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  • Management of High-Risk Neu...
    Gorostegui, Maite; Muñoz, Juan Pablo; Perez-Jaume, Sara; Simao-Rafael, Margarida; Larrosa, Cristina; Garraus, Moira; Salvador, Noelia; Lavarino, Cinzia; Krauel, Lucas; Mañe, Salvador; Castañeda, Alicia; Mora, Jaume

    Cancers, 05/2024, Letnik: 16, Številka: 9
    Journal Article

    Neuroblastoma presents with two patterns of disease: locoregional or systemic. The poor prognostic risk factors of locoregional neuroblastoma (LR-NB) include age, or amplification, 11q, histology, diploidy with or mutations, and aberrations. Anti-GD2 immunotherapy has significantly improved the outcome of high-risk (HR) NB and is mostly effective against osteomedullary minimal residual disease (MRD), but less so against soft tissue disease. The question is whether adding anti-GD2 monoclonal antibodies (mAbs) benefits patients with HR-NB compounded by only soft tissue. We reviewed 31 patients treated at SJD for HR-NB with no osteomedullary involvement at diagnosis. All tumors had molecular genetic features of HR-NB. The outcome after first-line treatment showed 25 (80.6%) patients achieving CR. Thirteen patients remain in continued CR, median follow-up 3.9 years. We analyzed whether adding anti-GD2 immunotherapy to first-line treatment had any prognostic significance. The EFS analysis using Cox models showed a HR of 0.20, = 0.0054, and an 80% decrease in the risk of relapse in patients treated with anti-GD2 immunotherapy in the first line. Neither EFS nor OS were significantly different by CR status after first-line treatment. In conclusion, adding treatment with anti-GD2 mAbs at the stage of MRD helps prevent relapse that unequivocally portends poor survival.