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Clinical characteristics and treatment outcomes of parathyroid carcinoma: A retrospective review of 234 cases

  • Authors:
    • Peisong Wang
    • Shuai Xue
    • Shuo Wang
    • Zhi Lv
    • Xianying Meng
    • Guimin Wang
    • Wei Meng
    • Jia Liu
    • Guang Chen
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  • Published online on: September 27, 2017     https://doi.org/10.3892/ol.2017.7076
  • Pages: 7276-7282
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Abstract

Parathyroid carcinoma (PC) is one of the rarest known types of cancer and has a moderate prognosis, with estimated 5‑ and 10‑year overall survival rates between 78‑85% and between 49‑70%, respectively. To raise awareness of this disease, and to optimize its diagnosis, clinical management and prognosis, the present study retrospectively reviewed 234 cases of PC. A total of 226 cases of PC, which were archived between 1984 and 2015 in the three major databases of the Chinese population, were retrieved and pooled with the 8 cases diagnosed and treated at the Department of Thyroid Surgery of The First Hospital of Jilin University (Changchun, China) between June 2008 and December 2015. The clinicopathological features, diagnosis, surgical procedures and outcomes of these cases of PC were investigated. The review revealed that misdiagnosis has been a considerable issue, with >80% of the patients misdiagnosed prior to surgery, and the accuracy of intraoperative diagnosis based on frozen sections was only 15.04%. The use of radical resection as first‑line therapy significantly improved the disease‑free survival by ~8 years (log‑rank, 20.956; P<0.001); and, at relapse, reoperation prolonged patient survival by ~7 years (log‑rank, 35.322; P<0.001). Consistently, a Cox proportional hazards analysis indicated that radical resection as a first‑line therapy reduced the risk of postoperative recurrence (P=0.030), and that reoperation following recurrence significantly improved patient survival (P=0.030). The 5‑ and 10‑year cumulative disease‑specific survival rates of the cases of PC were 83 and 67%, respectively. Notably, an increased mortality rate was observed among males with PC compared with female patients with PC. In summary, in the past 32 years (1984‑2015), the majority of patients with PC have been misdiagnosed. Performing radical resection as the first‑line therapy significantly reduces recurrence and improves patient survival time; and, following relapse, subsequent surgery has also been demonstrated to be an effective approach.

Introduction

Although parathyroid neoplasms are common and often cause primary hyperparathyroidism (pHPT), parathyroid carcinoma (PC) isa rare endocrine malignancy, and accounts for <1% of cases of pHPT (1). To date, >1,000 cases of PC have been identified in the English literature (24); however, there have been no nation-wide large-sample studies in China, and the majority of the available studies are case reports and literature reviews.

The histopathological distinction between benign and malignant parathyroid tumors is often difficult, with up to 50% of patients presenting with metastases following an initial diagnosis of benign disease (5,6). It is of great importance to raise awareness of PC in order to reduce its misdiagnosis and to improve its cure rate and prognosis. In the present study, a systematic review of Chinese language literature on PC was performed, and 8 cases of PC diagnosed and treated at the Department of Thyroid Surgery of The First Hospital of Jilin University (Changchun, China) were included.

As PC is resistant to radiotherapy and chemotherapy, en bloc resection of the tumor is usually recommended; however, there is dispute over whether the prophylactic removal of the ipsilateral central compartment lymph nodes and other regional tissues or organs should be performed (3,68). Therefore, clinical evaluation, including preoperative examination and intraoperative judgement by the surgeon, are key factors on which the clinical outcome relies. Adjuvant therapy, including chemo-, radio- or anti-parathyroid hormone (PTH) immunotherapy has also been investigated, but the data are limited (3,7,911). Therefore, radical resection remains the standard regimen. For recurrent disease, surgery is also recommended as the primary treatment strategy, and the majority of patients with PC require multiple surgeries (3,7).

Throughout the English literature, >1,000 cases of PC have been identified (24). However, a systematic study on a large Chinese cohort is not available, despite the fact that a large number of cases have been described (1217). Due to a lack of histopathological markers that differentiate malignant from benign parathyroid tumors, up to 50% of patients with metastases have been misdiagnosed initially with benign disease (5,6). Therefore, it is necessary to raise awareness and improve general understanding of PC.

In the present study, 234 cases of PC archived in three commonly used databases in China, or diagnosed and treated in the Department of Thyroid Surgery of The First Hospital of Jilin University, were reviewed in order to summarize the clinicopathological features relevant to the diagnosis and prognosis of this disease, and the current optimal treatment strategy.

