Table 2.

Secondary treatment of local recurrence (in the absence of distant dissemination) according to treatment with radiotherapy and stage at initial diagnosis (after a macroscopically radical resection obtained with TME)

Secondary treatment	Stage and treatment with radiotherapy at initial diagnosis
	Stage I			Stage II			Stage III			Total n (%)
	No RT	Post RT	Pre RT	No RT	Post RT	Pre RT	No RT	Post RT	Pre RT
Radical surgery1 (± radiotherapy and/or chemotherapy)	3	-	1	3	-	1	1	-	1	10 (3)
Non-radical surgery1 (± radiotherapy and/or chemotherapy)	-	-	-	2	1	2	-	3	-	8 (2)
Radiotherapy and/orchemotherapy without surgery	2	-	-	1	1	-	1	2	-	7 (2)
Best supportive care	1	-	-	-	1	3	1	-	1	7 (2)
Total	6	-	1	6	3	6	3	5	2	32

¹Radical surgery was defined as surgery without microscopically residual disease; all other surgery cases were classified as non-radical. No RT: No radiotherapy; Post RT: Postoperative radiotherapy; Pre RT: Preoperative radiotherapy.