risks and outcomes in cancer patients between the initial and later stages of the COVID-19 pandemic.

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2020
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11. Early Guillain-Barré syndrome in coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19): a case report from an Italian COVID-hospital

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Donatella Ottaviani, Enzo Tranquillini, Bruno Giometto, Giovanni Pedrotti, Susanna Cozzio, Ilaria Gapeni, Federica Boso, Giovanni M. Guarrera, Ottaviani, D., Boso, F., Tranquillini, E., Gapeni, I., Pedrotti, G., Cozzio, S., Guarrera, G. M., and Giometto, B.

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Pediatrics, medicine.disease_cause, Zika virus, 0302 clinical medicine, Medicine, SARS-CoV-2 neurological complication, Viral, 030212 general & internal medicine, Respiratory system, Coronavirus, biology, Guillain-Barre syndrome, General Medicine, Guillain-Barré syndrome, Hospitalization, Psychiatry and Mental health, Italy, Female, medicine.symptom, Coronavirus Infections, Human, medicine.medical_specialty, SARS-CoV-2 neurological complications, Flaccid paralysis, Pneumonia, Viral, Clinical Neurology, Dermatology, Guillain-Barre Syndrome, Betacoronavirus, 03 medical and health sciences, Humans, Pandemics, Pathological, Aged, Pandemic, Betacoronaviru, business.industry, Coronavirus Infection, SARS-CoV-2, Outbreak, COVID-19, Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19), Para-infectious Guillain-Barré syndrome, Polyradiculoneuropathy, Pneumonia, medicine.disease, biology.organism_classification, Neurology (clinical), business, 030217 neurology & neurosurgery
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Guillain Barré syndrome (GBS) is an acute polyradiculoneuropathy associated with dysimmune processes, often related to a previous infectious exposure. During Italian Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus-2 outbreak, a woman presented with a rapidly progressive flaccid paralysis with unilateral facial neuropathy after a few days of mild respiratory symptoms. Coronavirus was detected by nasopharyngeal swab, but there was no evidence of its presence in her cerebrospinal fluid, which confirmed the typical albumin-cytological dissociation of GBS, along with consistent neurophysiological data. Despite immunoglobulin infusions and intensive supportive care, her clinical picture worsened simultaneously both from respiratory and neurological point of view, as if reflecting different aspects of the same systemic inflammatory response. Similar early complications have already been observed in patients with para-infectious GBS related to Zika virus, but pathological mechanisms have yet to be established.

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2020

12. Clinical portrait of the SARS-CoV-2 epidemic in european patients with cancer

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David J. Pinato, Alberto Zambelli, Juan Aguilar-Company, Mark Bower, Christopher C.T. Sng, Ramon Salazar, Alexia Bertuzzi, Joan Brunet, Ricard Mesia, Elia Seguí, Federica Biello, Daniele Generali, Salvatore Grisanti, Gianpiero Rizzo, Michela Libertini, Antonio Maconi, Nadia Harbeck, Bruno Vincenzi, Rossella Bertulli, Diego Ottaviani, Anna Carbó, Riccardo Bruna, Sarah Benafif, Andrea Marrari, Rachel Wuerstlein, M. Carmen Carmona-Garcia, Neha Chopra, Carlo Tondini, Oriol Mirallas, Valeria Tovazzi, Marta Betti, Salvatore Provenzano, Vittoria Fotia, Claudia Andrea Cruz, Alessia Dalla Pria, Francesca D'Avanzo, Joanne S. Evans, Nadia Saoudi-Gonzalez, Eudald Felip, Myria Galazi, Isabel Garcia-Fructuoso, Alvin J.X. Lee, Thomas Newsom-Davis, Andrea Patriarca, David García-Illescas, Roxana Reyes, Palma Dileo, Rachel Sharkey, Yien Ning Sophia Wong, Daniela Ferrante, Javier Marco-Hernández, Anna Sureda, Clara Maluquer, Isabel Ruiz-Camps, Gianluca Gaidano, Lorenza Rimassa, Lorenzo Chiudinelli, Macarena Izuzquiza, Alba Cabirta, Michela Franchi, Armando Santoro, Aleix Prat, Josep Tabernero, Alessandra Gennari, Gian Carlo Avanzi, Mattia Bellan, Luigi Mario Castello, Maria Martinez, Meritxell Mollà, Mario Pirisi, Lorenza Scotti, Judith Swallow, Pinato, D. J., Zambelli, A., Aguilar-Company, J., Bower, M., Sng, C. C. T., Salazar, R., Bertuzzi, A., Brunet, J., Mesia, R., Segui, E., Biello, F., Generali, D., Grisanti, S., Rizzo, G., Libertini, M., Maconi, A., Harbeck, N., Vincenzi, B., Bertulli, R., Ottaviani, D., Carbo, A., Bruna, R., Benafif, S., Marrari, A., Wuerstlein, R., Carmona-Garcia, M. C., Chopra, N., Tondini, C., Mirallas, O., Tovazzi, V., Betti, M., Provenzano, S., Fotia, V., Cruz, C. A., Pria, A. D., D'Avanzo, F., Evans, J. S., Saoudi-Gonzalez, N., Felip, E., Galazi, M., Garcia-Fructuoso, I., Lee, A. J. X., Newsom-Davis, T., Patriarca, A., Garcia-Illescas, D., Reyes, R., Dileo, P., Sharkey, R., Wong, Y. N. S., Ferrante, D., Marco-Hernandez, J., Sureda, A., Maluquer, C., Ruiz-Camps, I., Gaidano, G., Rimassa, L., Chiudinelli, L., Izuzquiza, M., Cabirta, A., Franchi, M., Santoro, A., Prat, A., Tabernero, J., and Gennari, A.

