Local excision for rectal cancer
β Scribed by Alessandro Balani; Angelo Turoldo; Andrea Braini; Monica Scaramucci; Mauro Roseano; Aldo Leggeri
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons
- Year
- 2000
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 97 KB
- Volume
- 74
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0022-4790
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π SIMILAR VOLUMES
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
S57-8) , in which the importance of patient selection is stressed. It is stated that only tumours of favourable cytological differentiation ('well' or 'average' histological grade) are suitable for these local radical techniques. It is important to draw attention to the fact that it is not possibl