Materials and methods

Patient selection

A total of three major databases in China, VIP Journal Integration Platform (qikan.cqvip.com), China Knowledge Resource Integrated Database (www.cnki.net), and Wanfang Data (www.wanfangdata.com.cn), were searched (2 December 2015) using the key words ‘parathyroid cancer’ and ‘parathyroid tumor’. Subsequent to removing duplicate records or those with incomplete information, a final list of archived cases (n=226) from across China, and which contained detailed information, were obtained. These cases were then combined with the 8 cases of PC that had been diagnosed and managed in The First Hospital of Jilin University, and analyzed in the present retrospective study. All cases included in the present study were in one of the following categories: i) Patients who were diagnosed with parathyroid cancer (18) [including patients who exhibited macroscopic evidence of a parathyroid tumor with a fibrotic capsule and surrounding adhesions, and for whom the histopathological criteria for parathyroid cancer (trabecular pattern, thick fibrous trabeculae, mitotic figures, capsular or vascular invasion and/or lymph node invasion) were subsequently confirmed; patients with a locally invasive tumor; and/or patients with distant metastasis]; or ii) patients who developed local recurrence or nodal and/or distant metastases, and who were initially classified as having benign disease on histology during follow-up (5,6). All the identified cases were from large teaching hospitals affiliated to medical universities in China.

Data extraction

The physical and clinicopathological features that were retrieved for the patients included sex, age, preoperative symptoms and their duration, clinical classification, correct diagnosis vs. incorrect diagnosis, tumor location, type of initial surgery, intraoperative diagnosis, recurrence, follow-up (using patient records), reoperation and outcome. Surgical treatments for primary and recurrent tumors included parathyroidectomy and radical resection. Parathyroidectomy was undertaken to remove the primary tumor, and radical resection also included the ipsilateral parathyroid glands with the surrounding hemithyroid and lymphatic tissues, the unilateral/ipsilateral central compartment and the involved surrounding structures.

Statistical analysis

Data analyses were performed using SPSS software, version 21.0 (IBM Corp., Armonk, NY, USA). Patients who succumbed without PC recurrence were censored for the disease-specific survival analysis.

The 5- and 10-year disease-free and disease-specific survival rates were estimated using the Kaplan-Meier method, and univariate comparisons of survival time by covariate patterns were evaluated using a log-rank test. Cox proportional hazards analysis was used to study the effects of prognostic factors on the disease-free and disease-specific survival times. P<0.05 was considered to indicate a statistically significant difference.

Results

PC incidence exhibits a temporally increasing trend

From the three databases in China, 61 PC-relevant medical publications, including 42 case reports and 19 short original articles from between 1984 and 2015, were identified. These publications, in addition to the 8 cases treated at our hospital, included a total of 234 cases of PC from 60 large teaching hospitals affiliated to medical universities in China (Table I). To study the diagnosis and management of PC in China during the past 32 years, the 234 cases were divided into 5 subgroups based on the date of diagnosis (Fig. 1). Patients diagnosed prior to 1995 were pooled, and then those diagnosed during each subsequent 5-year interval (between 1996 and 2015) were grouped. The data indicated an apparent increase in the number of diagnosed PC cases, from 13 cases between 1996 and 2000 to >100 cases between 2011 and 2015 (Fig. 1).

Table I.

Clinicopathological characteristics of patients with parathyroid carcinoma.

Table I.

Clinicopathological characteristics of patients with parathyroid carcinoma.

VariableValue
Total patients, n234
Sex, n
  Male120
  Female114
Age, years
  Median45.5
  Range18–78
Site of primary tumor, n
  Left upper10
  Right upper19
  Left lower91
  Right lower114
Pre-diagnosis duration
  Mean19.58 months
  Longest9 years
Clinical classification, n (%)
  Bone type93 (39.74)
  Renal type16 (6.84)
  Mixed84 (34.62)
  Others41 (17.52)
Cases of distant metastasis, n (%)a35
  Lung14 (40.00)
  Bone9 (25.71)
  Mediastinum1 (2.86)
  Multiple organs11 (31.43)
Initial surgery, number of cases (%)
  Radical resection141 (60.26)
  Parathyroidectomy93 (39.74)
Recurrence
  Total, n91
  Following radical resection
    Number of cases37
    Disease-free period36 monthsb
  Following parathyroidectomy
    Number of cases54
    Disease-free period24 monthsb

a Percentage of metastatic cases

b median.

