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. 2021 Dec 4;37(2):381–391. doi: 10.1007/s00384-021-04072-9

Table 2.

Patient characteristics of IBD patients with colorectal carcinoma versus sporadic colorectal carcinomas, Erlangen Registry of ColoRectal Carcinomas (ERCRC), n = 3773

IBD-associated CRC (n = 63) Sporadic CRC (n = 3710) p-value
n (%) n (%)
Age Median (range) (years) 45 (22–80) 66 (18–99)  < 0.001
Sex Male 35 (56) 2315 (62.4) 0.266
Female 28 (44) 1395 (37.6)
ECOG* ECOG 0–1 49 (85) 2882 (84.8) 0.953
ECOG 2–4 9 (16) 518 (15.2)
ASA** ASA 1–2 49 (86) 2422 (75.2) 0.062
ASA 3–4 8 (14) 797 (21.5)
Tumor site Right colon 25 (40) 863 (23.3) 0.008
Left colon 12 (19) 1060 (28.6)
Rectum 26 (41) 1787 (48.2)
Emergency surgery Yes 5 (8) 246 (6.6) 0.680
No 58 (92) 3464 (93.4)
Surgery TME/CME 36 (57) 3701 (99.8)  < 0.001
(Procto)colectomy 27 (43) 9 (0.2)
Histological type Adenocarcinoma 51 (81) 3370 (90.8) 0.007
Other types*** 12 (19) 340 (9.2)
Stage (UICC) Stage I 16 (26) 748 (20.2) 0.334
Stage II 17 (27) 790 (21.3)
Stage III 13 (21) 717 (19.3)
Stage IV 10 (16) 585 (15.8)
Stage y0 0 98 (2.6)
Stage yI 0 191 (5.2)
Stage yII 2 (3) 196 (5.3)
Stage yIII 1 (2) 202 (5.4)
Stage yIV 3 (5) 181 (4.9)
Distant metastases M0 50 (79) 2946 (79.4) 0.993
M1 13 (21) 764 (20.6)
R classification R0 51 (81) 3097 (83.5) 0.345
R1 2 (3) 53 (1.4)
R2 8 (13) 515 (13.9)
RX 2 (3) 45 (1.2)
Multimodal treatment Yes 31 (49) 1826 (50.8) 0.998
No 32 (51) 1884 (49.2)

IBD inflammatory bowel disease, CRC colorectal carcinoma, ASA American Society of Anesthesiologists Classification, TME total mesorectal excision, CME complete mesorectal excision; *ECOG performance status in 315 patients unknown; **ASA missing in 497 patients; ***undifferentiated carcinoma, mucinous adenocarcinoma, signet ring cell carcinoma, medullary carcinoma, adenosquamous carcinoma. RX usually due to complete radio frequency ablation of liver metastases