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. 2023 May 23;23(1):177.
doi: 10.1186/s12876-023-02802-7.

A nomogram for predicting cause-specific mortality among patients with cecal carcinoma: a study based on SEER database

Qianru Zhou  1   2 , Yan Zhan  3 , Jipeng Guo  3
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A nomogram for predicting cause-specific mortality among patients with cecal carcinoma: a study based on SEER database

Qianru Zhou et al. BMC Gastroenterol. .

Abstract

Objective: Classical Cox proportional hazard models tend to overestimate the event probability in a competing risk setup. Due to the lack of quantitative evaluation of competitive risk data for colon cancer (CC), the present study aims to evaluate the probability of CC-specific death and construct a nomogram to quantify survival differences among CC patients.

Methods: Data on patients diagnosed with CC between 2010 and 2015 were collected from the Surveillance, Epidemiology, and End Results Program (SEER) database. Patients were divided into a training dataset for the establishment of the model and a validation dataset to evaluate the performance the model at a ratio of 7:3. To evaluate the ability of multiple variables to predict cause-specific death in CC patients, univariate and multivariate analyses with Fine-Gray models were performed to screen the predictors of cause-specific death, and a nomogram for predicting cause-specific mortality was constructed. Then, the receiver operating characteristic (ROC) curve and the calibration curve were plotted to evaluate the prognostic performance of the nomogram.

Results: The dataset was randomly divided into a training (n = 16,655) dataset and a validation (n = 7,139) dataset at a ratio of 7:3. In the training dataset, variables including pathological subtypes of tumors, pathological grading (degree of differentiation), AJCC staging, T-staging, surgical type, lymph node surgery, chemotherapy, tumor deposits, lymph node metastasis, liver metastasis, and lung metastasis were identified as independent risk factors for cause-specific death of CC patients. Among these factors, the AJCC stage had the strongest predictive ability, and these features were used to construct the final model. In the training dataset, the consistency index (C-index) of the model was 0.848, and the areas under the receiver operating characteristic curve (AUC) at 1, 3, and 5 years was 0.852, 0.861, and 0.856, respectively. In the validation dataset, the C-index of the model was 0.847, and the AUC at 1 year, 3 years, and 5 years was 0.841, 0.862, and 0.852, respectively, indicating that this nomogram had an excellent and robust predictive performance.

Conclusion: This study can help clinical doctors make better clinical decisions and provide better support for patients with CC.

Keywords: CC; Cause-specific mortality; Competing risk model; SEER database.

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Conflict of interest statement

The authors declared no competing interests.

Figures

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The competing risk nomogram for predicting 1-year, 3-year, 5-year cause-specific survival probability of cecal carcinoma
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The AUC for OS of 1-, 3- and 5-year of training cohort
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Calibration curves of nomogramfor 1-, 3-, and 5-year CSS in training cohort
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The AUC for OS of 1-, 3- and 5-year of validation cohort
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Calibration curves of nomogramfor 1-, 3-, and 5-year CSS in validation cohort
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