Abstract

Two-hundred-eighty patients with rectum cancer treated in Radiation Oncology Department of Ankara Oncology Hospital bet-ween January 2000-December 2004 revievved retrospectively. Median age of the patients were 59. Men/women ratio was 1.2/1. Adenocarcinoma was the majör celi type. Tumour of the 56 patients were grade 1, 83 patients were grade 2 and 7 patients were grade 3. Most of the patients seen in our department were stage IIA. Incidence of rectum carcinoma was high in the middle third of rectum. Two-hundred-thirty-five patients were operable, 45 were inoperable. One-hundred-seven patients had APR (abdomi-noperineal resection), 107 had LAR (low anterior resection), 7 had resection as a surgical procedure. One-hundred-eighty patients had chemotherapy before radiotherapy. Two-hundred-thirty-five patients had postoperative radiotherapy, 14 had preopera-tive and 31 patients had palliative radiotherapy. One-hundred-sixty-nine patients had chemoradiotherapy.