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Robot-assisted Total Mesorectal Excision and Lateral Pelvic Lymph Node Dissection for Locally Advanced Middle-low Rectal Cancer
Published on: February 12, 2022
[Neoadjuvant radiochemotherapy of rectal cancer: our experience]
M Cieri1, N Di Bartolomeo, R Cotellese
1UO Chirurgia Laparoscopica, Patologia Chirurgica, Università degli Studi G D'Annunzio, PO SS Annunziata, Chieti.
Abstract:
Postoperative chemoradiotherapy is the recommended standard therapy for patients with locally advanced rectal cancer. In recent years, encouraging results with preoperative radiotherapy have been reported. From 2000 at January 2005 we treated 11 patient and our results suggest that preoperative radiotherapy combined with chemotherapy increases the chances of tumor downstaging and downsizing and facilitates sphincter-sparing surgical procedures.
