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Poster display session: Breast cancer - early stage, locally advanced & metastatic, CNS tumours, Developmental therapeutics, Genitourinary tumours - prostate & non-prostate, Palliative care, Psycho-oncology, Public health policy, Sarcoma, Supportive care

4337 - Pineal parenchymal tumors: Patterns of care from a tertiary cancer centre in India

Date

22 Oct 2018

Session

Poster display session: Breast cancer - early stage, locally advanced & metastatic, CNS tumours, Developmental therapeutics, Genitourinary tumours - prostate & non-prostate, Palliative care, Psycho-oncology, Public health policy, Sarcoma, Supportive care

Topics

Tumour Site

Central Nervous System Malignancies

Presenters

Bharti Devnani

Citation

Annals of Oncology (2018) 29 (suppl_8): viii122-viii132. 10.1093/annonc/mdy273

Authors

B. Devnani1, S. Gupta1, H. Kp1, P.K. Julka2, G.K. Rath3

Author affiliations

  • 1 Radiation oncology, All India Institute of Medical Sciences, 110029 - Delhi/IN
  • 2 Radiotherapy And Oncology, All India Institute of Medical Sciences, 110029 - Delhi/IN
  • 3 Radiation oncology, B.R. Ambedkar Institute Rotary Cancer Hospital (AIMS), 110029 - New Delhi/IN

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Abstract 4337

Background

The aim of this study is to report clinical features and treatment outcome of pineal parenchymal tumors (PPTs).

Methods

Between 2006-2017, medical records of 34 patients of PPTs were analyzed to study patterns of care of patients who received adjuvant radiotherapy (RT) with or without chemotherapy (CT) following surgery. Overall survival (OS) and progression-free survival (PFS) were analyzed by Kaplan- Meier method.

Results

According to WHO classification, the study comprises of 19 pineoblastomas (PB), 11 pineal parenchymal tumors of intermediate differentiation (PPTID) and 4 pineocytomas (PC). Median age at presentation was 10, 26 and 30 years, respectively. Headache was commonest symptom (77%) followed by visual disturbance. 59% underwent surgical resection and 41% had biopsy only. Median MIB labelling index of PPTIDs was 6%, whereas it was 35% in PB and 2% in PC. Spinal drop metastasis was present in 8 patients with PB and 3 patients with PPTIDs. All PBs and PPTIDs with spinal drop metastasis (2) received cranio-spinal irradiation (CSI) and adjuvant CT. The rest of the PPTIDs and PC received focal RT to the brain. The commonest regimen was a combination of carboplatin and etoposide (CE), used in 6 (32 %) PB. CE with vincristine and IT-MTX was given in patients who developed drop metastasis subsequently. At a median follow-up of 16 months, 9 (47%) patients of PB and 3 (27%) of PPTID developed recurrence in cranio-spinal axis. 5 year progression-free survival was 41%, 62% and 75%, respectively. Median overall survival (OS) was 27, 50, 18 months, and 5 year OS was 38%, 47% and 75%, respectively.

Conclusions

PPTs reflect a broad spectrum of malignant potential and prognosis. PB is an aggressive tumor and requires adjuvant CSI and CT following surgery. PPTIDs are relatively rare and require meticulous pretreatment evaluation of neuraxis and knowledge of pathological factors for management. Multi-institutional cooperation in the form of prospective studies is recommended in view of rarity of tumor.

Clinical trial identification

Legal entity responsible for the study

AIIMS, New Delhi.

Funding

Has not received any funding.

Editorial Acknowledgement

Disclosure

All authors have declared no conflicts of interest.

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