Clinical features

Among the patients, 120 were males and 114 were females, and the male/female ratio was ~1:1. The median age at diagnosis was 45.5 years (range, 18–78 years). The average diameter of the tumors was 3.21±1.16 cm, and the average disease course was 19.58 months in duration, with a maximum time prior to diagnosis of 9 years. There were various subtypes among the study population, which included bone, renal, mixed or other subtypes, and were defined according to the signs and symptoms of pHPT caused by PC (18). ‘Bone subtype’ refers to bone-associated complications, among which the most common type of bone disease in pHPT is osteitis fibrosacystica (19), which results in pain and occasionally pathological fractures. Other bone diseases associated with pHPT include osteoporosis, osteomalacia and arthritis. ‘Renal subtype’ refers to kidney stones, nephrocalcinosis and diabetes insipidus (polyuria and polydipsia); these may ultimately lead to renal failure. The ‘mixed’ subtype consists of both the bone and renal subtypes. Finally, the ‘other’ subtype consists of nonspecific gastrointestinal, cardiovascular and neuromuscular dysfunction and asymptomatic pHPT. In the present study, various clinical classifications were identified, with the bone and mixed subtypes accounting for 39.74 and 34.62% of cases, respectively, while 16 cases were recorded as renal and 41 cases as other subtypes. The majority of the 234 PCs were observed in the bilateral lower parathyroid regions, with 114 in the lower right and 91 in the lower left, whereas there were only 29 cases exhibiting tumors in the upper parathyroid region.

Of the 234 patients with PC, a large proportion (191 cases) were misdiagnosed prior to surgery; misdiagnoses included rheumatoid arthritis, urinary stones, bone tumors, pathological fractures, osteoporosis, gout, myeloma, ankylosing spondylitis, osteomyelitis, gastroenteritis, bone tuberculosis, neurosis, weakness, menopausal syndrome, thyroid cancer or pancreatitis. Intraoperative diagnosis performed on the frozen sections did not improve the diagnosis, with only 17 out of the 113 examined being correctly diagnosed. The use of fine-needle aspirate for cytology was prohibited in order to avoid seeding the tumor (5).

Distant metastasis occurred in 35 cases, including 10 patients who exhibited metastatic tumors prior to the first surgery, and did not demonstrate a decrease in serum calcium following the surgery. Metastatic tumors were identified in the lungs (14 cases), bone (9 cases), mediastinum (1 case) and multiple organs (11 cases).

Radical resection reduces recurrence and metastasis

Surgery was performed as the first-line therapy in all 234 patients; 141 of them were treated by radical resection, in which the primary tumor, ipsilateral thyroid, surrounding lymph nodes and involved structures were completely removed. The other 93 patients were managed by parathyroidectomy or palliative resection. The advantages of radical resection in reducing the probability of recurrence and prolonging patient survival over other surgical strategies were significant (log-rank, 20.956; P<0.001); the median disease-free survival time was increased in patients treated by radical resection compared with those treated by parathyroidectomy (132 vs. 36 months, respectively; Fig. 2; Table II). However, no significant variation in the disease-specific survival between the two surgical strategies was observed (log-rank, 0.021; P=0.885; Fig. 3; Table III).

Table II.

Effect of initial surgery on the probability of recurrence.

Table II.

Effect of initial surgery on the probability of recurrence.

Surgery typeTotal patients, nCases of recurrence, n (%)Pearson's χ2P-value
Parathyroidectomy8754 (62.07)23.33<0.001
Radical resection12837 (28.91)

[i] Only the 215 patients with available follow-up data were included.

Table III.

Effect of initial surgeries on the disease-specific survival.

Table III.

Effect of initial surgeries on the disease-specific survival.

Surgery typeTotal patients, nMortalities, n (%)Pearson's χ2P-value
Parathyroidectomy879 (10.34)0.230.885
Radical resection12816 (12.50)

[i] Only the 215 patients with available follow-up data were included.

Reoperation increases survival subsequent to PC recurrence

Of all the patients, 91 experienced recurrent PC, with frequent involvement of the surrounding thyroid gland, trachea, esophagus and strap muscles. Relapse occurred, on average, at 12 months following surgery, but the longest period of time prior to relapse was 132 months. A total of 65 patients among the 91 cases of recurrence underwent additional surgeries (8 times in one particular case), and 46 patients responded (hypercalcemia and elevated PTH returned to normal levels). Among all 91 cases of recurrence, 25 patients succumbed to PC, including 11/65 in the surgical group and 14/26 in the non-surgical group (Table IV). The data indicated that multiple surgeries on patients with disease recurrence significantly increased their disease-specific survival time (Fig. 4; log-rank, 35.322; P<0.001).

