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Colorectal Cancer in North-Eastern Iran: a retrospective, comparative study of early-onset and late-onset cases based on data from the Iranian hereditary colorectal cancer registry

BMC Cancer volume 22, Article number: 48 (2022) Cite this article

Abstract

Background

The incidence rate of colorectal cancer (CRC) is increasing among patients below 50 years of age. The reason for this is unclear, but could have to do with the fact that indicative variables, such as tumour location, gender preference and genetic preponderance have not been followed up in a consistent mann er. The current study was primarily conducted to improve the hereditary CRC screening programme by assessing the demographic and clinicopathological characteristics of early-onset CRC compared to late-onset CRC in northeast Iran.

Methods

This retrospective study, carried out over a three-year follow-up period (2014–2017), included 562 consecutive CRCs diagnosed in three Mashhad city hospital laboratories in north-eastern Iran. We applied comparative analysis of pathological and hereditary features together with information on the presence of mismatch repair (MMR) gene deficiency with respect to recovery versus mortality. Patients with mutations resulting in absence of the MMR gene MLH1 protein product and normal BRAF status were considered to be at high risk of Lynch syndrome (LS). Analyses using R studio software were performed on early-onset CRC (n = 222) and late-onset CRC (n = 340), corresponding to patients ≤50 years of age and patients > 50 years.

Results

From an age-of-onset point of view, the distribution between the genders differed with females showing a higher proportion of early-onset CRC than men (56% vs. 44%), while the late-onset CRC disparity was less pronounced (48% vs. 52%). The mean age of all participants was 55.6 ± 14.8 years, with 40.3 ± 7.3 years for early-onset CRC and 65.1 ± 9.3 years for late-onset CRC. With respect to anatomical tumour location (distal, rectal and proximal), the frequencies were 61, 28 and 11%, respectively, but the variation did not reach statistical significance. However, there was a dramatic difference with regard to the history of CRC in second-degree relatives between two age categories, with much higher numbers of family-related CRCs in the early-onset group. Expression of the MLH1 and PMS2 genes were significantly different between recovered and deceased, while this finding was not observed with regard to the MSH6 and the MSH2 genes. Mortality was significantly higher in those at high risk of LS.

Conclusion

The variation of demographic, pathological and genetic characteristics between early-onset and late-onset CRC emphasizes the need for a well-defined algorithm to identify high-risk patients.

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Introduction

Approximately 1.2 million people suffer from colorectal cancer (CRC), the third most deadly cancer worldwide [1]. In spite of overall decreasing CRC rates, particularly in patients older than 50 years [2], the trend is the opposite in younger patients [3, 4]. Between 1975 and 2010, the annual incidence rate per 100,000 of 20–49 year olds increased by 1.5% among males and 1.6% per year among females [3, 5]. Thus, although recent screening programmes by colonoscopy for CRC and other lower-intestine disorders have contributed to an overall decrease of the CRC incidence through the detection and elimination of precancerous polyps, this is not evident in those younger than 50 years [4, 6].

According to several studies, the incidence early-onset CRC (affecting those < 50 years of age) varies between different parts of the world with nearly 20% of the cases found in Asia including the Middle East (where the disease is not unusual in < 40-year olds) as compared to 2–8% reported in the U.S. [7, 8]. The mean age of early-onset CRC ranges between 37 and 47 years around the world [5, 7,8,9,10,11,12,13,14,15,16,17,18] and 41–69% of these cases are men. Compared to Western World (Europe and the U.S.), the incidence of CRC is currently very low in the older Iranian population, while young Iranians are showing a rising trend [19]. GLOBOCAN 2018 [20] tells us that the incidence of CRC could double in Iran before 2040.

The reason for the rising incidence and mortality of early-onset CRCs is unclear. Some authors suggest that the growing trend may be related to changing lifestyles, with an increasingly common type of patients characterized by overweight as evidenced by > 25 body mass index (BMI) and low physical activity, often also being current smokers, non-aspirin users and (pre) diabetics [7, 21,22,23,24,25]. A meta-analysis indicates that a CRC history in a first-degree relative (FDR), hyperlipidaemia, obesity and alcohol consumption are significant risk factors for early-onset CRC, while smoking, hypertension, metabolic syndrome, ulcerative colitis, chronic kidney disease, certain dietary factors, sedentary behaviour and occupational exposure to organic dusts can also be potential risk factors [26]. Biologically, CRC in young patients may be different from that seen in patients above 50 years of age. Previous studies have shown that CRC is mainly left-sided in young patients [12, 13] and particularly common in distal colon and rectum [12, 13, 27]. In addition, advanced-stage CRC with atypical histology has become more likely in younger patients, and they need more aggressive therapy compared to older individuals [28]. Current studies show that 94% of all early-onset CRCs are discovered and diagnosed after presenting with symptoms – the most predominant ones being abdominal/rectal pain and bleeding – something that indicates advanced stage with poor outcome [19, 29].

