Clinical Value of the Change in the Serum Carcinoembryonic Antigen (CEA) Level after Curative Surgery in Colorectal Cancer
Journal of the Korean Society of Coloproctology
; : 372-378, 2003.
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| WPRIM (Pacífico Ocidental)
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ABSTRACT
PURPOSE:
This retrospective study was designed to evaluate the clinical value of changes in the serum carcinoembryonic antigen (CEA) level after curative surgery in colorectal cancer patients.METHODS:
The clinical value of preoperative serum CEA and dCEA (postoperative 7-day CEA/preoperative CEA) in 115 patients with colorectal cancer, who underwent curative surgery at our Department of General Surgery from 1994 to 1997, was investigated.RESULTS:
The preoperative CEA level was significantly associated with histologic differentiation (P=0.035) and reccurence (P=0.044), but not gender, tumor size, lymph node metastases, Duke's stage, and vascular invasion. dCEA was significantly associated with lymph-node metastases (P=0.017), histologic differentiation (P=0.024), Duke's stage (P=0.021), recurrence (P=0.008), and survival rate (P=0.0379). Especially, in the abnormal preoperative CEA level (>5 ng/mL) group, if dCEA was more than 0.5, these patients had a very poor prognosis (P=0.0003).CONCLUSIONS:
dCEA was associated with more clinicopathologic prognostic factors than preoperative CEA, especially with survival rate. Therefore, we expect dCEA to be a more useful tool for predicting patient outcome.
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Assunto principal:
Prognóstico
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Recidiva
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Neoplasias Colorretais
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Antígeno Carcinoembrionário
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Biomarcadores Tumorais
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Taxa de Sobrevida
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Estudos Retrospectivos
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Linfonodos
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Metástase Neoplásica
Tipo de estudo:
Estudo observacional
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Estudo prognóstico
Limite:
Humanos
Idioma:
Coreano
Revista:
Journal of the Korean Society of Coloproctology
Ano de publicação:
2003
Tipo de documento:
Artigo