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ArticleCancers2022

The Extent of Necrosis in Brain Metastases May Predict Subtypes of Primary Cancer and Overall Survival in Patients Receiving Craniotomy.

Jihwan Yoo, Yoon Jin Cha, Hun Ho Park, Mina Park, Bio Joo, Sang Hyun Suh, Sung Jun Ahn

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Article in Cancers, 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 9 papers.

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Jihwan YooDepartment of Neurosurgery, Brain Tumor Center, Gangnam Severance Hospital, Yonsei University College of Medicine, Seoul 06230, Korea.
Yoon Jin ChaDepartment of Pathology, Gangnam Severance Hospital, Yonsei University College of Medicine, Seoul 06230, Korea.ORCID 0000-0002-5967-4064
Hun Ho ParkDepartment of Neurosurgery, Brain Tumor Center, Gangnam Severance Hospital, Yonsei University College of Medicine, Seoul 06230, Korea.ORCID 0000-0002-2526-9693
Mina ParkDepartment of Radiology, Gangnam Severance Hospital, Yonsei University College of Medicine, Seoul 06230, Korea.
Bio JooDepartment of Radiology, Gangnam Severance Hospital, Yonsei University College of Medicine, Seoul 06230, Korea.
Sang Hyun SuhDepartment of Radiology, Gangnam Severance Hospital, Yonsei University College of Medicine, Seoul 06230, Korea.
Sung Jun AhnDepartment of Radiology, Gangnam Severance Hospital, Yonsei University College of Medicine, Seoul 06230, Korea.ORCID 0000-0003-0075-2432

Funding

National Research Foundation of Korea 2020R1F1A1056512
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Although necrosis is common in brain metastasis (BM), its biological and clinical significances remain unknown. We evaluated necrosis extent differences by primary cancer subtype and correlated BM necrosis to overall survival post-craniotomy. We analyzed 145 BMs of patients receiving craniotomy. Necrosis to tumor ratio (NTR) was measured. Patients were divided into two groups by NTR: BMs with sparse necrosis and with abundant necrosis. Clinical features were compared. To investigate factor relevance for BM necrosis, multivariate logistic regression, random forests, and gradient boosting machine analyses were performed. Kaplan−Meier analysis and log-rank tests were performed to evaluate the effect of BM necrosis on overall survival. Lung cancer was a more common origin for BMs with abundant necrosis (42/72, 58.33%) versus sparse necrosis (23/73, 31.51%, p < 0.01). Primary cancer subtype and tumor volume were the most relevant factors for BM necrosis (p < 0.01). BMs harboring moderately abundant necrosis showed longer survival, versus sparse or highly abundant necrosis (p = 0.04). Lung cancer BM may carry larger necrosis than BMs from other cancers. Further, moderately abundant necrosis in BM may predict a good prognosis post-craniotomy.

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biomarkerbrain metastasiscraniotomynecrosis

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PMID35406466
PMCPMC8997083

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