Multimodal therapy in treatment of rectal cancer is associated with improved survival and reduced local recurrence - a retrospective analysis over two decades

Table 2 Percentage of neoadjuvant therapy performed in each time period in clinical stage UICC III patients

Neoadjuvant-Therapy in clinical stage	1993-2001 (n=142)		2002. 2010 (n=204)		p-value
cUICC II/III	No.	%	No.	%	p-value
No	102	71.8	32	15.7	<0.001
Chemo	1	0.7	0	0	n.s.
Radio	29	20.4	102	50.0	<0.001
Radiochemo	10	7.0	70	34.3	<0.001

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