Abstract
After endoscopic resection of colorectal cancer with submucosal invasion (pT1 CRC), additional surgical treatment is recommended if deep submucosal invasion (DSI) is present. This study aimed to further elucidate the risk factors for lymph node metastasis (LNM) in patients with pT1 CRC, especially the effect of DSI on LNM. Patients with pT1 CRC who underwent lymph node dissection were selected. The Chi-square test and multivariate logistic regression were used to analyze the relationship between clinicopathological characteristics and LNM. The submucosal invasion depth (SID) was measured via 4 methods and analyzed with 3 cut-off values. Twenty-eight of the 239 patients presented with LNM (11.7%), and the independent risk factors for LNM included high histological grade (P=0.003), lymphovascular invasion (LVI) (P=0.004), intermediate to high budding (Bd 2/3) (P=0.008), and cancer gland rupture (CGR) (P=0.008). Moreover, the SID, width of submucosal invasion (WSI), and area of submucosal invasion (ASI) were not significantly different. When one, two, three or more risk factors were identified, the LNM rates were 1.1% (1/95), 12.5% (7/56), and 48.8% (20/41), respectively. Indicators such as the SID, WSI, and ASI are not risk factors for LNM and are subjective in their measurement, which renders them relatively inconvenient to apply in clinical practice. In contrast, histological grade, LVI, tumor budding and CGR are relatively straightforward to identify and have been demonstrated to be statistically significant. It would be prudent to focus on these histological factors rather than subjective measurements.
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