Table 4 Local recurrences in patients with primary surgery and patients with local excision followed by radical surgery separated for conventional and TME-surgery (pT1–pT3 cancer of the rectum). The differences within conventional surgery (p = 0.2) and TME surgery (p = 0.7) were not significant
From: Local excision followed by early radical surgery in rectal cancer: long-term outcome
Conventional surgery | TME-surgery | |||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Primary surgery | LE followed by RS | Primary TME-surgery | LE followed by TME | |||||||||
Number | LR (n) | Percent | Number | LR (n) | Percent | Number | LR (n) | Percent | Number | LR (n) | Percent | |
pT1N0 | 39 | 1 | 2.3 | 11 | 1 | 9.1 | 33 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 0 |
pT1N+ | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | ||||
pT2N0 | 96 | 11 | 19.5 | 7 | 0 | 0 | 97 | 2 | 1.9 | 12 | 0 | 0 |
pT2N+ | 30 | 6 | 2 | 0 | 9 | 0 | 2 | 0 | ||||
pT1/2 N0 | 135 | 12 | 10.7 | 18 | 1 | 5.0 | 130 | 2 | 1.4 | 16 | 0 | 0 |
pT1/2 N+ | 34 | 6 | 2 | 0 | 11 | 0 | 3 | 0 | ||||
pT3N0 | 103 | 22 | 22.6 | – | – | 50.0 | 78 | 10 | 14.2 | 3 | 0 | 20 |
pT3N+ | 56 | 14 | 2 | 1 | 35 | 6 | 2 | 1 | ||||