1. Disease control with prior platinum-based chemotherapy is prognostic for survival in patients with metastatic urothelial cancer treated with atezolizumab in real-world practiceMarina Mencinger, Dushan Mangaroski, Urška Bokal, 2021, original scientific article Abstract: Background. Atezolizumab, a programmed-death ligand-1 (PD-L1) inhibitor, is a novel treatment option for patients with metastatic urothelial cancer (mUC). Clinical prognostic factors, survival outcomes, and the safety of patients with mUC treated with atezolizumab, in a real-world setting, were investigated.Patients and methods. 62 patients with mUC, treated at the Institute of Oncology Ljubljana between May 8th 2018 and Dec 31st 2019, were included. Response rates and immune-related adverse events (irAE) were collected. Progression-free survival and overall survival times were assessed using the Kaplan-Meier method. The Cox propor-tional hazards model was applied to identify the factors affecting survival. Results. Of 62 patients, five (8.1%) have not yet been evaluated and 20 (32%) died prior to the first radiographic evaluation. We observed clinical benefit in 19 (33%), objective response in 12 (21%), and complete response in five (9%) patients. Median overall survival for the whole population was 6.8 (95% CI, 2.6–11.0), for platinum-naïve 8.7 (95% CI: 0.8–16.5), and for the platinum-treated group 6.8 (95% CI, 3.7–10) months. At the 5.8 (0.3–23.1) month median follow-up, the median duration of the response was not reached. IrAE occurred in 20 (32%) patients and seven (11%) of them discontinued the treatment. Multivariate analysis in platinum-treated patients showed that a treatment-free interval of more than six months was prognostic for overall survival (OS). Conclusions. Responses to atezolizumab led to long disease remission in a subset of our patients. The median OS in our real-world population was compromised by a large percentage of patients with poor ECOG performance status (PS). A treatment-free interval from chemotherapy was associated with the longer survival of platinum-treated pa-tients with mUC receiving further atezolizumab.
Keywords: PD-L1 inhibitor, urothelial cancer, bladder, atezolizumab
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2. Metastatski, na kastracijo odporen rak prostate – kemoterapija, novejša hormonska zdravila in podporno zdravljenjeUrška Bokal, 2023, published scientific conference contribution Abstract: Metastatski, na kastracijo odporen rak prostate predstavlja pri bolnikih z rakom prostate zadnjo stopnjo razvoja bolezni. Na prognozo teh bolnikov najbolj vpliva mesto zasevkov; najugodnejšo prognozo imajo bolniki z zasevki le v bezgavkah, najslabšo pa bolniki z zasevki v visceralnih organih. Dva citostatika – docetaksel in kabazitaksel – ter dve novejši hormonski zdravili – enzalutamid in abirateron acetat – podaljšujeta preživetje teh bolnikov. Pomembno je, da jim nudimo tudi dobro podporno zdravljenje, saj se z napredovanjem bolezni breme simptomov stopnjuje, kar poslabšuje kakovost življenja bolnikov.
Keywords: rak prostate, onkološko zdravljenje, kastracija
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8. Kronična mieloična levkemijaUrška Bokal, Tanja Južnič Šetina, 2012, original scientific article Abstract: Kronična mieloična levkemija (KML) je redka mieloproliferativna bolezen z incidenco okrog 1–2/100.000 prebivalcev na leto. Je klonska bolezen pluripotentne matične celice, usmerjene v granulopoezo. Večino bolnikov odkrijemo v kroničnem obdobju, za katero je značilna levkocitoza v krvni sliki, s prevladovanjem zrelih nevtrofilnih granulocitov, znaki pospešene presnove, kot so utrujenost, hujšanje in potenje, ter splenomegalija. Kronično obdobje prek pospešenega obdobja preide v blastno krizo s sliko akutne levkemije. Za postavitev diagnoze je nujna najdba kromosoma Philadelphia, ki nastane kot posledica kromosomske translokacije t(9;22), gena BCR-ABL ali njegovega produkta tirozinske kinaze BCR- -ABL v celicah periferne krvi ali kostnega mozga. Velik napredek pri zdravljenju KML je bilo odkritje zaviralcev tirozinske kinaze BCR-ABL, s katerimi dosežemo dolgotrajen nadzor bolezni, in sicer z imatinibom kot prvo izbiro zdravljenja kroničnega obdobja KML. Drugi možni izbiri zdravljenja sta alogenična presaditev krvotvornih matičnih celic in paliativno zdravljenje s kemoterapevtiki.
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