Operative Salvage for Locoregional Recurrent Colon Cancer After Curative Resection: An Analysis of 100 Cases

Abstract

Salvage surgery for locoregional recurrence colon cancer is appropriate for select patients. Complete resection is critical to long-term survival and is associated with a single site of recurrence, perianastomotic disease, low presalvage carcinembryonic antigen level, and absence of distant disease.