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@ARTICLE{Ugurel:304468,
author = {S. Ugurel and N. Abu Rached and T. Gambichler and M.
Mengoni and T. Tüting and J. C. Hassel and R. Reschke and
G. C. Lodde$^*$ and J.-M. Placke$^*$ and D. Schadendorf$^*$
and L. Reinhardt and A. Kreuter and M. Gschnell and J.
Utikal$^*$ and M. Erdmann and P. Dücker and D. Helbig and
C. Franklin and C. Gebhardt and G. Poch and K. C. Kähler
and M. Weichenthal and R. Gutzmer and L. Heinzerling and C.
Weishaupt and P. Mohr and K.-M. Thoms and B. Lang and B.
Schilling and S. Haferkamp and M. Sachse and J. Welzel and
F. Jochims and U. Raap and G. Schley and P. Terheyden and E.
Dippel and C. Pöttgen and J. C. Becker$^*$ and A.
Tasdogan$^*$ and T. Amaral and L. Nanz and U. Leiter},
title = {{O}utcome of systemic therapy in patients with advanced
rare skin cancers: {A} retrospective multicenter {D}e{COG}
study of 209 patients.},
journal = {European journal of cancer},
volume = {228},
issn = {0959-8049},
address = {Amsterdam [u.a.]},
publisher = {Elsevier},
reportid = {DKFZ-2025-01861},
pages = {115750},
year = {2025},
abstract = {For rare skin cancers, few data exist on the outcome of
systemic therapies, particularly immune checkpoint
inhibition (ICI). The present study analysed the real-world
use of different systemic therapies including ICI, and its
outcome in patients with advanced rare skin cancers.This
retrospective multicenter study included patients who
received systemic therapy for advanced, non-resectable
cutaneous angiosarcoma (AS), Kaposi sarcoma (KS),
pleomorphic dermal sarcoma (PDS), or cutaneous adnexal
carcinoma (CAC). Study endpoints were best overall response
(BOR), progression-free survival (PFS) and overall survival
(OS).209 patients (77 AS; 81 KS; 14 PDS; and 37 CAC) from 30
centers were included. As first-line treatment AS and KS
patients predominantly received chemotherapy (77.9 $\%;$
63.0 $\%),$ while PDS and CAC patients mostly received ICI
(64.4 $\%;$ 43.2 $\%).$ BOR in first-line across all therapy
types was 65.5 $\%$ in KS, 50.0 $\%$ in PDS, 41.6 $\%$ in
AS, and 10.8 $\%$ in CAC. BOR for ICI was 66.6 $\%$ for PDS,
58.3 $\%$ for AS, 33.3 $\%$ for KS, and 4.3 $\%$ for CAC,
irrespective of treatment line. 1-year PFS rate upon any
first-line therapy was 70.7 $\%$ for PDS, 45.7 $\%$ for KS,
25.6 $\%$ for AS, and 18.5 $\%$ for CAC (p < 0.001). 1-year
tumor-specific OS rate was 97.3 $\%$ in KS, 84.2 $\%$ in AS,
67.7 $\%$ in PDS, and 65.4 $\%$ in CAC (p < 0.001).Type and
outcome of systemic therapy differed between cancer
entities. Efficacy of ICI was high in PDS and AS, moderate
in KS, and low in CAC. Patients with advanced CAC revealed
an extremely poor prognosis regardless of the type of
therapy used.},
keywords = {Angiosarcoma (Other) / Chemotherapy (Other) / Cutaneous
adnexal carcinoma (Other) / Immune checkpoint inhibition
(Other) / Kaposi sarcoma (Other) / Pleomorphic dermal
sarcoma (Other) / Targeted therapy (Other)},
cin = {ED01 / A370},
ddc = {610},
cid = {I:(DE-He78)ED01-20160331 / I:(DE-He78)A370-20160331},
pnm = {311 - Zellbiologie und Tumorbiologie (POF4-311)},
pid = {G:(DE-HGF)POF4-311},
typ = {PUB:(DE-HGF)16},
pubmed = {pmid:40912056},
doi = {10.1016/j.ejca.2025.115750},
url = {https://inrepo02.dkfz.de/record/304468},
}