[Results of surgical treatment of residual and recurrent anal tumors].

ABSTRACT

Radio- or chemotherapy is a modern standard of anal cancer treatment. Recurrence or partial remission rate after radiochemotherapy achieves 20-40%. The study is aimed to evaluate the role of abdominoperineal resection in the treatment of residual and recurrent anal cancer. 120 patients (aged from 30 to 81 (59+/-11) years, menwomen ratio--19) were prospectively studied in the period of 1995 to 2007. The TNM distribution was as follows T1-2N0M0--66(55.0%), T3-4N0M0--18(15.0%), T1-2N1-3M0--15(12.5%) and T3-4N1-3M0--21(17.5%) patients. The radiotherapy delivered in a dose range of 55-65 Gy was used alone or in combination with chemotherapy with 5-fluoruracil, mitomycin C or Xeloda. The complete tumor regression after radiotherapy/radiochemotherapy was achieved in 74(61.1%) of 120 patients with cancer-specific survival rate of 81.7%. Partial tumor regression was registered in 46 of 120 patients. The abdominoperineal resection was performed in 39(84.8%) of patients with the residual tumor. Thus, surgical treatment allowed secondary local tumor control in 76.9% of patients with the 5-year survival rates of 69.0%. The median survival time for the non-operated patients, including those, received an extra course of radiotherapy, was 19 months. The locoregional tumor relapse was diagnosed in 10(13.74%) of 74 patients with the complete tumor regression. The use of abdominoperineal resection allowed the secondary local tumor control and 5 year survival. Thus, abdominoperineal resection remains the method of choice in the treatment of residual and recurrent anal tumors.