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Table 2 Disease characteristics

From: Is there a need for neoadjuvant short-course radiotherapy in T3 rectal cancer with positive lymph node involvement? A single-center retrospective cohort study

Characteristics

Surgery only, N = 57 (%)

Radiotherapy plus surgery, N = 94 (%)

p

Histology

0.76

 Adenocarcinoma

48 (84)

82 (87)

 

 Mucinous carcinoma

9 (16)

11 (12)

 

 Neuroendocrine carcinoma

0

1 (1)

 

Grade

0.87

 1

4 (7)

5 (5)

 

 2

41 (72)

74 (79)

 

 3

10 (18)

13 (14)

 

 4

0 (0)

2 (2)

 

 Missinga

2 (3)

0

 

pN

0.62

 1

33 (58)

50 (53)

 

 2

24 (42)

44 (47)

 

Lateral margin R1 (< 1 mm)

6 (11)

6 (6)

0.37

Tumor perforation

5 (9)

2 (2)

0.10

Invasion

0.04

 Vascular/neural/lymphatic

15 (26)

41 (44)

 
  1. aData not available, not included in the significance test