RT Journal Article
SR Electronic
T1 Adoptive Immune-Cell Therapy for the Treatment of Neuroendocrine Carcinoma of the Uterine Cervix
JF Anticancer Research
JO Anticancer Res
FD International Institute of Anticancer Research
SP 4741
OP 4748
DO 10.21873/anticanres.14475
VO 40
IS 8
A1 SHIGENORI GOTO
A1 YASUHISA TERAO
A1 TAKASHI KAMIGAKI
A1 RISHU TAKIMOTO
A1 KEIKO NAITOH
A1 KAORI MAKITA
A1 KOSEI YASUMOTO
A1 SACHIKO OKADA
A1 KEN TAKIZAWA
A1 NORIYUKI YOKOMICHI
A1 NAO SUZUKI
A1 SATORU TAKEDA
YR 2020
UL http://ar.iiarjournals.org/content/40/8/4741.abstract
AB Background/Aim: We aimed to investigate the efficacy of immune-cell therapy in terms of the survival of patients with neuroendocrine carcinoma of the uterine cervix (NECC), which lacks standardized therapeutic approaches. Patients and Methods: We identified 17 patients who were diagnosed as having NECC and treated with immune-cell therapy. The clinical characteristics of these patients were extracted from their records and their overall survival was measured. Results: Of the 17 patients, two patients with early-stage NECC without recurrence and three patients with less than four treatments were excluded. The median survival times from the time of diagnosis and from the initial administration of immune-cell therapy were 49.7 and 24.4 months, respectively. The overall survival rates at 1, 2, and 5 years were 63.6%, 38.2%, and 25.5%, respectively. Long-term survival was observed in the patients with distant metastases. Conclusion: The preliminary results of this retrospective study suggested the potential efficacy of immune-cell therapy for NECC.