Colorectal cancer surgery 2000-2008: Evaluation of a prospective database

ANZ Journal of Surgery

Volumn 82, Issue 6, 2012, Pages 412-419

  Due, Steven L ^a   Wattchow, David A ^a   Sweeney, James L ^a   Milliken, Lesley ^b   Luke, Colin G ^b  

^a FLINDERS MEDICAL CENTRE   (Australia)

^b DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH   (Australia)

Author keywords

Clinical audit; Colorectal neoplasms; Colorectal surgery; Morbidity; Mortality

Indexed keywords

ADJUVANT CHEMOTHERAPY; ADJUVANT THERAPY; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; AUSTRALIA; BLOOD TRANSFUSION; CLINICAL TRIAL; COLORECTAL TUMOR; EMERGENCY; FACTUAL DATABASE; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MORTALITY; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; REGISTER; STATISTICS; SURVIVAL; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BLOOD TRANSFUSION; CHEMOTHERAPY, ADJUVANT; COLORECTAL NEOPLASMS; DATABASES, FACTUAL; EMERGENCIES; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; GUIDELINE ADHERENCE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; PRACTICE GUIDELINES AS TOPIC; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RADIOTHERAPY, ADJUVANT; REGISTRIES; SOUTH AUSTRALIA; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 84861886614     PISSN: 14451433     EISSN: 14452197     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1445-2197.2012.06078.x     Document Type: Article

References (56)

