2024
Evaluating Treatment Patterns and the Role of Neoadjuvant Chemotherapy in Plasmacytoid Urothelial Carcinoma: Insights from a Combined National and Institutional Series
Rahman S, Kong V, Jalfon M, Hesse D, Kim J, Wright J, Adeniran A, Humphrey P, Martin D, Ghali F. Evaluating Treatment Patterns and the Role of Neoadjuvant Chemotherapy in Plasmacytoid Urothelial Carcinoma: Insights from a Combined National and Institutional Series. Cancers 2024, 16: 3050. PMID: 39272908, PMCID: PMC11394101, DOI: 10.3390/cancers16173050.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchPlasmacytoid urothelial carcinomaMedian overall survivalNeoadjuvant chemotherapyUrothelial carcinomaOverall survivalTreatment patternsReceipt of neoadjuvant chemotherapyResponse to current therapiesCharacterize treatment patternsCox proportional hazards analysisEvaluate treatment patternsSite of metastasisProportional hazards analysisPT0 rateOS benefitHistological subtypesClinical stageCurrent therapiesInstitutional experiencePrimary outcomeNCDBTreatment trendsEffective treatmentPatientsCarcinoma
2020
Does pathologic upstaging to PT3A portend a worsened prognosis when compared to non-upstaged PT3A renal cell carcinoma: Analysis of the National Cancer Database.
Patel D, Ghali F, Meagher M, Bradshaw A, Patel S, Keiner C, Miller N, Dutt R, Murphy J, Derweesh I. Does pathologic upstaging to PT3A portend a worsened prognosis when compared to non-upstaged PT3A renal cell carcinoma: Analysis of the National Cancer Database. Journal Of Clinical Oncology 2020, 38: 624-624. DOI: 10.1200/jco.2020.38.6_suppl.624.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchPT3a renal cell carcinomaRenal cell carcinomaNational Cancer DatabasePartial nephrectomyClinical stageOverall survivalPT3a tumorsCell carcinomaPathological upstagingUpstaged tumorsCancer DatabaseT3a renal cell carcinomaMultivariable Cox proportional hazardsKaplan-Meier survival analysisPre-treatment detectionRisk stratification protocolCharlson Comorbidity IndexImproved overall survivalFinal pathological analysisAJCC staging systemKaplan-Meier analysisSmaller tumor sizeLower clinical stagePositive margin statusCox proportional hazards
2019
Risk Factors for Upstaging, Recurrence, and Mortality in Clinical T1-2 Renal Cell Carcinoma Patients Upstaged to pT3a Disease: An International Analysis Utilizing the 8th Edition of the Tumor-Node-Metastasis Staging Criteria
Hamilton Z, Capitanio U, Pruthi D, Ghali F, Larcher A, Patel D, Eldefrawy A, Patel S, Cotta B, Bradshaw A, Meagher M, Miller N, Carenzi C, Wan F, Liss M, McGregor T, Montorsi F, Derweesh I. Risk Factors for Upstaging, Recurrence, and Mortality in Clinical T1-2 Renal Cell Carcinoma Patients Upstaged to pT3a Disease: An International Analysis Utilizing the 8th Edition of the Tumor-Node-Metastasis Staging Criteria. Urology 2019, 138: 60-68. PMID: 31836465, DOI: 10.1016/j.urology.2019.11.036.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchConceptsRecurrence-free survivalRisk of recurrenceRenal cell carcinomaKaplan-Meier analysisHigher clinical stageClinical stageOverall survivalMultivariable analysisPT3a upstagingRisk factorsTumor-NodeT3a renal cell carcinomaRenal cell carcinoma patientsRisk of upstagingCell carcinoma patientsMulticenter retrospective analysisPerinephric fat invasionInitial clinical stageRenal vein invasionType of surgeryPT3a diseaseCarcinoma patientsPrimary outcomeFat invasionRenal vein