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

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 ...

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 ...

CONCLUSION: A patient’s prognosis is predicted by applying a classification of macroscopic completeness on a rectal resection specimen. We conclude that pathologists are able to judge the quality of ...

Secondary rectal cancer carried a significantly lower mutational burden (median 4.4 vs 5.8 per megabase), lower frequency of inactivating somatic alterations in the adenomatous polyposis coli gene ...

A "groundbreaking" cancer treatment trial by Memorial Sloan Kettering shows immunotherapy alone can eliminate some tumors, offering patients an alternative to chemotherapy and surgery.

But doctors were suspicious and kept testing because of an enlarged lymph node near her rectal area. Dutton officially found out she had S tage 3B rectal cancer on Black Friday in November 2023.

Macroscopic Evaluation of Rectal Cancer Resection Specimen: Clinical Significance of the Pathologist in Quality Control Authors: Iris D. Nagtegaal, Cornelis J.H. van de Velde, Erik van der Worp, Ellen ...