Abstract
Abdominal "curative" resections for rectal cancer in 109 patients with positive lymph nodes were prospectively studied. The best subdivision of patients for predicting outcome was into 1-3 and >3 positive lymph node groups. Comparison with patients with >3 positive lymph nodes demonstrated that patients with 1-3 positive nodes had less local (35.0 percentvs.13.0 percent;P=0.007) and less distant recurrences (45.0 percentvs. 26.0 percent;P=0.04) and had much better crude five-year survival (58.2 percentvs. 17.0 percent;P< 0.0001). For predicting postsurgical outcome in patients with positive lymph nodes, the results justify subdividing patients into the following two prognostic subgroups: 1) those with 1-3 involved lymph nodes and 2) those with metastatic tumor in four or more lymph nodes.
Original language | English (US) |
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Pages (from-to) | 579-581 |
Number of pages | 3 |
Journal | Diseases of the Colon & Rectum |
Volume | 35 |
Issue number | 6 |
DOIs | |
State | Published - Jun 1992 |
Externally published | Yes |
Keywords
- Metastatic lymph nodes
- Rectal cancer
- Recurrent rectal cancer
- Staging