Subjects
0301 basic medicine, medicine.medical_specialty, medicine.medical_treatment, Population, MEDLINE, risk stratification, Targeted therapy, 03 medical and health sciences, 0302 clinical medicine, Breast cancer, SARS-CoV-2 pandemic, oncology practice, Internal medicine, Pandemic, medicine, education, education.field_of_study, Chemotherapy, Research Briefs, business.industry, Mortality rate, Cancer, medicine.disease, 3. Good health, 030104 developmental biology, Oncology, 030220 oncology & carcinogenesis, business
Abstract

Higher risk of death from COVID-19 among patients with cancer was correlated with male sex, greater age, presence of multiple comorbidities, advanced-stage disease, and active disease; there was no association between risk and anticancer treatment., The SARS-CoV-2 pandemic significantly affected oncology practice across the globe. There is uncertainty as to the contribution of patients' demographics and oncologic features to severity and mortality from COVID-19 and little guidance as to the role of anticancer and anti–COVID-19 therapy in this population. In a multicenter study of 890 patients with cancer with confirmed COVID-19, we demonstrated a worsening gradient of mortality from breast cancer to hematologic malignancies and showed that male gender, older age, and number of comorbidities identify a subset of patients with significantly worse mortality rates from COVID-19. Provision of chemotherapy, targeted therapy, or immunotherapy did not worsen mortality. Exposure to antimalarials was associated with improved mortality rates independent of baseline prognostic factors. This study highlights the clinical utility of demographic factors for individualized risk stratification of patients and supports further research into emerging anti–COVID-19 therapeutics in SARS-CoV-2–infected patients with cancer. Significance: In this observational study of 890 patients with cancer diagnosed with SARS-CoV-2, mortality was 33.6% and predicted by male gender, age ≥65, and comorbidity burden. Delivery of cancer therapy was not detrimental to severity or mortality from COVID-19. These patients should be the focus of shielding efforts during the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic. This article is highlighted in the In This Issue feature, p. 1426

Published
2020

13. Prediction of Survival Among Patients Receiving Transarterial Chemoembolization for Hepatocellular Carcinoma: A Response-Based Approach

Author

Guru Aithal, Markus Peck-Radosavljevic, Philip J. Johnson, Waleed Fateen, Omar Elshaarawy, Imam Waked, Diego Ottaviani, R B Takkenberg, Stephen L. Chan, David J. Pinato, Mario Pirisi, Martha M. Kirstein, Cristina Mosconi, Asmaa Gomaa, Jeong W Jang, Tim A. Labeur, Anthony W.H. Chan, Bruno Sangro, Dominik Bettinger, Masatoshi Kudo, Otto M. van Delden, Nick Stern, Eman Rewisha, Simon Travis, Arndt Vogel, Guohong Han, Daniel H. Palmer, Marta García-Fiñana, Hidenori Toyoda, Tim Meyer, Rohini Sharma, Sarah Berhane, Alessandro Cucchetti, F. Hucke, Wellcome Trust, Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Graduate School, AGEM - Digestive immunity, AGEM - Endocrinology, metabolism and nutrition, AGEM - Amsterdam Gastroenterology Endocrinology Metabolism, Radiology and Nuclear Medicine, CCA -Cancer Center Amsterdam, CCA - Cancer Treatment and Quality of Life, Han G., Berhane S., Toyoda H., Bettinger D., Elshaarawy O., Chan A.W.H., Kirstein M., Mosconi C., Hucke F., Palmer D., Pinato D.J., Sharma R., Ottaviani D., Jang J.W., Labeur T.A., van Delden O.M., Pirisi M., Stern N., Sangro B., Meyer T., Fateen W., Garcia-Finana M., Gomaa A., Waked I., Rewisha E., Aithal G.P., Travis S., Kudo M., Cucchetti A., Peck-Radosavljevic M., Takkenberg R.B., Chan S.L., Vogel A., and Johnson P.J.

