Early Age of Onset, Multiple Primary Malignancies and Poor Prognosis Are Indicative of an Inherited Predisposition to Esophageal Squamous Cell Carcinoma in Familial Rather Than Sporadic Disease- An Update Based on 14- to 23-year Follow-up

摘要

OBJECTIVE To demonstrate the effects of an inheritedpredisposition to familial esophageal squamous cellcarcinoma (ESCC) through the comparison and analysis of theclinicopathologic differences between familial and sporadic ESCCcases.METHODS Differences in age of onset, prevalence rates ofdouble primary ESCC, and survival rates between familial ESCC (n= 476) and sporadic ESCC cases (n = 1226) were analyzed.RESULTS Overall, familial ESCC cases showed a significantlyyounger age of onset (51.9 ± 8.2 vs. 53.4 ± 8.0, P_(t-test) = 0.00), asignificantly higher prevalence rate for double ESCC (2.73 % vs.1.22%, adjusted with TNM:χ_(MH)~2= 4.029, P = 0.045), and a lowersurvival rate than in sporadic cases (P_(wald) = 0.04). The familial casesshowed both a younger age of onset and poorer survival in mostsubgroups, and the differences were more marked in early-stagerather than in the late-stage disease groups.CONCLUSION Theses findings confirm the existence of familialas opposed to sporadic ESCC. By the theory of the 'two-hit' originof cancer, these findings also suggest that the 'first hit', a geneticpredisposition, can affect the age of onset, number of primarycarcinomas, and the prognosis for familial ESCC patients.