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- Title
Characteristics of anal canal cancer in Japan.
- Authors
Yamada, Kazutaka; Saiki, Yasumitsu; Komori, Koji; Shiomi, Akio; Ueno, Masashi; Ito, Masaaki; Hida, Koya; Yamamoto, Seiichiro; Shiozawa, Manabu; Ishihara, Soichiro; Kanemitsu, Yukihide; Ueno, Hideki; Kinjo, Tatsuya; Maeda, Kotaro; Kawamura, Junichiro; Fujita, Fumihiko; Takahashi, Keiichi; Mizushima, Tsunekazu; Shimada, Yasuhiro; Sasaki, Shin
- Abstract
Anal canal cancer (ACC) has been reported to be an uncommon cancer in Japan, as in the USA, Europe, and Australia. This retrospective multi‐institutional study was conducted to clarify the characteristics of ACC in Japan. First, the histological ACC type cases treated between 1991 and 2015 were collected. A detailed analysis of the characteristics of anal canal squamous cell carcinoma (SCC) cases was then conducted. The results of the histological types revealed that of the 1781 ACC cases, 435 cases (24.4%) including seven cases of adenosquamous cell carcinomas were SCC and 1260 cases (70.7%) were adenocarcinoma. However, the most common histological type reported in the USA, Europe, and Australia is SCC. Most ACC cases are adenocarcinomas and there is a low incidence of SCC in Japan which is different from the above‐mentioned countries. Moreover, we reclassified T4 into the following two groups based on tumor size: T4a (tumor diameter of 5 cm or less) and T4b (tumor diameter of more than 5 cm). The results of the TNM classification of SCC revealed that the hazard ratio (HR) to T1 of T2, T3, T4a, and T4b was 2.45, 2.28, 2.89, and 4.97, respectively. As T4b cases had a worse prognosis than T4a cases, we propose that T4 for anal canal SCC in Japan be subclassified into T4a and T4b.
- Subjects
JAPAN; ANUS; ANAL cancer; SQUAMOUS cell carcinoma
- Publication
Cancer Medicine, 2022, Vol 11, Issue 14, p2735
- ISSN
2045-7634
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1002/cam4.4631