Considering the growing trend of this disease in younger patients, we need to integrate knowledge of early-onset CRC characteristics and differences to develop more precise and individualized screening and treatment strategies. So far, differences between early-onset and late-onset CRC have been investigated in various populations and ethnics to gain a better understanding of this upcoming world-wide health issue [30, 31]. While the pathogenesis of the former has been widely studied in the context of either hereditary syndromes or sporadic cases in the Western World [32,33,34,35,36], epidemiological data and pathogenesis of this type of cancer are generally lacking in countries in the Asia [22]. Moreover, there are considerable diversities regarding tumour location, gender preference and survival [31, 37,38,39,40], which need to be specified by region. To our knowledge, no study in Iran has addressed the characteristics of early-onset CRC with regard to screening and treatment strategies.

Some types of CRC are caused by a genetically inherited, autosomal disorder called the Lynch syndrome (LS) that increases the risk of many types of cancer, particularly CRC [18, 41,42,43]. The disorder is diagnosed by molecular or immunohistochemistry (IHC) testing in patients with mutations in one of four mismatch repair (MMR) genes designated MLH1, PMS2, MSH6 and MSH2. Hereditary CRC is a priority of the Iranian Hereditary Colorectal Cancer Registry (IHCCR) that aims to detect, register and follow these patients. So far, identification of CRCs and colorectal adenomas at high risk of developing into hereditary CRC is recommended [18, 41, 42], but this may not be enough. The current study was conducted to assess the demographic, genetic and clinicopathological characteristics of early-onset CRC compared to late-onset CRC in Iran, specifically to improve screening for hereditary CRC.

Materials and methods

Setting and participants

We approached the problem through the retrospective study of a cohort of consecutive CRCs between April 2014 and February 2017 in Mashhad City in north-eastern Iran. All patient information was obtained from three referral centres that included Imam Reza Hospital Laboratory, Mashhad Pathology Laboratory and Moayed Pathology Laboratory. Data on individuals without firm age information were discarded from the study, unless we were able to contact them and confirm how old they were at the time of diagnosis. With respect to other missing data, we considered each available item for each category and included also some variables with missing data as shown in Fig. 1 that illustrates the whole inclusion/exclusion process. Because of the variable availability of variables we ended up with different numbers of patients in the different categories. CRC cases at high risk of LS were included in IHCCR for later follow-up and genetic evaluation.

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Schematic diagram of the inclusion/exclusion process. CRC = colorectal cancer; FDR = first degree relative; SDR = second degree relative

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Eligibility criteria

All CRCs consecutively registered in the databases of the three referral centres were eligible for inclusion. Cases with missing age data and/or clinically detected polyposis (> 10 polyps) were excluded. In case of unavailability of the surgical pathology slides used for IHC screening, the colonoscopy biopsy blocks were used instead. However, if both pathology slides and biopsy blocks were unavailable, the cases were excluded.

MMR proteins immunohistochemistry

The diagnosis of MMR deficiency relies on the demonstration of absence of one or more gene protein products. We performed IHC for the four most common MMR proteins using the standard procedure based on primary monoclonal antibodies from Vitro SA, Master Diagnostica, Spain (https://www.vitro.bio/inicio), i.e. clone BS29 for MLH1, clone FE11 for MSH2, clone EP49 for MSH6 and clone BS29 for PMS2. Deparaffinized, rehydrated and heat-induced 4-mm tissue sections were used for epitope retrieval with the reaction visualized with Novolink polymer (Leica Company, Wetzlar, Germany). The slides were counterstained with haematoxylin and eosin. Two expert pathologists evaluated the results independently and blindly. All patients received therapy by surgery and chemotherapy according to CRC stage and oncologist opinion.

