Table 1.

Patient and tumor characteristics

Age (median, SD, years)	66 (9.3)
Male	21 (70%)
Body mass index (median, SD, kg/m2)	26.4 (3.8)
Tumor height from anal verge (median, IQR, cm)	6.0 (4.0–8.0)
AJCC stage
0	4 (13)
I	11 (37)
II	6 (20)
III	7 (23)
IV	2 (7)
Neoadjuvant therapy	22 (73)
Radiotherapy only	12 (40)
Chemoradiotherapy	10 (33)
No diverting ileostomy at index surgery	6 (20)

Male, neoadjuvant therapy, AJCC stage and ileostomy are presented as frequency with percentage

SD standard deviation, IQR interquartile range, AJCC American Joint Committee on Cancer