This matched case-control study demonstrated that TaTME is safe and feasible. Compared with LapTME, TaTME not only achieves identical circumferential margin status without compromising other operative and quality parameters but also benefits patients by achieving a longer distal margin. Thus, TaTME has the potential to become an option in managing irradiated rectal cancer.

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Evolution from the fifth to seventh edition of the AJCC staging system is successful in separating prognostic groups by substaging. But some issues remain unresolved, including the subdivision of T4, N1, and M1.

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