Short-term outcomes of a multicentre randomized clinical trial comparing D2 versus D3 lymph node dissection for colonic cancer (COLD trial).

Background: It remains unclear whether extended lymphadenectomy provides oncological advantages in colorectal cancer. This multicentre RCT aimed to address this issue.

Methods: Patients with resectable primary colonic cancer were enrolled in four hospitals registered in the COLD trial, and randomized to D2 or D3 dissection in a 1 : 1 ratio.

[Conversion of laparoscopic access in colorectal cancer surgery (in Russian only)].

Aim: To analyze the problem of access conversion in laparoscopic surgery for colorectal cancer.

Material And Methods: There were 876 procedures for colorectal cancer T14N01M0 performed at the Rostov Research Institute of Oncology in 2015-2017. Open and laparoscopic surgery was applied in 562 and 309 patients, respectively.

[Multiple primary colorectal cancer: Clinical aspects].

Aim: to define some clinical characteristics of synchronous and metachronous colorectal cancer (CRC).

Material And Methods: The investigation was concerned with the data of 150 patients with T1-4N0-2M0-1 multiple primary CRC. The clinical, biological, and morphological characteristics of synchronous and metachronous tumors were analyzed.