Locally advanced rectal cancer: A multivariate analysis of outcome risk factors

Abstract

Whereas stage I rectal cancer can be treated with a good probability of cure by surgery alone, avoiding adverse effects of adjuvant regimens, the outcome of LARC appears to be positively influenced by adjuvant therapies. In LARC, an accurate study of risk factors would be useful to identify which subset of patients could be favorably influenced by postoperative radiochemotherapy.