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A retrospective study of 302 patients who underwent surgical treatment for colorectal carcinoma from 1952 to 1971 is presented. Resectability rate was 93.7 per cent. Operative mortality rate was 5 per cent. Complications were recorded in 12 per cent of cases. Recurrence at the anastomotic line occurred in 3.31 per cent.
The actuarial five-year survival rate was 44.2 per cent for all types of cancer. The “no-touch” technique utilized after 1968 resulted in increased survival of patients who had Dukes' B and C cancers.
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Alarcon, J., Greenwood, G.R. Adenocarcinoma of the colon and rectum: A review of surgical treatment in 302 patients. Dis Colon Rectum 22, 35–39 (1979). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02586754
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