ALLMedicine™ Rectal Cancer Center

Feb 25th, 2021 - Transanal endoscopic microsurgery (TEM) represents a choice of treatment in patients with neoplastic lesions in the rectum. When TEM fails, completion total mesorectal excision (cTME) is often required. However, a concern is whether cTME increases...

Feb 25th, 2021 - Surgical treatment of early rectal cancer T1 is either local excision or total mesorectal excision. The choice of surgery is based on the risk of metastatic lymph node involvement. The most important factor to consider is the degree of submucosal ...

Feb 25th, 2021 - Low anterior resection (LAR) for rectal cancer affects bowel function after the operation, causing a group of symptoms known as LAR Syndrome (LARS). LARS score is a patient-reported questionnaire to assess bowel dysfunction after the LAR operation...

Feb 24th, 2021 - The purpose of this meta-analysis was to evaluate the perioperative morbidity after anterior resection with diverting loop ileostomy (LI) versus colostomy (LC) and its reversal for rectal cancer. The studies on the application of loop ileostomy ve...

Feb 24th, 2021 - Intracorporeal rectal transection at the anorectal junction for ultralow rectal cancer is technically difficult due to pelvic width and limited roticulation, which might require a transanal transection or an oblique transection with multiple firin...

Nov 20th, 2020 - The American Society of Colon and Rectal Surgeons Clinical Practice Guidelines for the Management of Rectal Cancer.|2020|You YN,Hardiman KM,Bafford A,Poylin V,Francone TD,|diagnostic imaging,pathology,therapy,diagnosis,therapeutic use,blood,diagno...

Oct 24th, 2020 - This guideline reviews the evidence and provides recommendations for the indications and appropriate technique and dose of neoadjuvant radiation therapy (RT) in the treatment of localized rectal cancer. The American Society for Radiation Oncology ...

May 29th, 2020 - For patients with high-risk locally advanced rectal cancer, a short course of radiotherapy followed by consolidative chemotherapy and then surgery significantly reduced the rate of treatment failure, compared with standard chemoradiotherapy, resul...

Mar 29th, 2020 - The rapid spread of COVID19 infection across the globe is causing a health care emergency. Our aim is to assist discussion about the risks and benefits to facilitate decision-making regarding radiotherapy for rectal cancer patients. In our roles a...

Aug 24th, 2019 - The goal of treatment for early stage rectal cancer is to optimize oncologic outcome while minimizing effect of treatment on quality of life. The standard of care treatment for most early rectal cancers is radical surgery alone. Given the morbidit...

Feb 25th, 2021 - Transanal endoscopic microsurgery (TEM) represents a choice of treatment in patients with neoplastic lesions in the rectum. When TEM fails, completion total mesorectal excision (cTME) is often required. However, a concern is whether cTME increases...

Feb 25th, 2021 - Surgical treatment of early rectal cancer T1 is either local excision or total mesorectal excision. The choice of surgery is based on the risk of metastatic lymph node involvement. The most important factor to consider is the degree of submucosal ...

Feb 25th, 2021 - Low anterior resection (LAR) for rectal cancer affects bowel function after the operation, causing a group of symptoms known as LAR Syndrome (LARS). LARS score is a patient-reported questionnaire to assess bowel dysfunction after the LAR operation...

Feb 24th, 2021 - The purpose of this meta-analysis was to evaluate the perioperative morbidity after anterior resection with diverting loop ileostomy (LI) versus colostomy (LC) and its reversal for rectal cancer. The studies on the application of loop ileostomy ve...

Feb 24th, 2021 - Intracorporeal rectal transection at the anorectal junction for ultralow rectal cancer is technically difficult due to pelvic width and limited roticulation, which might require a transanal transection or an oblique transection with multiple firin...

Jan 10th, 2021 - (Reuters Health) - Women who receive radiotherapy for rectal cancer may be at an increased risk of uterine and ovarian cancer, a new study suggests. In an analysis of information from the SEER database on more than 20,000 female patients diagnosed...

Dec 21st, 2020 - NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - In patients with locally advanced rectal cancer, a short course of radiotherapy followed by chemotherapy preceding surgery appears to provide better results than the standard protocol of long-course chemoradiotherapy, s...

Dec 21st, 2020 - The intensity of posttreatment surveillance of patients with rectal cancer managed by a watch-and-wait approach can be safely reduced if patients achieve and maintain a clinical complete response within the first 3 years of initiation of that appr...

Dec 17th, 2020 - Details of the patient in this article have been altered slightly to protect her identity. When I first met Rebecca, a woman around 50 years old who had been diagnosed with metastatic rectal cancer, I asked if she wanted to know her prognosis. She...

Dec 17th, 2020 - A new approach to the treatment of patients with high-risk, locally advanced rectal cancer reduces the rate of treatment failure, and may also increase rate of organ preservation, compared with the traditional approach. Patients treated with a sho...