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2007, Surgical OncologyCitation Excerpt :Usually in the literature the term “volume” has been especially evaluated from the quantitative point of view. For example, in a German study [13], a high-volume surgeon performs 1–2 radical rectal resections for month (16–18/year), in Canada a surgeon should perform at least 20 surgical procedures, otherwise he or she will get more perforated surgical specimens, more neoplastic dissemination and more local recurrences [14]. The mere quantitative aspect, however, is not enough; in our opinion, in order to achieve better results in the treatment of rectal cancer, a special interest in colorectal surgery is more important to survival than volume for itself, as confirmed by some data in the literature [15,16], but prospective randomized trials are necessary to show that better survival rates are present when a team of specialists performs a careful preoperative staging in order to select the patients that should undergo neoadjuvant treatment.
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