• Annals of surgery · Aug 2022

    Curative Surgery and Ki-67 Value Rather than Tumor Differentiation Predict the Survival of Patients with High-grade Neuroendocrine Neoplasms.

    • Daisuke Asano, Atsushi Kudo, Keiichi Akahoshi, Aya Maekawa, Yoshiki Murase, Kosuke Ogawa, Hiroaki Ono, Daisuke Ban, Shinji Tanaka, and Minoru Tanabe.
    • Department of Hepatobiliary and Pancreatic Surgery, Graduate School of Medicine, Tokyo Medical and Dental University, Tokyo, Japan.
    • Ann. Surg. 2022 Aug 1; 276 (2): e108-e113.

    ObjectiveTo elucidate the role of surgery in patients with high-grade neuroendocrine neoplasms (hg-NENs) and Ki-67 more than 20%.BackgroundAlthough surgery is the first treatment choice in patients with low-grade NENs, whether it increases the survival of patients with hg-NENs is debatable.MethodsBetween 2005 and 2018, 63 patients pathologically diagnosed with hg-NENs treated at our institution were retrospectively analyzed. The risk factors for overall survival (OS) and recurrence-free survival were analyzed, and OS was compared between each treatment group.ResultsThe median observation time was 21.2 months, and the median Ki-67 value was 52%. Patients with hg-NENs were classified into low Ki-67 (Ki-67 <52%) and high Ki-67 (Ki-67 ≥52%) groups. Multivariate analysis for OS identified surgery (P = 0.013) and low Ki-67 value (P = 0.007) as independent risk factors, whereas morphological differentiation defined by the WHO 2017 criteria showed no association with OS. Patients with low Ki-67 value subjected to R0/1, R2, and chemotherapy had a median survival time of 83.8, 16.6, and 28.1 months, respectively. The median survival time for R0/1 group was significantly longer than that for chemotherapy group ( P = 0.001). However, no difference in survival was reported between patients from R0/1 and chemotherapy groups with high Ki-67. Ki-67 value could determine recurrence-free survival ( P = 0.006) in patients who underwent R0/1 surgery for pancreatic hg-NENs.ConclusionsR0/1 surgery predicted prognoses in the low Ki-67 group. The indication of surgery for patients with hg-NENs did not depend on tumor differentiation.Copyright © 2020 Wolters Kluwer Health, Inc. All rights reserved.

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