Predictive Response Value of Pre- and Postchemoradiotherapy Variables in Rectal Cancer: An Analysis of Histological Data

Table 4

Clinical long term outcome (follow-up median: 59 months; range 6–139).

Variable
Overall disease recurrence	29 (17.3%)
Local	5 (3%)
Distant	22 (13.2%)
Local and distant	2 (1.1%)
Five-year overall survival	74.6% (se = 3.8%)
Five-year overall survival for “good responders”	88.3% (se = 3.9%)
Five-year overall survival for “bad responders”	58.3% (se = 6.5%)

(log rank test).