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2015 (English)In: Scientific Reports, E-ISSN 2045-2322, Vol. 5, no 10645Article in journal (Refereed) Published
Abstract [en]
The incidence of colorectal cancer (CRC) in young patients (less than= 50 years of age) appears to be increasing. However, their clinicopathological characteristics and survival are controversial. Likewise, the biomarkers are unclear. We used the West China (2008-2013, China), Surveillance, Epidemiology, and End Results program (1973-2011, United States) and Linkoping Cancer (1972-2009, Sweden) databases to analyse clinicopathological characteristics, survival and multiple biomarkers of young CRC patients. A total of 509,934 CRC patients were included from the three databases. The young CRC patients tended to have more distal location tumours, fewer tumour numbers, later stage, more mucinous carcinoma and poorer differentiation. The cancer-specific survival (CSS) of young patients was significantly better. The PRL (HR = 12.341, 95% CI = 1.615-94.276, P = 0.010), RBM3 (HR = 0.093, 95% CI = 0.012-0.712, P = 0.018), Wrap53 (HR = 1.952, 95% CI = 0.452-6.342, P = 0.031), p53 (HR = 5.549, 95% CI = 1.176-26.178, P = 0.045) and DNA status (HR = 17.602, 95% CI = 2.551-121.448, P = 0.001) were associated with CSS of the young patients. In conclusion, this study suggests that young CRC patients present advanced tumours and more malignant pathological features, while they have a better prognosis. The PRL, RBM3, Wrap53, p53 and DNA status are potential prognostic biomarkers for the young CRC patients.
Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
Nature Publishing Group: Open Access Journals - Option C / Nature Publishing Group, 2015
National Category
Clinical Medicine
Identifiers
urn:nbn:se:liu:diva-119586 (URN)10.1038/srep10645 (DOI)000355542000001 ()26013439 (PubMedID)
Note
Funding Agencies|Swedish Cancer Foundation; Swedish Research Council; Health Research Council in the South-East of Sweden; National Scientific Foundation of China [81401949, 8130035]
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