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SCIENTIFIC REPORTS
Volume 13, Issue 1, Pages -Publisher
NATURE PORTFOLIO
DOI: 10.1038/s41598-023-37870-y
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Adjuvant S-1 monotherapy is the standard treatment for stage II gastric cancer after curative resection in Japan. The efficacy of S-1 for microsatellite instability-high (MSI-H) tumors remained unknown. This study found that MSI-H stage II gastric cancer patients had better adjusted survival than microsatellite-stable (MSS) patients treated with S-1 adjuvant therapy. The mechanisms of recurrence differed between MSI-H and MSS tumors.
Adjuvant S-1 monotherapy is the standard of care for stage II gastric cancer (GC) after curative resection in Japan, but its efficacy for microsatellite instability-high (MSI-H) tumors has remained unknown. Among a multi-institutional cohort of patients with stage II GC who underwent R0 resection followed by S-1 adjuvant chemotherapy between February 2008 and December 2018, we assessed MSI status with an MSI-IVD Kit (Falco). MSI status was assessable for 184 (88.5%) of the 208 enrolled patients, with MSI-H being identified in 24 (13.0%) individuals. Although neither relapse-free survival (RFS) (hazard ratio [HR] = 1.00, p = 0.997) nor overall survival (OS) (HR = 0.66, p = 0.488) differed between MSI-H versus microsatellite-stable (MSS) patients, MSI-H patients showed a nonsignificant but better RFS (HR = 0.34, p = 0.064) and OS (HR = 0.22, p = 0.057) than did MSS patients after adjustment for background characteristics by propensity score (PS) analysis. Gene expression analysis in the PS-matched cohort suggested that recurrence was associated with the immunosuppressive microenvironment in MSI-H tumors but with expression of cancer/testis antigen genes in MSS tumors. Our data reveal a better adjusted survival for MSI-H versus MSS stage II GC treated with S-1 adjuvant therapy, and they suggest that mechanisms of recurrence differ between MSI-H and MSS tumors.
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