Table 6.

Local recurrence rate after curative resection without multimodal therapy in colon and rectal cancer adapted from [110].

Tumor Location	UICC Stage	Local Recurrence Rate (Only)	Combined Local Metastases Including Distant Metastases
Colon	I	7–8% a	7–8% a
	II	0–4% a	14–43% a
	III	0–7% a	22–67% a
Rectum	I	6–17% b	12–18% b
	II	13–24% b	32% b
	III	3–50% b	37–64% b

^a Bethune 1987 [111]; ^b Minsky et al. 1988 [112].