Time interval between the completion of radiotherapy and robotic-assisted surgery among patients with stage I–III rectal cancer undergoing preoperative chemoradiotherapy

• Published in: PloS one Vol. 15; no. 10; p. e0240742
• Main Authors: Huang, Ching-Wen, Su, Wei-Chih, Yin, Tzu-Chieh, Chen, Po-Jung, Chang, Tsung-Kun, Chen, Yen-Cheng, Li, Ching-Chun, Hsieh, Yi-Chien, Tsai, Hsiang-Lin, Wang, Jaw-Yuan
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: United States Public Library of Science 16.10.2020; Public Library of Science (PLoS)
• Subjects: Adult; Aged; Aged, 80 and over; Cancer; Care and treatment; Chemoradiotherapy; Chemotherapy; Clinical outcomes; Clinical trials; Colorectal cancer; Colorectal surgery; Female; Hospitals; Humans; Kaplan-Meier Estimate; Laparoscopy; Magnetic resonance imaging; Male; Medical schools; Medicine; Medicine and Health Sciences; Metastases; Methods; Middle Aged; Neoplasm Staging; Patient outcomes; Patients; Postoperative Complications - etiology; Preoperative Care; Radiation therapy; Radiotherapy; Rectal Neoplasms - pathology; Rectal Neoplasms - surgery; Rectal Neoplasms - therapy; Rectum; Robotic surgery; Robotic Surgical Procedures; Sphincter; Surgery; Survival; Time Factors; Treatment Outcome; Taiwan

This aim of this study was to evaluate the effects of time interval between the completion of radiotherapy and robotic-assisted surgery on the outcomes among patients with rectal cancer undergoing preoperative concurrent chemoradiotherapy (CCRT). In total, 116 patients with stage I-III rectal cancer...