Further research is needed to evaluate long-term outcomes, efficiency, and cost-effectiveness of robotic APR in rectal cancer treatment. Laparoscopic abdominoperineal resection had worse short ...

This operation is called an anterior resection. It is unlikely you will need to have ... It also isn’t possible for all types of rectal cancer. You can talk about this with your surgeon.

Rectal cancer develops in the rectum ... It can range from a local resection, often used for small tumors that have not spread, to a larger surgery involving removing part of the sigmoid colon.

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 ...

Adults with rectal cancer that had been clinically staged ... local recurrence (in a time-to-event analysis), complete pathological resection, complete response, and toxic effects.

Finds Out It's Rare Blood Cancer Usually, the paper says, chemotherapy and radiation followed by surgical resection of the rectum is the standard treatment for locally advanced rectal cancer.

The original rectal cancer calculator, described in a 2021 study published ... on molecular and clinicopathologic characteristics predicts recurrence following resection of stage I-III colon cancer. J ...

Courtesy of Marcus Wendling, Rectal cancer is becoming more common in ... Due to the location of the tumor, Wendling needed a lower anterior resection. The five-plus-hour surgery, which involves ...