∗Department of Surgery, Amsterdam University Medical Centers, University of Amsterdam, Cancer Center Amsterdam, Amsterdam, Netherlands
†Gastrointestinal Surgery Department, Hospital Clínic of Barcelona, University of Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain
‡Department of Surgery and Clinical Epidemiology, Amsterdam University Medical Centers, University of Amsterdam, Cancer Center Amsterdam, Amsterdam, Netherlands
§Department of Colorectal Surgery, Churchill Hospital, Oxford University Hospital NHS Foundation Trust, Oxford, UK
¶Service of Visceral surgery, Geneva University Hospitals and Medical School, Geneva, Switzerland
||Department of Surgery, Hampshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, Basingstoke, UK
∗∗Department of Colorectal Surgery, The Royal Marsden Hospital, Imperial College London, UK.
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SXR and FBL equally contributed to this work and share the first authorship.
Frédéric Ris: ESA supporting member.
Sources of Funding: The TaTME registry was funded by the Pelican Cancer Foundation, UK, and the Oxford Colon Cancer Trust (OCCTOPUS).
Ethical approval: Ethical approval for the TaTME Registry and publication of its results was obtained from the UK Health Research Authority (REC reference 15/LO/0499, IRAS project ID 156930.
This article was not based on a previous communication to a society or meeting.
The authors report no conflicts of interest.
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