PMID- 31788805 OWN - NLM STAT- PubMed-not-MEDLINE LR - 20230201 IS - 1096-9098 (Electronic) IS - 0022-4790 (Linking) VI - 121 IP - 2 DP - 2020 Feb TI - Organ-saving surgery for rectal cancer after neoadjuvant chemoradiation: Analysis of failures and long-term results. PG - 375-381 LID - 10.1002/jso.25794 [doi] AB - BACKGROUND: To analyze long-term results and risk of relapse in the clinical TNM stages II and III, mid-low rectal cancer patients (RC pts), treated with transanal local excision (LE) after major response to neoadjuvant chemoradiation (n-CRT). METHODS: Thirty-two out of 345 extraperitoneal cT3-4 or N+ RC pts (9.3%) underwent LE. INCLUSION CRITERIA: extraperitoneal RC, adenocarcinoma, ECOG Performance Status