The aetiology of delay to commencement of adjuvant chemotherapy following colorectal resection.

Int J Surg Oncol · 2014 · PMC3976919 · PMID 24757562

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a significant trendP = 0.050actually significant

Patients with a longer postoperative inpatient stay exhibited a significant trend towards having a longer time interval from discharge to chemotherapy (linear regression; t = 1.94; P = 0.050) 3.2.

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failed to reach significanceP = 0.143not close (p > 0.1)

Patients undergoing laparoscopic surgery exhibited a trend towards shorter time intervals to starting adjuvant chemotherapy but this failed to reach significance ( P = 0.143).

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did not achieve significanceno p-value reported

Interestingly, the use of a laparoscopic approach to colorectal resection has been seen to yield a shorter wait to commencement of chemotherapy, although this did not achieve significance.

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