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Prospective Study of the Clinical Course, Prognostic Factors, Causes of Death, and Survival in Patients With Long-Standing Zollinger-Ellison Syndrome

From the Digestive Diseases Branch, National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases; Biostatistics and Data Management Section, National Cancer Institute; and Diagnostic Radiology, Warren Grant Magnuson Clinical Center, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD.

Address reprint requests to Dr Robert T. Jensen, National Institutes of Health/National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases/Digestive Diseases Branch, Bldg 10, Rm 9C-103, 10 Center Dr MSC 1804, Bethesda, MD 20892-1804

PURPOSE: The long-term clinical course of unselected patients with gastrinomas as well as other functional pancreatic endocrine tumors (PETs) in whom the excess-hormone state is controlled is largely unknown. To address this issue, patients with gastrinomas were assessed.

PATIENTS AND METHODS: Two hundred twelve patients with Zollinger-Ellison syndrome (ZES) were prospectively studied. All had controlled acid hypersecretion and were assessed yearly, with a mean follow-up period of 13.8 ± 0.6 years (range, 0.1 to 31 years). Annual assessments of possible factors that might affect prognosis or treatment approaches were performed, such as those for tumor size and location; the presence, location, and extent of metastases; and the occurrence of ectopic Cushing's syndrome or another PET syndrome. Deaths were categorized as ZES-related or non–ZES-related and classified into different causes.

RESULTS: Thirty-one percent of patients died, all of non–acid-related causes. One half died of a ZES-related cause; they differed from those who died of non–ZES deaths by having a large primary tumor, more frequently a pancreatic tumor; lymph node, liver, or bone metastases; ectopic Cushing's syndrome; or higher gastrin levels. The extent of liver metastases correlated with survival rate. The presence of liver metastases alone only moderately decreased survival time; however, the additional development of bone metastases or ectopic Cushing's syndrome markedly decreased survival rate.

CONCLUSIONS: In ZES, gastrinoma growth is now the main single determinant of long-term survival, with one half of patients dying a gastrinoma-related death and none an acid-related death. Large primary tumors that are pancreatic in location, the development of liver metastases, (especially if associated with bone metastases or Cushing's syndrome), and the extent of liver metastases are all important prognostic factors. The identification of these factors allows the recognition of subgroups that can be used to tailor antitumor treatment approaches.

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