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. 2014 Dec;57(6):385–390. doi: 10.1503/cjs.001814

Table 2.

Treatment recommendations of Canadian general surgeons for a healthy 55-year-old woman with normal continence and a midrectal cancer with T3N1 preoperative staging

Treatment Overall responses, % Responses by practice region, % Responses according to surgeon training, %


Atlantic Central West Fellowship* Other
Neoadjuvant therapy and low anterior resection 78 66 81 77 97 74

Low anterior resection ± adjuvant therapy based on pathology 1 5 1 2 1 2

Referral to a specialized treatment centre 9 11 9 8 2 11

APR and neoadjuvant or adjuvant therapy 12 18 9 13 0 13

APR = abdominoperineal resection.

*

Colorectal/surgical oncology fellowship.

Indicates a correct response.