Subjects
0301 basic medicine, Oncology, Male, EXTERNAL VALIDATION, ARTERIAL CHEMOEMBOLIZATION, Prognostic score, Cohort Studies, 0302 clinical medicine, Training set, Liver Neoplasms, hepatocellular carcinoma, Arteries, Middle Aged, EMBOLIZATION, Prognosis, Survival Rate, DRUG-ELUTING BEADS, 1101 Medical Biochemistry and Metabolomics, 1107 Immunology, Response Evaluation Criteria in Solid Tumors, SAFETY, Hepatocellular carcinoma, Original Article, 030211 gastroenterology & hepatology, Female, Life Sciences & Biomedicine, Adult, medicine.medical_specialty, Carcinoma, Hepatocellular, RETREATMENT, mRECIST, survival, 03 medical and health sciences, Internal medicine, SCORE, medicine, Overall survival, Humans, Internal validation, Chemoembolization, Therapeutic, Aged, TACE, Science & Technology, Models, Statistical, Gastroenterology & Hepatology, Hepatology, business.industry, External validation, 1103 Clinical Sciences, Patient survival, Original Articles, EFFICACY, medicine.disease, 030104 developmental biology, LIVER-FUNCTION, business
Abstract

Background and Aims: The heterogeneity of intermediate-stage hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) and the widespread use of transarterial chemoembolization (TACE) outside recommended guidelines have encouraged the development of scoring systems that predict patient survival. The aim of this study was to build and validate statistical models that offer individualized patient survival prediction using response to TACE as a variable. Approach and Results: Clinically relevant baseline parameters were collected for 4,621 patients with HCC treated with TACE at 19 centers in 11 countries. In some of the centers, radiological responses (as assessed by modified Response Evaluation Criteria in Solid Tumors [mRECIST]) were also accrued. The data set was divided into a training set, an internal validation set, and two external validation sets. A pre-TACE model (“Pre-TACE-Predict”) and a post-TACE model (“Post-TACE-Predict”) that included response were built. The performance of the models in predicting overall survival (OS) was compared with existing ones. The median OS was 19.9months. The factors influencing survival were tumor number and size, alpha-fetoprotein, albumin, bilirubin, vascular invasion, cause, and response as assessed by mRECIST. The proposed models showed superior predictive accuracy compared with existing models (the hepatoma arterial embolization prognostic score and its various modifications) and allowed for patient stratification into four distinct risk categories whose median OS ranged from 7months to more than 4years. Conclusions: A TACE-specific and extensively validated model based on routinely available clinical features and response after first TACE permitted patient-level prognostication.

Published
2019

14. Natural History of Non-Small-Cell Lung Cancer with Bone Metastases

Author

Michelle Sterpi, Maria Antonietta Satolli, Salvatore Intagliata, Toni Ibrahim, L. Ginocchi, Bruno Vincenzi, Vincenzo Adamo, Raffaele Addeo, Alfredo Falcone, Filippo de Marinis, Giuseppe Badalamenti, Cinzia Ortega, Antonio Russo, Nicla La Verde, Flavia Longo, Daniele Santini, Gaetano Lanzetta, Davide Ottaviani, Giovanni Mansueto, Enrico Vasile, Flavia Cantile, Francesco Ferraù, Fausto Petrelli, Giuseppe Tonini, Elena Collovà, Francesca Maria Tanca, Sandro Barni, Luca Moscetti, Francesco Pantano, Andrea Mancuso, Domenico Galetta, Marco Russano, Santini D, Barni S, Intagliata S, Falcone A, Ferraù F, Galetta D, Moscetti L, La Verde N, Ibrahim T, Petrelli F, Vasile E, Ginocchi L, Ottaviani D, Longo F, Ortega C, Russo A, Badalamenti G, Collovà E, Lanzetta G, Mansueto G, Adamo V, De Marinis F, Satolli MA, Cantile F, Mancuso A, Tanca FM, Addeo R, Russano M, Sterpi M, Pantano F, Vincenzi B, and Tonini G.

