The Effect of Lymph Nodes’ Histologic Response on Survival Outcomes in Moroccan Patients with Rectal Cancer

Table 3

The effect of neoadjuvant to surgery interval on the therapeutic effect type.

Therapeutic effect	Delay between the end of neoadjuvant treatment and surgery		value
	<8 weeks	>8 weeks
Fibrosis			0.014
Absence	9 (18%)	3 (4.1)
Presence	41 (82%)	70 (95.9%)
Necrosis			0.259
Absence	23 (46%)	25 (34.2%)
Presence	27 (54%)	48 (65%)
Colloid			0.703
Absence	16 (32%)	26 (35.6%)
Presence	34 (68%)	47 (64.4%)