ANDRE RONCON DIAS
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Instituto do Câncer do Estado de São Paulo, Hospital das Clínicas, Faculdade de Medicina - Médico
LIM/24 - Laboratório de Oncologia Experimental, Hospital das Clínicas, Faculdade de Medicina
LIM/24 - Laboratório de Oncologia Experimental, Hospital das Clínicas, Faculdade de Medicina
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- RECURRENCE IN PN0 GASTRIC CANCER: RISK FACTORS IN THE OCCIDENT(2021) NOBRE, Karolyne Ernesto Luiz; PEREIRA, Marina Alessandra; RAMOS, Marcus Fernando Kodama Pertille; RIBEIRO, Ulysses; ZILBERSTEIN, Bruno; CECCONELLO, Ivan; DIAS, Andre RonconBackground: Nearly 10% of node negative gastric cancer patients who underwent curative surgery have disease recurrence. Western data is extremely poor on this matter and identifying the risk factors that associate with relapse may allow new strategies to improve survival. Aim: Verify the clinical and pathological characteristics that correlate with recurrence in node negative gastric cancer. Methods: All gastric cancer patients submitted to gastrectomy between 2009 and 2019 at our institution and pathologically classified as N0 were considered. Their data were available in a prospective database. Inclusion criteria were: gastric adenocarcinoma, node negative, gastrectomy with curative intent, R0 resection. Main outcomes studied were: disease-free survival and overall survival. Results: A total of 270 patients fulfilled the inclusion criteria. Mean age was 63-year-old and 155 were males. Subtotal gastrectomy and D2 lymphadenectomy were performed in 64% and 74.4%, respectively. Mean lymph node yield was 37.6. Early GC was present in 54.1% of the cases. Mean follow-up was 40.8 months and 19 (7%) patients relapsed. Disease-free survival and overall survival were 90.9% and 74.6%, respectively. Independent risk factors for worse disease-free survival were: total gastrectomy, lesion size >= 3.4 cm, higher pT status and <16 lymph nodes resected. Conclusion: In western gastric cancer pN0 patients submitted to gastrectomy, lymph node count <16, pT3-4 status, tumor size >= 3.4 cm, total gastrectomy and presence of lymphatic invasion, are all risk factors for disease relapse.
- Prognostic Role of Neutrophil/Lymphocyte Ratio in Resected Gastric Cancer: A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis(2018) SZOR, Daniel Jose; DIAS, Andre Roncon; PEREIRA, Marina Alessandra; RAMOS, Marcus Fernando Kodama Pertille; ZILBERSTEIN, Bruno; CECCONELLO, Ivan; RIBEIRO-JUNIOR, UlyssesHigh levels of inflammatory markers and the neutrophil-lymphocyte ratio appear to be associated with worse overall survival in solid tumors. However, few studies have analyzed the role of the neutrophil-lymphocyte ratio in gastric cancer patients scheduled to undergo curative resection. In the present study, a systematic review and meta-analysis was performed to analyze the relationship between the neutrophil-lymphocyte ratio and overall survival in patients with gastric cancer submitted to curative resection and to identify the clinicopathological features (age, gender, tumor depth, nodal involvement and tumor differentiation) that are correlated with high neutrophil-lymphocyte ratios. A literature search of PubMed, Scopus, Cochrane and EMBASE through November 2017 was conducted. Articles that included gastric cancer patients submitted to curative resection and preoperatory neutrophil-lymphocyte ratio values were included. A total of 7 studies comprising 3264 patients from 5 different countries were included. The meta-analysis revealed an association of high neutrophil-lymphocyte ratios with older age, male gender, lower 5-year overall survival, increased depth of tumor invasion, positive nodal involvement but not with histological differentiation. Evaluation of the neutrophil-lymphocyte ratio is a cost-effective method that is widely available in preoperatory settings. Furthermore, it can effectively predict prognosis, as high values of this biomarker are related to more aggressive tumor characteristics. This ratio can also be used to stratify risk in patients within the same disease stage and may be used to assist in individualized follow-up and treatment.
