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## BACKGROUND. The Commission on Cancer data from the National Cancer Data Base (NCDB) examining current time trends (1985-1995) in stage of disease, treatment patterns, and survival relating to patients with rectal adenocarcinoma are described in this report. ## METHODS. Seven calls for data to hospital cancer registries across the U. S. have yielded a total of 5,850,000 cancer cases for the years 1985-1995 and include 20,461 rectal and rectosigmoid junction adenocarcinoma cases in 1985-1986, 36,007 cases in 1989 -1990, and 42,069 cases in 1994 -1995. These data represent 24.4%, 44.5%, and 52.5%, respectively, of the estimated cases of rectal and rectosigmoid adenocarcinoma cases diagnosed in the U. S. in each of the 3 respective time periods. Analysis of the data is limited to cases with American Joint Committee on Cancer (AJCC) Stage I-IV disease. ## RESULTS. Four trends were observed. 1) Stage I disease was diagnosed with decreasing frequency, decreasing from 37.1% of cases with known AJCC stage of disease in 1985-1986 to 33.8% in 1994 -1995. 2) There was an increase in the frequency with which local excision was utilized as all or part of the primary treatment for Stage I dise

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Author

J. Milburn Jessup; Andrew K. Stewart; Herman R. Menck

Publisher

John Wiley and Sons; Wiley (John Wiley & Sons); John Wiley & Sons Inc.; Wiley (ISSN 0008-543X)

Published

1998

Language

EN

Field

Medicine (Health Sciences)