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Local-regional treatment failure with colorectal cancer resection may present as local recurrence and/or peritoneal metastases. Free cancer cells or tiny nodules disseminated from the primary cancer may implant and grow at high density at the resection site as a local recurrence. Low density cancer implants at a distance will become peritoneal metastases.
