Patients with secondary rectal cancer after radiotherapy for prostate cancer have shorter survival compared with matched treatment-naïve patients. However, a new study by investigators at MSK has ...

A new paradigm in rectal cancer treatment Together, these five studies demonstrate the transformative potential of radiotherapy as a curative and organ-preserving treatment.

“Thus, for upper rectal cancer, the trade-off between using [neoadjuvant radiotherapy] to pursue better oncological outcomes and creating diverting stomas to lower the risk of symptomatic leak ...

The study included 323 patients with locally advanced rectal cancer (cancer that had grown outside the rectum but had not yet spread to other parts of the body) who were treated with either SCRT ...

Recurrences of cancer in other parts of the body, disease free survival and overall survival were similar in "watch and wait" patients treated with LCCRT or SCRT: 10% versus 6.1%, 90% versus 90% ...

A new treatment for locally advanced rectal cancer shows favourable results in that surgery can sometimes be avoided completely. It also reduces the risk of recurrence. The method has been ...

Patients who did not receive radiotherapy (RT) during the follow-up period after surgery for rectal cancer were found to have a significantly higher quality of life (QOL) compared with patients ...

Upfront chemotherapy and radiotherapy may help reduce the need for surgery in patients with locally advanced rectal surgery, according to recent research. Not only can this treatment method decrease ...

The geographical and socioeconomic disparities in radiotherapy facilities within India could result in patients experiencing both extremes of quality of care. 10, 11 To improve rectal cancer ...

Abstract no E25-837: “Preoperative Short-course Radiotherapy Followed by Chemotherapy and PD-1 Inhibitor for Locally Advanced Rectal Cancer: Phase II Results of STELLAR II”, presented in the ...