Outcome measures and variables

The Amsterdam II [44] and the revised Bethesda [45] guidelines were followed during the study to improve identification of individuals likely to have LS and therefore being at increased risk of developing CRC [18, 41, 42]. The screening for CRC in patients at high risk of LS focused on the protein products of the four MMR genes MLH1, MSH2, MSH6 and PMS2 as identified by absence of a specific IHC screening. To exclude sporadic CRCs with acquired promoter hypermethylation, tumours without IHC staining for MLH1 were tested with reference to a mutation of the B-Raf proto-oncogene serine/threonine kinase (BRAF) gene that could result in a valine-to-glutamate change at residue no. 600 (V600E) [16].

The secondary outcome measure was CRC outcome, which was based on the conclusion at the hospital (death or recovery and discharge). We compared available data between deceased and recovered patients with respect to gender, anatomical tumour location, status of the DNA MMR genes according to the Amsterdam II [44] and the revised Bethesda [45] criteria, CRC history in first and second degree relatives (FDR and SDR), as well as absence of CRC in the family history of cancer. Also, we compared these variables between early-onset and late-onset CRC.

Statistical analyses

The Chi-square test and the Fisher exact test were employed to identify any statistically significant differences in baseline characteristics in relation to age. The data were presented as percentage frequency of categorical variables and with the mean standard deviation (SD) for continuous variables. P-values < 0.05 were considered statistically significant. All analyses were performed using R studio software (https://rstudio.com/).

Results

Demographic characteristics

As seen in Fig. 1, a total of 562 CRC cases were included in the study. The patients were divided into two categories depending on when the diagnosis was made: early-onset CRC (n = 222) with patients ≤50 years of age and late-onset CRC (n = 340) with those older than that. The participants’ ages ranged from 20 to 90 years with a mean age of 55.63 ± 14.8 years. In the early-onset CRC group, the mean age was 40.34 ± 7.3 years, while it was 65.11 ± 9.3 years in the late-onset group. The overall gender distribution was close to equal (51% females vs. 49% males). The outcomes in relation to the different characteristics studied for the two age categories are shown in Table 1; however, because this was a retrospective study, we were unable to collect all data for all variables investigated, which is given for each entry in the Table.

Table 1 Baseline characteristics of the study participants
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Clinicopathological characteristics

With respect to the early-onset CRC and late-onset CRC categories, there was a statistically significant difference between the two age categories at the p = 0.03 level. Interestingly, women made up the majority of early-onset CRCs compared to the late-onset ones. The anatomical tumour location varied considerably between the two types of CRC, but did not reach statistical significance, although it was evident that distal colorectal tumours were in majority (61%), particularly in early-onset CRC (62%). The Amsterdam II criteria were mostly present among the early-onset CRCs, and 42% of them had MMR-deficiencies as well. The Revised Bethesda criteria reinforced this impression and at a stronger level of statistical significance (Table 1). About 83% of patients had no history of CRC, neither in FDR nor in SDR, and around 14% of 437 CRCs had non-CRC history of cancer in FDR, the most common being gastric cancer, breast cancer and lung cancer. Generally, there was no statistically significant difference between the early-onset CRC and late-onset CRC groups with respect to history of CRC in FDR; however there was a drastic difference with regard to history of CRC in SDR. Among 437 CRCs, about 33% had reported family history of cancer (Table 1).

IHC screening

With regard to IHC investigation, we had only access to 41 patients, several of whom had more than one kind of MMR-deficiency (dMMR). Although the percentage of MMR-deficiency in the early-onset CRC group was greater than that in the late-onset one, this difference was not significant. Twenty-eight cases with loss of MLH1 underwent testing for the BRAF mutation, 5 of whom were recognized as positive for the BRAF mutation and excluded as sporadic CRC. Finally, 36 of 41 dMMR CRCs with mean age of 51.9 ± 14.1 years were detected as being at high risk of LS (Table 1).

CRC outcome

Of 293 CRCs with available outcome, 20% passed away, a fact that was significantly more common among the late-onset CRCs than the early-onset CRC ones (Table 1). Several features between the deceased and the recovered groups, including deficient expression of the MSH6 and MSH2 genes; the Amsterdam- II/revised Bethesda criteria, as well as the tumour location, did not reach statistical significance. However, age, presence of deficient MLH1 and PMS2 genes as well as risk for LS stood out as high-impact variables (Table 2).

