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Prognostic Impact of Increased Lymph Node Yield in Colorectal Cancer Patients With Synchronous Distant Metastasis: a Population-based Study of the US Database and a Chinese Registry

Prognostic Impact of Increased Lymph Node Yield in Colorectal Cancer Patients With Synchronous Distant Metastasis: a Population-based Study of the US Database and a Chinese Registry

Status
Completed
Phases
Unknown
Study type
Observational
Source
ClinicalTrials.gov
Registry ID
NCT05550701
Enrollment
4575
Registered
2022-09-22
Start date
2021-05-05
Completion date
2022-07-10
Last updated
2022-12-21

For informational purposes only — not medical advice. Sourced from public registries and may not reflect the latest updates. Terms

Conditions

Colorectal Cancer Stage IV, Lymph Node Yield

Brief summary

The National Quality Forum has endorsed at least 12 lymph node yield (LNY) as a surgical quality indicator in colorectal cancer (CRC), but the prognostic value of adequate lymphadenectomy has rarely been investigated for CRC patients with distant metastatic disease.

Detailed description

Data on CRC patients with synchronous liver metastasis (LM) were derived from the US Surveillance, Epidemiology, and End Results (SEER) and a Chinese registry (from two Chinese tertiary centers: The Second Affiliated Hospital of Harbin Medical University and National Cancer Center/Cancer Hospital, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences & Peking Union Medical College) between January 2010 and December 2017. Individual level data on patients with incident CRC were consecutively collected in both registries. The primary tumor site was divided into three subsites according to International Classification of Diseases for Oncology (ICD-O-3) topography codes: proximal colon (C18.0, C18.1, C18.2, C18.3 and C18.4), distal colon (C18.5, C18.6, C18.7) and rectum (C19.9 and C20.9). The synchronous LM were identified by imaging or histopathological examinations. Synchronous LM refers to liver lesions found within 6 months after the diagnosis of primary CRC. Patients were excluded if they did not undergo surgery for CRC, did not have data on number of LNs retrieved and their survival status was unknown.

Interventions

OTHERlymph node yield

We recorded the number of lymph nodes dissected during surgery in patients with colorectal cancer

Sponsors

National Natural Science Foundation of China
CollaboratorOTHER_GOV
The Second Affiliated Hospital of Harbin Medical University
Lead SponsorOTHER

Study design

Observational model
COHORT
Time perspective
RETROSPECTIVE

Eligibility

Sex/Gender
ALL
Age
18 Years to 90 Years
Healthy volunteers
No

Inclusion criteria

* Data on CRC patients with synchronous liver metastasis (LM) undergo surgery for CRC, have data on number of LNs retrieved and their survival status was known

Exclusion criteria

* Patients were excluded if they did not undergo surgery for CRC, did not have data on number of LNs retrieved and their survival status was unknown

Design outcomes

Primary

MeasureTime frameDescription
cancer specific survival2010.01-2017.12The primary outcome was cancer specific survival (CSS), which was defined as the time interval from the synchronous LM diagnosis until cancer specific death or the end of follow-up in Chinese registry, and the CSS was defined using the SEER cause-of-death codes in SEER registry

Countries

China

Outcome results

None listed

Source: ClinicalTrials.gov · Data processed: Feb 4, 2026