- Short-Term Surgical Outcomes of Robotic Gastrectomy Compared to Open Gastrectomy for Patients with Gastric Cancer: a Randomized Trial(2022) RIBEIRO, Ulysses; DIAS, Andre Roncon; RAMOS, Marcus Fernando Kodama Pertille; YAGI, Osmar Kenji; OLIVEIRA, Rodrigo Jose; PEREIRA, Marina Alessandra; ABDALLA, Ricardo Zugaib; ZILBERSTEIN, Bruno; NAHAS, Sergio Carlos; CECCONELLO, IvanBackground Robotic gastrectomy (RG) has been shown to be a safe and feasible method in gastric cancer (GC) treatment. However, most studies are in Eastern cohorts and there is great interest in knowing whether the method can be used routinely, especially in the West. Objectives The aim of this study was to compare the short-term surgical outcomes of D2-gastrectomy by RG versus open gastrectomy (OG). Methods Single-institution, open-label, non-inferiority, randomized clinical trial performed between 2015 and 2020. GC patients were randomized (1:1 allocation) to surgical treatment by RG or OG. Da Vinci Si platform was used. Inclusion criteria: gastric adenocarcinoma, stage cT2-4 cNO-1, potentially curative surgery, age 18-80 years, and ECOG performance status 0-1. Exclusion criteria: emergency surgery and previous gastric or major abdominal surgery. Primary endpoint was short-term surgical outcomes. The study is registered at clinicaltrials.gov (NCT02292914). Results Of 65 randomized patients, 5 were excluded (3 palliatives, 1 obstruction and emergency surgery, and 1 for material shortage). Consequently, 31 and 29 patients were included for final analysis in the OG and RG groups, respectively. No differences were observed between groups regarding age, sex, BMI, comorbidities, ASA, and frequency of total gastrectomy. RG had similar mean number of harvested lymph nodes (p = 0.805), longer surgical time (p < 0.001), and less bleeding (p <0.001) compared to OG. Postoperative complications, length of hospital stay, and readmissions in 30 days were equivalent between OG and RG. Conclusions RG reduces operative bleeding by more than 50%. The short-term outcomes were non-inferior to OG, although surgical time was longer in RG.
- INTRAPERITONEAL CHEMOTHERAPY FOR GASTRIC CANCER WITH PERITONEAL CARCINOMATOSIS: STUDY PROTOCOL OF A PHASE II TRIAL(2023) RAMOS, Marcus Fernando Kodama Pertille; PEREIRA, Marina Alessandra; CHARRUF, Amir Zeide; VICTOR, Carolina Ribeiro; GREGORIO, Joao Vitor Antunes Marques; ALBAN, Luciana Bastos Valente; MONIZ, Camila Motta Venchiarutti; ZILBERSTEIN, Bruno; MELLO, Evandro Sobroza De; HOFF, Paulo Marcelo Gehm; JUNIOR, Ulysses Ribeiro; DIAS, Andre RonconBackground: Peritoneal carcinomatosis in gastric cancer is considered a fatal disease, without expectation of definitive cure. As systemic chemotherapy is not sufficient to contain the disease, a multimodal approach associating intraperitoneal chemotherapy with surgery may represent an alternative for these cases.Aims: The aim of this study was to investigate the role of intraperitoneal chemotherapy in stage IV gastric cancer patients with peritoneal metastasis.Methods: This study is a single institutional single-arm prospective clinical trial phase II (NCT05541146). Patients with the following inclusion criteria undergo implantation of a peritoneal catheter for intraperitoneal chemotherapy: Stage IV gastric adenocarcinoma; age 18-75 years; Peritoneal carcinomatosis with peritoneal cancer index<12; Eastern Cooperative Oncology Group 0/1; good clinical status; and lab exams within normal limits. The study protocol consists of four cycles of intraperitoneal chemotherapy with paclitaxel associated with systemic chemotherapy. After treatment, patients with peritoneal response assessed by staging laparoscopy undergo conversion gastrectomy.Results: The primary outcome is the rate of complete peritoneal response. Progression-free and overall survivals are other outcomes evaluated. The study started in July 2022, and patients will be screened for inclusion until 30 are enrolled.Conclusions: Therapies for advanced gastric cancer patients have been evaluated in clinical trials but without success in patients with peritoneal metastasis. The treatment proposed in this trial can be promising, with easy catheter implantation and ambulatory intraperitoneal chemotherapy regime. Verifying the efficacy and safety of paclitaxel with systemic chemotherapy is an important progress that this study intends to investigate.
