South Australian clinical registry for metastatic colorectal cancer

Abstract

The treatment of patients with metastatic CRC continues to progress with modern medical and surgical developments. Important insights into the current patterns of care and clinical outcomes for metastatic CRC are provided by these data. In addition, this registry provides a feasible and useful database for the evaluation of current treatments established as best evidence in this population.

Long term results of RFA to lung metastases from colorectal cancer in 157 patients

“…Three and 5-year survival rates of 53.4e70.1% and 39.6e43.4% respectively have been reported for surgical metastasectomy. 16,26 Our 3 year survival of 44% is in keeping with the available literature for RFA of pulmonary CRC metastases 20,28,32,38,39 and would seem adequate as compared to metastasectomy, especially considering that these patients were either considered unsuitable for metastasectomy or would not consent to surgery. This result of 44% seems even more promising when considering that more than 75% of our cohort had disease below the diaphragm at the time of RFA treatment.…”

Incidence and Patterns of Late Recurrences in Rectal Cancer Patients

“…We arbitrarily chose a limit of 6 months because this cut-off has been used in recent publications. 16,17 This definition may slightly underestimate the overall risk of recurrence.…”

Survival improvements associated with access to biological agents: Results from the South Australian (SA) metastatic colorectal cancer (mCRC) registry

“…The SA mCRC registry is a state-wide population-based database established in February 2006 under Section 64D of the South Australian Health Commission Act, which allows the collection of confidential data without breach of law in order to gather case outcomes of patients with synchronous or metachronous mCRC for quality assurance purpose [8]. The registry aims to identify all mCRC cases in SA through hospital encounters, histopathology reports, medical oncology letters, clinician notification, attendances at multidisciplinary meetings and death audits by the SA Cancer Registry.…”