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Repeating of local therapy of distant metastases increases overall survival in patients with synchronous metastasized rectal cancer—a monocentric analysis

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Purpose

The aim was to evaluate the outcome of treatment-naive patients with synchronous metastatic rectal cancer after chemotherapy with FOLFOXIRI followed by local therapeutic procedures of all tumor lesions as complete as possible.

Methods

We reviewed data of 30 patients with synchronous distant metastatic rectal cancer who underwent chemotherapy with FOLFOXIRI and subsequent local therapy in our institution.

Results

Median follow-up was 28 months (range: 8; 74). Cumulative overall survival (OS) and progression-free survival (PFS) was 93.3, 76.9, 55.6% and 46.2, 29.7, 29.7% after 1, 2, 4 years. Non-response to chemotherapy with FOLFOXIRI was associated with a highly significant decreased OS (p < 0.0001). The consistent use of local ablative procedures led to a statistically significant increase in OS (p < 0.0001), but not in PFS (p = 0.635). Patients with ≤ 4 distant metastases showed a better OS (p = 0.033).

Conclusions

Response to intensified first-line chemotherapy with FOLFOXIRI, treatment of the primary rectal tumor, and repeated thorough local ablative procedures in patients with synchronous metastasized rectal cancer may lead to long-term survival, even in a subset of patients with unresectable disease at initial diagnosis.

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  1. Department of Radiation Oncology, University Hospital of Erlangen, Universitätsstraße 27, 91054, Erlangen, Germany

    Marlen Haderlein, Sebastian Lettmaier, Sabine Semrau, Markus Hecht & Rainer Fietkau

  2. Department of Surgery, University Hospital of Erlangen, Erlangen, Germany

    Melanie Langheinrich, Robert Grützmann & Axel Denz

  3. Department of Radiology, University Hospital of Erlangen, Erlangen, Germany

    Axel Schmid

  4. Department of Nuclear Medicine, University Hospital of Erlangen, Erlangen, Germany

    Michael Beck & Daniela Schmidt

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Haderlein, M., Lettmaier, S., Langheinrich, M. et al. Repeating of local therapy of distant metastases increases overall survival in patients with synchronous metastasized rectal cancer—a monocentric analysis. Int J Colorectal Dis 33, 1533–1541 (2018). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00384-018-3113-8

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