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Predictive Value of Chromogranin A and a Pre-Operative Risk Score to Predict Recurrence After Resection of Pancreatic Neuroendocrine Tumors.

ABSTRACT: Intro: Chromogranin A (CgA) may be prognostic for patients with neuroendocrine tumors; however, the clinical utility of this test is unclear.

Methods: Patients undergoing resection for pancreatic neuroendocrine tumors (pNET) were selected from the eight institutions of the US Neuroendocrine Tumor Study Group database. Cox regression was used to identify pre-operative variables that predicted recurrence-free survival (RFS), and those with p
Results: In the entire cohort of 287 patients, median follow-up time was 37 months, and 5-year RFS was 73%. Cox regression analysis identified four variables for inclusion in the risk score: CgA >?5x ULN (HR 4.3, p =?0.01), tumor grade 2/3 (HR 3.7, p =?0.01), resection for recurrent disease (HR 6.2, p ?4 cm (HR 4.5, p =?0.1). Each variable was assigned 1 point. Risk-score testing in the unique validation cohort of 63 patients revealed a 95% negative predictive value for recurrence in patients with zero points.

Discussion: This simple pre-operative risk scoring system resulted in a high degree of specificity for identifying patients at low-risk for tumor recurrence. This test can be utilized pre-operatively to aid informed decision-making.

SUBMITTER: Fisher AV

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7723064 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature

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Predictive Value of Chromogranin A and a Pre-Operative Risk Score to Predict Recurrence After Resection of Pancreatic Neuroendocrine Tumors.

Fisher Alexander V AV Lopez-Aguiar Alexandra G AG Rendell Victoria R VR Pokrzywa Courtney C Rocha Flavio G FG Kanji Zaheer S ZS Poultsides George A GA Makris Eleftherios A EA Dillhoff Mary E ME Beal Eliza W EW Fields Ryan C RC Panni Roheena Z RZ Idrees Kamran K Smith Paula Marincola PM Cho Clifford S CS Beems Megan V MV Maithel Shishir K SK Winslow Emily R ER Abbott Daniel E DE Weber Sharon M SM

Journal of gastrointestinal surgery : official journal of the Society for Surgery of the Alimentary Tract 20190118 4

<h4>Intro</h4>Chromogranin A (CgA) may be prognostic for patients with neuroendocrine tumors; however, the clinical utility of this test is unclear.<h4>Methods</h4>Patients undergoing resection for pancreatic neuroendocrine tumors (pNET) were selected from the eight institutions of the US Neuroendocrine Tumor Study Group database. Cox regression was used to identify pre-operative variables that predicted recurrence-free survival (RFS), and those with p < 0.1 were included in a risk score. The ri ...[more]

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