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Robot-assisted Total Mesorectal Excision and Lateral Pelvic Lymph Node Dissection for Locally Advanced Middle-low Rectal Cancer
Published on: February 12, 2022
CHEMOTHERAPY IN RECTAL CANCER
Bohdan Tataryn1, Anna Kryzhanivska1, Volodymyr Holotiuk1
1IVANO-FRANKIVSK NATIONAL MEDICAL UNIVERSITY, IVANO-FRANKIVSK, UKRAINE.
Objective:
The aim: To evaluate and analyze early and late results of treatment of patients with rectal cancer after chemotherapy.
Patients And Methods:
Materials and methods: The study is based on the results of observation of 779 patients with stage II, III and IV rectal cancer (RC) who were divided into groups according to the chemotherapy treatment.
Results:
Results: In the course of chemotherapy treatment of RC patients, most of them received the FOLFOX regimen treatment - 87 patients (43.5%). 40 people (20%) received Mayo regimen. 36 patients (18%) underwent FOLFIRI regimen. Another 33 patients received the XELOX regimen chemotherapy (16.5%). In four cases, patients underwent Tegafur monotherapy (2%).
Conclusion:
Conclusions: The obtained data for patients with stage III RC showed that at all studied time intervals, the highest percentage of surviving patients was recorded in those who received chemotherapeutic treatment according to the FOLFOX regimen. In patients with stage II RC, the most ef f ective was Mejo regimen - 30.7% (survived patients for the 5 year observation).
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