BACKGROUND: To obtain information on the contemporary management of @entity14 in the UK to assist in the development of management guidelines, an independent, 1-year population audit was carried out in Trent Region and Wales. METHODS: Data were collected on all @entity1 admitted to hospital with a new diagnosis of @entity14 in a 1-year period. RESULTS: Of 3520 @entity1 , 3221 (91.5 per cent) had surgery. Emergency/urgent operations were carried out as the first procedure in 552 (17.1 per cent). Resection of the @entity66 was achieved in 2859 (81.2 per cent) and this was deemed curative in 2070 (58.8 per cent). Twenty-one per cent of all @entity1 had metastatic disease at presentation. Overall, 30-day operative mortality was 7.6 per cent (21.7 per cent for emergency/urgent and 5.5 per cent for scheduled/elective procedures). Anastomotic dehiscence occurred in 105 @entity1 (4.9 per cent); this was 3.9 per cent after colonic resections and 7.9 per cent after anterior rectal resections. Elective rectal excision resulted in a permanent stoma in 486 of 1054 @entity1 (46 per cent). CONCLUSION: This initial report from a comprehensive, independent audit of @entity14 management shows improvement in some aspects of treatment as evidenced by improved anastomotic dehiscence and stoma rates when compared with previous studies. However, there has been little improvement in the proportion of @entity1 presenting with @entity1442 , and curative resection rates remain low.

Population-based audit of @entity14 management in two UK health regions. XXXX Working Group, Royal College of Surgeons of England Clinical Epidemiology and Audit Unit.

@entity1 :: ('9606', 'Species') :: ['patients'] @entity1442 :: ('MESH:D020178', 'Disease') :: ['advanced disease'] @entity66 :: ('MESH:D004194', 'Disease') :: ['primary disease'] @entity14 :: ('MESH:D015179', 'Disease') :: ['colorectal cancer']
@entity14 :: (MESH:D015179,Disease) :: ['Colorectal Cancer']
