Patterns and management of distant failure in locally advanced rectal cancer: a cohort study.
Jorge Arredondo ChavesJ BaixauliJ RodríguezC BeorleguiL ArbeaG ZozayaW TorreJ A -CienfuegosJ L Hernández-LizoáinPublished in: Clinical & translational oncology : official publication of the Federation of Spanish Oncology Societies and of the National Cancer Institute of Mexico (2015)
Combined treatment for LARC obtains a 5-year OS rounding 90 %. Follow-up based on thoracic-abdominal CT scan allows an early diagnosis of metastatic lesions. Surgical resection of metastases, regardless of their location, greatly increases the patient's survival rate.