Preoperative radiotherapy is recommended for selected patients with rectal cancer. We evaluated the addition of chemotherapy to preoperative radiotherapy and the use of postoperative chemotherapy ...

Postoperative chemoradiotherapy is the recommended standard therapy for patients with locally advanced rectal cancer. In recent years, encouraging results with preoperative radiotherapy have been ...

showing that preoperative radiotherapy more than doubled the risk of low testosterone (T) following treatment of rectal cancer. 1 “Even modern radiotherapy for rectal cancer can induce dose ...

The aim of this study was to evaluate what information radiation oncologists provide during the decision consultation about preoperative radiotherapy with rectal cancer patients. A median of seven ...

Preoperative radiotherapy reduces risk of local recurrence and death from rectal cancer, conclude authors of a systematic overview published in this week’s issue of The Lancet. There are ...

Early Treatment Failure in Intermediate-Risk Rhabdomyosarcoma: Results From IRS-IV and D9803—A Report From the Children's Oncology Group The Medical Research Council CR07/National Cancer Institute ...

Although preoperative short-term radiotherapy for rectal cancer results in increased local control, there is more long-term bowel dysfunction in irradiated patients than in patients who undergo TME ...

Compared with surgery alone, preoperative radiotherapy decreases local recurrence rate in patients with rectal cancer. Postoperative chemoradiotherapy is a standard treatment in the US ...

Depending on tumor location, presurgical radiation can improve overall survival, but that option comes with an increased risk ...

2. Radiotherapy alone and Radiotherapy combined with Chemotherapy both Enable Patients to avoid surgery for Rectal Cancer The STAR-TREC study (2) has shown that organ-preserving strategies are ...

Most people with rectal cancer have surgery. The 2 main types of surgery ... Doctors call this short course preoperative radiotherapy or SCPRT. You have daily radiotherapy for 5 days and then have: ...

Internal radiotherapy means giving radiotherapy to the cancer from inside the back passage (rectum). It is also called brachytherapy. You might have brachytherapy with other treatments for rectal ...