Table 1.
Patient characteristics
| Patient number | Sex | Age | Clinical TNM stage |
Pathologic TN stage |
Tumor location (cm from anorectal junction) etermined by MRI |
Type of surgery |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | M | 74 | T3N0M0 | T2N0 | 0.0 | APR |
| 2 | M | 58 | T3N2M1a | T3N1b∗ | 6.0 | LAR |
| 3 | F | 68 | T3N2aM0 | T2N0∗ | 10.0 | LAR |
| 4 | M | 57 | T2N1aM0 | T2N0 | 6.0 | LAR |
| 5 | F | 59 | T3N2M1b | T3N1a∗ | 5.5 | LAR |
| 6 | F | 55 | T3N0M0 | T2N1b | 6.0 | LAR |
| 7 | M | 55 | T3N1bM1a | T3N0∗ | 5.8 | LAR |
| 8 | M | 46 | T3N0M0 | T2N0 | 5.5 | LAR |
| 9 | M | 78 | T3N2M1a | T0N0∗ | 4.2 | LAR |
| 10 | M | 56 | T3N0M0 | T0N0 | 6.2 | LAR |
| 11 | F | 54 | T2N1M0 | T2N0 | 4.2 | LAR |
Abbreviations: APR = abdominal perineal resection; LAR = low anterior resection; M = metastasis; MRI = magnetic resonance imaging; N = regional lymph nodes; T = tumor.
∗
Receipt of neoadjuvant chemotherapy