Research Article
The Aetiology of Delay to Commencement of Adjuvant Chemotherapy following Colorectal Resection
Table 1
Patient demographics and operative details.
| Number of patients identified | 166 | Gender: men | 112 (67%) | Age: median (IQR) | 66 (61 to 73) years | Comorbidity | 91 (55%) | BMI: median (IQR) | 27.3 (24.2 to 30.3) | Neoadjuvant chemoradiotherapy | | None | 124 (75%) | Long course | 36 (22%) | Short course | 6 (3%) | Operation details | | Anterior resection | 63 (38%) | Right hemicolectomy | 50 (30%) | Left/sigmoid colectomy | 30 (18%) | Abdominoperineal resection | 13 (8%) | Hartmann’s procedure | 6 (4%) | Subtotal colectomy | 3 (2%) | Panproctocolectomy | 1 (<1%) | Mode of surgery | | Open | 124 (75%) | Laparoscopic | 42 (19%) | Converted | 10 (6%) | Elective : emergency | 153 (92%) : 13 (8%) | Stoma required | 72 (43%) | Preoperative bloods: median (IQR) | | Haemoglobin (g/dL) | 13.0 (11.9 to 14.3) | Platelets (×106/mL) | 249 (218 to 333) | Neutrophils (×106/mL) | 4.6 (3.6 to 5.7) | Lymphocytes (×106/mL) | 1.5 (1.0 to 2.0) | Albumin (mg/L) | 38 (35 to 41) | C-reactive protein (mg/L) | 3 (2 to 11) |
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IQR: interquartile range.
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