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Table 4 Studies on regrowth and salvage surgery

From: Chemoradiation and consolidation chemotherapy for rectal cancer provides a high rate of organ preservation with a very good long-term oncological outcome: a single-center cohort series

Study

Patients (WW group), n

Regrowth rate

Salvage rate

Salvage type

Pathology of LE group

Follow-up, months

OS/DFS (patients with regrowth)

Habr-Gama et al. [27]

90

28 (31%)

93%

LAR: 7 (26%)

APR: 11 (42%)

LE: 7 (26%)

BRACYTX: 1 (1%)

T1: 2 (28.5%)

T2: 5 (71.5%)

60

88%/78%

van der Valk et al. [28]

880

213 (24%)

69%

TME: 78%

LE: 31%

NR

40

75.4%/NR

Smith et al. [29]

113

22 (19%)

100%

LAR: 9 (41%)

APR: 10 (45%)

LE: 2 (0.9%)

Perineal Resection: 1 (0.4%)

T1: 1

NR: 1

43

NR/NR

Nasir et al. [14]

78

23 (29%)

100%

LAR: 10 (43.5%)

APR: 9 (39.1%)

LE: 4 (17.4%)

T0: 1 (75%)

T2: 3 (25%)

36

NR/NR

Fernandez et al. [30]

257

73 (28%)

94%

LAR: 19 (27%)

APR: 24 (34%)

LE: 22 (31%)

BRACYTX: 1 (0.1%)

NR: 3 (0.4%)

NR

40

NR/NR

van der Sande et al. [31]

385

89 (23%)

94%

LAR: 34 (40%)

APR: 24 (27%)

LE: 26 (31%)

T0: 5 (19%)

T1: 4 (15%)

T2: 15 (58%)

T3: 1 (4%)

Tx: 1 (4%)

28

98.4%/90.3%

Geubels et al. [32]

591

175 (29%)

94%

TME: 89 (50%)

LE: 77 (44%)

T0: 28 (36%)

T1: 11 (14%)

T2: 32 (41%)

T3: 6 (0.7%)

53

96%/NR

Present study

39

10 (25%)

100%

LAR: 3 (30%)

APR: 2 (20%)

LE: 5 (50%)

T2: 4 (80%)

T3: 1 (20%)

63

95%/80%

  1. APR abdominoperineal resection, BRACYTX brachytherapy, LAR low anterior resection, LE local excision, NR non reported, WW watch-and-wait protocol