Prognostic factors of left colectomy surgery for colon cancer at academic medical centers: 10 years experience
Prognostic factors of left colectomy surgery for colon cancer at academic medical centers: 10 years’ experience Nahas, S.C., Nahas, C.S., Bustamante-Lopez, L.A., Pinto, R.A., Campos, F.G., Cecconello, I. Hospital das Clínicas da Faculdade de Medicina da USP, São Paulo, Brazil Introduction: Colon cancer is among the most common neoplastic diseases in Western countries. In Brazil, it is the leading cause of cancer in the gastrointestinal tract. Objective: To evaluate the prognostic factors from surgery on left colon cancer patients operated in a period of 10 years in academic services. Methods: We evaluated the results of surgical treatment of patients with left colon cancer treated in our service from 2002 to 2012. Data were collected retrospectively from a prospectively collected database. We excluded patients with incomplete data, synchronous cancers and benign disease. Demographic factors (gender and age), tumor factors (site, T stage, N stage, M stage, histologica...