Table IV.

Effects of surgical treatment following recurrence (n=91) on patient outcomes.

Table IV.

Effects of surgical treatment following recurrence (n=91) on patient outcomes.

TreatmentTotal patients, nMortalities, n (%)Pearson's χ2P-value
Surgical6511 (16.92)12.71<0.001
Non-surgical2614 (53.85)
Other factors affecting recurrence and survival following PC surgery

The effects of other factors on the disease-free survival were assessed by log-rank test, but no statistically significant associations were identified for age (log-rank, 0.280; P=0.596), sex (log-rank, 3.233; P=0.072) or duration of the preoperative period (log-rank, 0.070; P=0.792). In addition, no significant association was observed between the disease-specific survival and age (log-rank, 0.012; P=0.912), sex (log-rank 0.074; P=0.786) or preoperative duration of disease (log-rank, 3.438; P=0.064; data not shown).

To further confirm these results, sex, age, preoperative duration, recurrence, reoperation, distant metastasis and radical surgery were assessed for their association with PC recurrence and survival using a multivariate Cox proportional hazards analysis. Radical resection was found to be an independent factor associated with decreased PC recurrence (P=0.030). Notably, male sex was associated with an increased mortality rate compared with female sex (P=0.040), while reoperation was associated with an increased survival rate (P=0.030; Table V).

Table V.

Multivariate Cox proportional hazards analysis.

Table V.

Multivariate Cox proportional hazards analysis.

95% CI for Exp (B)

VariableBSEWaldP-valueExp(B)LowerUpper
Survival
  Sex−1.610.813.990.040.200.040.96
  Age0.010.030.080.771.010.951.07
  Preoperative duration−0.250.181.880.170.780.551.11
  Recurrence status−2.44131.410.000.980.080.00184.90
  Reoperation−2.641.254.460.030.070.010.826
  Distant metastasis12.27100.780.020.90316.120.00325.28
  Radical surgery−0.090.670.020.880.900.243.38
Recurrence
  Sex−0.270.360.590.440.760.371.52
  Age0.010.010.040.841.000.971.03
  Preoperative duration−0.140.131.230.260.860.671.11
  Radical surgery−0.740.354.660.030.470.230.93

[i] B, partial regression coefficients; SE, standard error of the partial regression coefficients; Wald, χ2 value; Exp (B), relative hazard ratio; CI, confidence interval.

Prognosis

Follow-up information was available for 215 cases. The patients were followed up for ≤15 years (mean, 3.73 years), and 25 succumbed to PC. The cumulative 5- and 10-year disease-specific survival rates were 83 and 67%, respectively.

Discussion

The rate of parathyroid cancer misdiagnosis remains high. Since the first study investigating PC (de Quervain, 1904) (19), >1,000 cases of this rare cancer have been identified in the literature (2,3,8,20,21). However, the knowledge of this malignancy remains limited, and additional studies are required to improve understanding and increase awareness of this disease. In the present study, 234 cases of PC that were diagnosed and managed in 60 hospitals across China were collectively analyzed to screen for clinicopathological features that may potentially assist in the diagnosis and treatment of this malignancy, and to identify optimal therapeutic strategies.

The data obtained from the present study indicated a marked increase in the number of PC cases identified in China over 32 years (Fig. 1). This may suggest the rising incidence of PC with industrialization, as documented for other types of cancer (22,23), but may be due to advances in diagnosis. The routinization of blood calcium testing allows incidental and symptom-independent diagnosis of hyperparathyroidism (24). Apart from an excessive secretion of parathyroid hormone and hypercalcemia, that clinical features that are indicative of PC include the following: A palpable neck mass (>3 cm); hyperparathyroidism concomitant with jaw tumor; hoarseness and/or neck pain; an albumin-corrected calcium level >3 mmol/l; infiltration and/or calcification visible on neck ultrasound; PTH levels >3 times the upper limit of normal; local invasion and metastasis observed intraoperatively or on sestamibi parathyroid scintigraphy and/or computed tomography scans; significant bone and kidney involvement; and a family history of hyperparathyroidism-jaw tumor syndrome (24). The data from the present study suggested that intraoperative diagnosis on frozen sections did not assist in distinguishing benign from malignant disease, which was consistent with a previous study (25). A definitive diagnosis requires evidence of vascular invasion, perineural invasion, capsular penetration into the adjacent structures, and metastases (26,27).

