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 Swedish Rectal Cancer Trial (SRCT ... Patients were randomly assigned to either preoperative radiotherapy (5 × 5 Gy over 5 days) followed by surgery within 1 week, or surgery alone.

March 13, 2009 — A short course of preoperative radiotherapy is an effective treatment for patients with operable rectal cancer, according to the results of 2 studies published in the March 7 ...

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 ...

Still, “we are likely overtreating some rectal cancer patients with radiotherapy in the US if ... radiation is less well tolerated than preoperative treatment,” Schrag added.

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 ...