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Effects of Preoperative Correction of Anemia With Intravenously Iron in Colorectal Cancer Patients.

Not Applicable
Conditions
Colorectal Cancer
Anemia
Iron-deficiency
Interventions
Drug: Iron(III)isomaltoside
Registration Number
NCT05221957
Lead Sponsor
Zealand University Hospital
Brief Summary

The aim of the study is to examine the effects of anemia correction with intravenous administered iron on clinical outcomes and the immune response on the tumor in patients with planned colonic- or rectal cancer surgery.

The study will be performed as a retrospective propensity score-matched cohort study with an examination of immune response in tumor and clinical outcomes, between patients with anemia without correction with iron(III)isomaltoside, non-anemic patients, and anemic patients treated with iron(III)isomaltoside prior to surgery. Propensity score matching will ensure identification of controls from a pool of patients treated at the Department of Surgery, Zealand University Hospital. The two control groups will be: an anemic historical control group (group 1), and a non-anemic concurrent control group (group 2). Group 3 will be the treatment group, with patients with anemia and treated with iron(III)isomaltoside.

The study period of cases undergoing i.v. treatment will be 1st of February 2017 to 31st of October 2019 with approximately 70 cases included

Detailed Description

Not available

Recruitment & Eligibility

Status
UNKNOWN
Sex
All
Target Recruitment
200
Inclusion Criteria
  • Undergoing curative intended surgery for colon or rectum cancer
  • UICC stage I-III
Exclusion Criteria
  • Neoadjuvant oncological treatment
  • Acute / subacute surgery
  • Palliative surgery
  • Other pathology than adenocarcinoma

Study & Design

Study Type
INTERVENTIONAL
Study Design
PARALLEL
Arm && Interventions
GroupInterventionDescription
Iron(III)isomaltoside 1000Iron(III)isomaltosideAnemic patients receiving treatment with iron(III)isomaltoside
Primary Outcome Measures
NameTimeMethod
Gene expression and lymphocyte infiltration of the tumor1 day after surgery

770 gene expression analysis and CD3/CD8+ lymphocyte infiltration of the primary tumor

Complications30 days after surgery

Postoperative complications after surgery measured by the Clavien-Dindo classification

Secondary Outcome Measures
NameTimeMethod
Length of stayup to 100 days

Length of postoperative hospital stay, until discharge or death.

ReadmissionWithin 30 days after surgery

Any readmission over 24 hours in length

Time to chemotherapyup to 100 days

Tme from surgery to adjuvant oncological treatment for patients with high risk stage II and stage III disease

Perioperative blood transfusionsfrom outpatient assesment to 30 days after surgery

Any blood transfusions measured in ml.

Mortality30 days, 90 days and one year

Mortality

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