1. Platell C. Secrets to a successful database. ANZ J. Surg. 2008; 78: 729-30.
2. Wang J, Boult M, Roder D, Babidge W, Kollias J, Maddern G. Commentary: how surgical audits can be used to promote the update of surgical evidence. ANZ J. Surg. 2008; 78: 437-8.
3. White E, Hunt JR, Casso D. Exposure measurement in cohort studies: the challenges of prospective data collection. Epidemiol. Rev. 1998; 20: 43-56.
4. Jamtvedt G, Young JM, Kristoffersen DT, O'Brien MA, Oxman AD. Audit and feedback: effects on professional practice and health care outcomes. Cochrane Database Syst. Rev. 2010; 7: CD000259.
5. Clinical Governance Unit 2002. The National Colorectal Cancer Care Survey. Australian clinical practice in 2000. National Cancer Control Initiative, Melbourne, 2002; 1-124.
6. Luke CG, Koczwara B, Moore JE etal. Treatment and survival from colorectal cancer: the experience of patients at South Australian teaching hospitals between 1980 and 2002. Clin. Oncol. 2005; 17: 372-81.
7. Newland RC, Dent OF, Chapuis PH, Bokey EL. Clinicopathologically diagnosed residual tumour after resection for colorectal cancer. A 20-year prospective study. Cancer 1993; 72: 1536-42.
8. National Health and Medical Research Council. Clinical practice guidelines: the prevention, early detection and management of colorectal cancer. Clinical Oncological Society of Australia and Australian Cancer Network, Canberra 1999.
9. National Health and Medical Research Council. Guidelines for the prevention, early detection and management of colorectal cancer. The Cancer Council Australia and Australian Cancer Network, Sydney, 2005.
10. McArdle CS, Hole DJ. Emergency presentation of colorectal cancer is associated with poor 5-year survival. Br. J. Surg. 2004; 91: 605-9.
11. Association of Coloproctology of Great Britain and Ireland, The Northern and Yorkshire Cancer Registry and Information Service, and the NHS Information Centre, 2009. The National Bowel Cancer Audit Annual Report. NHS Information Centre, 2009.
12. Wong SK, Jalaludin BB, Morgan MJ etal. Tumour pathology and long-term survival in emergency colorectal cancer. Dis. Colon Rectum 2008; 51: 223-30.
13. Gombotz H, Rehak PH, Shander A, Hofmann A. Blood use in elective surgery: the Austrian benchmark study. Transfusion 2007; 47: 1468-80.
14. Amato AC, Pescatori M. Effect of perioperative blood transfusions on recurrence of colorectal cancer: meta-analysis stratified on risk factors. Dis. Colon Rectum 1998; 41: 570-85.
15. Jagoditsch M, Pozgainer P, Klingler A, Tschmelitsch J. Impact of blood transfusions on recurrence and survival after rectal cancer surgery. Dis. Colon Rectum 2006; 49: 1116-30.
16. Davis NC, Newland RC. The reporting of colorectal cancer: the Australian clinicopathological staging system. Aust. N. Z. J. Surg. 1982; 52: 395-7.
17. Hunter A. Report: Binational Colorectal Cancer Audit. Presentation at ASC 2010; Colorectal Research and Audit. [Cited 26 Aug 2011.] Available from URL:
18. The Colorectal Surgical Society of Australia and New Zealand. Bi-National Colorectal Cancer Audit Annual Report 2007-2008. [Cited 25 Aug 2011.] Available from URL:
19. Australian Institute of Health and Welfare (AIHW). 2010. Australian Cancer Incidence and Mortality. AIHW: Canberra. [Cited 25 Aug 2011.] Available from URL:
20. Field K, Kosmider S, Johns J etal. Linking data from hospital and cancer registry databases: should this be standard practice? Intern. Med. J. 2010; 40: 566-73.
21. Holman CD, Bass AJ, Rouse IL, Hobbs MS. Population-based linkage of health records in Western Australia: development of a health services research linked database. Aust. N. Z. J. Public Health 1999; 23: 453-9.
22. Kosmider S, Jones I, Hibbert M etal. Towards establishing a national colorectal cancer database: lessons learnt from BIO21 molecular medicine informatics model. ANZ J. Surg. 2008; 78: 803-9.
23. Australian Institute of Health and Welfare, Cancer Australia & Australasian Association of Cancer Registries. Cancer Survival and Prevalence in Australia: Cancers Diagnosed from 1982 to 2004. Canberra: AIHW, 2008.
24. Coleman MP, Forman D, Bryant H etal. Cancer survival in Australia, Canada, Denmark, Norway, Sweden, and the UK, 1995-2007 (the International Cancer Benchmarking Partnership): an analysis of population-based cancer registry data. Lancet 2011; 377: 127-38.
25. Drummond MB, Wise RA, John M, Zvarich MT, McGarvey LP. Accuracy of death certificates in COPD: analysis from the TORCH trial. COPD 2010; 7: 179-85.
26. Ravakah K. Death certificates are not reliable: revivification of the autopsy. South. Med. J. 2006; 99: 728-33.
27. Doria-Rose VP, Marcus PM. Death certificates provide an adequate source of death information when evaluating lung cancer mortality: an example from the Mayo Long Project. Lung Cancer 2009; 63: 295-300.
28. Leite JS, Martins SC, Oliveira J, Cunha MF, Castro-Sousa F. Clinical significance of macroscopic completeness of mesorectal excision in rectal cancer. Colorectal Dis. 2011; 13: 381-6.
