Figure 1.

Patient flow diagram for the Cancer Care Outcomes Research and Surveillance Consortium (CanCORS) patients with stages II and III rectal cancer. * Reasons for missing quality-of-life (QOL) scores: baseline (BL): 10 patients had surrogates complete survey, and QOL scores were not available from these surveys; one patient did not answer the QOL questions. 1-year follow-up: 10 refused; four could not be contacted; two did not answer the QOL questions. 7-year follow-up: six patients had advanced disease so did not take the disease-free survivor survey; 33 refused; three incapable of responding; 39 could not be contacted.