OBJECTIVE: We wished to evaluate the influence of postoperative radiotherapy on the incidence of tumour regrowth in non-secreting pituitary adenomas. METHODS: The cases of 57 patients with clinically non-secreting pituitary adenomas were retained for a retrospective study of long-term disease-free survival out of a series of 66 patients treated between 1970 and 1988. Thirty-three patients were treated by surgery only (Group A), and twenty-four by surgery followed by external radiotherapy (Group B). Disease-free survival curves were calculated according to the Kaplan-Meyer method and compared by the Logrank test. The impact of some supposed prognostic parameters--such as tumoural volume, macroscopic features of invasiveness and quality of surgical resection--on the disease-free survival was analyzed according to the Logrank adjusted test. RESULTS: The mean follow-up duration was 7.1 +/- 6.2 years, and eleven patients relapsed: nine in group A (27.0%) and two in group B (8.3%), with respective free intervals of 6.1 +/- 5.0 years and 9.6 +/- 2.4 years. Statistical analysis of the disease-free survival curves confirmed that this difference was significant (p < 0.01). Further analysis of putative risk factors (the importance of extrasellar extension and the estimated quality of surgical resection) was attempted, but it did not reach statistical significance. CONCLUSIONS: Radiotherapy is effective in preventing post-operative regrowth of non-secreting pituitary adenomas. Whether it should be systematically proposed or reserved to selected cases remains to be evaluated.

Influence of radiotherapy on long-term follow-up of clinically non-secreting pituitary adenomas

JAFFRAIN, MARIE LISE;
1993-01-01

Abstract

OBJECTIVE: We wished to evaluate the influence of postoperative radiotherapy on the incidence of tumour regrowth in non-secreting pituitary adenomas. METHODS: The cases of 57 patients with clinically non-secreting pituitary adenomas were retained for a retrospective study of long-term disease-free survival out of a series of 66 patients treated between 1970 and 1988. Thirty-three patients were treated by surgery only (Group A), and twenty-four by surgery followed by external radiotherapy (Group B). Disease-free survival curves were calculated according to the Kaplan-Meyer method and compared by the Logrank test. The impact of some supposed prognostic parameters--such as tumoural volume, macroscopic features of invasiveness and quality of surgical resection--on the disease-free survival was analyzed according to the Logrank adjusted test. RESULTS: The mean follow-up duration was 7.1 +/- 6.2 years, and eleven patients relapsed: nine in group A (27.0%) and two in group B (8.3%), with respective free intervals of 6.1 +/- 5.0 years and 9.6 +/- 2.4 years. Statistical analysis of the disease-free survival curves confirmed that this difference was significant (p < 0.01). Further analysis of putative risk factors (the importance of extrasellar extension and the estimated quality of surgical resection) was attempted, but it did not reach statistical significance. CONCLUSIONS: Radiotherapy is effective in preventing post-operative regrowth of non-secreting pituitary adenomas. Whether it should be systematically proposed or reserved to selected cases remains to be evaluated.
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