Emerging trends in the treatment of rectal cancer.

Emerging trends in the treatment of rectal cancer. Acta Oncol. 2019 Jul 04;:1-9 Authors: Minsky BD Abstract The conventional treatment for cT3-T4 or node-positive clinically resectable rectal cancer is long course preoperative chemoradiation followed by surgery and postoperative adjuvant chemotherapy. Disadvantages of this approach include possible overtreatment of patients, 6 weeks of daily radiation treatment, and undetected metastatic disease. There are a number of emerging trends which are changing this approach to treatment. Selected topics included in this manuscript include the selective use of pelvic radiation, the role of radiation for a positive radial margin, the interval between radiation and surgery, non-operative management, new chemoradiation regimens, short vs. long course radiation, and the role of postoperative adjuvant chemotherapy. PMID: 31271081 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]
Source: Acta Oncologica - Category: Cancer & Oncology Authors: Tags: Acta Oncol Source Type: research