Objective    To explore the efficacy of various retreatment for locally recurrent rectal cancer after radical surgery.     Methods    Totally 107 patients of locally recurrent rectal cancer

who were admitted from August

1993 to February

2002 and retreated

were retrospectively analyzed.     Results    Thirty-two patients were treated by resection combined with adjuvant therapy (group A)

37 patients underwent resection alone (group B)

and 38 patients received adjuvant therapy alone (group C). The medium age of these three groups was 49.3±20.7

44.4±25.4

52.9±29.1

respectively. The median survival time of groups A

B

C was 27.8

14.6

13.7 months

respectively. The five-year survival rate of group A was significantly higher than that of groups B and C (

P

<

0.05).     Conclusion   

The aggressive surgery combined with adjuvant therapy will improve the survival chance for the patients with locally recurrent rectal cancer after radical surgery.