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The spinal distribution of metastatic renal cell carcinoma: Support for locoregional rather than arterial hematogenous mode of early bony dissemination.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Quantifying the degree to which spinal involvement of metastatic renal cell carcinoma (mRCC) is a locoregional phenomenon vs. a hematogenous, bone-specific affinity has implications for prognosis and antimetastatic therapy.

Objective

To investigate the distribution of spinal metastasis in mRCC and to explore relationships between clinical factors and patterns of spinal spread.

Methods

Patients with mRCC and spinal involvement from June 2005 to November 2018 were identified. Clinical and biologic features including primary tumor size and degree of spinal and nonbony metastatic involvement were collected. Spinal distributions were evaluated by the permutation test, with the null hypothesis that metastases are distributed uniformly across levels.

Results

One hundred patients with 685 spinal levels involved by mRCC were evaluated. A nonuniform spatial distribution was observed across the cohort (P < 0.001); a preponderance of thoracolumbar involvement was noted with the mode at L3. No significant deviation in metastatic distribution from uniform was observed in right- or left-sided tumors, subgroups of distant or local metastases, or histology. Patients with smaller tumors (<4 cm) and local spread had distribution of spinal metastases not significantly different from uniform (P = 0.292 and P = 0.126, respectively).

Conclusions

These data support a dominant locoregional as opposed to arterial hematogenous mechanism for early spinal dissemination of mRCC. Characterizations of the biologic molecular features contributing to osseous tropism and aggressive tumor biology (as seen in the subset of outlier patients with small tumors who appear to have more uniform spread), have implications for surveillance and are an area of active investigation.

SUBMITTER: Attalla K

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8237695 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature

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The spinal distribution of metastatic renal cell carcinoma: Support for locoregional rather than arterial hematogenous mode of early bony dissemination.

Attalla Kyrollis K Duzgol Cihan C McLaughlin Lily L Flynn Jessica J Ostrovnaya Irina I Russo Paul P Bilsky Mark H MH Hakimi A Ari AA Moss Nelson S NS

Urologic oncology 20210107 3

<h4>Background</h4>Quantifying the degree to which spinal involvement of metastatic renal cell carcinoma (mRCC) is a locoregional phenomenon vs. a hematogenous, bone-specific affinity has implications for prognosis and antimetastatic therapy.<h4>Objective</h4>To investigate the distribution of spinal metastasis in mRCC and to explore relationships between clinical factors and patterns of spinal spread.<h4>Methods</h4>Patients with mRCC and spinal involvement from June 2005 to November 2018 were ...[more]

PMID: 33423935

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The spinal distribution of metastatic renal cell carcinoma: Support for locoregional rather than arterial hematogenous mode of early bony dissemination.

Background

Objective

Methods

Results

Conclusions

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The spinal distribution of metastatic renal cell carcinoma: Support for locoregional rather than arterial hematogenous mode of early bony dissemination.

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