- Gastric Remnant Carcinosarcoma: Case Report and Review of the Literature(2021) RAMOS, Marcus Fernando Kodama Pertille; PEREIRA, Marina Alessandra; DIAS, Andre Roncon; MELLO, Evandro Sobroza de; ALMEIDA, Jose Luiz; ZILBERSTEIN, Bruno; RIBEIRO-JUNIOR, Ulysses; CECCONELLO, Ivan
- Lymph Node Yield After Neoadjuvant Chemoradiotherapy in Rectal Cancer Specimens: A Randomized Trial Comparing Two Fixatives(2018) DIAS, Andre R.; PEREIRA, Marina Alessandra; MELLO, Evandro Sobroza de; NAHAS, Sergio Carlos; CECCONELLO, Ivan; RIBEIRO JR., UlyssesBACKGROUND: It is widely reported that neoadjuvant chemoradiation reduces lymph node yield in rectal cancer specimens. Some have questioned the adequacy of finding 12 lymph nodes for accurate staging, and fewer nodes were correlated with good response. Others reported that low lymph node count raises the chance for understaging and correlates with worse survival. In addition, a few studies demonstrated that diligent specimen analysis increases lymph node count. OBJECTIVE: The aim of this study was to compare Carnoy's solution and formalin concerning lymph node yield in specimens of patients with rectal cancer after neoadjuvant chemoradiation. DESIGN: This is a prospective randomized trial that was conducted from 2012 to 2015. SETTINGS: This study was performed in a reference cancer center in Brazil. PATIENTS: Patients who underwent low anterior resection with total mesorectal excision after neoadjuvant chemoradiation for rectal adenocarcinoma were included. INTERVENTION: Rectosigmoid specimens were randomized for fixation with Carnoy's solution or formalin. MAIN OUTCOME MEASURES: A total of 130 specimens were randomized. After dissection, the residual fat from the formalin group was immersed in Carnoy's solution in search for missed lymph nodes (Revision). RESULTS: The Carnoy's solution group had superior lymph node count (24.0 vs 16.3, p < 0.01) and fewer cases with <12 lymph nodes (6 vs 22, p = 0.001). The Revision group found lymph nodes in all cases (mean, 11.1), retrieving metastatic lymph nodes in 6 patients. It reduced the formalin cases with <12 lymph nodes from 33.8% to 4.6% and upstaged 2 patients. Tumor response to neoadjuvant chemoradiotherapy was not associated with lymph node count. LIMITATIONS: This was a unicentric study. CONCLUSIONS: Compared with formalin, the Carnoy's solution increases lymph node count and reduces the cases with <12 lymph nodes. Harvested lymph nodes are missed following routine analysis and this is clinically relevant. Finding <12 lymph nodes is not a sign of good response to neoadjuvant chemoradiation (www.clinicaltrials.gov. Unique identifier: NCT02629315). See Video Abstract at http://links.lww.com/DCR/A694.
- Câncer gástrico em adultos jovens: um grupo de pior prognóstico?(2019) RAMOS, Marcus Fernando Kodama Pertille; PEREIRA, Marina Alessandra; SAGAE, Victor Masaro Takamatsu; MESTER, Marcelo; MORRELL, André Luiz Gioia; DIAS, Andre Roncon; ZILBERSTEIN, Bruno; RIBEIRO JUNIOR, Ulysses; CECCONELLO, IvanABSTRACT Objective: to evaluate the clinical and pathological characteristics and survival of young patients with gastric cancer, regardless of the intention of treatment. Methods: we conducted a retrospective analysis of all gastric cancer patients undergoing any surgical treatment between 2008 and 2017. We considered patients under 45 years old as young adults and those over 45 years old, as of advanced age. Results: of the 875 patients evaluated, 84 (9.6%) were young adults and 791 (90.4%) were older. Younger patients were associated with female gender (p<0.001), lower Charlson score (p=0.002), ASA I/II (p<0.001), diffuse Lauren type (p<0.001) and poorly differentiated tumors (p<0.001). There was no difference between groups regarding treatment intention (palliative versus curative) (p=0.267) and cTNM clinical stage (p=0.120). Disease-free survival was worse in younger individuals (p=0.049), but overall survival was similar between groups (p=0.578). Multivariate analysis identified total gastrectomy, pT3/T4, pN+, and diffuse Lauren type as prognostic factors associated with worse disease-free survival and overall survival. Age was not an independent factor associated with worse prognosis. Conclusion: although younger patients had lower disease-free survival, overall survival was similar between groups, and age was not a significant independent prognostic factor.
