Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) can spare many patients with rectal cancer from invasive surgery that can carry lifelong side effects, new research indicates. The findings, from UVA Cancer Center ...

Some rectal cancer patients might be spared surgery and the lifelong need for a colostomy bag if they undergo MRI screening, a new study finds. The scans might accurately predict which patients ...

Guidelines recommend chemoradiation (CRT) before surgery for patients with clinical stage II-III rectal cancer in order to ... describing the use of preoperative MRI to assess the mesorectal ...

A recent drug trial administered to a handful of cancer patients had the surprising ... showed no evidence of a tumor after receiving an MRI, rectal examination and biopsy. A Memorial Sloan ...

Although rectal cancer is a life-threatening disease ... In the first two years, UCSF clinicians perform a flexible sigmoidoscopy, a CT and an MRI of the patient every three months. For the next three ...

We never, ever say that about cancer ... their rectal tumors completely vanished — and MSK researchers said they were undetectable via physical exam, endoscopy, PET scans or MRI scans.