Acute PresentatiOn of CoLorectaL Cancer: an internatiOnal Snapshot

Launched by EUROPEAN STUDENT RESEARCH NETWORK · Nov 30, 2022

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ClinConnect Summary

Primary aim: Describe the variation in the operative and non-operative management of emergency presentations of colon and rectal cancer in an international cohort.

Secondary aims:

* Identify risk factors for mortality (intraoperatively, at 30-days and at 90-days) and ostomy rates (at 30- and 90-days) in patients deemed for active management (i.e., not for palliative management) to develop a risk prediction model
* Validate risk criteria of large bowel obstruction in patients with previously known colorectal cancer undergoing neoadjuvant chemotherapy or awaiting elective surgery

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Eligibility criteria

• Inclusion Criteria:
• * Patient pathology: Patients admitted to the hospital acutely with primary colon AND/OR rectal adenocarcinoma and referred to general/colorectal surgical departments:
• • Patients who are operated on for curative/palliative treatment of colorectal cancer
• • Patients who are referred to general surgery for assessment (irrespective of if they proceed to surgery)
• • New diagnoses of colorectal cancer
• • Extent of cancer: All patients including extra-abdominal metastatic, intra-abdominal metastatic and non-metastatic disease
• • Known cancer: Patients presenting for the first time with colorectal cancer AND/OR known colorectal cancer diagnosis with progression of disease. i.e. obstruction of known colorectal cancer
• • Patient presentation: Symptomatic presentation of colorectal cancer i.e. large bowel obstruction, haemorrhage, perforation
• Exclusion Criteria:
• • Presenting for side effects of cancer treatment
• • Patients with secondary cancers
• • Previously included in the study