Subjects
Oncology, Adult, Male, medicine.medical_specialty, Lung Neoplasms, medicine.medical_treatment, ECOG Performance Status, Bone Neoplasms, Young Adult, Internal medicine, Carcinoma, medicine, 80 and over, Humans, Young adult, Lung cancer, Non-Small-Cell Lung, Aged, Lung, Multidisciplinary, business.industry, Adult, Aged, Aged, 80 and over, Bone Neoplasms, Carcinoma, Non-Small-Cell Lung, Female, Humans, Lung Neoplasms, Male, Middle Aged, Young Adult, Disease Progression, Multidisciplinary, Bone metastasis, Middle Aged, medicine.disease, Radiation therapy, medicine.anatomical_structure, Concomitant, Disease Progression, Female, Aged, 80 and over, Carcinoma, Non-Small-Cell Lung, business
Abstract

We conducted a large, multicenter, retrospective survey aimed to explore the impact of tumor bone involvement in Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer.Data on clinical-pathology, skeletal outcomes and bone-directed therapies for 661 deceased patients with evidence of bone metastasis were collected and statistically analyzed. Bone metastases were evident at diagnosis in 57.5% of patients. In the remaining cases median time to bone metastases appearance was 9 months. Biphosphonates were administered in 59.6% of patients. Skeletal-related events were experienced by 57.7% of patients; the most common was the need for radiotherapy. Median time to first skeletal-related event was 6 months. Median survival after bone metastases diagnosis was 9.5 months and after the first skeletal-related event was 7 months. We created a score based on four factors used to predict the overall survival from the diagnosis of bone metastases: age >65 years, non-adenocarcinoma histology, ECOG Performance Status >2, concomitant presence of visceral metastases at the bone metastases diagnosis. The presence of more than two of these factors is associated with a worse prognosis.This study demonstrates that patients affected by Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer with bone metastases represent a heterogeneous population in terms of risk of skeletal events and survival.

Published
2015

15. Natural history of malignant bone disease in renal cancer: final results of an Italian bone metastasis survey

Author

Williams, Bart O., Daniele, Santini, Giuseppe, Procopio, Camillo, Porta, Toni, Ibrahim, Sandro, Barni, Calogero, Mazzara, Andrea, Fontana, Berruti, Alfredo, Rossana, Berardi, Bruno, Vincenzi, Cinzia, Ortega, Davide, Ottaviani, Giacomo, Carteni, Gaetano, Lanzetta, Vladimir, Virzì, Matteo, Santoni, Nicola, Silvestris, Maria Antonietta Satolli, Elena, Collovà, Antonio, Russo, Giuseppe, Badalamenti, Stefano Luzi Fedeli, Francesca Maria Tanca, Vincenzo, Adamo, Evaristo, Maiello, Roberto, Sabbatini, Alessandra, Felici, Saverio, Cinieri, Giuseppe, Tonini, Sergio, Bracarda, Santini, D, Procopio, G, Porta, C, Ibrahim, T, Barni, S, Mazzara, C, Fontana, A, Berruti, A, Berardi, R, Vincenzi, B, Ortega, C, Ottaviani, D, Carteni, G, Lanzetta, G, Virzì, V, Santoni, M, Silvestris, N, Satolli, MA, Collovà, E, Russo, A, Badalamenti, G, Fedeli, SL, Tanca, FM, Adamo, V, Maiello, E, Sabbatini, R, Felici, A, Cinieri, S, Tonini, G, and Bracarda, S

Subjects
Oncology, Male, Anatomy and Physiology, Bone disease, Epidemiology, Settore MED/06 - Oncologia Medica, medicine.medical_treatment, Metastasis, bone metastases, Renal cell carcinoma, Basic Cancer Research, Medicine, Musculoskeletal System, Multidisciplinary, Diphosphonates, renal cell carcinoma, bone metastasis, zoledronic acid, Bone metastasis, Kidney Neoplasms, Italy, Observational Studies, Disease Progression, Female, Cancer Epidemiology, medicine.drug, Research Article, medicine.medical_specialty, Clinical Research Design, Science, renal cancer, Bone Neoplasms, Internal medicine, Humans, Bone, Retrospective Studies, business.industry, Renal Cell Carcinoma, Cancer, Cancers and Neoplasms, Bone fracture, medicine.disease, Surgery, Radiation therapy, Genitourinary Tract Tumors, Zoledronic acid, business
Abstract

