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Le point sur l’épidémiologie des cancers du côlon

A focus on the epidemiology of colon cancers

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En France, l’incidence des cancers du côlon qui avait augmenté jusque dans les années 2000 tend à diminuer depuis. L’analyse de données plus fragmentaires montre que les tendances temporelles de l’incidence des cancers du côlon varient selon la sous-localisation. L’incidence des cancers du côlon droit et du côlon gauche a augmenté. Elle est restée stable pour les cancers localisés au sigmoïde chez les hommes et a diminué chez les femmes. Un homme né autour de 1900 avait plus de trois fois plus de chances de présenter un cancer du sigmoïde qu’un cancer d’un autre segment du côlon. Le risque de développer un cancer du côlon droit a augmenté de 0,5 % pour les hommes nés autour de 1900 à 1,2 % pour ceux nés autour de 1950. Pour les cohortes les plus récentes, le risque d’être atteint d’un cancer du côlon droit devenait supérieur au risque d’être atteint d’un cancer du sigmoïde. La survie nette était de 57 % à cinq ans et de 50 % à dix ans chez les hommes. Elle était respectivement de 57 et 52 % aux mêmes délais chez les femmes. Le pronostic des cancers du côlon s’est amélioré au cours des deux dernières décennies en France: le taux de survie est passé à cinq ans de 53 % pour les cancers diagnostiqués entre 1989 et 1991 à 58 % pour ceux diagnostiqués entre 2001 et 2004. L’augmentation la plus forte des taux de survie à dix ans concernait le côlon gauche et la jonction rectosigmoïdienne (+19 %). Elle était un peu plus faible pour les cancers du côlon droit (+11 %). D’importants progrès ont été réalisés dans la prise en charge du cancer du côlon. Les développements de chimiothérapies adjuvantes ou palliatives plus efficaces, l’inclusion plus importante des malades dans les essais thérapeutiques, le développement d’une stratégie de dépistage reposant à court terme sur les tests immunologiques devraient permettre de nouveaux progrès.

Abstract

In France, the incidence of colon cancers, which had increased up to 2000, has since seen a reduction. A more detailed analysis of data shows that time-related trends in the incidence of colon cancers varies based on its sub-location. The incidence of both right and left colon cancers has increased. It has remained stable for cancers found in the sigmoid colon in men and has decreased in women. A male born around 1900 was more than three times more likely to have sigmoid cancer than cancer in any other section of the colon. The risk of developing right colon cancer increased from 0.5% for males born around 1900 to 1.2% for those born around 1950. For more recent cohorts, the risk of getting right colon cancer became greater than the risk of getting cancer in the sigmoid colon. The net survival rate was 57% at 5 years and 50% at 10 years for males. These rates were 57 and 52% respectively for the same time scales in females. The prognosis for colon cancers has improved over the last two decades in France: the survival rate at 5 years has risen from 53% for cancers diagnosed between 1989 and 1991 to 58% for those diagnosed between 2001 and 2004. The greatest increase in survival rates at 10 years has been seen for cancer of the left colon and the rectosigmoid junction (+19%). The increase is slightly lower for cancer of the right colon (+11%). Significant progress has been made in the treatment of colon cancer. Developments in adjuvant chemotherapies and more effective palliative care, greater inclusion of patients in therapeutic studies and the development of a screening strategy, based in the short-term on immunological tests, should enable further progress to be made.

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Bouvier, AM., Drouillard, A. Le point sur l’épidémiologie des cancers du côlon. Oncologie 16, 485–490 (2014). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10269-014-2458-z

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