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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2021 Sep 16.
Published in final edited form as: Br J Surg. 2019 Aug 22;106(11):1530–1541. doi: 10.1002/bjs.11233

Table 3:

Association between presurgery MRI features, the Dworak score and DFS in univariate analysis.

N=94 Values DWORAK (n=81) DFS (n=94)

0–1–2 3–4 P-value HR 95% CI P-value

Tumor Volume 6 [0–111] 8.5 [0–111] 0 [0–37] <0.001 1.01 0.99–1.03 0.29

Volume regression ≤60 20 (21.28%) 9 (60%) 6 (40%) 2.17 0.80–5.88

>60 74 (78.72%) 21 (32%) 45 (68%) 0.041 1 0.14

T 0/1/2 49 (52.13%) 10 (22%) 35 (78%) 1

3/4 45 (47.87%) 20 (56%) 16 (44%) 0.003 1.98 0.73–5.36 0.17

CRM 0 71 (82.56%) 24 (39%) 38 (61%) 0.618 1 0.21

1 15 (17.44%) 6 (46%) 7 (54%) 2.04 0.70–5.91


N 0 62 (65.96%) 18 (31%) 40 (69%) 1

1 32 (34.04%) 12 (52%) 11 (48%) 0.076 1.79 0.69–4.63 0.24

Sphincter involvement 0 93 (98.94%) NA NA NA NA NA NA

1 1 (1.06%)

Tumor Location Low 35 (38.04%) 8 (25%) 24 (75%) 1

Mid 44 (47.83%) 15 (41%) 22 (59%) 0.59 0.20–1.75

High 13 (14.13%) 7 (70%) 3 (30%) 0.037 1.38 0.40–4.71 0.39

EMVI 0 78 (82.98%) 22 (32%) 47 (68%) 1

1 16 (17.02%) 8 (67%) 4 (33%) 0.048 3.11 1.15–8.43 0.0384

Mucinous Content 0 73 (78.49%) 21 (33%) 42 (67%) 1

1 20 (21.51%) 8 (47%) 9 (53%) 0.296 1.46 0.51–4.16 0.49

TRG 1 21 (22.34%) 1 (5%) 18 (95%)

2 28 (29.79%) 5 (19%) 21 (81%)

3 23 (24.47%) 9 (56%) 7 (44%)

4 19 (20.21%) 13 (72%) 5 (28%)

5 3 (3.19%) 2 (100%) 0 <0.001

TRG 1–2/3–5 1–2 49 (52.13%) 6 (13%) 39 (87%) 1

3–4–5 45 (47.87%) 24 (67%) 12 (33%) <0.001 4.30 1.40–13.21 0.005