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ArticleCancer medicine2021

Brain and heart-specific death in cancer patients: Population-based study.

Mohammed Safi, Murad Al-Nusaif, Dario Trapani, Mubarak A Mashrah, Ravindran Kanesvaran, Aziz Alzandani, Mahmoud Al-Azab, Syed A Mazher, Abdullah Al-Danakh, Jiwei Liu

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Article in Cancer medicine, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 2 papers.

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10 authors at 7 institutions in 5 countries.

Mohammed SafiDepartment of Oncology, First Affiliated Hospital of Dalian Medical University, Dalian, China.ORCID 0000-0001-7928-2343
Murad Al-NusaifDepartment of Neurology, Liaoning Provincial Key Laboratory for Research on the Pathogenic Mechanisms of Neurological Diseases, First Affiliated Hospital, Dalian Medical University.
Dario TrapaniIEO - Istituto Europeo di Oncologia Milan, IRCCS, Milan, Italy.
Mubarak A MashrahGuangzhou Institute of Oral Disease, Stomatology Hospital of Guangzhou Medical University, Guangzhou, Guangdong, China.
Ravindran KanesvaranNational Cancer Center Singapore.
Aziz AlzandaniFaculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, Thamar University.
Mahmoud Al-AzabGuangzhou Women and Children's Medical Center, Guangzhou Medical University, Guangzhou, 510623, China.
Syed A MazherDivision of Hematology/ Oncology, UT Southwestern, Clements University Hospital, 6201 Harry Hines Blvd, Dallas, Texas, 75390.
Abdullah Al-DanakhDepartment of Urology, First Affiliated Hospital of Dalian Medical University.
Jiwei LiuDepartment of Oncology, First Affiliated Hospital of Dalian Medical University, Dalian, China.
Dalian Medical University · CNGuangzhou Women and Children Medical Center · CNIstituti di Ricovero e Cura a Carattere Scientifico · ITNational Cancer Centre Singapore · SGSouthwestern Medical Center · USStomatology Hospital · CNThamar University · YE

Funding

National Natural Science Foundation of China 31770859National Natural Science Foundation of China 81572881National Natural Science Foundation of China 81602508
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

backgroundThe occurrence of cardiovascular events is a major cause of death in patients with cancer. Small studies have documented a connection between specific brain alterations and autonomic cardiac dysfunctions, possibly resulting in a worse prognosis. We aimed to refine the knowledge of fatal cardiac events in patients with brain metastasis (BM).

methodsWe performed a Surveillance, Epidemiology, and End Results SEER registry-based investigation (timeline: 2010-2016) and extracted all the advanced patients who had experienced fatal cardiac outcomes. Populations were compared according to the presence or not BM. Kaplan-Meier (KM) methodology was used for survival analysis and a multivariate model was developed by adjusting for multiple possible confounders.

resultsMost related BM and cardiac death were observed at the site of lung cancer (81.4%). We extracted 3187 patients with lung cancer site, including 417 patients who had experienced fatal heart-specific with a history of BM, which is considered a BM group. The second group of heart-specific death included 2770 patients was stated as a non-BM group. Patients who had experienced heart-specific death in the BM group were predominately male, right side, upper site, and non-small type (62.11%, 54.92%, 51.56%, 69.78%), respectively. The survival outcomes between BM and the non- BM was significantly prominent (p = 0.003; median: 2 months vs. 3 months).The negative prognostic independent significance of heart-fatal events was confirmed after adjusting for multiple variables (HR = 0.76, CI = 0.68-84, p < 0.0001). The metastatic liver site was significantly associated with poorer survival rates (HR = 0.68; CI = 0.52-0.88, p = 0.005). We revealed a possible connection between the brain and heart functions.

conclusionsThe prognosis of heart-specific death patients in BM is unfavorable compared to non-BM settings in lung cancer. We may be at the gates of a new field of neurocardiooncology.

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DeathAdultAgedBrain DeathFemaleHumansMaleMiddle AgedNeoplasmsPrognosisSEER ProgramYoung Adultbrain-heart axisbrain metastasesepidemiologyheart blocklung cancer

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