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ArticleFrontiers in oncology2024

Predicting treatment failure in stage III colon cancer patients after radical surgery.

Hao Zeng, Xuejing Zhong, Wenxin Liu, Baofeng Liang, Xueyi Xue, Nong Yu, Dongbo Xu, Xiaojie Wang, Shuangming Lin

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Article in Frontiers in oncology, 2024. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 4 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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5 · Who and what money

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Hao Zeng *Department of Gastroenterology and Anorectal Surgery, Longyan First Hospital, Fujian Medical University, Longyan, China.
Xuejing Zhong *Department of Science and Education, Longyan First Affiliated Hospital of Fujian Medical University, Longyan, China.
Wenxin LiuDepartment of Anaesthesia, Longyan First Hospital, Fujian Medical University, Longyan, China.
Baofeng LiangDepartment of Gastroenterology and Anorectal Surgery, Longyan First Hospital, Fujian Medical University, Longyan, China.
Xueyi XueDepartment of Gastroenterology and Anorectal Surgery, Longyan First Hospital, Fujian Medical University, Longyan, China.
Nong YuDepartment of Gastroenterology and Anorectal Surgery, Longyan First Hospital, Fujian Medical University, Longyan, China.
Dongbo XuDepartment of Gastroenterology and Anorectal Surgery, Longyan First Hospital, Fujian Medical University, Longyan, China.
Xiaojie WangDepartment of Colorectal Surgery, Union Hospital, Fujian Medical University, Fuzhou, China.
Shuangming LinDepartment of Gastroenterology and Anorectal Surgery, Longyan First Hospital, Fujian Medical University, Longyan, China.

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Purpose: The aim to assess treatment failure in patients with stage III colon cancer who underwent radical surgery and was analyzed using the nomogram. Methods: Clinical factors and survival outcomes for stage III colon cancer patients registered in the SEER database from 2018 to 2019 were analyzed, with patients split into training and testing cohorts (7:3 ratio). A total of 360 patients from the First Affiliated Hospital of Longyan served as an external validation cohort. Independent predictors of treatment failure were identified using logistic regression analyses. The nomograms was evaluated by concordance index (C-index), calibration curves, and the area under the curve (AUC), decision curve analysis (DCA) and clinical impact curves (CIC) assessed the clinical utility of nomograms versus TNM staging. Results: The study included 4,115 patients with stage III colon cancer. Multivariate logistic analysis age, tumor site, pT stage, pN stage, chemotherapy, pretreatment CEA levels, number of harvested lymph nodes, perineural invasion and marital status were identified as independent risk factors for treatment failure. The C-indices for the training and testing sets were 0.853 and 0.841. Validation by ROC and calibration curves confirmed the stability and reliability of the model. DCA showed that the net clinical effect of the histogram was superior to that of the TNM staging system, while CIC highlighted the potentially large clinical impact of the model. Conclusions: The developed Nomogram provides a powerful and accurate tool for clinicians to assess the risk of treatment failure after radical surgery in patients with stage III colon cancer.

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nomogramstage III colon cancerSurveillance, Epidemiology, and End Results (SEER)TNM staging systemstreatment failure

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PMCPMC11137277

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