To better understand factors that promote and foster resilience among young refugees, in this manuscript, we aimed to critically review the progress in research on refugee children and youth's resilience from the vantagepoint of young refugee participants and prominent researchers. In doing so, the present critical review synthesizes exemplary findings from illustrative lines of work, discussing controversies and lessons learned from these studies, and offering implications for practice and future science. Overall, reviewed studies of mass trauma related to war from many different Western postmigration contexts point to a fundamental set of adaptive systems across multiple levels of the ecology in which refugee children and youth live that account for much of their capacity for doing well, recovering, or even thriving following resettlement. Hence, this critical review further provides important clues to key protective factors in the lives of young refugees, which can inform both practice and policy to mitigate risk and promote resilience in multiple socioecological systems. Public Significance StatementThis review article advances our knowledge of a host of biological, psychological, social, and cultural determinants of resilience, which interact with one another across multiple levels of social and ecological contexts to determine young refugees' adaptive responds to stressful experiences in the context of war, migration, and resettlement. Accordingly, it promotes a perspective with emphasis on the potential of host societies to facilitate the mobilization of human agency and physical resources.
505 Background: Complete resection followed by adjuvant chemotherapy is standard of care for patients with localized cholangiocarcinoma (CC) or gallbladder cancer (GBC) but is not always feasible and recurrence rates remain high. Understanding the exact proportions and reasons for treatment failure is important to design new approaches, data regarding this information remain scarce. Methods: We performed a retrospective population-based review of patients with GBC or CC (intrahepatic (ICC) or extrahepatic (ECC)) resected between 2005-2019 using the BC Cancer provincial database. Chart review was conducted to characterize demographics, treatments and outcomes. Results: 594 patients were identified of whom 416 (70%) had disease recurrence. Baseline characteristics and treatments received are shown in the table. Most GBCs (96%) were diagnosed incidentally. Repeat oncologic resection was performed for 55% of these, the most common reason for not proceeding was interval disease progression between initial cholecystectomy and planned re-resection (24%). Adjuvant chemotherapy was received by 51% of 163 patients after 2017 and consisted of capecitabine (86%), gemcitabine (4%), cisplatin and gemcitabine (5%) or chemoradiation (4%). Common reasons for not receiving adjuvant therapy were post op complications or comorbidities (18 and 24%), progression (17%) and patient’s preference (17%). Of those receiving adjuvant therapy, 31% did not complete all planned cycles due to progression (45%) or intolerance (55%). Median overall survival (OS) after resection was 31.6 and 18.0 months respectively for R0 and R1 resection (HR 0.43, 95% CI 0.35-0.53), 29.4 and 19.0 months with and without reresection for GBC (HR 0.55, 95% CI 0.41-0.73), and 29.4 and 25.9 months with and without adjuvant therapy (HR 0.79, 95% CI 0.61-1.02). Stage, R0 resection, re-resection for GBC and adjuvant chemotherapy remained associated with improved OS in multivariate analysis. Taken together, only 25% of patients in the more contemporary cohort of 2017-2019 had complete (R0) resection and completed adjuvant chemotherapy. Conclusions: Complete resection, including reresection for incidentally diagnosed GBCs, and adjuvant chemotherapy were associated with improved outcomes in this retrospective cohort, yet many patients were not able to complete these treatments. Neoadjuvant strategies may improve treatment delivery and ultimately, outcomes. [Table: see text]
522 Background: While only accounting for 3% of gastrointestinal malignancies, cholangiocarcinoma (CC) has poor prognosis. New targeted therapies are on the horizon and understanding the potential size of the population eligible for such therapies is of importance. Contemporary incidence and outcomes in Canada have not been studied. Methods: Patients diagnosed with CC between 2005-2019 in British Columbia were identified using the BC Cancer Registry. Patient characteristics, treatments received and outcomes were collected and analyzed. Results: A total of 1520 patients were identified. Median age at diagnosis was 69 (interquartile 61-76) and 52% were female, 594 patients presented with localized disease (39%) of whom 416 had disease recurrence. The proportion of intrahepatic CC (ICC) rose from 17% in 2005-2009 to 44% in 2015-2019 while the incidence of extrahepatic (ECC) and gallbladder (GB) cancers followed populational trends. More patients with ICC had stage IV cancer at the time of diagnosis (64% vs 43% for ECC and 45% for GB, p<0.01). Treatments received are shown in the table. Among 1086 patients with recurrent or metastatic disease, 54% and 14% respectively received first- and second-line chemotherapy. Overall survival (OS) was 13.7 months [HR 0.43 (95% CI 0.37-0.49)] with 1 line of treatment and 21.3 months with 2 lines [HR 0.30 (95% CI 0.24-0.37)], compared to 4.8 months with best supportive care. On multivariate analysis, ECOG, first and second-line treatment and liver-directed therapy remained associated with improved outcomes while tumor site or time period did not. Conclusions: The incidence of CC is rising and most patients present with advanced disease. Treatment attrition is high and few patients receive second line therapies. The outcomes of patients receiving first line, second line and liver-directed therapies are significantly better than those receiving supportive care only. Understanding contemporary trends in presentation and treatment patterns is essential as we consider strategies to improve implementation and access of emerging novel therapies in this setting. [Table: see text]
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