A retrospective study of patients with distal rectal cancer at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer ... to neoadjuvant therapy who underwent total mesorectal excision (TME). “The rate of local recurrence ...

Chemoradiotherapy and surgical resection are important elements of multimodality treatment for patients with locally advanced rectal cancer ... no improvement in local control, sphincter ...

Surgery for rectal cancer is associated with a high rate of ... and 5), followed 4–6 weeks later by tumor-specific mesorectal excision. Tumors were staged using the pathological tumor–node ...