title: Prognostic significance of hereditary predisposition on the outcome of colorectal cancer as expressed by increased in vitro tetraploidy.
abstract: Seventy colorectal cancer patients operated on in the period 1981-1984 were consecutively investigated for in vitro tetraploidy in dermal fibroblasts, as an increased number of tetraploids is considered a marker of genetic predisposition for colorectal cancer. The difference in disease-free survival rates of increased (IVT+) and normal (IVT-) in vitro tetraploidy was not statistically significant (0.1 less than p less than 0.2), but the decrease in the disease-free survival rate of IVT+ was 1.6 times that of IVT-. To exclude the influence of other prognostic factors, a Cox multivariate regression analysis was used, with Dukes C carcinoma and poor differentiation as co-variables for IVT+. In this analysis IVT+ did not show any independent prognostic significance. A genetic predisposition for colorectal cancer, as expressed by the presence of IVT+ in skin fibroblasts, does not seem to influence the survival of patients with colorectal cancer.
authors.affiliation: Dept. of Surgical Gastroenterology, Bispebjerg Hospital, Copenhagen, Denmark.
authors.forename: L B
authors.initials: LB
authors.lastname: Svendsen
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Bredesen
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Bülow
authors.forename: B S
authors.initials: BS
authors.lastname: Danes
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D015179:Colorectal Neoplasms / Q000235:genetics / Q000401:mortality* / Q000601:surgery; D005260:Female; D005500:Follow-Up Studies; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D011123:Polyploidy; D011379:Prognosis