over the past decade colon cancer has emerged as the second most deadly and the third most common type of cancer in the world with increasing incidence in Egypt due to life style and diet change. some research showed relation between colon cancer recurrence and advanced tumor staging. To investigators knowledge, this is the first time to be done in Zagazig University. Data was collected from records in a retrospective cohort study
Study Type
OBSERVATIONAL
Enrollment
200
resection of bowel segment and re-anastmosis or stoma formation
Zagazig University Hospitals
Zagazig, Egypt
age
age of patients was obtained from medical records
Time frame: through study completion, an average of 5 years
sex
sex of patients was obtained from medical records
Time frame: through study completion, an average of 5 years
medical disease
co-existing medical disease was obtained from medical records
Time frame: through study completion, an average of 5 years
previous surgery
previous surgical history was obtained from medical records
Time frame: through study completion, an average of 5 years
CEA
value of carcino-embryonic antigen was recorded
Time frame: through study completion, an average of 5 years
tumor grade
tumor grade after resection from pathology report recorded
Time frame: through study completion, an average of 5 years
tumor site
tumor site recorded from operative findings
Time frame: through study completion, an average of 5 years
tumor size
tumor size was measured by length x width in cm from records
Time frame: through study completion, an average of 5 years
surgical margins of resected tumor
safety margins were assessed from pathological examination under microscopy and recorded in pathology reports, it can be free surgical margins ( no tumor cells) or positive surgical margins( presence of tumor cells)
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Time frame: through study completion, an average of 5 years
neoadjuvant therapy
history of neoadjuvant therapy before surgery from records obtained
Time frame: through study completion, an average of 5 years
adjuvant therapy
history of adjuvant therapy post operative obtained from records
Time frame: through study completion, an average of 5 years
diet
diet and dietary life style from history
Time frame: through study completion, an average of 5 years
occupation
occupation of the patient at time of surgery and if it was changed
Time frame: through study completion, an average of 5 years
family history
history taking of family history of cancer disease
Time frame: through study completion, an average of 5 years
type of surgery(laparoscopic or open)
type of operation was laparoscopic or open surgery obtained from records
Time frame: through study completion, an average of 5 years
soiling by during surgery
by history from records if there was soiling of the field by tumor cells
Time frame: through study completion, an average of 5 years
hand sewen or stappled anastmosis
if there was bowel re-anastmosis after surgery, it was done using a stappler or hand sewing sutures. this was obtained from operative data in patient records
Time frame: through study completion, an average of 5 years
post operative complications
from records; if there were post operative complication like fecal fistula
Time frame: through study completion, an average of 5 years
site of recurrence
site of tumor recurrence was detected
Time frame: through study completion, an average of 5 years
type of resected tumor
type of tumor was recorded from pathology reports
Time frame: through study completion, an average of 5 years