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Table 3 Patterns of recurrence

From: Postoperative XELOX therapy for patients with curatively resected high-risk stage II and stage III rectal cancer without preoperative chemoradiation: a prospective, multicenter, open-label, single-arm phase II study

 

n (%)

Lung

16 (15%)

Local recurrence

9 (8%)

Anastomosis

3

Pelvis

4

Pelvic lymph nodes

2

Liver

7 (7%)

Peritoneal dissemination

1 (1%)

Paraaortic lymph nodes

1 (1%)

Sigmoid colon

1 (1%)

Ovary

1 (1%)

Totala

33 (31%)

  1. aTwo patients developed recurrence in lung and liver, and one patients developed recurrence in lung and local recurrence
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