One of the main prognostic factors in rectal cancer is the circumferential resection margin (CRM). Since the initial description of its clinical importance in 1986, the involvement of this margin ...

Pelvic radiation plus sensitizing chemotherapy with a fluoropyrimidine (chemoradiotherapy) before surgery is standard care for locally advanced rectal ... radial tumor within 1 mm of any surgical ...

A retrospective study of patients with distal rectal cancer at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center ... when the tumor involves the external sphincter complex, the distal margin is inadequate, ...

CHICAGO (March 23, 2018): For many years in the U.S., there has been tremendous variability in the treatment and outcomes for rectal cancer ... of circumferential radial margin (CRM) positivity ...

Further research is needed to evaluate long-term outcomes, efficiency, and cost-effectiveness of robotic APR in rectal cancer treatment ... resection margin and better short-term outcomes compared ...

Two hundred and twenty six patients with rectal ... on Cancer (AJCC) TNM classification. Microscopic tumour clearance of > 1 mm for circumferential margins was considered safe (R0). Distal margin ...