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 ...

“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 ...

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

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 ...

Total neoadjuvant treatment using short-course radiotherapy and four CAPOX cycles in locally advanced rectal cancer with high-risk criteria for recurrence: a Swedish nationwide cohort study (LARCT ...

Neoadjuvant Therapy for Locally Advanced Rectal Cancer: Omission of Radiotherapy or Not? The following represents disclosure information provided by authors of this manuscript. All relationships are ...

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 ...

Abstract no E25-2250: “Short-term radiotherapy plus chemotherapy for locally advanced rectal cancer: 5-year outcomes of the phase III clinical trial”, presented in the Joint Green Journal ...