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COLORECTAL CANCER: A LARGE UNSELECTED AUSTRALIAN SERIES
Author(s) -
Davis NevilleC.,
Evans ElizabethB.,
Cohen JonR.,
Theile DavidE.,
Job DavidM.
Publication year - 1987
Publication title -
australian and new zealand journal of surgery
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.111
H-Index - 51
eISSN - 1445-2197
pISSN - 0004-8682
DOI - 10.1111/j.1445-2197.1987.tb01326.x
Subject(s) - medicine , rectum , abdominoperineal resection , adenocarcinoma , colorectal cancer , general surgery , carcinoma , series (stratigraphy) , surgery , cancer , paleontology , biology
An unselected prospective consecutive series of 575 patients with a single adenocarcinoma of the colon and of 331 patients with a single adenocarcinoma of the rectum registered between 1971 and 1984 at the princess alexandra hospital is reported. The tumours were staged according to the australian clinicopathological staging (acps) system. Approximately one‐quarter of the patients were incurable when they presented. For curative operations for carcinoma of the colon, the operative mortality was 3%. For curative operations for carcinoma of the rectum, the operative mortality was 1% for abdominoperineal resection and 4.5% for anterior resection. The relative 5 year survival for all patients was 54.5%. The findings are compared with other large australian series as well as with series from the united kingdom and the united states.