Poorly controlled type II diabetes mellitus significantly enhances postoperative chemoresistance in patients with stage III colon cancer

Table 3 Comparison of disease-free survival, overall survival and chemoresistance rate in the non-diabetes mellitus, diabetes mellitus, well-controlled and poorly controlled groups, n (%)

	DFS	OS	CRR
Non-DM group (n = 160)	34 (21.25)	27 (16.88)	12 (7.50)
DM group (n = 118)	33 (27.97)	23 (19.50)	17 (14.41)
Well-controlled group (n = 73)	16 (21.90)	10 (13.70)	6 (8.22)
Poorly controlled group (n = 45)	17 (37.78)	13 (28.89)	11 (24.40)
P value1	0.196	0.575	0.063
P value2	0.908	0.538	0.849
P value3	0.023a	0.072	0.001a
P value4	0.062	0.043a	0.015a

^aP < 0.05.

¹Non-diabetes mellitus group vs diabetes mellitus group.

²Non-diabetes mellitus group vs well-controlled group.

³Non-diabetes mellitus group vs poorly controlled group.

⁴Well-controlled group vs poorly controlled group.

DM: Diabetes mellitus; DFS: Disease-free survival; OS: Overall survival; CRR: Chemoresistance rate.