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Published in: BMC Cancer 1/2015

Open Access 01-12-2015 | Research article

Impact of comorbidities and use of common medications on cancer and non-cancer specific survival in esophageal carcinoma

Authors: Li-Ru He, Wei Qiao, Zhong-Xing Liao, Ritsuko Komaki, Linus Ho, Wayne L Hofstetter, Steven H Lin

Published in: BMC Cancer | Issue 1/2015

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Abstract

Background

Chronic comorbidities and some of the commonly-used medications are thought to affect cancer patients’ outcomes, but their relative impact on esophageal carcinoma (EC) has not been well studied. The purpose of the study was to identify the chronic comorbidities and/or commonly-used medications that impact EC patient survival.

Methods

A total of 1174 EC patients treated with chemoradiotherapy (CRT) with or without surgery in one institution from 1998 to 2012 were retrospectively included. Seven kinds of frequently occurring chronic comorbidities and 18 types of regularly-taken medications were obtained from medical records. Since it is expected prognostic factors have different effects between surgery patients and non-surgery patients, the impact value of all variables and the corresponding interactions with surgery on survival were evaluated in Cox proportional hazards regression model. Overall mortality, EC-specific mortality and non EC-specific mortality were endpoints.

Results

We found that atrial fibrillation was the only comorbidity that showed a significant impact on non-EC specific survival for all patients (HR 1.72, P = 0.03), whereas hypothyroidism was the only comorbidity that was evaluated as an independent predictive factor for overall survival (OS) (HR 0.59, P = 0.02) and EC-specific survival (HR 0.62, P = 0.05), but this association was seen only in the non-surgical patients. No other medications were found to have a significant impact for OS, EC-specific survival or non-EC specific survival in multivariable analysis.

Conclusions

Our data indicate that certain comorbidities rather than medication use affect EC-specific survival or non EC-specific survival in EC patients treated with CRT with or without surgery. Comorbidity information may better guide individual treatment in EC.
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Metadata
Title
Impact of comorbidities and use of common medications on cancer and non-cancer specific survival in esophageal carcinoma
Authors
Li-Ru He
Wei Qiao
Zhong-Xing Liao
Ritsuko Komaki
Linus Ho
Wayne L Hofstetter
Steven H Lin
Publication date
01-12-2015
Publisher
BioMed Central
Published in
BMC Cancer / Issue 1/2015
Electronic ISSN: 1471-2407
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1186/s12885-015-1095-2

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