Wang ZX, Zheng YF, Liang Y, Xu JX. Pulmonary metastases of colorectal carcinoma: Clinical characteristics, metastatic features, therapeutic methods and prognosis.
Shijie Huaren Xiaohua Zazhi 2014;
22:2513-2517. [DOI:
10.11569/wcjd.v22.i17.2513]
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Abstract
AIM: To explore the clinical characteristics, metastatic features, therapeutic methods and prognosis in patients with pulmonary metastases of colorectal carcinoma.
METHODS: The clinical data of 120 patients with pulmonary metastases of colorectal cancer were retrospectively analyzed. The clinical parameters of the patients, treatment methods and the factors affecting prognosis were analyzed.
RESULTS: In patients with pulmonary metastases of colorectal carcinoma, the 6-mo, 1-, 2-, 3-, and 5-year survival rates were 78%, 44%, 26%, 19% and 16%, respectively, with an overall median overall survival (OS) period of 18.0 mo. Pulmonary symptoms, sex, age, single or multiple pulmonary metastases, the presence or absence of liver metastases, mediastinal and/or hilar lymph node involvement were not significant prognostic factors of OS (P > 0.05). Univariate analysis showed that factors significantly predicting a poor prognosis included primary tumor site (P = 0.017), vessel invasion (P = 0.024) and high T stage (P = 0.008). However, none of these were prognostic factors on multivariate analysis. There was a trend of better survival in patients submitted to metastasectomy compared with those submitted to chemotherapy alone, although there was no statistical difference (median OS: 33.0 mo vs 18.0 mo, P = 0.128). Among 153 patients who underwent radical colorectal resection, 82 had pulmonary metastases in two years after surgery, with a median disease free interval (DFI) of 20.0 mo. The factors that affected DFI included primary tumor site, morphotype, differentiation degree, T stage and N stage (P < 0.05). T stage was an independent predictive factor of DFI (P = 0.019).
CONCLUSION: T stage is an independent predictor of DFI, showing that the tumor with strong ability of invasion tend to cause lung metastasis more commonly.
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