Is it possible to adopt the same oncological approach in urgent surgery for colon cancer?

Table 6 Analysis of early mortality (up to 30 d) after urgent surgery for colon cancer

	Early mortality	Survivals	P value	OR and 95%CI
Total	10 (15.2%)	56 (84.8%)
Sex			0.076a
Male	1 (10.0%)	24 (42.9%)
Female	9 (90.0%)	32 (57.1%)
Age (yr)
mean and SD	84.0 ± 8.7	69.6 ± 10.7	< 0.001b	95%CI: 7.2-21.6
< 80	2 (20.0%)	47 (83.9%)	< 0.001a
≥ 80	8 (80.0%)	9 (16.1%)		OR: 20.89, 95%CI: 3.79-115.00
Type of urgency			0.156a
Obstruction	5 (50.0%)	41 (73.2%)
Perforation	5 (50.0%)	15 (26.8%)
Location			0.245a
Cecum/Ascendent	2 (20.0%)	16 (28.6%)
Transverse	2 (20.0%)	3 (5.4%)
Splenic Angle	1 (10.0%)	3 (5.4%)
Descendent	0	9 (16.1%)
Sigmoid	5 (50.0%)	25 (44.6%)
Surgery			0.059a
Right colectomy	2 (20.0%)	18 (32.1%)
Transversectomy	2 (20.0%)	0
Left colectomy	1 (10.0%)	10 (17.9%)
Retosigmoidectomy	5 (50.0%)	22 (39.3%)
Total colectomy	0	6 (10.7%)
T			0.407a
T2	1 (10.0%)	5 (8.9%)
T3	7 (70.0%)	47 (83.9%)
T4	2 (20.0%)	4 (7.4%)
N			0.100a
N0	9 (90.0%)	33 (58.9%)
N1	0	17 (30.4%)
N2	1 (10.0%)	6 (10.7%)
Staging			0.118a
I	1 (10.0%)	4 (7.1%)
II	8 (80.0%)	29 (51.8%)
III	1 (10.0%)	23 (41.1%)
Differentiation grade			> 0.999a
Well	0	3 (5.4%)
Moderate	9 (90.0%)	43 (76.8%)
Poor	1 (10.0%)	4 (7.1%)
Compromised lymph nodes rate	5.0% ± 15.8	8.4% ± 17.4	0.147c
Angiolymphatic invasion	2 (20.0%)	19 (33.9%)	0.483a
Perineural invasion	1 (10.0%)	6 (10.7%)	> 0.999a
ALI + PNI	1 (10.0%)	4 (7.1%)	0.573a
Margin (cm)1	5.3 (1.6-8.5)	7.0 (3.9-10.0)	0.400c
Number of resected lymph nodes1	12.5 (11.3-17.5)	14.0 (12.0-20.3)	0.306c
≥ 12 resected lymph nodes	7 (70.0%)	44 (78.6%)	0.683a

¹p25-p75.

^aExact Fisher’s test.

^bt test for independent samples.

^cMann Whitney test.

Q1: Quartil 1, Q3: Quartil 3.