Oligometastatic versus polymetastatic colon cancer: functional and genomic determinants of divergent metastatic trajectories.

Explor Target Antitumor Ther · 2026 · PMC13176761 · PMID 42147480

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0.0001

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highly significantP < 0.0001actually significant

Survival analysis confirmed a highly significant difference between the two cohorts, with OM patients experiencing a substantially reduced risk of death (HR = 0.1974; 95% CI: 0.1095–0.3559; P < 0.0001 by log-rank test).

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did not reach statistical significanceP = 0.0724so close (0.05 < p ≤ 0.1)

Patients in the OM group tended to be older than those in the PM group (median age: 67 versus 62 years, respectively), although this difference did not reach statistical significance ( P = 0.0724).

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