Background: Evidence demonstrates short-term benefits of laparoscopic surgery for colon cancer. The situation for rectal cancer is less clear.
Objectives: This review assessed the use and short-term outcomes of elective open and laparoscopic colon and rectal cancer resections within an area health service.
Purpose: This study examined the correlation between depth of local invasion in colon cancer and tumor spread and patient survival.
Methods: A cohort of 796 patients with a complete set of TNM staging information following an elective resection for colon cancer was selected. The rates of lymph node and distant metastasis, tumor differentiation, and extramural venous invasion for different tumor (T) categories were compared.
Purpose: Patients who have an emergency operation for colorectal cancer have poorer long-term survival outcomes compared with elective patients. This study was designed to define the role of tumor pathology as a basis for the differences in survival outcomes.
Methods: There were 1,537 elective and 286 emergency patients who had an operation for bowel cancer from 1997 to 2003.