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Repetitive mucosal trauma promotes colon cancer in experimental rat model
J Viñas Salas1, C Piñol Felis, A Fermiñan
1Departments of Medicine and Surgery, Lleida University School of Medicine, Arnau de Vilanova University Hospital, Lleida, Spain. jvinyes@arnau.scs.es
Objective:
To investigate the effect of repetitive mucosal trauma, anastomosis and intestinal content on experimental colonic carcinogenesis as there is the possibility than non-specific colon lesions can promote cancer.
Material And Method:
We performed to sixty female Sprague-Dawley rats a 4 cm colon loop defunctionalization with double colostomy (traumatic site). Intestinal continuity was restored with an end-to-end colo-colic silk anastomosis. The surviving 47 rats were divided in 3 groups: Group A: 27 rats treated with DMH. Group B: 10 rats treated with EDTA and Group C: Control of 10 rats. Animals were sacrificed 31-32 weeks after surgery for macro and micropathological studies.
Results:
In group A appeared 60 tumours: 44 in the functional colon, 20 of them in the anastomotic site; 8 in the non traumatised defunctionalized segment and 18 in the traumatised segment (p < 0.05).
Conclusions:
a) Continuous microtraumas on colonic mucosa in rats are cancer promotional factors; b) silk suture in anastomosis promotes cancer.