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Pancreatic metastases from renal cell carcinoma. Postoperative outcome after surgical treatment in a Spanish multicenter study (PANMEKID)

03-ene-2022 | Revista: European Journal of Surgical Oncology

Gerardo Blanco-Fernández  1 , Constantino Fondevila-Campo  2 , Alfonso Sanjuanbenito  3 , Joan Fabregat-Prous  4 , Luís Secanella-Medayo  4 , Fernando Rotellar-Sastre  5 , Fernando Pardo-Sánchez  5 , Mikel Prieto-Calvo  6 , Héctor Marín-Ortega  6 , Santiago Sánchez-Cabús  7 , Luis Diez-Valladares  8 , Óscar Alonso-Casado  9 , Carmen González-Serrano  10 , Juan Carlos Rodríguez-Sanjuan  11 , Gabriel García-Plaza  12 , Isabel Jaén-Torrejimeno  13 , Miguel Ángel Suárez-Muñoz  14 , Antonio Becerra-Massare  15 , Paula Senra-Del Rio  16 , Elizabeth Pando  17 , Rafael López-Andújar  18 , Elena Muñoz-Forner  19 , Mario Rodriguez-López  20 , Fernando Pereira  21 , Alejandro Serrablo-Requejo  22 , Víctor Sánchez Turrión  23 , Manuel Jiménez Garrido  23 , Fernando Burdío  24 , Elena Martín-Pérez  25 , Rafael Estevan-Estevan  26 , Diego López-Guerra  13 , José Castell-Gómez  27 , Javier Salinas-Gómez  27 , José Ángel López-Baena  28 , Santiago López-Ben  29 , Lorena Solar-García  30 , Alejandro J Pérez-Alonso  31 , Luis Alberto Martínez-Insfran  32 , Juan Luis Blas  33 , Marian Cornejo  34 , Alberto Gutierrez-Calvo  35 , Carlos Domingo-Del Pozo  36 , Federico Ochando-Cerdan  37 , Luis Muñoz-Bellvís  38 , José Rebollar-Saenz  39 , Belinda Sánchez  40 , José María Jover  41 , Miguel Ángel Gómez-Bravo  42 , José M Ramia  43 , Adela Rojas-Holguín  13


Background: Renal Cell Carcinoma (RCC) occasionally spreads to the pancreas. The purpose of our study is to evaluate the short and long-term results of a multicenter series in order to determine the effect of surgical treatment on the prognosis of these patients.

Methods: Multicenter retrospective study of patients undergoing surgery for RCC pancreatic metastases, from January 2010 to May 2020. Variables related to the primary tumor, demographics, clinical characteristics of metastasis, location in the pancreas, type of pancreatic resection performed and data on short and long-term evolution after pancreatic resection were collected.

Results: The study included 116 patients. The mean time between nephrectomy and pancreatic metastases' resection was 87.35 months (ICR: 1.51-332.55). Distal pancreatectomy was the most performed technique employed (50 %). Postoperative morbidity was observed in 60.9 % of cases (Clavien-Dindo greater than IIIa in 14 %). The median follow-up time was 43 months (13-78). Overall survival (OS) rates at 1, 3, and 5 years were 96 %, 88 %, and 83 %, respectively. The disease-free survival (DFS) rate at 1, 3, and 5 years was 73 %, 49 %, and 35 %, respectively. Significant prognostic factors of relapse were a disease free interval of less than 10 years (2.05 [1.13-3.72], p 0.02) and a history of previous extrapancreatic metastasis (2.44 [1.22-4.86], p 0.01).

Conclusions: Pancreatic resection if metastatic RCC is found in the pancreas is warranted to achieve higher overall survival and disease-free survival, even if extrapancreatic metastases were previously removed. The existence of intrapancreatic multifocal compromise does not always warrant the performance of a total pancreatectomy in order to improve survival.

CITA DEL ARTÍCULO  Eur J Surg Oncol. 2022 Jan;48(1):133-141. doi: 10.1016/j.ejso.2021.08.011. Epub 2021 Aug 11.