Conservative treatment of rectal cancer with local excision and postoperative radiation therapy
โ Scribed by B.D Minsky
- Book ID
- 116166322
- Publisher
- Elsevier Science
- Year
- 1995
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 496 KB
- Volume
- 31
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0959-8049
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Sixty-seven patients with early-stage adenocarcinoma of the rectum who had lesions thought to be unsuitable for either local excision alone or endocavitary irradiation were treated with local excision followed by postoperative radiation therapy. The purpose of this study was to evaluate the effectiv
There is increasing interest in the use of local excision and postoperative radiation therapy (RT) as a sphincter-sparing approach for selected rectal cancers. The data suggest that this treatment approach should be limited to patients with either T 1 tumors with adverse pathologic factors or T 2 tu