• Annals of surgery · Dec 2015

    New 3-Tiered Circumferential Resection Margin Criteria in Esophageal Squamous Cell Carcinoma.

    • Geun Dong Lee, Seung Eun Lee, Kyoung-Mee Kim, Yong-Hee Kim, Joong Hyun Ahn, Sinho Jung, Yoon-La Choi, Kim Hyeong Ryul HR, Seung-Il Park, and Young Mog Shim.
    • *Department of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery, Asan Medical Center, University of Ulsan College of Medicine, Seoul,Republic of Korea †Department of Pathology and Translational Genomics, Samsung Medical Center, Sungkyunkwan University School of Medicine, Seoul, Republic of Korea ‡Biostatistics and Clinical Epidemiology Center, Samsung Medical Center, Seoul,Republic of Korea and Department of Biostatistics and Bioinformatics, Duke University, Durham, NC §Department of Thoracic Surgery, Samsung Medical Center, Sungkyunkwan University School of Medicine, Seoul, Republic of Korea.
    • Ann. Surg. 2015 Dec 1; 262 (6): 965-71.

    ObjectiveWe aimed to investigate the optimal cutoff value of circumferential resection margin (CRM) of esophageal squamous cell carcinoma (ESCC) in patients who underwent radical esophagectomy.BackgroundTumor involvement of a CRM in ESCC has not been clearly defined.MethodsWe reviewed 479 pT3 ESCC patients to find the optimal cutoff point of distance from CRM in addition to 0 μm for discriminating survival time.ResultsThe partitions at and near the 500 μm distance from CRM generated the largest log-rank statistics (P = 0.0086). Therefore, we added 500 μm as an additional cutoff value for a positive CRM. Compared to patients with CRM greater than 500 μm, patients with CRM 0 μm showed worse overall survival (P < 0.001) and progression-free survival (P < 0.001), followed by patients with 0 to 500 μm (P = 0.008 and 0.066, respectively). In multivariable analyses, overall survival differences remained significant [0 < CRM ≤ 500 μm vs CRM > 500 μm, hazards ratio (HR) = 1.875, 97.5% CI: 1.243-2.829, P = 0.002; CRM = 0 μm vs CRM > 500 μm, HR = 2.666, 97.5% CI: 1.745-4.076, P < 0.001]. In comparison of criteria from the College of American Pathologists, the Royal College of Pathologists, and this study, HRs of positive CRM (95% CI, P-value) were 1.969 (1.501-2.584, P < 0.001), 1.384 (1.039-1.844, P = 0.027), and 1.696 (1.342-2.143, P < 0.001), respectively.ConclusionsIn patients with ESCC, we developed new, 3-tiered CRM criteria providing more detailed prognostic information than the 2-tiered criteria.

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