英文摘要 |
Purpose: To determine the influence of diabetes mellitus on long-term outcomes among patients with curatively resected colon cancer. Methods: This was a survival analysis study with retrospective design. We reviewed the records of 232 patients with adenocarcinoma of the colon cancer who had surgical intervention with curatively resected colon cancer patients between 2008 and 2014 at a teaching hospital in southern Taiwan. All the patients received surgical operation with adjuvant chemotherapy (AC), 70 patients were identified as having diabetes mellitus. Adverse events, odds ratio, disease free survival (DFS) and overall survival (OS) were studied between patients with diabetes and those without diabetes. Results: At 5 years, patients with diabetes mellitus, compared with patients without diabetes, experienced a significantly worse OS (72.2% diabetics vs 80.4% nondiabetics; P=.008), and DFS (58.4% vs 85.1%; P<.001). Compared with patients without a history of diabetes, those with diabetes had a 43% increased risk of death from any cause (P=.01) and 23% increased risk for recurrence (P<.0001) after adjustment for other predictors of colon cancer outcome. Conclusion: Our results indicate that patients with diabetes mellitus and high-risk stage II and stage III colon cancer experienced a significantly higher rate of overall mortality and cancer recurrence, even after adjustment for other predictors of colon cancer outcome. These results should determine whether improvements in prevention and treatment of diabetes mellitus will improve outcomes for colon cancer patients. |