Toward Restored Bowel Health in Rectal Cancer Survivors

As technology gets better and better, and as clinical research provides more and more knowledge, we can extend our ambition to cure patients from cancer with restored physical health among the survivors. This increased ambition requires attention to grade 1 toxicity that decreases quality of life. It forces us to document the details of grade 1 toxicity and improve our understanding of the mechanisms. Long-term toxicity scores, or adverse events as documented during clinical trials, may be regarded as symptoms or signs of underlying survivorship diseases.

Source: Seminars in Radiation Oncology - May 27, 2016 Category: Cancer & Oncology Authors: Gunnar Steineck, Heike Schmidt, Eleftheria Alevronta, Fei Sjöberg, Cecilia Magdalena Bull, Dirk Vordermark Source Type: research