A new study published in the journal of BMC Surgery showed that robotic surgery for rectal cancer exhibits oncological and ...

Studies were included if all patients were aged 18 years or older, were undergoing surgery for rectal cancer, had robotic or laparoscopic resection, had a comparison between the types of surgery ...

whether your cancer is in the low, middle or high part of the rectum how far it has grown or spread (the stage) - for rectal cancers, doctors use the TNM staging system Total mesorectal excision (TME) ...

In patients with rectal cancer who achieve a clinical complete response to neoadjuvant chemoradiation, it may be reasonable to adopt a watch-and-wait (W&W) strategy rather than proceed to immediate ...

Verheij FS, Omer DM, Williams H, et al. Long-term results of organ preservation in patients with rectal adenocarcinoma treated with total neoadjuvant therapy: the randomized phase II OPRA trial. J ...

Traditionally, rectal cancer surgery has involved either a low anterior resection – removing the part of the rectum containing the cancer and reconnecting the remaining part of the rectum to the colon ...

Predictors of rectal cancer resection at high-volume hospitals among Medicare patients. Authors: Mary E. Charlton, Catherine Chioreso, Irena Gribovskaja-Rupp, Chi Lin, Marcia M Ward, Charles F Lynch, ...

Conclusions Mismatch repair–deficient, locally advanced rectal cancer was highly sensitive to single-agent PD-1 blockade. Longer follow-up is needed to assess the duration of response.

To better understand the optimal approach for these patients, Lai and colleagues analyzed data from 3792 individuals undergoing curative resection for locally advanced rectal cancer between ...

Anal cancer and rectal cancer both begin in areas of the lower digestive tract. However, they are two separate types of cancer. Learn more about the differences.