Abstract

Purpose To evaluate the therapeutic effect of preoperative transcatheter arterial chemoembolization (TACE) combined with short-term systematic chemotherapy in the treatment of advanced Wilms tumor. Materials and Methods This was a retrospective study on 66 patients with unilateral advanced Wilms tumor, age 5 months to 11 years (median, 2.9 years; 30 boys and 36 girls), treated at our institution between 1995 and 2007. Characteristics of the patient population were maximal tumor diameter > 10 cm, or involvement of periaortic lymph nodes, or inferior vena cava invasion, or distal metastasis, or tumor with anaplastic histology. Patients were divided into three groups. Twenty patients were treated with conventional preoperative chemotherapy (PC group) using vindesine, actinomycin D, and pirarubicin for 4 weeks; 21 patients were treated in the TACE group with preoperative renal arterial chemoembolization using Lipiodol-pirarubicin-vindesine emulsion; and 25 patients were treated with preoperative chemoembolization combined with short-term systematic chemotherapy (T+S) for 2 weeks. Results No drug-induced cardiotoxicity, nephrotoxicity, or hepatic dysfunction was observed. Complete surgical removal of the tumor was achieved in 12 (65.0%), 17 (80.9%), and 22 (88.0%) patients in the PC, TACE, and T+S groups, respectively (T+S group vs PC group, P = .030). The 2-year relapse-free survival rates were 65.0%, 80.9%, and 100.0% in the PC, TACE, and T+S groups, respectively (T+S vs PC, P = .001). Conclusions From our experience, preoperative chemoembolization combined with short-term systematic chemotherapy is able to achieve higher rates of complete tumor resection and relapse-free survival in the treatment of advanced Wilms tumor.

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