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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2017 Oct 1.
Published in final edited form as: J Surg Oncol. 2016 Sep 19;114(5):637–641. doi: 10.1002/jso.24358

Table 4.

Proportion of patients, by tumor height, who had downstaging of the tumor stage (i.e. from T3 to T2, T2 to T1, etc). DTAV Distance to the anal verge

DTAV Proportion with T Downstage (n/N)
 < 4 cm 35/87 40.2%
 4 - 6 cm 82/134 61.2%
 6 - 8 cm 95/158 60.1% P < 0.001
 8 - 10 cm 43/101 42.6%
 > 10 cm 11/33 33.3%