Correlations of age with clinicopathological features, perioperative outcomes and the prognosis in patients with colorectal cancer : a Japanese multicenter study

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PURPOSE: Colorectal cancer is not common in patients under 40 years old, and its associations with clinical features and the prognosis remain uncertain.

METHODS: Using a multicenter database, we retrospectively reviewed 3015 patients who underwent colorectal surgery between 2016 and 2021. Patients were divided by age into those < 40 years old (young; n = 52), 40-54 years old (middle-aged; n = 254) and > 54 years old (old; n = 2709). We then investigated age-related differences in clinicopathological features, perioperative outcomes and the prognosis.

RESULTS: The proportion of young patients increased annually from 0.63% in 2016 to 2.10% in 2021. Female patients were more frequent, the performance status was better, tumors were larger, clinically node-positive and poorly differentiated adenocarcinomas were more frequent, postoperative complications were less frequent, and the hospital stay was shorter in young patients than in older patients. Young age was an independent predictor of a low risk of postoperative complications (odds ratio, 0.204; 95% confidence interval, 0.049-0.849; p = 0.028). With pathologically node-positive status, adjuvant chemotherapy was more frequent in young patients (100%) than in middle-aged (73.7%) or old (51.8%) patients (p < 0.001), and the 3-year relapse-free survival was better in the young group than in others.

CONCLUSION: Despite higher rates of advanced tumors in younger patients, adequate adjuvant chemotherapy appears to improve the relapse-free survival.

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E-Artikel

Erscheinungsjahr:

2024

Erschienen:

2024

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Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:54

Enthalten in:

Surgery today - 54(2024), 4 vom: 07. Apr., Seite 310-316

Sprache:

Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

Tominaga, Tetsuro [VerfasserIn]
Nonaka, Takashi [VerfasserIn]
Hashimoto, Shintaro [VerfasserIn]
Shiraishi, Toshio [VerfasserIn]
Noda, Keisuke [VerfasserIn]
Hisanaga, Makoto [VerfasserIn]
Takeshita, Hiroaki [VerfasserIn]
Fukuoka, Hidetoshi [VerfasserIn]
Sawai, Terumitsu [VerfasserIn]
Nagayasu, Takeshi [VerfasserIn]

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Colorectal cancer
Journal Article
Multicenter Study
Prognosis
Young

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Date Completed 22.03.2024

Date Revised 27.04.2024

published: Print-Electronic

Citation Status MEDLINE

doi:

10.1007/s00595-023-02724-7

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PPN (Katalog-ID):

NLM35950776X