Operations for rectal tumour after neoadjuvant oncological therapy

Introduction: Neoadjuvant chemo-radiotherapy is gaining acceptance for destaging rectal tumours. We report our experience in this field. Patients: We operated 50 patients for rectal carcinoma in 2006. The mean age of the patients was 66 years, the male: female ratio was 27:23. Discussion: 23 (46%) tumours were situated in the lower third, 16 (32%) in the middle third and 11 (22%) in the upper third of the rectum. The pathologic T stage of the resected tumours were Tis: 1 (2%), T1:3 (6%), T2: 12 (24%), T3: 24 (48%), T4 3 (12%). We performed anterior resection in 26 (52%) patients, whereas in 13 patients (26%) we…