Outcome of stage iv completely necrotic wilms tumour and local stage iii treated according to the siop 2001 protocol

Raquel Dávila Fajardo*, Rhoikos Furtwängler, Martine van Grotel, Harm van Tinteren, Claudia Pasqualini, Kathy Pritchard-Jones, Reem Al-Saadi, Beatriz de Camargo, Gema L.Ramírez Villar, Norbert Graf, Xavier Muracciole, Patrick Melchior, Daniel Saunders, Christian Rübe, Marry M. van den Heuvel-Eibrink, Geert O. Janssens, Arnauld C. Verschuur

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Abstract

Objective: Wilms tumour (WT) patients with a localised completely necrotic nephroblas-toma after preoperative chemotherapy are a favourable outcome group. Since the introduction of the SIOP 2001 protocol, the SIOP– Renal Tumour Study Group (SIOP–RTSG) has omitted radiotherapy for such patients with low-risk, local stage III in an attempt to reduce treatment burden. How-ever, for metastatic patients with local stage III, completely necrotic WT, the recommendations led to ambiguous use. The purpose of this descriptive study is to demonstrate the outcomes of patients with metastatic, completely necrotic and local stage III WT in relation to the application of radiotherapy or not. Methods and materials: all metastatic patients with local stage III, completely necrotic WT after 6 weeks of preoperative chemotherapy who were registered in the SIOP 2001 study were included in this analysis. The pattern of recurrence according to the usage of radiation treatment and 5 year event-free survival (EFS) and overall survival (OS) was analysed. Results: seven hundred and three metastatic WT patients were registered in the SIOP 2001 database. Of them, 47 patients had a completely necrotic, local stage III WT: 45 lung metastases (11 combined localisa-tions), 1 liver/peritoneal, and 1 tumour thrombus in the renal vein and the inferior vena cava with bilateral pulmonary arterial embolism. Abdominal radiotherapy was administered in 29 patients (62%; 29 flank/abdominal irradiation and 9 combined with lung irradiation). Eighteen patients did not receive radiotherapy. Median follow-up was 6.6 years (range 1–151 months). Two of the 47 patients (4%) developed disease recurrence in the lung (one combined with abdominal relapse) and eventually died of the disease. Both patients had received abdominal radiotherapy, one of them combined with lung irradiation. Five-year EFS and OS were 95% and 95%, respectively. Conclu-sions: the outcome of patients with stage IV, local stage III, completely necrotic Wilms tumours is excellent. Our results suggest that abdominal irradiation in this patient category may not be of added value in first-line treatment, consistent with the current recommendation in the SIOP–RTSG 2016 UMBRELLA protocol.

Original languageEnglish
Article number976
Pages (from-to)1-10
Number of pages10
JournalCancers
Volume13
Issue number5
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - Mar 2021

Keywords

  • Completely necrotic
  • Metastatic disease
  • Nephroblastoma
  • Wilms tumour
  • nephroblastoma
  • metastatic disease
  • completely necrotic

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