Open AccessPredictors of surgery outcome for colorectal carcinoma in the United Arab Emirates
Author(s) -
el-Ghazawy Im,
Ayşe Bener,
Saad el-Din Ss,
Abou Azab,
Midhat Siddiqui
Publication year - 2001
Publication title -
eastern mediterranean health journal/eastern mediterranean health journal
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.442
H-Index - 47
eISSN - 1687-1634
pISSN - 1020-3397
DOI - 10.26719/2001.7.1-2.221
Subject(s) - medicine , colorectal cancer , hazard ratio , proportional hazards model , multivariate analysis , univariate analysis , stage (stratigraphy) , retrospective cohort study , lymph node metastasis , survival analysis , carcinoma , surgery , oncology , gastroenterology , metastasis , cancer , confidence interval , paleontology , biology
In this retrospective study, 72 patients with colorectal cancer were followed up for a mean period of 28.2 months. Predictors of recurrence and survival were determined using standard analyses. Univariate analyses identified a group of patients with a shorter time to recurrence. The mean overall survival time was 63.2 +/- 7.7 months and survival time was shorter for younger patients with palliative resection, lymph node metastasis and peritoneal nodules. In multivariate Cox proportional hazards analysis, the hazard ratio for positive lymph nodes was 2.54 [95% CI: 1.36-4.79] compared to negative nodes, and for Dukes’ stages A and B compared to stage C it was 0.45 [95% CI: 0.25-0.81].