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Article history: Adenocarcinoma, neuroendocrine tumours, sarcomas and lymphomas are the four most
Received 6 November 2013 common malignant tumours arising in the small intestine, although over forty different
Accepted 16 February 2014 histological subtypes are described. Collectively these account for only 2% of cancers of the
Available online xxx digestive system. The incidence of small bowel cancer has increased in recent decades
with a four-fold increase in carcinoid tumours. Risk factors for small bowel tumours
Keywords: include coeliac disease, inflammatory bowel disease and a number of genetic abnormal-
Small bowel cancer ities. The non-specific nature of their symptoms and the difficulty in visualising these
Small bowel tumours tumours with normal endoscopic techniques often results in late diagnosis. Furthermore
Adenocarcinoma the paucity of literature on this topic has made it difficult to standardise management.
Carcinoid tumours There has however been marked improvement in imaging methods resulting in earlier
Gastrointestinal stromal tumours diagnosis in many cases. As expected, early detection of localised, well differentiated tu-
Diagnosis of small bowel tumours mours followed by surgical resection with negative margins offers the best chance of long
Management of small bowel term survival. Better adjuvant treatment, notably for gastrointestinal stromal tumours, has
tumours improved 5-year survival rates significantly. Development of surveillance guidelines for at
risk populations may be a valuable way of improving early diagnosis of this challenging
group of conditions.
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higher in North America and Western Europe than in Asia,3 duodenal adenomatosis with 3e5% developing duodenal
with higher incidence rates in US black populations for both cancer.15
males and females.
The incidence of small bowel cancer is increasing, partic-
ularly the incidence of carcinoid tumours.4 The mean age at Hereditary non-polyposis colorectal cancer
diagnosis of any small bowel cancer is 65 but sarcoma and
lymphoma tend to present earlier than adenocarcinoma and HNPCC, another autosomal dominant condition, is caused by
carcinoid tumours. The incidence rises after the age of 40 a germline mutation in the Mut S homologue 2 (hMSH2) or Mut
years for all histological subtypes.5 It is not uncommon for the L homologue 1 (hMLH1) mismatch repair gene.16 Patients with
small bowel to be the site of metastasis from another primary HNPCC have a relative risk of small bowel cancer of more than
particularly in advanced peritoneal carcinomatosis, however, 100 compared to the general population, with the risk reported
haematogenous spread is rare, most common attributable to to be higher in MLH1 mutation carriers than in those with
melanoma and breast or lung cancers.6 MSH2 mutations.17
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activity correlating with lower malignant potential.47 Staging endoscopic placement of a stent to treat obstruction in
is by an AJCC staging system specific to GIST. endoscopically accessible lesions.60
Carcinoid tumours are usually definitively identified by
positive immunohistochemistry (IHC) staining for synapto- Carcinoid
physin or chromogranin.48 Grossly, they appear as yellow or
tan intramural or submucosal polypoid masses. Histologically 40% of patients with midgut carcinoid tumours have a second
they are composed of islands of uniform cells with scant GI tract malignancy so comprehensive evaluation of the entire
cytoplasm and a round to oval stippled nucleus. Carcinoid small bowel, colon and rectum is warranted prior to surgery.61
tumours tend to be more indolent than adenocarcinoma49 and Surgical resection of small bowel carcinoids of any size should
have a separate TNM staging system. include en-bloc resection of adjacent mesentery and lymph
nodes with negative resection margins.62 In metastatic carci-
noid disease, resection of hepatic metastasis prolongs disease
Treatment free survival63 with some evidence that patients with isolated
liver metastasis may benefit from orthotopic liver trans-
Adenocarcinoma plantation.64 Surgery is rarely possible in patients with carci-
noid syndrome as it is usually associated with extensive
Currently the only option available when treating patients metastatic disease, but debulking surgery is sometimes
with curative intent is surgical resection. Resection removes possible and may provide short term relief. Special attention
both the primary and regional lymph nodes and allows ac- should be paid in the perioperative period due to the risk of
curate staging and guides to determine the need for adjuvant precipitating carcinoid crisis during induction of anaesthesia
therapy. Jejunal and ileal tumours are treated with wide or while mobilising the tumour. Perioperative octreotide can
resection removing both the mesentery and lymphatics up to mitigate this risk. Systemic therapy with traditional chemo-
the superior mesenteric vessels. Right hemicolectomy should therapeutic agents for metastatic carcinoid is generally not
be performed for tumours of the distal ileum. The treatment undertaken. Somatostatin analogues are used to control the
of duodenal tumours is more complex. Some early tumours symptoms of carcinoid tumours although they generally do
may be amenable to endoscopic techniques. Larger tumours not reduce tumour volume. Patients with hepatic metastases
of the first and second parts of the duodenum require pan- can be considered for hepatic arterial embolization as a
creaticoduodenectomy whereas more distal duodenal tu- palliative option. Various techniques of embolisation
mours may be amenable to pancreas sparing duodenectomy including chemoembolization or radioembolization with
without reducing survival.50 Limited resection is preferred for yttrium-labeled microspheres have been described.65
tumours of the third or fourth part of the duodenum, provided
negative margins can be achieved.51 Relapse tends to take the Sarcoma
form of peritoneal carcinomatosis, abdominal wall metastasis
and local recurrence.52 It is important to differentiate gastrointestinal stromal tu-
Data regarding the role of adjuvant chemotherapy are mours (GIST) from leiomyosarcomas as the management of
limited, with no evidence of significant benefit in survival in these tumours is very different. Localized GIST and non-GIST
patients with adenocarcinoma of the small intestine treated sarcomas are managed similarly to other tumours with
with adjuvant chemotherapy. An attempted Cochrane review margin negative surgical resection being the primary goal.
