Table 4.

Treatment of distant dissemination in patients initially treated with a macroscopically radical local resection obtained with TME in the absence of distant metastasis

Treatment	No local recurrence		Local recurrence1		Total
	n	%	n	%	n	%
Surgery1 (± radiotherapy and/or chemotherapy)	18	19	2	7	20	16
Radiotherapy and/or chemotherapy	54	57	13	43	67	54
Other	1	1	2	7	3	2
Best supportive care	21	22	13	43	34	27
Total	94		30		124

¹Synchronous with distant metastasis or prior to distant metastasis.