YE Zi 1,2 , ZHOU Fanlin 2 , RAO Jiayuan 2 , SU Yu 2 , YU Kaicong 2 , WANG Shunyao 2 , WANG Xiaodong 1,2 , HUANG Mingjun 3
  • 1. Division of Gastrointestinal Surgery, Department of General Surgery, West China Hospital, Sichuan University, Chengdu 610041, P. R. China;
  • 2. West China School of Medicine, Sichuan University, Chengdu 610041, P. R. China;
  • 3. Day Surgery Center, General Practice Medical Center, West China Hospital, Sichuan University, Chengdu 610041, P. R. China;
WANG Xiaodong, Email: wangxiaodong@wchscu.cn
colorectal cancer; literacy; overall survival; disease-specific survival; pathological TNM staging
10.7507/1007-9424.202401006
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Objective To analyze the relation between the literacy and prognosis in the patients with colorectal cancer (CRC) in the current version of the Database from Colorectal Cancer of West China (DACCA). Methods The version of DACCA selected for this data analysis was updated on September 12, 2022. The data items analyzed included age, gender, literacy, tumour site, nature of tumour, pathological TNM (pTNM) stage, survival status, and survival time. The overall survival and disease-specific survival of the CRC patients with different literacy (illiteracy, primary, secondary, and tertiary educations) after radical resection were compared, and then which were analyzed in the patients with different pTNM stages. Results A total of 3 692 data eligible for the study were screened, of which 202 were illiteracy, 1 054 were primary education, 1 809 were secondary education, and 627 were tertiary education; And there were 13 of stage 0, 406 of stage Ⅰ, 1 193 of stage Ⅱ, 1 139 of stage Ⅲ, and 941 of stage Ⅳ. The differences in the comparison of the pTNM stage and the nature of the tumour among the patients with the four levels of literacy were not statistically significant (P>0.05), while the differences in the comparison of the gender, age, and tumour site were statistically significant (P<0.001). The overall survival and disease-specific survival curves of the CRC patients with different literacy had no statistical differences (χ2=1.982, P=0.576; χ2=2.618, P=0.454), and the stratified overall survival curves had no statistical differences among the patients with pTNM stages Ⅰ to Ⅳ (stage Ⅰ: χ2=1.361, P=0.715; stage Ⅱ: χ2=3.507, P=0.320; stage Ⅲ: χ2=3.144, P=0.370; stage Ⅳ: χ2=4.993, P=0.172), and the stratified disease-specific survival curves had no statistical differences (stage Ⅰ: χ2=0.723, P=0.868; stage Ⅱ: χ2=3.295, P=0.348; stage Ⅲ: χ2=4.767, P=0.190; stage Ⅳ: χ2=6.177, P=0.103). Conclusions The results of this study based on real-world big data analysis suggests that the differences of overall survival and disease-specific survival of CRC patients with different literacy levels (illiterate, primary, secondary, and tertiary education) are not statistically significant, and the results of stratified analysis based on pTNM staging are consistent with this. In the future, limitations of this study can be excluded and further analysis can be conducted by combining treatment details or expanding sample data to seek more realistic results.

Citation： YE Zi, ZHOU Fanlin, RAO Jiayuan, SU Yu, YU Kaicong, WANG Shunyao, WANG Xiaodong, HUANG Mingjun. Impact of literacy on long-term prognosis in colorectal cancer patients: a real-world study based on DACCA. CHINESE JOURNAL OF BASES AND CLINICS IN GENERAL SURGERY, 2024, 31(4): 427-432. doi: 10.7507/1007-9424.202401006 Copy

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