Research Article

Pathological prognostic score: A rational criteria to stratify survival in colorectal carcinoma

  1. Tadahiro Nozoe MD1,*,
  2. Emiko Mori MD1,
  3. Tomohiro Iguchi MD1,
  4. Mayuko Kohno MD1,
  5. Takashi Maeda MD1,
  6. Takahiro Ezaki MD1,
  7. Katuso Sueishi MD2

Article first published online: 13 FEB 2012

DOI: 10.1002/jso.23024

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Nozoe, T., Mori, E., Iguchi, T., Kohno, M., Maeda, T., Ezaki, T. and Sueishi, K. (2012), Pathological prognostic score: A rational criteria to stratify survival in colorectal carcinoma. J. Surg. Oncol.. doi: 10.1002/jso.23024

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  1. 1

    Department of Surgery, Fukuoka Higashi Medical Center, Chidori, Koga, Fukuoka, Japan

  2. 2

    Department of Pathology, Fukuoka Higashi Medical Center, Chidori, Koga, Fukuoka, Japan

*Department of Surgery, Fukuoka Higashi Medical Center, 1-1-1, Chidori, Koga, Fukuoka 811-3195, Japan. Fax: +81-92-943-8775.

Publication History

  1. Article first published online: 13 FEB 2012
  2. Manuscript Accepted: 4 DEC 2011
  3. Manuscript Received: 17 MAY 2011

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Keywords:

  • colorectal carcinoma;
  • pathological feature;
  • pathological prognostic score (PPS)

Abstract

Purpose

The aim of this study is to certify a rationality of Pathological Prognostic Score (PPS) in determining the prognosis of patients with colorectal carcinoma.

Methods

Three hundred and thirty-one patients with colorectal carcinoma, which had been treated by surgical resection, were enrolled. One point was added for each element among four tumor-related pathological factors of depth of tumor, lymph node metastasis, venous invasion, and lymphatic invasion. PPS was determined by an aggregate of the points.

Results

There existed a significant difference both between survivals of patients with PPS 0 or 1 and 2 or 3 (P = 0.0005) and between survivals of patients with PPS 2 or 3 and 4 (P < 0.0001).

Conclusions

PPS could be an easy and useful criteria to stratify prognosis of patients with colorectal carcinoma. J. Surg. Oncol © 2012 Wiley Periodicals, Inc.

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