Second-Look Surgery for Colorectal Cancer: Revised Selection Factors and New Treatment Options for Greater Success

Table 1

Second-look surgery in patients with cancer of the colon (reprinted from [6] with permission).

	Second-look negative	Second-look positive	Symptomatic look
Number of patients	62	36	47
Operative deaths	2– 3.2%^∗	6–17%	7–15%
Recurrent cancer^†	12–19%	24–67%	33–70%
Living and well, last look negative	41	4	4
Living and well, last look positive	—	0	3
Living with residual	1	0	0
Dead from other than cancer	10	2	0
Total converted	—	6–17%	7–15%

∗One patient had residual cancer and died at fifth look.
†Considered failures in negative-look group.