Patterns and prognosis of locally recurrent rectal cancer following multidisciplinary treatment

Table 2 The association between recurrence pattern and resectability

Recurrence pattern	Resection rate (%)	P value	R0 rate (%)	P value
Axial	88.9 (24/27)	< 0.001	85.2 (23/27)	< 0.001
Anterior	33.3 (7/21)		33.3 (7/21)
Posterior	25 (2/8)		25 (2/8)
Lateral	21.7 (5/23)		4.3 (1/23)

The values shown are the resection rate expressed in %, with the number of patients with successful resection/total number of patients with locally recurrent rectal cancer in parentheses.