Cancers (Dec 2022)

Gastric-Type Adenocarcinoma of the Uterine Cervix Associated with Poor Response to Definitive Radiotherapy

  • Airi Kuruma,
  • Michiko Kodama,
  • Yumiko Hori,
  • Kazuaki Sato,
  • Makoto Fujii,
  • Fumiaki Isohashi,
  • Ai Miyoshi,
  • Seiji Mabuchi,
  • Akira Setoguchi,
  • Hiroko Shimura,
  • Takeshi Goto,
  • Aska Toda,
  • Satoshi Nakagawa,
  • Yasuto Kinose,
  • Tsuyoshi Takiuchi,
  • Eiji Kobayashi,
  • Kae Hashimoto,
  • Yutaka Ueda,
  • Kenjiro Sawada,
  • Eiichi Morii,
  • Tadashi Kimura

DOI
https://doi.org/10.3390/cancers15010170
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 15, no. 1
p. 170

Abstract

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We aimed to evaluate the response to definitive radiotherapy (RT) for cervical cancer based on histological subtypes and investigate prognostic factors in adenocarcinoma (AC). Of the 396 patients treated with definitive RT between January, 2010 and July, 2020, 327 patients met the inclusion criteria, including 275 with squamous cell carcinoma (SCC) and 52 with AC restaged based on the 2018 International Federation of Gynecology and Obstetrics staging system. Patient characteristics, response to RT, and prognoses of SCC and AC were evaluated. The complete response (CR) rates were 92.4% and 53.8% for SCC and AC, respectively (p p p p p < 0.05). Definitive RT for cervical cancer was significantly less effective for AC than for SCC. GAS was the only independent prognostic factor associated with non-CR in AC.

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