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Pretreatment magnetic resonance imaging of regional lymph nodes with carcinoembryonic antigen in prediction of synchronous distant metastasis in patients with rectal cancer

Huanhuan Liu, Yanfen Cui, Wei Shen _, Xingwen Fan, Long Cui, Caiyuan Zhang, Gang Ren, Jihong Fu and Dengbin Wang

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Oncotarget. 2016; 7:27199-27207. https://doi.org/10.18632/oncotarget.7979

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Abstract

Huanhuan Liu1,*, Yanfen Cui1,*, Wei Shen2, Xingwen Fan3, Long Cui2, Caiyuan Zhang1, Gang Ren1, Jihong Fu2, Dengbin Wang1

1Department of Radiology, Xinhua Hospital Affiliated to Shanghai Jiaotong University School of Medicine, Shanghai 200092, China

2Department of Colorectal and Anal Surgery, Xinhua Hospital Affiliated to Shanghai Jiaotong University School of Medicine, Shanghai 200092, China

3Department of Radiation Oncology, Fudan University Shanghai Cancer Center, Shanghai 200032, China

*These authors have contributed equally to this work

Correspondence to:

Wei Shen, e-mail: [email protected]

Dengbin Wang, e-mail: [email protected]

Keywords: MRI, rectal cancer, lymph node, metastasis, carcinoembryonic antigen

Received: November 05, 2015     Accepted: February 23, 2016     Published: March 8, 2016

ABSTRACT

Distant metastasis in patients with rectal cancer remains a problem influencing prognosis. Prediction of synchronous distant metastasis is important for the choice of personalized treatment strategies and postoperative follow-up protocol. So far, there are few studies about the predictive value of MRI features combined with clinical characteristics for synchronous distant metastasis in rectal cancer, especially for the lesions developed within 6 months after surgery. We retrospectively reviewed the pretreatment clinical characteristics and magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) features of 271 patients from January 2010 to December 2011with pathologically confirmed rectal adenocarcinoma and tried to identify independent risk factors for synchronous distant metastasis. Forty-nine patients (18.1%) were confirmed to have synchronous distant metastasis. Multivariate logistic regression model demonstrated that the elevated carcinoembryonic antigen (CEA), positive MRI-predicted lymph nodes staging (mrN), and MRI-predicted mesorectal fascia (mrMRF) involvement were independent risk factors. The odd ratios were 12.2 for elevated CEA, 5.4 for mrN1 and 7.6 for mrN2, and 3.8 for mrMRF involvement, respectively. The accuracy and specificity for predicting synchronous distant metastasis by evaluating the positive mrN combined with elevated CEA were improved to 87.8% and 94.6%, respectively. The accuracy, sensitivity and specificity of positive mrN assessment were 86.1%, 71.4% and 91.7%, respectively using the histopathologic results as the reference standard. Altogether, our findings suggest that pretreatment positive mrN and elevated CEA are independent risk factors for synchronous distant metastasis in rectal cancer and combination of both could help to recognize the patients with high risk for structuring personalized treatment protocol.


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