Predictors of a Long Hospital Stay After Abdominoperineal Resection of Rectal Cancer: Analysis of the National Cancer Database
database[Title] 2026-07-03
Summary:
BackgroundIt is difficult to predict which patients will have longer postoperative hospital stays after rectal cancer surgery. We aimed to determine the predictors of a long hospital stay following abdominoperineal resection (APR) for rectal cancer.MethodsRetrospective cohort analysis of patients diagnosed with rectal adenocarcinoma in the National Cancer Database between 2015 and 2019 with clinical stage I-IV cancers who underwent APR. Multiple linear regression analysis was conducted to...