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Impact of postoperative infections on survival in colon cancer patients
Angelo Nespoli1, Luca Gianotti, Giorgio Bovo
1Department of General Surgery, University of Studi Bicocca, Monza, Italy. angelo.nespoli@unimib.it
Purpose:
We investigated the prognostic significance of postoperative infections for the outcome of 192 patients with colon cancer.
Methods:
The 5-year survival rates were analyzed by the Kaplan-Meier technique. Univariate and multivariate analyses were done to evaluate prognostic variables using Cox's proportional hazard model.
Results:
Forty-three patients developed deep incisional or organ/space surgical site infections. The groups with and without infection were comparable. Multivariate analysis showed that only Dukes' stage (p=0.048) and postoperative infection (p=0.011) were independently associated with outcome. In patients with infective complications, the survival rate was significantly lower than in subjects without infection (log rank p=0.0004).
Conclusions:
These results stress the importance of evaluating variables other than the classical tumor stage in predicting long-term cancer outcome.
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