Surgery for recurrent colon cancer: Strategies for identifying resectable recurrence and success rates after resection
Surgery for recurrent colon cancer: Strategies for identifying resectable recurrence and success rates after resection
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DOI:
10.7326/0003-4819-129-1-199807010-00007
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发表时间:
1998-07-01
影响因子:
39.2
通讯作者:
Laurie, JA
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作者:
Goldberg, RM;Fleming, TR;Laurie, JA
Background: Follow-up testing after surgery for colon cancer is recommended principally to identify resectable recurrences, but data on the efficacy of, outcomes of, and optimal strategies for this testing are limited.Objectives: To determine the relation between followup tests and salvage surgery, assess outcomes, and document surgical mortality.Design: Retrospective cohort study.Setting: A North American multi-institutional trial comparing postoperative chemotherapy plus follow-up with follow-up alone.Patients: 1247 patients with resected stage II and stage III colon cancer.Intervention: The protocol mandated follow-up testing that could be supplemented at the discretion of treating physicians. Indications of recurrent disease were documented.Measurements: Recurrence, resectable recurrence, surgical mortality, and survival were studied.Results: 548 patients had recurrence of colon cancer. Salvage surgery was attempted in 222 patients (41%). In 109 patients (20%), curative-intent surgery was done for hepatic recurrence (28 patients), pulmonary metastasis (20 patients), local recurrence (24 patients), or recurrence at other sites (37 patients). Most curative-intent surgical procedures were motivated by follow-up testing (36 patients), elevated carcinoembryonic antigen level (41 patients), or symptoms (27 patients). The median follow-up time after curative-intent surgery exceeded 5 years; the estimated 5-year disease-free survival rate was 23%. A solitary lesion was a favorable prognostic factor. The surgical mortality rate was 2%. Curative-intent resections were done in 15 patients with second primary colorectal cancer; 12 of these patients have survived disease-free.Conclusions: Second operations for colon cancer that are triggered by follow-up testing or symptoms are common and can result in long-term disease-free survival.