Table 2 Various features in the group of patients studied with respect to CRC outcome
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Discussion

Multiple studies have focused on clarifying the characterization of CRC based on the age of onset [5, 46]. However, to our knowledge, this is the first study in Iran to assess the demographic, clinicopathological and hereditary features in cases diagnosed before 50 years, the age generally used to separate early-onset from late-onset CRC. Although several features (Amsterdam-II, Revised Bethesda, tumour location, deficient expression of the MSH6 and MSH2 genes) did not reach statistical significance, others (LS risk and deficient expression of the MLH1 and PMS2 genes) differed dramatically with respect to CRC outcome. Most CRC cases in the late-onset CRC group and those diagnosed as being at high risk of LS died prematurely because of the cancer. In spite of this fact, our results support the understanding that early-onset CRC is in a long-term, rising trend, while the opposite is true for late-onset CRC. These trends are evident at regional as well as country levels, e.g., an Italian study has shown that the incidence rate of CRC in patients aged 20–49 years increased from 9.3 in 1957 to 13.7 in 2015, whereas the incidence rate of CRC in older patients has steadily declined [2]. Recent studies report incidence rates in CRC patients ≤50 years in India [47] and in the central region of Iran [22] at 39 and 25%, respectively. Furthermore, we found that more than 39% of our cases were first diagnosed with CRC when still under 50 years. We also found that the mean age for early-onset CRCs was 40 years and that the highest number of cases were in the final decade of the age range investigated (40–50 years of age), which is in accordance with other studies [9, 11, 16, 48]. However, this pattern is more pronounced in Asia than in the Western countries [38, 49,50,51,52,53,54,55].

In the last 10 years, a large number of research projects around the world have focused on early-onset CRC. The sample size of these studies ranged between 49 and 64,068 cases [5, 7,8,9,10,11,12,13,14,15,16,17,18, 48, 56,57,58] and the mean age of study subjects ranged between 37 and 47 years [5, 7,8,9,10,11,12, 14,15,16,17,18]. In contrast to our study, the frequency of early-onset CRC is generally reported to be higher in men than in women [5, 7, 10, 11, 13,14,15,16,17, 48], but various studies have yielded conflicting results [10, 28, 47, 59]. Without finding any reason for the gender difference, we noted that early-onset CRC predominantly affected women, whereas late-onset CRC mainly involved men, which was statistically significant.

With regard to localization, our analysis revealed that CRC was less frequent in the proximal colon, which is consistent with results by some authors in the Middle-East [15, 22, 57, 58]. However, the results of other studies performed in the Western World diverge [31, 60], which suggests that there may be differences with regard to the pathogenesis and aetiology of this kind of tumour between the Middle-East and the West. In accordance with our results, which showed an identical distribution of distal tumours in both CRC groups, there seems to be no significant difference with respect to age and tumour location in different age groups [28, 37, 61, 62], On the other hand, the results of multiple other studies are not in line with these findings [10, 47, 63, 64], so tumour localization remains a contended issue.

Although family history of cancer overall did not align with any of the two age categories studied at a statistical significant level, the presence of a positive history of CRC in SDR together with early-onset CRC was highly significant and the combination with either FDR or SDR did not reach significance. These observations confirm previous research results on this subject [10, 65].

It has been observed that tumour histology in younger patients often show poor differentiation with more aggressive growth compared to that seen in older patients [66, 67]. Although this is generally negative for recovery, the overall 5-year relative survival rate for patients under 50 years is on the whole not shorter than for patients above this age [37, 40, 68, 69]. Indeed, despite young patients often present with more advanced disease, it is not unusual for them to survive longer, a counterintuitive fact that is supported by the significantly higher mortality for late-onset CRCs in our study. On the other hand, this must be seen in connection with the concomitant life expectancy.

Multiple risk factors contribute to CRC development. This has been assessed in Iran previously [70,71,72] and among the various factors affecting CRC incidence, the main reason for early-onset CRC development might be the various germline mutations that have come to light in the last two decades [18, 73]. Our study, in addition to demographic and pathological characteristics, addressed the MMR status of early-onset CRCs. Although this study could not confirm germline MMR mutations in other ways than by IHC, the assessment of CRC cases at high risk of LS with respect to age and outcome illuminated the background to how genetic aspects may play a role in CRC development by finding that CRC in those at high risk of LS was more prevalent in the deceased group. With 83% sensitivity and 89% specificity of IHC testing for absence of expression of MMR proteins in this group, we are confident that there is a connection. Tumours in LS cases also demonstrate microsatellite instability (MSI) owing to loss of DNA MMR, and testing for this by the polymerase chain reaction (PCR), which amplifies a standard panel of DNA sequences containing nucleotide repeats, has a sensitivity and specificity of about 85 and 90%, respectively [43, 74]. Loss of the MLH1 expression owing to hypermethylation of this protein is seen in about 15% of sporadic CRCs based on IHC screening [75]. On the other hand, cancers associated with the MSH6 protein may be missed during MSI testing because this gene is preferentially involved in repair of mononucleotide repeats and mononucleotide markers are not included in all MSI panels [43, 76]. In spite of the better sensitivity and specificity of MSI testing, IHC is cheap and easily available, can be conducted using small biopsies and has the added value of assisting identification of the MMR protein(s) that may have caused the dMMR-related tumour.

