1. Volume 373, Issue 9666, Pages 821-828 (March 2009)
Effect of the plane of surgery achieved on local recurrence in patients with operable rectal cancer: a prospective study using data from the MRC CR07 and NCIC-CTG CO16 randomised clinical trial 
Prof Phil Quirke, FRCPath, Prof Robert Steele, MD, Prof John Monson, MD, Robert Grieve, FRCR, Subhash Khanna, FRCR, Jean Couture, MD, Chris O'Callaghan, PhD, Arthur Sun Myint, FRCR, Eric Bessell, FRCR, Lindsay C Thompson, MSc, Prof Mahesh Parmar, DPhil, Richard J Stephens, David Sebag-Montefiore, FRCR 
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2. Figure 1
Circumferential resection margin positivity rate during trial recruitment
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3. Figure 2
Effect of treatment on circumferential resection margin and plane of surgery subgroups
CRM=circumferential resection margin. HR=hazard ratio. +ve=positive. −ve=negative.
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4. Figure 3 Plane of surgery achieved during trial recruitment
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5. Figure 4
Local recurrence rate (A) and disease-free survival (B) by plane of surgery achieved
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6. Figure 5
Effect of circumferential resection margin on local recurrence and disease-free survival in different planes of surgery achieved
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