PT  - JOURNAL ARTICLE
AU  - Tingting, Hong
AU  - Di, Shen
AU  - Xiaoping, Chen
AU  - Xiaohong, Wu
AU  - Dong, Hua
TI  - High preoperative serum ferritin predicted poor prognosis in non-metastatic colorectal cancer
AID  - 10.15537/smj.2017.3.16110
DP  - 2017 Mar 01
TA  - Saudi Medical Journal
PG  - 268--275
VI  - 38
IP  - 3
4099  - http://smj.org.sa/content/38/3/268.short
4100  - http://smj.org.sa/content/38/3/268.full
SO  - Saudi Med J2017 Mar 01; 38
AB  - Objectives: To validate the prognostic significance of preoperative serum iron metabolism parameters in non-metastatic colorectal cancer patients treated with curative resection.Methods: We conducted a prospective cohort study in the Department of Surgical Oncology, WuXi 4th People’s Hospital, WuxiChina, between March 2010 and September 2013. The relationships of serum iron metabolism parameters with other variables were examined. The prognostic significance was evaluated using the Kaplan Meier curve and Cox proportional hazards regression model.Results: Five hundred and fourteen patients were eligible for analysis. The levels of the 3 iron metabolism parameters were interdependent. Hemoglobin level was positively correlated with serum iron and transferrin, and was negatively correlated with ferritin. Compared with peri-neural invasion (PNI)-negative patients, PNI-positive patients had higher serum iron (p=0.03) and ferritin levels (p=0.01). Compared with patients with the lowest quartile level of ferritin, patients with the highest quartile level of ferritin had a 2.21 (95% CI: 1.18-4.14) fold increased mortality risk in the univariate and 2.56 (95% CI: 1.10-5.96) in the multivariate Cox proportional hazards models. When stratified by TNM stages, it was only in stage III patients that serum ferritin remained statistically prognostically significant.Conclusions: Preoperative serum ferritin appeared as an independent adverse risk factor in non-metastatic colorectal cancer.