2024
Unveiling the prognostic significance of malignant ascites in advanced gastrointestinal cancers: a marker of peritoneal carcinomatosis burden
Provenzano L, Gwee Y, Conca V, Lonardi S, Bozzarelli S, Tamburini E, Passardi A, Zaniboni A, Tosi F, Aprile G, Nasca V, Boccaccino A, Ambrosini M, Vetere G, Carullo M, Guaglio M, Battaglia L, Zhao J, Chia D, Yong W, Tan P, So J, Kim G, Shabbir A, Ong C, Casella F, Cremolini C, Bencivenga M, Sundar R, Pietrantonio F. Unveiling the prognostic significance of malignant ascites in advanced gastrointestinal cancers: a marker of peritoneal carcinomatosis burden. Therapeutic Advances In Medical Oncology 2024, 16: 17588359241289517. PMID: 39502404, PMCID: PMC11536604, DOI: 10.1177/17588359241289517.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchMetastatic colorectal cancerMetastatic gastric cancerMetastatic gastric cancer patientsPeritoneal metastasisMalignant ascitesAdvanced gastrointestinal cancerSurvival outcomesMedian peritoneal cancer index scoreGastrointestinal cancerPeritoneal cancer index scoreGastric cancerMetastatic colorectal cancer patientsSubgroup of patientsMedian OSProgression-freeOverall survivalSystemic therapyPrognostic significancePatient survivalAscites groupPoor outcomeRetrospective analysisColorectal cancerRandomized trialsAscites
2023
Malignant ascites as a marker of peritoneal carcinomatosis burden in patients with colorectal and gastroesophageal cancer.
Gwee Y, Chia D, Provenzano L, Lonardi S, Conca V, Cremolini C, Yong W, Tan P, So J, Kim G, Shabbir A, Ong J, Pietrantonio F, Sundar R. Malignant ascites as a marker of peritoneal carcinomatosis burden in patients with colorectal and gastroesophageal cancer. Journal Of Clinical Oncology 2023, 41: 455-455. DOI: 10.1200/jco.2023.41.4_suppl.455.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchPeritoneal cancer indexPresence of malignant ascitesPeritoneal metastasisMalignant ascitesColorectal cancer patientsGastric cancerColorectal cancerOverall survivalGastrointestinal malignanciesPoor survivalCohort of gastric cancerMedian peritoneal cancer indexPeritoneal cancer index scoreFirst-line systemic treatmentResistant to systemic therapyMetastatic gastrointestinal malignanciesMedian overall survivalStage IV diseaseMetastatic CRC patientsAbsence of ascitesClinico-pathological dataPoor survival outcomesTertiary oncology centerStudy of patientsRandomized clinical trials
2022
Resistance to systemic immune checkpoint inhibition in the peritoneal niche
Chia D, Gwee Y, Sundar R. Resistance to systemic immune checkpoint inhibition in the peritoneal niche. Journal For ImmunoTherapy Of Cancer 2022, 10: e004749. PMID: 35728873, PMCID: PMC9214396, DOI: 10.1136/jitc-2022-004749.Commentaries, Editorials and LettersConceptsImmune checkpoint inhibitionResistance to immune checkpoint inhibitionPeritoneal metastasisCheckpoint inhibitionMetastatic nicheResponse to ICIImmune checkpoint inhibition therapySensitive to immune checkpoint inhibitionIntrinsic tumor factorsPresence of ascitesDeficient mismatch repairPeritoneal microenvironmentTumor factorsMalignant ascitesPrimary resistanceClinical entityTherapeutic optionsMicrosatellite instable tumorsPeritoneal cavityGastrointestinal cancerParacrine factorsAscitesConcurrent ascitesPatientsInstable tumors