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ArticleSouth Asian journal of cancer

Prognostic classification index in Iranian colorectal cancer patients: Survival tree analysis.

Amal Saki Malehi, Fakher Rahim

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Amal Saki MalehiResearch Center of Thalassemia and Hemoglobinopathy, Health Research Institute, Ahvaz Jundishapur University of Medical Sciences, Ahvaz, Iran; Department of Biostatistics and Epidemiology, School of Public Health, Ahvaz Jundishapur University of Medical Sciences, Ahvaz, Iran.
Fakher RahimResearch Center of Thalassemia and Hemoglobinopathy, Health Research Institute, Ahvaz Jundishapur University of Medical Sciences, Ahvaz, Iran.

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aimsThe aim of this study was to determine the prognostic index for separating homogenous subgroups in colorectal cancer (CRC) patients based on clinicopathological characteristics using survival tree analysis.

methodsThe current study was conducted at the Research Center of Gastroenterology and Liver Disease, Shahid Beheshti Medical University in Tehran, between January 2004 and January 2009. A total of 739 patients who already have been diagnosed with CRC based on pathologic report were enrolled. The data included demographic and clinical-pathological characteristic of patients. Tree-structured survival analysis based on a recursive partitioning algorithm was implemented to evaluate prognostic factors. The probability curves were calculated according to the Kaplan-Meier method, and the hazard ratio was estimated as an interest effect size.

resultThere were 526 males (71.2%) of these patients. The mean survival time (from diagnosis time) was 42.46± (3.4). Survival tree identified three variables as main prognostic factors and based on their four prognostic subgroups was constructed. The log-rank test showed good separation of survival curves. Patients with Stage I-IIIA and treated with surgery as the first treatment showed low risk (median = 34 months) whereas patients with stage IIIB, IV, and more than 68 years have the worse survival outcome (median = 9.5 months).

conclusionConstructing the prognostic classification index via survival tree can aid the researchers to assess interaction between clinical variables and determining the cumulative effect of these variables on survival outcome.

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Classificationcolorectal cancerIranprognostic indexsurvival tree

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