- SURGICAL TREATMENT IN CLINICAL STAGE IV GASTRIC CANCER: A COMPARISON OF DIFFERENT PROCEDURES AND SURVIVAL OUTCOMES(2022) RAMOS, Marcus Fernando Kodama Pertille; PEREIRA, Marina Alessandra; DIAS, Andre Roncon; CASTRIA, Tiago Biachi de; SAKAMOTO, Erica; RIBEIRO-JR, Ulysses; ZILBERSTEIN, Bruno; NAHAS, Sergio CarlosBACKGROUND: Even in clinical stage IV gastric cancer (GC), surgical procedures may be required to palliate symptoms or in an attempt to improve survival. However, the limited survival of these patients raises doubts about who really had benefits from it. AIM: This study aimed to analyze the surgical outcomes in stage IV GC treated with surgical procedures without curative intent. METHODS: Retrospective analyses of patients with stage IV GC submitted to surgical procedures including tumor resection, bypass, jejunostomy, and diagnostic laparoscopy were performed. Patients with GC undergoing curative gastrectomy served as the comparison group. RESULTS: Surgical procedures in clinical stage IV were performed in 363 patients. Compared to curative surgery (680 patients), stage IV patients had a higher rate of comorbidities and ASA III/IV classification. The surgical procedures that were performed included 107 (29.4%) bypass procedures (partitioning/gastrojejunal anastomosis), 85 (23.4%) jejunostomies, 76 (20.9%) resections, and 76 (20.9%) diagnostic laparoscopies. Regarding patients' characteristics, resected patients had more distant metastasis (p=0.011), bypass patients were associated with disease in more than one site (p<0.001), and laparoscopy patients had more peritoneal metastasis (p<0.001). According to the type of surgery, the median overall survival was as follows: resection (13.6 months), bypass (7.8 months), jejunostomy (2.7 months), and diagnostic (7.8 months, p<0.001). On multivariate analysis, low albumin levels, in case of more than one site of disease, jejunostomy, and laparoscopy, were associated with worse survival. CONCLUSION: Stage IV resected cases have better survival, while patients submitted to jejunostomy and diagnostic laparoscopy had the worst results. The proper identification of patients who would benefit from surgical resection may improve survival and avoid futile procedures.
- SALVAGE SURGERY IN GASTRIC CANCER(2021) SIMOES, Italo Beltrao Pereira; PEREIRA, Marina Alessandra; RAMOS, Marcus Fernando Kodama Pertille; RIBEIRO JR., Ulysses; ZILBERSTEIN, Bruno; NAHAS, Sergio Carlos; DIAS, Andre RonconBACKGROUND: Salvage surgery (SS) is defined as surgical resection after the failure of the first treatment with curative intent. AIM: The aim of this study was to report the experience of a reference center with SS for stomach adenocarcinoma. METHODS: This is a retrospective study of patients with gastric cancer (GC) operated on between 2009 and 2020. RESULTS: Notably, 40 patients were recommended for salvage gastrectomy with curative-intent treatment. For analysis purpose, patients were divided into two groups: 23 patients after endoscopic resection and 17 patients after gastrectomy. In the first group, all patients underwent R0 resection, their average hospital length of stay (LOS) was 15.7 days, and 2 (8.6%) patients had major complications. During the average followup of 37.2 months, there was only one recurrence. The median overall survival (OS) was 46 months. In the postgastrectomy group, 9 (52.9%) patients were rescued with curative intent, the average hospital LOS was 12.2 days, and 3 (17.6%) had major complications. In a mean follow-up of 22 months, five patients relapsed. Median OS and disease-free survival were 24 and 16.5 months, respectively. CONCLUSION: SS in GC offers the possibility of long-term disease control and increased survival rate with an acceptable complication rate.
- Carnoy's solution increases the number of examined lymph nodes following gastrectomy for adenocarcinoma: a randomized trial(2016) DIAS, Andre Roncon; PEREIRA, Marina Alessandra; MELLO, Evandro Sobroza; ZILBERSTEIN, Bruno; CECCONELLO, Ivan; RIBEIRO JUNIOR, UlyssesPathological examination of a minimum of 16 lymph nodes is recommended following surgery for gastric adenocarcinoma, despite this a longer survival is expected when 30 or more lymph nodes are examined. Small lymph nodes are difficult to identify, and fat-clearing solutions have been proposed to improve this, but there is no evidence of their clinical benefit. Fifty D2 subtotal gastrectomy specimens were randomized for fixation in Carnoy's solution (CS) or 10 % neutral buffered formalin (NBF), with subsequent fat dissection. After dissection, the residual fat from the NBF group, instead of being discarded, was immersed in CS and dissected again. Data from 25 D2 subtotal gastrectomies performed before the study were also analyzed. The mean number of examined lymph nodes was 50.4 and 34.8 for CS and NBF, respectively (p < 0.001). Missing lymph nodes were found in all cases from the residual fat group (mean of 16.9), and in eight of them (32 %) metastatic lymph nodes were present; this allowed the upstaging of two patients. Lymph nodes in the CS group were smaller than those in the NBF group (p = 0.01). The number of retrieved lymph nodes was similar among the NBF and Retrospective groups (p = 0.802). Compared with NBF, CS increases lymph node detection following gastrectomy and allows a more accurate pathological staging. No influence of the research protocol on the number of examined lymph nodes was observed.