in 2007 failed to find any studies eligible for meta-analysis.53 Sarcomas rarely metastasize to lymph nodes so extensive
Despite this, adjuvant chemotherapy is frequently used lymphadenectomy is not necessary. Patients with GISTs
because small bowel cancer tends to recur systemically, greater than 3 cm in diameter are treated with the oral small
similar to CRC, and because colon cancers respond to adju- molecule tyrosine kinase inhibitor imatinib which acts
vant therapy. A 2009 retrospective multicentre study sug- against mutations in KIT and PDGFR-a.66 Tumours that
gested that an adjuvant FOLFOX regimen prolonged overall become resistant to imatinib can be treated with a broader
survival by around 5 months compared to patients treated spectrum tyrosine kinase inhibitor, sunitinib. Non-metastatic,
with other regimens but the findings of this small study were unresectable or borderline resectable tumours can be treated
not statistically significant.54 Neoadjuvant therapy has been with imatinib as a downstaging technique to allow subse-
used in a very small number of patients but has an obvious quent resection.67
appeal in treatment of otherwise unresectable small bowel
adenocarcinomas55 and improves survival.56 Targeted treat- Lymphoma
ment with biological agents including the vascular endothelial
growth factor (VEGF) inhibitor bevacizumab is another Lymphoma is generally diagnosed on the basis of char-
possible avenue.57 The role of more radical resections or aceteristic imaging and confirmed with core biopsy. Unlike
metastasectomy for small bowel adenocarcinoma is unclear most other small bowel tumours, the mainstay of treatment is
but anecdotal reports indicate a possible role for cytoreductive chemotherapy and resection can generally be avoided.
surgery and hyperthermic intraperitoneal chemotherapy.58,59 Resection may be appropriate for those who present with
Palliative radiotherapy is sometimes an option for duodenal perforation, bleeding or obstruction but these patients should
tumours. Patients with incurable disease may be candidates still receive systemic chemotherapy.68 The use of antibiotics
for palliative surgery which may take the form of resectional against helicobacter pylori and campylobacter jejuni may
or bypass procedures. Certain patients may benefit from result in regression of early stage immunoproliferative small
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intestinal disease (IPSID), however, most patients relapse with overall survival with the use of autologous haematopoietic
high grade disease and radiotherapy and/or chemotherapy as cell transplantation.
well as nutritional support is the mainstay of treatment.69e71
Enteropathy associated T cell intestinal lymphoma (EATL) is
treated with combination chemotherapy using anthracyclines Conclusion
such as epirubicin. Autologous haematopoietic cell trans-
plantation (HCT) can be used during the first remission.72 The Small bowel cancers are a rare but increasing cause of
non-IPSID tumours are treated using different combinations gastrointestinal malignancy. Increased use of better cross-
of antibiotics chemotherapy, radiotherapy and immuno- sectional imaging techniques may increase the frequency of
therapy. Regimens involve agents such as rituximab, cyclo- diagnosis at an earlier stage. When symptomatic, their non-
phosphamide, doxorubicin, vincristine and prednisolone specific presentation often results in delayed diagnosis.
(ReCHOP).73 Aside from small bowel lymphoma, the goal of treatment is
margin negative surgical resection. Later stage at presentation
Treatment of metastasis to the small intestine makes curative resection difficult. There is however some
hope that the mortality from these tumours may decrease
Patients with metastases to the small intestine are usually with the growing armamentarium of adjuvant and neo-
diagnosed during surveillance imaging for their primary adjuvant therapies available. The elucidation of risk factors
diagnosis but may rarely present initially with metastatic for these tumours should arouse the clinician’s suspicion in
disease. Palliation is generally the goal of therapy and sys- certain high risk individuals, particularly those with familial
temic chemotherapy is often considered where possible. syndromes, where strong consideration of the possible role of
Where symptomatic, surgical resection, bypass or placement screening should take place.
of an endoscopically inserted stent may be considered.
Prognosis
Acknowledgements
As in most adenocarcinomas, absence of lymph node
involvement is a strong predictor of long term survival in We wish to thank Dr Yvonne McCarthy from the Pathology
small bowel carcinoma74; with stage I disease associated with department in Beaumont Hospital for contributing the gross
five year survival of 65% versus 4% in stage IV disease.75 Five specimen image of the jejunal adenocarcinoma.
year disease specific survival is poorer for tumours arising in
the duodenum as opposed to in the jejunum or ileum. Other
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