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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