Abstract: [Abstract]   Surgery is the main treatment for rectal cancer, which is one of influencing factors of the patients’quality
of life (QoL). Factors affecting QoL in a operation include tumor location, surgical margin, operation approach, appearance of stoma, application of laparoscopy and so forth. Still, now there are lots of arguments on how operations affecting QoL. The fol?lowing is a review about patients’QoL after different rectal surgeries, including high versus lower anterior resection, anterior versus inter sphincteric resection, transanal versus open operation, anal-sparing versus stoma operation, laparoscope versus open surgery.

Key words: rectal neoplasms, postoperative complications, quality of life