Background/Aims We determined the rates of metachronous colorectal neoplasm in colorectal cancer (CRC) patients after resection for right (R)-sided or left (L)-sided cancer.
Methods Consecutive CRC patients who had undergone surgical resection for curative intent in our hospital between 2001 and 2004 were identified. R-sided colonic cancers refer to cancer proximal to splenic flexure whereas L-sided cancers include rectal cancers. Patients were included only if they had a clearing colonoscopy performed either before or within 6 months after the operation. Findings of surveillance colonoscopy performed up to 5 years after colonic resection were included in the analysis.
Results Eight hundred and sixty-three CRC patients underwent curative surgical resection during the study period. Three hundred and twenty-seven patients (107 R-sided and 220 L-sided) fulfilled the inclusion criteria and had at least 1 postoperative surveillance colonoscopy performed. The proportion of patients who had polyp and adenoma on surveillance colonoscopy was significantly higher among patients with L-sided than R-sided cancers (polyps: 30.9% vs. 19.6%, P=0.03; adenomas: 25.5% vs. 13.1%, P=0.01). The mean number of adenoma per patient on surveillance colonoscopy was also higher for patients with L-sided than R-sided tumors (0.52; 95% confidence interval [CI], 0.37–0.68 vs. 0.22; 95% CI, 0.08–0.35; P<0.01). Multivariate analysis showed that L-sided cancers, age, male gender and longer follow-up were independent predictors of adenoma detection on surveillance colonoscopy.
Conclusions Patients with Lsided cancer had a higher rate of metachronous polyps and adenoma than those with R-sided cancer on surveillance colonoscopy.
Citations
Citations to this article as recorded by
Delineation of gastrointestinal tumors biopsies using a fluorescence lifetime imaging optical fiber probe D. Suraci, E. Baria, L. Tirloni, J. L. Lagarto, S. Buccianti, C. Agostini, S. Pillozzi, L. Antonuzzo, A. Taddei, R. Cicchi Journal of Biophotonics.2025;[Epub] CrossRef
DMMR status and synchronous lesions predicts metachronous lesions after curative resection for rectal cancer Xijie Chen, Junguo Chen, Liang Xu, Dezheng Lin, Xiaoling Hong, Junsheng Peng, Xiaowen He, Jiancong Hu Frontiers in Surgery.2025;[Epub] CrossRef
The absolute number of small and diminutive adenomas with high-grade dysplasia is substantially higher compared with large adenomas: a retrospective pooled study Jiancheng Zhang, Huajun Sun, Fei Xiong, Shan Lei, Guanyu Zhou, Xun Xiao, Lin Liu, Pu Wang Frontiers in Oncology.2024;[Epub] CrossRef
A survey of current practices in post-polypectomy surveillance in Korea Jeongseok Kim, Tae-Geun Gweon, Min Seob Kwak, Su Young Kim, Seong Jung Kim, Hyun Gun Kim, Eun Ran Kim, Sung Noh Hong, Eun Sun Kim, Chang Mo Moon, Dae Seong Myung, Dong Hoon Baek, Shin Ju Oh, Hyun Jung Lee, Ji Young Lee, Yunho Jung, Jaeyoung Chun, Dong-Hoo Intestinal Research.2024; 22(2): 186. CrossRef
IMMUNOREACT 9 metachronous rectal cancers have high HLA-ABC expression on healthy epithelium but a lower infiltration of CD3+ T cells than primary lesions Beatrice Salmaso, Melania Scarpa, Valerio Pellegrini, Astghik Stepanyan, Roberta Salmaso, Andromachi Kotsafti, Federico Scognamiglio, Dario Gregori, Giorgio Rivella, Ottavia De Simoni, Giulia Becherucci, Silvia Negro, Chiara Vignotto, Gaya Spolverato, Ces Scientific Reports.2024;[Epub] CrossRef
Risk factors of advanced metachronous neoplasms in surveillance after colon cancer resection Kwangwoo Nam, Jeong Eun Shin The Korean Journal of Internal Medicine.2021; 36(2): 305. CrossRef