BACKGROUND: The aim of the authors was to reassess the impact of a positive surgical margin (R1) after a liver resection for colorectal liver metastases (CLMs) on survival in the era of modern chemotherapy, through their own experience and a literature review. METHODS: Inclusion criteria were: R1 or R0 resection with no local treatment modalities, extra-hepatic metastases or other cancer. RESULTS: Among 337 patients operated between 2000 and 2010, 273 patients were eligible (214 R0/59 R1). The mean follow-up was 43 ± 29 months. Compared with a R0 resection, a R1 resection offered a lower 5-year overall (39.1% versus 54.2%, P = 0.010), disease-free (15.2% versus 31.1%, P = 0.021) and progression-free (i.e. time to the first non-curable recurrence; 33.1% versus 47.3%, P = 0.033) survival rates. Metastases in the R1 group were more numerous, larger and more frequently synchronous. Independent factors of poor survival were: number, size and short-time interval of CLM occurrence, N status, rectal primary, absence of adjuvant chemotherapy, but not a R1 resection. With the more-systematic administration of chemotherapy since 2005, the intergroup difference in progression-free survival disappeared (P = 0.264). CONCLUSION: A R1 resection had no prognostic value per se but reflected a more severe disease. The recent change in the prognostic value of a R1 resection may be linked to the beneficial effect of chemotherapy.
BACKGROUND: The aim of the authors was to reassess the impact of a positive surgical margin (R1) after a liver resection for colorectal liver metastases (CLMs) on survival in the era of modern chemotherapy, through their own experience and a literature review. METHODS: Inclusion criteria were: R1 or R0 resection with no local treatment modalities, extra-hepatic metastases or other cancer. RESULTS: Among 337 patients operated between 2000 and 2010, 273 patients were eligible (214 R0/59 R1). The mean follow-up was 43 ± 29 months. Compared with a R0 resection, a R1 resection offered a lower 5-year overall (39.1% versus 54.2%, P = 0.010), disease-free (15.2% versus 31.1%, P = 0.021) and progression-free (i.e. time to the first non-curable recurrence; 33.1% versus 47.3%, P = 0.033) survival rates. Metastases in the R1 group were more numerous, larger and more frequently synchronous. Independent factors of poor survival were: number, size and short-time interval of CLM occurrence, N status, rectal primary, absence of adjuvant chemotherapy, but not a R1 resection. With the more-systematic administration of chemotherapy since 2005, the intergroup difference in progression-free survival disappeared (P = 0.264). CONCLUSION: A R1 resection had no prognostic value per se but reflected a more severe disease. The recent change in the prognostic value of a R1 resection may be linked to the beneficial effect of chemotherapy.
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