Clinical characteristics and prognostic factors of prostate cancer with liver metastases

Tumour Biol. 2014 Jan;35(1):595-601. doi: 10.1007/s13277-013-1083-6.

Abstract

Liver metastasis from prostate cancer is uncommon and remains poorly understood. We computer searched the clinical records of all our patients registered into a database to identify patients that presented or developed liver metastases. A total of 27 prostate cancer patients with ultrasound or CT/MR imaging evidence of liver metastases were included in our analysis. The liver metastasis rate from metastatic prostate cancer was 4.29%. Eight (29.63%) patients had previously untreated, hormone-naive prostate cancer (synchronous liver metastases at diagnosis of prostate cancer), whereas 19 (70.37%) patients had already been diagnosed as having hormone-refractory prostate cancer. In the hormone-naive group, the median overall survival after liver metastases diagnosis was 38 months and half of the patients were still alive at the latest follow-up, whereas only 6 months in the hormone-refractory group (p = 0.003). High concentration of serum neuron-specific enolase and previous chemotherapy were associated with a significantly poor overall survival after liver metastases in the hormone-refractory group using Kaplan–Meier curves and logrank tests for univariate analysis.

Publication types

  • Meta-Analysis
  • Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

MeSH terms

  • Aged
  • Aged, 80 and over
  • Humans
  • Liver Neoplasms / diagnosis*
  • Liver Neoplasms / mortality
  • Liver Neoplasms / secondary*
  • Liver Neoplasms / therapy
  • Male
  • Middle Aged
  • Prognosis
  • Prostatic Neoplasms / diagnosis*
  • Prostatic Neoplasms / mortality
  • Prostatic Neoplasms / pathology*
  • Prostatic Neoplasms / therapy
  • Treatment Outcome