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. 2022 Jan 28;6(1):zrab139. doi: 10.1093/bjsopen/zrab139

Table 2.

Recorded primary and secondary outcomes, overall and by year of surgical procedure (2020 versus 2019)

Total sample March–December 2019 March–December 2020 P*
(n = 3236) (n = 1755) (n = 1481)
Primary outcomes
 Cancer TNM stage 0.614
  Early 51.4 51.7 50.9
  Advanced 48.6 48.3 49.1
 Palliative surgery 6.2 5.0 7.5 0.003
Secondary outcomes
 Symptoms at diagnosis 82.5 80.8 84.5 0.006
 Clinical T4 stage 7.4 6.2 8.7 0.008
 Liver metastasis 10.2 10.2 10.3 0.889
(n = 3101) (n = 1642) (n = 1459)
 Multiple liver metastases 76.7 72.1 82.2 0.029
(n = 331) (n = 179) (n = 152)
 Lung metastasis 3.7 3.0 4.4 0.038
 Surgical complications 33.3 34.4 31.9 0.151
 Emergency surgery 90.2 91.0 89.2 0.079
 30-day death 2.0 1.7 2.4 0.149

Values are percentages. Including only the 331 patients with liver metastasis. *Chi-squared test.