… This study of prospectively collected data using propensity score weighting represents …
individuals with rectal cancer by including a facility volume variable in the propensity weighting. …

Background Rectal cancers have long been treated as a single-entity disease; however,
whether the prognosis of high rectal cancer (inferior margin located 10.1 to 15.0 cm from the …

… colon cancer group was matched to the left-colon cancer group and the rectal cancer group
using propensity scores, … Propensity scores were derived from logistic regression models; the …

… laparoscopy in rectal cancer is controversial. We compare laparoscopic vs open surgery for
treating primary rectal cancer, using population-based data plus propensity score analysis to …

… with rectal cancer who received preoperative chemoradiation therapy and curative surgery.
After propensity-score … relapse-free survival for patients with locally advanced rectal cancer. …

… This was a propensity-score matched cohort analysis study that included patients of all
ages diagnosed with locally advanced rectal cancer (LARC) who had received neoadjuvant …

… /III rectal cancer. However, the optimal sequencing of radiotherapy for metastatic rectal cancer
… Between 2004 and 2014, patients diagnosed with metastatic rectal cancer who underwent …

… the laparoscopic approach to rectal cancer resection was more … The majority (61.3%) of rectal
cancer resections are being … stage was included in the propensity score weighting, but the …

… could improve the survival of patients with metastatic rectal cancer [28]. However, several …
affecting the survival of patients with metastatic rectal cancer, was not analyzed in this study. …

… In this analysis, patients from the MVR group were matched with those from the nMVR group
by “propensity score matching”. The combinations were made by matching the patients by …