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ORIGINAL ARTICLE Prognostic Impact of Paraneoplastic Cushing’s Syndrome in Small-Cell Lung Cancer Hélène Nagy-Mignotte, MD,*†‡ Oxana Shestaeva, MD,§ Lucile Vignoud, MSc,† Pascale Guillem, MD,*† Stéphane Ruckly, MSc,† Olivier Chabre, MD, PhD,‖ Linda Sakhri, MD,‡ Michael Duruisseaux, MD,‡ Mireille Mousseau, MD,§ Jean-François Timsit, MD,†¶ and Denis Moro-Sibilot, MD*†‡; for the Multidisciplinary Thoracic Oncology Group at Grenoble University Hospital, France Key Words: Paraneoplastic Cushing’s syndrome, Small-cell lung Introduction: Paraneoplastic Cushing’s syndrome (CushingPS) in cancer, Survival. small-cell lung cancer is rare but severe. Methods: We studied 383 patients with small-cell lung cancer (J Thorac Oncol. 2014;9: 497–505) diagnosed between 1998 and 2012. Among them, 23 patients had CushingPS, 56 had other paraneoplastic syndrome (OtherPS), and 304 had no paraneoplastic syndrome (NoPS). mong lung cancers, the proportion of small-cell lung can- Results: After comparison of the three groups, we observed that 1–5 Acers (SCLC) has decreased over the last 30 years, falling CushingPS patients had more extensive disease: 82.6% versus from 17.26% to 12.95% between 1986 and 2002 in the United 67.8% versus 53.3% (p = 0.005), respectively, with more than two 2 States. In our institution, it has dropped from 22.5% of all lung metastatic sites: 63.2% versus 15.8% and 24.1% (p ≤ 0.001), a higher cancers in 1982 to
Journal of Thoracic Oncology – Wolters Kluwer Health
Published: Apr 1, 2014
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