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JOURNAL ARTICLE
MULTICENTER STUDY
Long-Term Outcomes of Primary Cardiac Malignancies: Multi-Institutional Results From the National Cancer Database.
Journal of the American College of Cardiology 2020 May 13
BACKGROUND: Data on primary cardiac malignancies are limited to small single-center studies.
OBJECTIVES: The aim of the current study was to provide detailed outcomes for treatment of primary cardiac malignancies from a multi-institutional database.
METHODS: Outcomes were acquired from the National Cancer Database for all solid primary cardiac malignancies from 2004 to 2016. The primary outcome was long-term survival. Logistic regression was used to determine factors associated with mortality.
RESULTS: A total of 100,317 cardiac tumors were identified, of which 826 (0.8%) were primary malignant tumors. After exclusion criteria, the cohort consisted of 747 patients (median age 53 years, 47.5% women). Most tumors were primary sarcomas (88.5%), the majority of which were hemangiosarcoma (40.4%). A total of 136 patients received no therapy, 113 received just chemotherapy, and 20 received just radiation. Surgery was performed in 442 (59.2%) patients including 255 patients undergoing multimodal therapy (surgery with chemotherapy, radiation, or chemoradiation). With surgery alone, 90-day mortality was 29.4%. Overall 30-day, 1-year, and 5-year survival rates were 81.2%, 45.3%, and 11.5%, respectively. The surgery group as compared with the no surgery groups had significantly better long-term survival (p < 0.0001). For stage III disease, there was a statistically significant improvement in survival with the addition of chemotherapy to surgery.
CONCLUSIONS: Primary cardiac malignancies are rare cancers with dismal long-term survival despite mode of treatment. Patients who underwent surgery and those with stage III disease who received peri-operative chemotherapy had better survival compared with those who did not. However, there was likely a significant selection bias in patients chosen for surgical or medical therapy.
OBJECTIVES: The aim of the current study was to provide detailed outcomes for treatment of primary cardiac malignancies from a multi-institutional database.
METHODS: Outcomes were acquired from the National Cancer Database for all solid primary cardiac malignancies from 2004 to 2016. The primary outcome was long-term survival. Logistic regression was used to determine factors associated with mortality.
RESULTS: A total of 100,317 cardiac tumors were identified, of which 826 (0.8%) were primary malignant tumors. After exclusion criteria, the cohort consisted of 747 patients (median age 53 years, 47.5% women). Most tumors were primary sarcomas (88.5%), the majority of which were hemangiosarcoma (40.4%). A total of 136 patients received no therapy, 113 received just chemotherapy, and 20 received just radiation. Surgery was performed in 442 (59.2%) patients including 255 patients undergoing multimodal therapy (surgery with chemotherapy, radiation, or chemoradiation). With surgery alone, 90-day mortality was 29.4%. Overall 30-day, 1-year, and 5-year survival rates were 81.2%, 45.3%, and 11.5%, respectively. The surgery group as compared with the no surgery groups had significantly better long-term survival (p < 0.0001). For stage III disease, there was a statistically significant improvement in survival with the addition of chemotherapy to surgery.
CONCLUSIONS: Primary cardiac malignancies are rare cancers with dismal long-term survival despite mode of treatment. Patients who underwent surgery and those with stage III disease who received peri-operative chemotherapy had better survival compared with those who did not. However, there was likely a significant selection bias in patients chosen for surgical or medical therapy.
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