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J. Montecalvo
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MA 17 - Locally Advanced NSCLC (ID 671)
- Event: WCLC 2017
- Type: Mini Oral
- Track: Locally Advanced NSCLC
- Presentations: 1
- Moderators:S. Jheon, Georgios Stamatis
- Coordinates: 10/17/2017, 15:45 - 17:30, F203 + F204 (Annex Hall)
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MA 17.13 - Impact of Histologic Subtype of Locally Advanced Lung Adenocarcinoma on Outcomes After Definitive Chemoradiation (ID 10382)
17:05 - 17:10 | Author(s): J. Montecalvo
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Background:
Micropapillary and solid subtypes of lung adenocarcinoma have significantly worse outcomes and survival after surgical resection for early-stage disease. These subtypes have recently been shown to have higher locoregional and metastatic progression after definitive stereotactic radiation therapy (SBRT) as well. However, the potential impact of histologic subtype on locally advanced disease treated with definitive concurrent or sequential chemoradiation (CRT) has not been previously explored. We sought to identify high-risk subtype patients treated with CRT, and compare their outcomes with those not known to have high-risk histologic subtypes.
Method:
We identified 249 consecutive patients with stage IIIA-B lung adenocarcinoma who had undergone CRT at our institution from 2008 to 2015. All patients had pathology reviewed by pathologists at our institution with subspecialty expertise in thoracic pathology. Twenty-five patients had elements of micropapillary and/or solid subtype on core biopsy, according to the 2015 World Health Organization classification. The remaining 224 patients were considered non-high-risk (8 patients had core biopsy with no high-risk subtypes identified; 216 patients either did not undergo core biopsy or did not have subtyping performed). Local, nodal, regional, and distant failure were estimated using cumulative incidence (CI) curves and compared using the log-rank test. Time to each event was measured from the date of diagnosis until the event of interest or the last follow-up visit.
Result:
With median followup of 19.7 months, there was a trend towards greater 2-year CI of local failure in the high-risk vs. non-high-risk group (40.7% vs. 26.7% p=0.060). The 2-year CI of nodal, regional, and distant failure in high-risk versus non-high-risk groups was 30.9% vs. 32.6% (p=0.576), 24.7% vs. 20.1% (p=0.468), and 63.9% vs. 59.8% (p=0.272), respectively, though statistical power was limited due to the small number of known high-risk patients.
Conclusion:
Though only a limited proportion of patients had demonstrated high-risk subtypes in this cohort, there was a trend towards earlier local failure in locally advanced adenocarcinoma patients treated with definitive concurrent or sequential chemoradiation, similar to what has been observed for early-stage tumors treated with SBRT. Hence, high-risk histologic subtype may be a prognostic factor for early treatment failure in locally advanced adenocarcinoma patients treated with CRT. We suggest that core biopsies, which are required for histologic subtyping, should be obtained more often in these patients, to allow for further study of the hypothesis that histologic subtype predicts outcomes after definitive chemoradiation.
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OA 18 - Lung Cancer Pathology and Genetics (ID 687)
- Event: WCLC 2017
- Type: Oral
- Track: Biology/Pathology
- Presentations: 1
- Moderators:George R. Simon, Yoon-La Choi
- Coordinates: 10/18/2017, 14:30 - 16:15, Room 316
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OA 18.06 - Three-Dimensional Assessment of Spread Through Air Spaces in Lung Adenocarcinoma: Insights and Implications (ID 8826)
15:25 - 15:35 | Author(s): J. Montecalvo
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Background:
Tumor spread through air space (STAS) is a newly recognized form of invasion in lung adenocarcinoma and squamous cell carcinoma and growing evidence shows it is associated with recurrence and survival. The observation that tumor STAS clusters/nests or single cells within air spaces on two-dimensional H&E slides raised the question of how these cells could survive within air spaces without a vascular supply and this has led some to speculate STAS is an artifact. Herein, we perform the high resolution-high quality 3D reconstruction and visualization of normal lung and tumor in a lung adenocarcinoma to investigate the invasive pattern of STAS.
Method:
A formalin-fixed paraffin embedded block of invasive adenocarcinoma with micropapillary pattern and extensive STAS was studied. Following our histology 3D reconstruction standard procedure, 3D reconstruction was performed for analysis from 200 serial sections of H&E stained 20x (0.5um/pixel resolution) whole slide images. The relationship to alveolar walls between micropapillary structures within the tumor and STAS clusters in lung parenchyma distant from the tumor was evaluated.
Result:
3D reconstruction and analysis demonstrated the following novel features – a) in the main tumor area, micropapillary structures within airspaces were connected to alveolar walls, b) unlike in 2D evaluation where STAS appeared as ‘free-floating’ micropapillary clusters, in 3D evaluation many STAS clusters within air spaces are attached to alveolar walls, and c) STAS clusters that appear ring-like in 2D by 3D evaluation they are actually balls of tumor cells surrounding a central space.
Conclusion:
Our 3D reconstructed image analysis for the first-time demonstrates that most STAS cells are not ‘free-floating’, rather attached to the alveolar walls. In addition within the main tumor micropapillary clusters are attached to alveolar walls. These findings raise an intriguing hypothesis that STAS cells are clusters of tumor cells spread within alveolar spaces in a non-contiguous fashion to reattach to the alveolar walls at a distance possibly by co-option of alveolar wall capillaries to support their growth. This form of spread is analogous to the phenomenon of vascular spread where tumor cells spread freely within blood vessels to distant sites where they attach to endothelium and extravasate through the vessel walls to form metastases. It is possible the ball-like configuration of STAS clusters may facilitate movement through alveolar spaces distant from the main tumor. The frequent alveolar wall attachment of STAS observed on serial 3D imaging disputes the concept this is an artifact.
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