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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
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1ICM Val-d'Aurelle, 208, rue des Apothicaires, 34298 Montpellier, France.
Abstract:
Dramatic progress has deeply moved rectal cancer management. Tailoring of treatment allow to select participants according to initial prognostic factors (radiotherapist) or tumoral response (surgeon). Today, this management must keep in mind tumoral initial staging, prognostic at the time of diagnosis, tumoral response and characteristic, and patient's motivation. The result of this patient care is more than oncologic, it is also functional.
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