Local ablation or radioembolization of colorectal cancer metastases: comorbidities or older age do not affect overall survival

Table 1 Overview on procedures and outcome

			Median overall survival (months)^a
	Patients	Procedures	Patient age		Comorbidity
	n	n	≥ 70 years	< 70 years	CCI ≥ 3	CCI < 3
RFA	60	99	26.7 m	24.3 m	24.0 m	26.2 m
liver	18	21		(p = 0.76)		(p = 0.16)
lung	42	77
other	1	1
HDR-BT	192	491	19.1 m	18.2 m	16.4 m	18.9 m
liver	176	422		(p = 0.83)		(p = 0.43)
lung	29	52
lymph node	9	9
other	8	8
Y90-RE	96	142	6.9 m	6.5 m	5.3 m	6.9 m
				(p = 0.86)		(p = 0.21)

^astatistics for overall survival according to Cox regression analysis; p-values (bold) refer to the comparison of survival between age/comorbidity groups

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