Strengths and limitations

The multicentre design with a relatively large number of patients followed over a period of 3 years is the main strength of the present study. In addition, the study examines thoroughly the various features in terms of age group and CRC outcome. Since we were not able to contact all CRC cases, the number of patients to deal with changed between the variables as can be seen in Table 1. This was the most challenging limitation, but what was available still allowed us to achieve acceptable power of the statistics used. We compared the characteristics of deceased and recovered CRC cases based on hospital mortality only for 293 consecutive CRCs. Thus, we could not perform survival analyses. However, this was not the aim of the study and will be addressed in future studies. Data, such as symptoms, socioeconomic status, BMI, past medical history, ethnicity, geographic and colonoscopy findings were not available for all cases and must be counted as another limitation as a complete dataset would have made a more detailed interpretation possible. Owing to lack of genetic testing in our setting, the study applied a strategy to identify CRC cases at high risk for LS under the circumstances and resources available. This made differentiation between true Lynch and Lynch-like cases difficult, but this limitation can be avoided in the future as genetic diagnosis is becoming available locally. Furthermore, due to lack of genetic evaluation, we aimed to detect polyposis clinically but no familial adenomatous (FAP) cases were found. The limitations mentioned impose a lack of generalizability of the findings and methods used to characterize early-onset CRCs, but we still think that the results will be useful for low- and middle-income countries especially in Middle East where their resources are as limited as in Iran.

Conclusion

With up to 57% of the early-onset CRC cases at ages of 40 and 49, the mortality rate in this group was considerable. Furthermore, MMR deficiency and risk of LS in CRC patients was more common in the deceased group than among those who survived, but this difference was only significant with respect to the MLH1 and PMS2 genes. In our study, women were in majority for early-onset CRC, while the opposite was the case for late-onset CRC. The incidence of CRC with distal tumours was frequently higher than for other sites, but there was no difference between the early-onset and late-onset CRC cases. Taken together, these findings highlight the need for a well-defined algorithm assisting the identification of patients at risk for early-onset CRC.

Availability of data and materials

The demographic and clinical datasets generated and/or analysed during the current study are available in the Harvard Dataverse repository, [https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/HHLMA1]. The molecular genetic dataset used and/or analysed during the current study are available from the corresponding author (Dr. Ladan Goshayeshi) on reasonable request.

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    Benyamin Hoseini & Saeid Eslami

  2. Department of Medical Informatics, Faculty of Medicine, Mashhad University of Medical Sciences, Mashhad, Iran

    Zahra Rahmatinejad & Saeid Eslami

  3. Department of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Faculty of Medicine, Mashhad University of Medical Sciences, Mashhad, Iran

    Ladan Goshayeshi

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    Robert Bergquist

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    Kamran Ghaffarzadegan

  9. Department of Health Information Technology, Faculty of Paramedical Sciences, Mashhad University of Medical Sciences, Mashhad, Iran

    Fatemeh Rahmatinejad

  10. Department of Health Information Technology, Neyshabur University of Medical Sciences, Neyshabur, Iran

    Reza Darrudi

  11. Department of Medical Informatics, Academic Medical Center, University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, the Netherlands

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BH, LG, and SE contributed to the study design. All authors (BH, ZR, LG, RB, FR, AG, KG, RD, and SE) contributed to data gathering and interpretation of the results. ZR, BH, and FR performed analyses and wrote the first draft of the manuscript. RB edited the final version of the manuscript. All authors (BH, ZR, LG, RB, FR, AG, KG, RD, and SE) read, commented, and approved the final manuscript.

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Hoseini, B., Rahmatinejad, Z., Goshayeshi, L. et al. Colorectal Cancer in North-Eastern Iran: a retrospective, comparative study of early-onset and late-onset cases based on data from the Iranian hereditary colorectal cancer registry. BMC Cancer 22, 48 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1186/s12885-021-09132-5

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