Tumor Regression Grades: Can They Influence Rectal Cancer Therapy Decision Tree?

Table 3

Results—pathological parameters and clinical long term outcome.

Variables
Postoperative stage
0	25 (18%)
I	19 (13.7%)
II	53 (38.2%)
III	42 (30.2%)
TRG Mandard	139
Good response (1 or 2)	70 (50.4%)
Bad response (3, 4, or 5)	69 (49.6%)
Overall recurrence disease	26 (18.7%)
Local	4 (2.9%)
Distant	20 (14.4%)
Local and distant	2 (1.4%)
Five years overall survival (os)	72.3% (se = 4.2%)
Five years disease survival (DFS)	72.1% (se = 4.1%)