As the genetic features of the 234 patients in the present study were not recorded and not available in the databases, the molecular mechanisms driving tumorigenesis remain unclear. In previous studies, >70% of cases of sporadic PC were identified to have mutations in the cell division cycle 73 (CDC73) gene (13,14,28). Immunohistochemically, the loss of the expression of parafibromin (encoded by CDC73), retinoblastoma protein, p27, Bcl-2-α, mouse double minute 2 homolog and adenomatous polyposis coli gene, and elevation of galectin-3, tumor protein 53 and proliferation marker protein Ki-67 (>5%) have been demonstrated (24). In particular, parafibromin, galectin-3 and Bcl-2-α are the most useful ancillary biomarkers (29).

The present study indicates that initial radical resection is essential to reduce the recurrence of PC. Due to the difficulties in the diagnosis of PC, the intraoperative assessment by the surgeon of the local invasion of surrounding structures determines whether the lesion is malignant, and what the optimal surgical procedure is. Therefore, the adjacent structures such as the ipsilateral thyroid lobe and thymus, paratracheal alveolar tissue and lymph nodes, require careful inspection and removal, if necessary, to minimize the chance of tumor cells remaining within the body (7,24,30). In general, radical resection of the tumor with safe margins is the first-line therapy of choice (31). Among the 234 patients in the present study, 60.26% underwent radical resection, and these patients experienced a lower rate of recurrence compared with those who underwent parathyroidectomy only (Table II; Fig. 2). Failure to perform radical resection was an independent risk factor for PC recurrence (Table V). However, radical resection did not confer an overall survival advantage for the patients compared with parathyroidectomy (Table III; Fig. 3). This is consistent with previous results in which no difference in survival was observed between simple excision and en bloc resection (7,32). However, local resection becomes problematic when tumor spillage and parathyromatosis are involved (30). Similarly, Koea and Shaw (6) demonstrated that en bloc resection of the tumor at first presentation was associated with an improved local disease control, and their data also indicated that radical resection significantly improved long-term survival.

Recurrence of PC often occurs around 3 years after the first surgery (7,30). Although the resection of metastatic tumors rarely offers the possibility of cure, removal of the recurrent or metastatic tumors relieves suffering. Patients with PC undergo, on average, two to three surgeries during the course of their disease (33), and extensive neck and mediastinal exploration are recommended in cases of local recurrence. Surgical resection is also recommended to control hypercalcemia, particularly for those with local recurrence or limited distant metastases (34).

Lung metastasis is common in PC, and the resection of pulmonary metastases can result in long-term remission of PC (1,30,35,36). When metastasis is identified toward the lateral neck lymph nodes, dissection of the level II–V lymph nodes should be performed. In cases of mediastinal lymph node or limited lung involvement, laparoscopic or open surgery should be considered (7,24,30). In the present study, a total of 329 parathyroid surgeries were performed on the 234 patients with PC (an average of 1.41 surgeries per patient). Reoperation significantly prolonged the survival of the patients with recurrence (Table IV; Fig. 4). Male sex and lack of reoperation following recurrence were independent negative risk factors for patient survival (Table V).

In summary, in the present study, 234 PC cases during a 32-year period in China were collected, and their diagnosis, treatment and clinical outcomes were analyzed. The data suggested that PC has primarily been misdiagnosed in China due to its sporadic occurrence and the lack of awareness. Radical resection as the first-line therapy significantly reduced the chance of tumor recurrence. Following recurrence, reoperation represents an ideal approach to inhibit cancer progression and improve the clinical outcome.

Acknowledgements

The present study was financially supported by the Department of Health, Jilin Province, China, awarded to Guang Chen (grant no. 2010Z100).

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Wang, P., Xue, S., Wang, S., Lv, Z., Meng, X., Wang, G. ... Chen, G. (2017). Clinical characteristics and treatment outcomes of parathyroid carcinoma: A retrospective review of 234 cases. Oncology Letters, 14, 7276-7282. https://doi.org/10.3892/ol.2017.7076
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Wang, P., Xue, S., Wang, S., Lv, Z., Meng, X., Wang, G., Meng, W., Liu, J., Chen, G."Clinical characteristics and treatment outcomes of parathyroid carcinoma: A retrospective review of 234 cases". Oncology Letters 14.6 (2017): 7276-7282.
Chicago
Wang, P., Xue, S., Wang, S., Lv, Z., Meng, X., Wang, G., Meng, W., Liu, J., Chen, G."Clinical characteristics and treatment outcomes of parathyroid carcinoma: A retrospective review of 234 cases". Oncology Letters 14, no. 6 (2017): 7276-7282. https://doi.org/10.3892/ol.2017.7076