Choosing the Appropriate Individualized Adjuvant Chemotherapy in Stage III Colon Cancer Patients Under and Over 70 Years

Faculty Medicine Year: 2022
Type of Publication: ZU Hosted Pages:
Authors:
Journal: Journal of Gastrointestinal Cancer Springer Nature Volume:
Keywords : Choosing , Appropriate Individualized Adjuvant Chemotherapy , Stage    
Abstract:
Background: Colon cancer is one of the leading causes of cancer-related deaths worldwide. The increased incidence of comorbid diseases in elderly patients above 70 leads to the need of less aggressive strategies to be used in the adjuvant setting of stage III colon cancer. Method: Our prospective cohort study was performed in the period from April 2017 to March 2020. Seventy-five patients with newly diagnosed stage III colon cancer received adjuvant chemotherapy after surgery. Patients who either received adjuvant chemotherapy less than 3 months due to intolerability or toxicity from medications or who have more than one type of cancers or metastatic disease from the start were excluded from the study. Patients’ clinicopathological characteristics in relation to oxaliplatin- and non-oxaliplatin-based chemotherapeutic regimens were analyzed with survival assessment. Results: In our study, patients above 70 had better overall survival (OS) in the non-oxaliplatin chemotherapy group (p-value=0.032) in contrast to OS in patients under 70 which was better in the oxaliplatin group (p-value<0.001). By comparing the OS between the two age groups, the OS was better in patients<70 years (p-value=0.001). Additionally, we found that the DFS in patients above 70 was better in oxaliplatin-based regimens than in the non-oxaliplatin group (p-value=0.011) with better survival rates (81.8% vs 15.7%), and markedly high DFS in patients under 70 for oxaliplatin based regimens (p-value<0.001), with survival rates (31.1% vs 0%). By comparing the DFS between the two age groups, the DFS was better in patients<70 years (p-value<0.001). The disease recurrence was in favor of the non-oxaliplatin group with significant p-value=0.003, while mortality occurred more in the oxaliplatin group (p-value<0.001). Conclusions: The appropriate selection of a personalized strategy for treatment of stage III colon cancer plays an important role in the outcome of the disease. Our findings supported the use of oxaliplatin-based chemotherapy as a standard treatment option in the adjuvant management of stage III colon cancer patients in all age groups. The benefit of non-oxaliplatin-based chemotherapy was limited to patients above 70 which might be an effective option for elderly patients.
   
     
 
       

Author Related Publications

  • Heba Fekry Abdel Majid Taha, "Combined Ezrin overexpression and E-cadherin downregulation as predictors of invasiveness, higher incidence of metastases, progression and poor prognosis in patients with cervical cancer", Egyptian Journal of Pathology, 2018 More
  • Heba Fekry Abdel Majid Taha, "The Value of FAK and SLUG Expression in Patients with Breast Carcinoma and Relation of Their Expression to Clinicopathological and Prognostic Parameters", Copyright © 2018, SciTechnol, 2018 More
  • Heba Fekry Abdel Majid Taha, "Prognostic and Clinic-Pathological Significances of SCF and COX-2 Expression in Inflammatory and Malignant Prostatic Lesions", springer, 2018 More
  • Heba Fekry Abdel Majid Taha, "Concordance between ER, PR, HER-2 neu Receptors Before and after Neoadjuvant Chemotherapy in Locally Advanced Breast Cancer", Hellenic Society of Medical Oncology., 2020 More
  • Heba Fekry Abdel Majid Taha, "Clinical, pathological and prognostic implications of USP22, SIRT1 and Ecadherin expression in papillary thyroid cancer (PTC) and adjacent non-neoplastic tissue", BMC,Surgical and Experimental Pathology, 2019 More

Department Related Publications

  • Amarallah Abdelmoneim Mohamed Sayed, "The Relation Between the Timing of Palliative Care and the Frequency and Timing of Do-Not-Resuscitate Orders Among Cancer Deaths in a Tertiary Care Hospital", ajhpm.sagepub.com, 2015 More
  • Amarallah Abdelmoneim Mohamed Sayed, "For pathological response to neoadjuvant chemotherapy in hormonal receptors-positive breast cancer", Asian Pacific Journal of Cancer Prevention, 2015 More
  • Heba Fekry Abdel Majid Taha, "The Value of FAK and SLUG Expression in Patients with Breast Carcinoma and Relation of Their Expression to Clinicopathological and Prognostic Parameters", Copyright © 2018, SciTechnol, 2018 More
  • Heba Fekry Abdel Majid Taha, "Clinical, pathological and prognostic implications of USP22, SIRT1 and Ecadherin expression in papillary thyroid cancer (PTC) and adjacent non-neoplastic tissue", BMC,Surgical and Experimental Pathology, 2019 More
  • Tarek Ali Mohamed Elgohary, "Efficacy of Ribavirin to Prevent Hepatitis Reactivation in Hepatitis C Virus-Infected Patients Treated for Non-Hodgkin Lymphoma, Single Egyptian Center Study. فعالية ريبافيرين في منع تنشيط التهاب الكبد لدى المرضى المصابين بفيروس التهاب الكبد - سي الذين يتلقوا علاج ليمفوما اللاهودجكين ، دراسة مركز مصري واحد", Journal of Hematology (2013) 2(1):14-21, 2013 More
Tweet