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ArticleJournal of gastrointestinal cancer2022

Determining the Risk Factors Affecting on Death Due to Colorectal Cancer Progression: Survival Analysis in the Presence of Competing Risks.

Malihe Safari, Hossein Mahjub, Habib Esmaeili, Mohammad Abbasi, Ghodratollah Roshanaei

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Article in Journal of gastrointestinal cancer, 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 1 paper.

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Malihe SafariDepartment of Biostatistics, School of Public Health, Hamadan University of Medical Sciences, Hamadan, Iran.
Hossein MahjubResearch Center for Health Sciences, Department of Biostatistics, Faculty of Public Health, Hamadan University of Medical Sciences, Hamadan, Iran.
Habib EsmaeiliPhD in Mathematics, Principal Statistician and Project Lead, Staburo GmbH, Munich, Germany.
Mohammad AbbasiDepartment of Internal Medicine, School of Medicine, Hamadan University of Medical Sciences, Hamadan, Iran.
Ghodratollah RoshanaeiAssociate Professor in Biostatistics, Department of Biostatistics, School of Public Health, Modeling of Noncommunicable Diseases Research Center, Hamadan University of Medical Sciences, Hamadan, Iran. gh.roshanaei@umsha.ac.ir.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-3547-9125
Hamedan University of Medical Sciences · IR

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purposeIn survival analysis, some patients may be at risk of more than one event, for example cancer-related death and cancer-unrelated death. In this case, if the aim of study becomes to assess the impact of risk factors on different causes of death, the competing risk model should be used rather than classical survival model. The aim of the present study is to determine the risk factors for related and unrelated mortality in patients with colorectal cancer using competing risk regression models.

methodsThe present retrospective cohort study was carried out on 310 CRC patients. Death due to cancer progression was considered as the interest event, and death due to unrelated cancer was considered as a competing event. Two most popular methods, cause-specific and subdistribution hazard regression model, were used to determine the effect of covariates on incidence and cause-specific hazard. Data analysis was performed using R3.6.2 software and cmprsk and survival packages.

resultsThe mean (SD) of patients' age was 55.84 ± 13.2 years and 53.9% of them were male. BMI, T and N stage had a significant effect on both incidence and cause specific hazard of cancer-related death.

conclusionThe results of this study showed that cancer-related death is strongly correlated with under-weight (BMI < 18.5) and advanced clinical stage of the disease in patients with colorectal cancer. So, in the presence of competing events, both types of regression hazard models should be applied to permit a full understanding of the impact of covariates on the incidence and the rate of occurrence of each outcome.

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Colorectal NeoplasmsAdultAgedFemaleHumansMaleMiddle AgedProportional Hazards ModelsRetrospective StudiesRisk AssessmentRisk FactorsSurvival AnalysisCause-specific hazardColorectal cancerCompeting riskCumulative incidenceSubdistribution hazard

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