• Annals of surgery · Apr 2002

    Multicenter Study

    Prognostic evaluation of stage B colon cancer patients is improved by an adequate lymphadenectomy: results of a secondary analysis of a large scale adjuvant trial.

    • Mario Prandi, Rita Lionetto, Antonio Bini, Gianfranco Francioni, Giuseppe Accarpio, Antonio Anfossi, Ezio Ballario, Giuseppe Becchi, Stefano Bonilauri, Andrea Carobbi, Paolo Cavaliere, Domenico Garcea, Lucio Giuliani, Eugenio Morziani, Franco Mosca, Antonio Mussa, Massimo Pasqualini, Domenico Poddie, Federico Tonetti, Luciano Zardo, and Riccardo Rosso.
    • Department of General Surgery, Ospedale Infermi, Rimini, Italy. m.prandi@libero.it
    • Ann. Surg. 2002 Apr 1; 235 (4): 458463458-63.

    ObjectiveTo determine if the extent of lymphadenectomy (number of recovered lymph nodes) was associated with long-term outcome in patients operated on for stage B and C colon cancer.Summary Background DataLymphatic spreading is the main prognostic indicator in colon cancer patients, although the optimal extent of lymphadenectomy and its prognostic impact are still unknown.MethodsIn 3,648 patients (median follow-up 3.6 years) enrolled in two consecutive INTACC multicentric trials on adjuvant therapy for colon cancer, we studied the association of the number of recovered nodes with overall survival and relapse free survival by means of univariate and Cox regression analysis.ResultsThe worst overall survival was related to ages > 65 (risk ratio [RR] = 1.30), higher grading (RR = 1.96). Better overall survival was related to female gender (RR = 0.80) and to higher number of recovered nodes (8-12 nodes, RR = 0.46, 13-17 nodes, RR = 0.76, nodes > or = 18, RR = 0.79). The same pattern was observed for relapse free survival. Longer overall and relapse free survival were related to a higher number of recovered nodes with P =.034 and P =.003 respectively (stratified analysis for absence or presence of positive nodes). Stage B patients with fewer than 7 nodes in the specimen had both shorter overall survival (P =.0000) and relapse free survival (P =.0016) than the other B patients. Outcome of stage C patients was not related to the number of recovered nodes (P =.28 and 0.12 respectively). The interaction test between stage of disease and number of recovered nodes was statistically significant (P =.017).ConclusionsStage B patients with a small number of examined nodes may be understaged. Thus, these patients might be considered for adjuvant therapy because of their poorer life expectancy than other stage B patients. For stage C patients, the number of recovered nodes does not seem to affect long-term outcome.

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