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Table 1 Clinicopathological features of patients

From: The effect of preoperative chemoradiotherapy on lymph nodes harvested in TME for rectal cancer

Parameters

Surgery only (n = 61)

Neoadjuvant (n = 50)

P

Age (years):

  

0.44

<60

11

12

 

>60

50

38

 

Sex:

  

0.53

Male

33

30

 

Female

28

20

 

Tumor site:

  

0.04

Middle

30

15

 

Lower

31

35

 

Tumor grade:

  

0.006

G1

3

2

 

G2

44

32

 

G3

9

1

 

Gx

5

15

 

Stage:

  

0.06

0

3

4

 

I

20

11

 

II

13

19

 

III

23

6

 

X

2

10

 

Type of surgery:

  

0.36

Low anterior resection

44

32

 

Abdominalperineal resection

17

18

0.36

Surgical approach:

  

0.0009

Open

29

9

 

Laparoscopy

32

41

 

Surgeons:

  

0.03

1

18

5

 

2

9

7

 

3

12

14

 

4

12

6

 

5

10

18

 

Pathologists:

  

0.66

1

31

29

 

2

20

11

 

3

5

5

 

4

5

5

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