BACKGROUND: We sought to determine the prognostic role of tumor size on cause-specific survival (CSS) of patients with stage IIA colon cancer. METHODS: Surveillance, Epidemiology and End Results (SEER) database was utilized to identify patients with stage IIA colorectal cancer (examined lymph nodes ≥12) diagnosed from 1988 to 2003. The prognostic effect of tumor size on CSS was evaluated by univariate and multivariate analyses. RESULTS: A total of 8775 patients were enrolled in the analysis. The median follow-up time was 109 months. As determined by minimal P value method, tumor sizes of 2.5 and 6.0 cm were used as optimal cutoff value to divide the cohort. The 8-year CSS of colon cancer with tumor sizes ≤2.5, 2.6-6.0, and >6.0 cm was 81.6, 86.2, and 86.7% respectively (P = 0.003). In the multivariate analysis of colon cancer, using ≤2.5-cm tumors as reference, decreased hazard ratio (HR) of CSS was observed in 2.6-6.0 cm (HR, 0.736; 95% confidence interval (CI), 0.599-0.905; P = 0.004) and >6.0 cm (HR, 0.770; 95% CI, 0.619-0.958; P = 0.019) tumors. CONCLUSIONS: In stage IIA colon cancer, small tumor size represented a subset with decreased CSS. Further studies are merited to validate the unfavorable prognostic role of small tumor size in stage IIA colon cancer.
BACKGROUND: We sought to determine the prognostic role of tumor size on cause-specific survival (CSS) of patients with stage IIA colon cancer. METHODS: Surveillance, Epidemiology and End Results (SEER) database was utilized to identify patients with stage IIA colorectal cancer (examined lymph nodes ≥12) diagnosed from 1988 to 2003. The prognostic effect of tumor size on CSS was evaluated by univariate and multivariate analyses. RESULTS: A total of 8775 patients were enrolled in the analysis. The median follow-up time was 109 months. As determined by minimal P value method, tumor sizes of 2.5 and 6.0 cm were used as optimal cutoff value to divide the cohort. The 8-year CSS of colon cancer with tumor sizes ≤2.5, 2.6-6.0, and >6.0 cm was 81.6, 86.2, and 86.7% respectively (P = 0.003). In the multivariate analysis of colon cancer, using ≤2.5-cm tumors as reference, decreased hazard ratio (HR) of CSS was observed in 2.6-6.0 cm (HR, 0.736; 95% confidence interval (CI), 0.599-0.905; P = 0.004) and >6.0 cm (HR, 0.770; 95% CI, 0.619-0.958; P = 0.019) tumors. CONCLUSIONS: In stage IIA colon cancer, small tumor size represented a subset with decreased CSS. Further studies are merited to validate the unfavorable prognostic role of small tumor size in stage IIA colon cancer.
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