The ShorTrip trial found that short-course radiotherapy followed by FOLFOX and FOLFOXIRI improved pathological response rates ...

Hecht, MD, discusses the phase 3 OrigAMI-3 trial for patients with recurrent, unresectable, or metastatic RAS/BRAF wild-type colorectal cancer.

The da Vinci SP system helps enable surgeons to dissect, suture, and excise through a natural orifice, avoiding external scarring for patients, unlike conventional transabdominal rectal resection ...

and rectal resection, compared with patients who did not receive the spacer in adjusted analyses, Ryoko Sato, PhD, of Boston Scientific in Marlborough, Massachusetts, and colleagues reported in ...

Distal Spread of Carcinoma of the Rectosigmoid. In 1952 Cole 10 reported the recurrence of carcinoma in the suture line after adequate anterior resection of the rectum in 10 per cent of a series ...

For some people, rectal resection can mean living with a permanent colostomy along with other potential collateral effects. “Even with a minimally invasive approach, we can affect sexual function, ...

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 ...

The analysis included 138 patients who underwent rectal resection for lower rectal cancer (2017 to 2021). The researchers reported that 19 patients developed PONB, with 16 being severe cases.

mechanical bowel preparation alone in patients undergoing elective rectal resection, data showed. “To our knowledge, no high-quality, large, double-blind randomized clinical trial assessing ...

Intersphincteric resection (ISR) has emerged as an innovative surgical approach for treating rectal cancer, offering numerous benefits to patients. This technique removes cancerous tissue while ...