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Background: Recent clinical guidelines for management of prostate adenocarcinoma are aimed at expanding active surveillance (AS) to include men with intermediate-risk (Gleason score 3+4=7) disease on needle biopsy (NB). However, studies reported a large portion of men with Gleason 3+4=7 prostate cancer on biopsy, that harbored adverse surgical pathologic findings. It remains unclear which subset of intermediate-risk patients with Gleason score 7 cancers can be safely treated with AS. In this study we investigate whether the percentage of Gleason pattern 4 in NB with Gleason score 7 cancers is an indicator for stratifying risk.
Design(s): We retrospectively reviewed our electronic record database for patients that underwent core NB over a 6-year period. We included NB with Gleason score 3+3=6 (G336), 3+4=7 with <5% Gleason pattern 4 (G4%<5) and 3+4=7 with 6-49% maximum Gleason pattern 4 (G4%6-49); all cases had corresponding radical prostatectomy (RP) within 6 months of the biopsy. We defined adverse pathology (AP) as any RP with Gleason score equal to or greater than 4+3=7 and/or stage T3 or higher. We compare AP outcomes in final follow-up RP of three NB groups: G336, G4%<5 and G4%6-49.
Result(s): A total of 289 NB with corresponding radical prostatectomies were identified. The breakdown of Gleason groups is shown in Table 1. GS336 has an AP rate of 26.6%, while G4<5% an AP rate of 20%. In comparison, the group of patients with G4%6-49 exhibited a 42% rate of AP (Table 1). A Chi-square test performed comparing AP of G4%<5 and G%6-49 is statistically significant p= .0237 (Figure 1). Conversely, there is no statistical difference between the rate of AP in G4<5% and G336, p= 0.46. G336 and G4%<5 were aggregated into a new group G%0-5 with an AP rate of 25.2% compared to G%6-10 AP rate 39.6%, p= 0.0576 (Figure 2). G4%6-10 and G4%11-49 had comparable rates of AP, 39.6% and 43.1%, respectively (p=0.681). (Table presented)
Conclusion(s): Currently there is a paradigm shift amongst pathologist and the significance of minimal percentage pattern 4 on prostate biopsies. Our current data supports the recent literature publications that <5% maximal Gleason pattern 4 on a single core has a similar rate of adverse pathological outcomes as Gleason score 3+3=6 and can be considered for AS. Although we did not detect a statistical difference between the rate of AP between G4%0-5 and G4%6-10, the data is beginning to approach statistical significance and warrants further risk stratification

Background & Objectives: Ciliated muconodular papillary tumour (CPMT) is a rare benign lesion, which occurs in the periphery of the lung and is characterised by papillary architecture, intra-alveolar mucin and the presence of non-atypical ciliated-columnar, basal and mucous cells. Since its introduction in 2002 by Ishikawa et al, this entity counts a few reports in the literature, which have primarily occurred in East Asia. Although not in the 2015WHO classification, CPMT represents a frank neoplastic process, harbouring genetic alterations including BRAF and EGFR mutations. The goal of this study was to characterise the clinicopathologic features of CPMT diagnosed at a tertiaty care institution in the U.S.
Method(s): Nine cases with characteristic features of classic and nonclassic CPMT from New York University Tisch Hospital and Bellevue Hospital from 2016 to 2019 were identified. Clinical and pathologic data were reviewed.
Result(s): CPMTs were identified in 3 Male and 6 Female patients, whose age ranged from 47 to 82 years old. The lesions were predominantly found in the right lung and had a median size of 6 mm. Six (6) cases represented classic CPMTs, while 3 cases lacked the full spectrum of CPMT diagnostic features, and were classified as non-classic CPMTs. While in 7 cases, surgical resection was performed due to radiologic diagnosis of a peripheral nodule, in 2 cases, small CPMTs were incidental findings in resections performed for a dominant lesion, which was either adenocarcinoma, non-mucinous type (case 2) or atypical carcinoid (case 8). All lesions showed the characteristic immunohistochemical TTF-1 stain of columnar cells and p63 or p40 stain of basal cells. Two out of four (2/4) cases stained for BRAF-V600E showed uniform staining of all 3 cellular components of the lesion. The data are summarized on Table 1.
Conclusion(s): CPMTs although infrequent are now increasingly recognized and their incidence appears higher than reported in western literature. Interestingly, this self-limited tumour shares similar driver mutations with lung adenocarcinoma. Further studies will include a comprehensive immunohistochemical and molecular characterization of these nine cases and comparison with morphologically similar non-neoplastic processes, like bronchiolar metaplasia