Risk factors of liver metastasis after preoperative total neoadjuvant chemoradiotherapy for middle and low rectal cancer of Ⅱ-Ⅲ stage
Objective To investigate the risk factors of liver metastasis in patients with middle and low rectal cancer of Ⅱ-Ⅲ stage after preoperative short course radiotherapy combined with chemotherapy.Methods The clinical data of 89 patients with middle and low rectal cancer of Ⅱ-Ⅲ stage admitted to the Dongnan Hospital of Xiamen University from January 2019 to June 2020 were retrospectively analyzed.All patients were treated with short-course radiotherapy combined with chemotherapy before operation.The risk factors of postoperative liver metastasis were analyzed by multivariate logistic regression.Results The 89 patients were followed up for 7-53 months,with a median follow-up time of 33 months.During the follow-up period,25 patients developed liver metastasis,the onset time was 7-35 months,and the median time of liver metastasis was 17 months.Among them,5 patients(5.6%)developed liver metastasis in the first year after surgery,15 patients(16.8%)developed liver metastasis at the second year after surgery,5 patients(5.6%)developed liver metastasis at the 3rd year after surgery.Multivariate logistic regression results showed that lymph node metastasis[OR=3.550,95%CI(1.425,8.953),P=0.041],vascular invasion[OR=3.335,95%CI(1.011,11.001),P=0.048],maximum tumor diameter ≥5 cm[OR=4.477,95%CI(1.273,15.743),P=0.019],and peri-tumor diameter ≥1/2[OR=4.633,95%CI(1.387,15.475),P=0.013]were risk factors for liver metastasis.Conclusions Lymph node metastasis,vascular invasion,maximum tumor diameter ≥5 cm,and circumferential tumor diameter ≥ 1/2 are risk factors for liver metastasis in patients with middle and low rectal cancer of Ⅱ-Ⅲ stage after preoperative short course radiotherapy combined with chemotherapy.
middle and low rectal cancerliver metastasisneoadjuvant chemoradiotherapy