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Surgical treatment of rectal cancer
Sonia L Ramamoorthy1, James W Fleshman
1Section of Colorectal Surgery, Washington University and Barnes Jewish Hospital, St. Louis, MO 63108, USA. fleshmanj@msnotes.wustl.edu
Hematology/Oncology Clinics of North America
|November 7, 2002
Abstract:
Rectal cancer should no longer be thought of as only a surgically treated disease. Centers that treat large numbers of rectal cancer patients should provide state of the art radiotherapy and chemotherapy as well as offer anatomic tumor-specific operations for advanced-stage cancers and local treatment options for favorable, early lesions.