There have been significant achievements in the treatment of rectal cancer over the past decade with multidisciplinary approach becoming the standard of care. Such approach allows for the selection of those patients who are cured with surgery alone, as well as those at risk for failing locally, ...
Anal cancer may be discovered during a routine digital rectal exam (DRE), in which a medical professional inserts a gloved finger past the anus to feel for abnormalities. Staging is the evaluation of the size and location of a tumor to determine a prognosis and appropriate treatment. Initially...
Adjuvant treatment (i.e., chemoradiotherapy) has a definitive role for a well-selected group of patients. Advances in molecular biology have provided a better understanding of the pathogenesis of colon and rectal cancer and might be useful for patient selection for adjuvant treatment. This article ...
Colorectal cancer poses a worldwide major health issue. Rectal cancer has somewhat distanced itself from colonic cancer as a different oncologic entity, due to differences in diagnosis and treatment. Several developments over the last years have improved screening, diagnostics, pre-operative therapy, su...
Pathways of spread in rectal cancer: a reappraisal of the true routes to distant metastatic disease dissemination (extramural venous invasion and tumour deposits) must be made as the implications for prognosis and choice of treatment are not likely to be ... AC Lord,N Knijn,G Brown,... - ...
Sure, colon and rectal cancers are similar but they do have their differences. Before we move on to causes, symptoms, and treatment options for colon cancer, it’s essential to clarify and discuss colon vs. rectal cancer. Both colon and rectal cancer affect the large intestine, but they sta...
Colorectal cancer is a term that combines both colon cancer and rectal cancers. The colon and rectum are two different parts of the lower digestive tract. These different cancers also mean different approaches to treatment that may involve the use of radiation and chemotherapy in addition to surger...
A practical review of watch-and-wait approach in rectal cancer Rectal resection surgery after neoadjuvant treatment has been the mainstay treatment of locally advanced rectal cancer. However, functional outcomes and qu... H Byun,W Koom - 《Radiation Oncology Journal》 被引量: 0发表: 2023年 The...
Especially up-front therapy before surgery has been the field within the multimodal treatment of this cancer entity with the most promising and interesting developments over the last year, raising the question of whether surgery is always needed or whether an organ-preserving concept will be the ...
Our understanding of how the microbiota affects the balance between response to and failure of cancer treatment by modulating the tumour microenvironment and systemic immune system has advanced rapidly in recent years. Microbiota-targeting interventions in patients with cancer are an area of intensive inv...