Patients with congenital heart disease (CHD) seem to have a higher risk for specific malignancies. We hypothesize a pathogenetic link between particular congenital heart defects and cancer originating from specific cellular lineages. We report a series of patients, followed in two high-volume referral centers, with CHD involving neural crest-derived structures who developed cancer later in life. Fourteen patients (five female) developed neoplasia with a cellular origin embryologically linked to the neural crest between 2010 and 2020. If confirmed on larger datasets, this observation might support the hypothesis of common embryogenetic pathway suggesting tailored surveillance of a specific subset of patients.

Oncogenesis in patients with congenital heart disease: A possible role of the neural crest / Ferrero, Paolo; Piazza, Isabelle; Giamberti, Alessandro; Chessa, Massimo. - In: ANNALS OF PEDIATRIC CARDIOLOGY. - ISSN 0974-2069. - 15:3(2022), pp. 273-275. [10.4103/apc.apc_213_21]

Oncogenesis in patients with congenital heart disease: A possible role of the neural crest

Chessa, Massimo
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2022-01-01

Abstract

Patients with congenital heart disease (CHD) seem to have a higher risk for specific malignancies. We hypothesize a pathogenetic link between particular congenital heart defects and cancer originating from specific cellular lineages. We report a series of patients, followed in two high-volume referral centers, with CHD involving neural crest-derived structures who developed cancer later in life. Fourteen patients (five female) developed neoplasia with a cellular origin embryologically linked to the neural crest between 2010 and 2020. If confirmed on larger datasets, this observation might support the hypothesis of common embryogenetic pathway suggesting tailored surveillance of a specific subset of patients.
2022
Cancer
congenital heart disease
neural crest
oncogenesis
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