作者
Kuo-Hsing Chen, Yu-Yun Shao, Zhong-Zhe Lin, Yi-Chun Yeh, Wen-Yi Shau, Raymond Nienchen Kuo, Ho-Min Chen, Chiu-Ling Lai, Kun-Huei Yeh, Ann-Lii Cheng, Mei-Shu Lai
发表日期
2014/9/1
期刊
The oncologist
卷号
19
期号
9
页码范围
951-958
出版商
Oxford University Press
简介
Background
We investigated the association between diabetes mellitus (DM) and the prognosis of patients with early colon cancer who had undergone curative surgery.
Methods
From three national databases of patients in Taiwan, we selected a cohort of colon cancer patients who had been newly diagnosed with stage I or stage II colon cancer between January 1, 2004 and December 31, 2008 and had undergone curative surgery. We collected information regarding DM (type 2 DM only), the use of antidiabetic medications, other comorbidities, and survival outcomes. The colon cancer-specific survival (CSS) and the overall survival (OS) were compared between patients with and without DM.
Results
We selected 6,937 colon cancer patients, among whom 1,371 (19.8%) had DM. The colon cancer patients with DM were older and less likely to receive …
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