Meta-analysis of relationship between extranodal tumor deposits and prognosis in patients with colorectal cancer / 中华胃肠外科杂志

<p><b>OBJECTIVE</b>To investigate the relationship between extranodal tumor deposits and prognosis in patients with colorectal cancer.</p><p><b>METHODS</b>The literatures on extranodal tumor deposits and postoperative survival rate in patients with colorectal cancer published at home and abroad from 1990 to 2014 were retrieved in 15 English literature databases such as MEDLINE/PubMed, Web of Science, Directory of Open Access Journals(DOAJ), SpringerLink and Chinese literature databases such as Chinese Biomedical Literature Database CD-ROM, China National Knowledge Infrastructure (CNKI) Database with the internet platform of Yonsei University Library. After screening for inclusion, data extraction and quality assessment, meta-analysis was conducted by the Review Manager 5.3 software.</p><p><b>RESULTS</b>There were 10 studies meeting the inclusion criteria for meta-analysis. The total sample size of the studies was 4 068 cases with ENTD(+) 727 cases, while ENTD(-) 3 341 cases. Meta analysis showed that 5-year overall survival rate and 5-year relapse-free survival rate were significantly lower in ENTD(+) group than those in ENTD(-) group (OR 0.27, 0.23; 95% CI:0.18 to 0.43, 0.16 to 0.34 respectively, both P=0.000); the 5-year overall survival rates were both significantly lower in ENTD(+) group as compared to ENTD(-) group for patients with N0 and N(+) colorectal cancer (both P<0.05).</p><p><b>CONCLUSION</b>Extranodal tumor deposits is a poor prognostic factor of patients with colorectal cancer.</p>

Clinicopathological characteristics and prognosis for gastric stump cancer, a meta-analysis / 中华普通外科杂志

Objective To summarize the clinicopathological characteristics and effects of surgical treatment on gastric stump cancer.Methods With meta- analysis, clinical data of 902 gastric stump cancer patients who were treated in our hospital or were reported in literatures were included for analysis.Age, gender, pathological types, TNM stages, surgical treatment, prognosis were evaluated.Results Gastric stump cancer developed mostly in male patients (4.1∶1) , and the median age was 61 years.Incidence of gastric stump cancer after digestive tract reconstruction with Billroth- Ⅱ operative modality was higher than that with Billroth- Ⅰ (81.6% vs.17.1%).50.5% of the cancers were present at the anastomotic site, 21.7% at the gastric lesser curvature, 18.5% at the gastric cardia, and less than 10% at other places.Resection and radical resection rates were 81.3% and 62.7% , while operation combined organ resection was carried out (36.5% ).The 1-, 3-, 5- year survival rate of the patients with radical resection were significantly better than those with palliative resection, which was 77.8% vs.36.4% , 58.2% vs.9.8% and 28.9% vs.3.9% (P＜0.01) respectively.Conclusions Distal gastrectomy and Billroth Ⅱ GI tract reconstruction was the most common type of previous operation.Gastric stump cancer occurs more frequently at anastomotic site and the majority of histological types was well-differentiated adenocarcinoma.Most cases were at the advanced TNM-stage when diagnosed.Radical resection is an effective way to prolong the postoperative survival time in gastric stump cancer patients, especially in early stage.