A quasi-bridge to surgery approach for stage IV obstructive colon cancer: extending the bridge-to-surgery concept to metastatic disease.

World J Surg Oncol · 2026 · PMC13422036 · PMID 42426861

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Stent-related perforation occurred in 26.7% of palliative care-only patients and 27.3% of palliative chemotherapy-only patients, but in no Quasi-BTS patient; this difference in perforation rates alone represented a numerical trend ( P = 0.070) that did not reach the conventional threshold of statistical significance.

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