• J. Thorac. Cardiovasc. Surg. · Apr 2020

    Effect of time to surgery on outcomes in stage I esophageal adenocarcinoma.

    • Vignesh Raman, Oliver K Jawitz, Soraya L Voigt, Chi-Fu J Yang, Hanghang Wang, David H Harpole, and Thomas A D'Amico.
    • Division of Cardiovascular and Thoracic Surgery, Department of Surgery, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, NC. Electronic address: vignesh.raman@duke.edu.
    • J. Thorac. Cardiovasc. Surg. 2020 Apr 1; 159 (4): 1626-1635.e1.

    BackgroundThere are limited data on the safe interval from diagnosis to surgery in patients with stage I esophageal adenocarcinoma. We hypothesized that increased time to surgery would be associated with worse survival and increased nodal upstaging.MethodsThe National Cancer Database was used to identify patients with cT1N0M0 esophageal adenocarcinoma (2004-2015) who underwent esophagectomy without induction therapy. The primary outcome was survival, and the secondary outcomes were the rate of margin-positive resection and pathologic nodal upstaging. Time to surgery was modeled as a categoric variable, dividing patients into quartiles (Q1-4), and as a continuous variable using piecewise linear splines centered on 50 and 100 days.ResultsA total of 2495 patients met study criteria. When examined in quartiles, there was no difference in survival between groups based on time to surgery in both unadjusted and multivariable analyses. As a continuous variable, increasing time to surgery less than 50 days was associated with improved survival (hazard ratio, 0.99; 95% confidence interval, 0.98-1.00), and time to surgery greater than 100 days was associated with worse survival (hazard ratio, 1.00; 95% confidence interval, 1.00-1.01) and increased margin-positive resection (odds ratio, 1.01; 95% confidence interval, 1.00-1.02). Treatment at a high-volume center, government insurance, and diagnosis and treatment at different centers were associated with surgery beyond 100 days.ConclusionsIncreasing time to surgery greater than 100 days is associated with worse outcomes in patients with stage I esophageal adenocarcinoma. In this patient population, esophagectomy should be offered as soon as safely possible.Copyright © 2019 The American Association for Thoracic Surgery. Published by Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.

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