Table 1.
Nomograms predicting stage I-III colorectal cancer oncological prognosis
| Ref. | Year | Cancer location | Targeted patients | Predicted outcome | Number of patients | C-index | Validation | Calibration | Variables | Comments |
| Weiser et al[8] | 2008 | Colon | Stage I-III | RFS | 1320 | 0.77 | Absent | Present | Age, CEA, No. of positive and negative nodes, pT, adjuvant chemotherapy, cancer location, differentiation, lymphovascular invasion, perineural invasion | |
| Segelman et al[9] | 2014 | Colorectal | Stage I-III | Peritoneal carcinomatosis | 8044 | 0.78-0.80 | Absent | Present | Age, cancer location, pT, pN, radicality, type of surgery, preoperative radiotherapy, nodes examined, adjuvant chemotherapy | Only web-calculator was available |
| Ying et al[10] | 2014 | Colorectal | Stage I-III | RFS, OS, CSS | 205 | 0.80-0.81 | Absent | Absent | Chemotherapy, tumor size, cell differentiation, TNM stage, neutrophil-to-lymphocyte ratio | |
| Zhang et al[11] | 2013 | Colon | Stage II | RFS | 735 | 0.65-0.82 | Present | Present | Expression of microRNA, pT, internal obstruction or perforation, nodes examined, tumor grade | |
| Goossens-Beumer et al[12] | 2015 | Colorectal | Stage II/III | RFS | 93 | 0.80 | Present | Present | Expression of microRNA, TNM stage, age, gender | |
| Peng et al[13] | 2014 | Rectal | Stage II/III | OS, distant metastasis | 883 | 0.68-0.76 | Present | Absent | Gender, age, CEA, cancer location, pT, pN, ratio of metastatic lymph nodes, adjuvant chemotherapy, adjuvant chemoradiotherapy | |
| Valentini et al[14] | 2011 | Rectal | Clinical stage II/III patients undergoing adjuvant radiotherapy or chemora | OS, local recurrence, distant metastasis | 2795 | 0.68-0.73 | Present | Present | pT, cT, pN, age, concomitant and adjuvant chemotherapy, surgical procedure, gender, dose of radiotherapy | |
| van Gijn et al[15] | 2015 | Rectal | Stage I-III | OS, local recurrence, distant metastasis | 2881 | 0.75-0.79 | Absent | Absent | Age, pT, pN, PA-stage, distance, residual cancer, surgical type, gender, radiotherapy, complications |
RFS: Recurrence-free survival; OS: Overall survival; CSS: Cancer-specific survival; C-index: Concordance index; CEA: Carcinoembryonic antigen.