BackgroundBone metastasis represents an increasing clinical problem in advanced renal cell carcinoma (RCC) as disease-related survival improves. There are few data on the natural history of bone disease in RCC.Patients and methodsData on clinicopathology, survival, skeletal-related events (SREs), and bone-directed therapies for 398 deceased RCC patients (286 male, 112 female) with evidence of bone metastasis were statistically analyzed.ResultsMedian time to bone metastasis was 25 months for patients without bone metastasis at diagnosis. Median time to diagnosis of bone metastasis by MSKCC risk was 24 months for good, 5 months for intermediate, and 0 months for poor risk. Median number of SREs/patient was one, and 71% of patients experienced at least one SRE. Median times to first, second, and third SRE were 2, 5, and 12 months, respectively. Median survival was 12 months after bone metastasis diagnosis and 10 months after first SRE. Among 181 patients who received zoledronic acid (ZOL), median time to first SRE was significantly prolonged versus control (n = 186) (3 months vs 1 month for control; PConclusionsRCC patients with bone metastasis are at continuous risk of SREs, and in this survey ZOL effectively reduced this risk.

Published
2013

16. Bone metastases in patients with metastatic renal cell carcinoma: are they always associated with poor prognosis?

Author

Alfredo Berruti, Delia De Lisi, Gaetano Lanzetta, Vincenzo Adamo, Giacomo Cartenì, Cinzia Ortega, Maria Antonietta Satolli, Roberto Sabbatini, Rodolfo Montironi, Stefano Cascinu, Giuseppe Badalamenti, Stefano Luzi Fedeli, Rossana Berardi, Bruno Vincenzi, Nicola Silvestris, Giuseppe Tonini, Alessandro Conti, Camillo Porta, Daniele Santini, Matteo Santoni, Evaristo Maiello, Francesca Maria Tanca, Davide Ottaviani, Saverio Cinieri, Alessandra Felici, Giuseppe Procopio, Sergio Bracarda, Antonio Russo, Andrea Fontana, Elena Collovà, Toni Ibrahim, Francesco Maria Guida, Francesco Massari, Sandro Barni, Santoni, M., Conti, A., Procopio, G., Porta, C., Ibrahim, T., Barni, S., Guida, F. M., Fontana, A., Berruti, A., Berardi, R., Massari, F., Vincenzi, B., Ortega, C., Ottaviani, D., Carteni, G., Lanzetta, G., De Lisi, D., Silvestris, N., Satolli, M. A., Collova, E., Russo, A., Badalamenti, G., Fedeli, S. L., Tanca, F. M., Adamo, V., Maiello, E., Sabbatini, R., Felici, A., Cinieri, S., Montironi, R., Bracarda, S., Tonini, G., Cascinu, S., Santini, D., Guida, F., Satolli, M., Collovà, E., Fedeli, S., and Tanca, F.

Subjects
Oncology, Adult, Male, medicine.medical_specialty, Cancer Research, Prognosi, medicine.medical_treatment, Bone Neoplasms, Bone Neoplasm, Prognostic factors, Metastasis, Renal cell carcinoma, Retrospective Studie, Bone metastasis, Time to distant metastasis, Internal medicine, Bone metastasis, Prognostic factors, Renal cell carcinoma, Time to distant metastasis, Carcinoma, Medicine, Humans, Lymph node, Carcinoma, Renal Cell, Survival analysis, Aged, Retrospective Studies, Aged, 80 and over, Female, Kidney Neoplasms, Middle Aged, Prognosis, Survival Analysis, Prognostic factor, Time to distant metastasi, business.industry, Research, Kidney Neoplasm, medicine.disease, Nephrectomy, medicine.anatomical_structure, Concomitant, Bone metastasi, Survival Analysi, business, Human
Abstract

Purpose: Aim of this study was to investigate for the presence of existing prognostic factors in patients with bone metastases (BMs) from RCC since bone represents an unfavorable site of metastasis for renal cell carcinoma (mRCC). Materials and methods: Data of patients with BMs from RCC were retrospectively collected. Age, sex, ECOG-Performance Status (PS), MSKCC group, tumor histology, presence of concomitant metastases to other sites, time from nephrectomy to bone metastases (TTBM, classified into three groups: 5 years) and time from BMs to skeletal-related event (SRE) were included in the Cox analysis to investigate their prognostic relevance. Results: 470 patients were enrolled in this analysis. In 19 patients (4%),bone was the only metastatic site; 277 patients had concomitant metastases in other sites. Median time to BMs was 16 months (range 0 - 44y) with Median OS of 17 months. Number of metastatic sites (including bone, p = 0.01), concomitant metastases, high Fuhrman grade (p < 0.001) and non-clear cell histology (p = 0.013) were significantly associated with poor prognosis. Patients with TTBM >5 years had longer OS (22 months) compared to patients with TTBM

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