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PLOS ONE
Volume 9, Issue 1, Pages -Publisher
PUBLIC LIBRARY SCIENCE
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0086543
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- Key Projects of the Clinical Disciplines
- National Natural Science Foundation [30973416, 81101566]
- Talent Fund of Shanghai Municipal Health Bureau [XYQ2011017, XBR2011031]
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Background: Whether patients with resectable colorectal liver metastases (CRLM) receive survival benefit from neoadjuvant chemotherapy remains controversial. Methods: We retrospectively analyzed 466 patients with resectable CRLM between 2000 and 2010. Patient characteristics and survival data were recorded. Results: The patients were divided into one group with neoadjuvant chemotherapy (group NC, n = 121) and another without (group WN, n = 345). There was no difference in 5-year survival (52% vs. 48%) between the two groups. No significant differences were identified between the two groups in terms of 30-day mortality (1.7% vs. 1.2%) or morbidity (33.9% vs. 25.8%). A primary tumor at stage T4, >= 4 liver metastases, the largest liver metastasis >= 5 cm in diameter, and a serum CEA level >= 5 ng/ml were independent prognostic factors. By assigning one point to each, the patients were divided into a low-risk group (0-2) and a high-risk (3-4). The patients in the low-risk group received no survival benefit from neoadjuvant chemotherapy, whereas those in the high-risk group received survival benefit (5-year survival, 39% vs. 33%, P = 0.028). Conclusions: Preoperative neoadjuvant chemotherapy did not increase mortality or complications. Not all resectable patients, only those with >2 independent risk factors, received survival benefit from neoadjuvant chemotherapy.
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