29. Messenger D, Cohen Z, Kirsch R etal. Favorable pathologic and long-term outcomes from the conventional approach to abdominoperineal resection. Dis. Colon Rectum 2011; 54: 793-802.
30. South Australian Cancer Registry. 2008). Cancer in South Australia 2006 - with projections to 2009. Adelaide: South Australian Department of Health.
31. Hall SE, Holman CDJ, Platell C, Sheiner H, Threlfal T, Semmens J. Colorectal cancer surgical care and survival: do private health insurance, socioeconomic and locational status make a difference? ANZ J. Surg. 2005; 75: 929-35.
32. Hoffmann D, Moore J, Roder D. Trends in survival from colonic cancer; the impact of sub-specialization. Aust. N. Z. J. Surg. 1997; 67: 842-5.
33. Ponz de Leon M, Pezzi A, Benatti P etal. Survival, surgical management and perioperative mortality of colorectal cancer in the 21-year experience of a specialised registry. Int. J. Colorectal Dis. 2009; 24: 777-88.
34. Faivre-Finn C, Bouvier-Benhamiche AM, Phelip JM, Manfredi S, Dancourt V, Faivre J. Colon cancer in France: evidence for improvement in management and survival. Gut 2002; 51: 60-4.
35. Blomqvist P, Ekbom A, Nyrén O, Krusemo U, Bergström R, Adami HO. Survival after colon cancer 1973-1990 in Sweden. Convergence between catchment areas. Ann. Surg. 1997; 2: 208-16.
36. Brenner H, Stegmaier C, Ziegler H. Long-term survival of cancer patients in Germany achieved by the beginning of the third millennium. Ann. Oncol. 2005; 16: 981-6.
37. Altekruse SF, Kosary CL, Krapcho M etal. (eds). SEER Cancer Statistics Review, 1975-2007, National Cancer Institute. Bethesda, MD. [Cited 25 Aug 2011.] Available from URL:
38. Wong SKC, Kneebone A, Morgan M, Henderson CJ, Morgan A, Jalaludin B. Surgical management of colorectal cancer in south-western Sydney 1997-2001: a prospective series of the 1293 unselected cases from six public hospitals. ANZ J. Surg. 2005; 75: 776-82.
39. Walker KG, Bell SW, Rickard MJFX etal. Anastomotic leakage is predictive of diminished survival after potentially curative resection for colorectal cancer. Ann. Surg. 2004; 240: 255-9.
40. Smothers L, Hynan L, Fleming J, Turnage R, Simmang C, Anthony T. Emergency surgery for colon carcinoma. Dis. Colon Rectum 2003; 46: 24-30.
41. Morris EJA, Taylor EF, Thomas JD etal. Thirty-day postoperative mortality after colorectal cancer surgery in England. Gut 2011; 60: 806-13.
42. Hendry PO, Hausel J, Nygren J etal. Determinants of outcome after colorectal resection within an enhanced recovery programme. Br. J. Surg. 2009; 96: 197-205.
43. Bruce J, Krukowski ZH, Al-Khairy G, Russell EM, Park KG. Systematic review of the definition and measurement of anastomotic leak after gastrointestinal surgery. Br. J. Surg. 2001; 88: 1157-68.
44. Andreoni B, Chiappa A, Bertani E etal. Surgical outcomes for colon and rectal cancer over a decade: results from a consecutive monocentric experience in 902 unselected patients. World J. Surg. Oncol. 2007; 5: 73.
45. Petersen S, Freitag M, Hellmich G, Ludwig K. Anastomotic leakage: impact on local recurrence and survival in surgery of colorectal cancer. Int. J. Colorectal Dis. 1998; 13: 160-3.
46. Wattchow DA, de Fontgalland D, Bampton PA, Leach PL, McLaughlin K, Costa M. Clinical trial: the impact of cyclooxygenase inhibitors on gastrointestinal recovery after major surgery - a randomized double blind controlled trial of celecoxib or diclofenac vs. placebo. Aliment. Pharmacol. Ther. 2009; 30: 987-98.
47. Wattchow DA, Weller DP, Esterman A etal. General practice compared to surgical based follow-up for patients with colon cancer; a randomized controlled trial. Br. J. Cancer 2006; 94: 1116-21.
48. Gall C, Weller DP, Estermann A etal. Patient satisfaction and health related quality of life following treatment for colon cancer. Dis. Colon Rectum 2007; 50: 801-9.
49. Busch ORC, Hop WCJ, Hoynck van Papendrecht MAW etal. Blood transfusions and prognosis in colorectal cancer. N. Engl. J. Med. 1993; 328: 1372-6.
50. Busch ORC, Hop WCJ, Marquet RJ, Jeekel J. Blood transfusions and local tumour recurrence in colorectal cancer: evidence of a noncausal relationship. Ann. Surg. 1994; 220: 791-7.
51. Edna TH, Bjerkeset T. Perioperative blood transfusions reduce long-term survival following surgery for colorectal cancer. Dis. Colon Rectum 1998; 41: 451-9.
52. Hill GE, Frawley WH, Griffith KE, Forestner JE, Minei JP. Allogeneic blood transfusion increases the risk of post-operative bacterial infection: a meta-analysis. J. Trauma 2003; 54: 908-14.
53. Houbiers JG, van de Velde CJ, van de Watering LM etal. Transfusion of red cells is associated with increased incidence of bacterial infection after colorectal surgery: a prospective study. Transfusion 1997; 37: 126-34.
54. Vignali A, Braga M, Gianotti L etal. A single unit of transfused allogeneic blood increases postoperative infections. Vox Sang. 1996; 71: 170-5.
55. Payne JE, Meyer HJ. The influence of other diseases upon the outcome of colorectal cancer patients. Aust. N. Z. J. Surg. 1995; 65: 398-402.
56. Australian Bureau of Statistics. Causes of Death, Australia, 2007. Document 3303.0. [Cited 25 Aug 2011.] Available from URL: