Patients with locally advanced rectal cancer fare better with standard preoperative chemoradiation followed by surgery than with primary surgery and adjuvant chemoradiation, demonstrating better ...

Total neoadjuvant treatment (TNT) may offer a promising alternative to surgery for patients with stage I rectal cancer (S1RC), a small study finds. 1 Among patients treated, TNT achieved a 93.7% ...

Several risk factors put patients with colorectal cancer at increased risk of anastomotic leakage after elective surgery. Anastomotic leakage (AL) was associated with advanced age, presence of ...

SIOUX CITY | Last August, Gary Wood was lying on an operating room table at UnityPoint Health-St. Luke's staring up at a network of robotic arms that reminded him of an octopus. Although the ...

WYNNEWOOD, Pa. (WPVI) -- Doctors, medical oncologists, and other cancer experts from across the globe spent several days at Lankenau Medical Center, trying to find better approaches to rectal cancer.

When rectal cancer advances locally, oncologists fight back with a series of treatments. Chemotherapy and radiation are followed by surgery, and this regimen can result in a cure. But this ...

Delaying surgery after neoadjuvant therapy may improve tumor regression and decrease recurrence in advanced rectal cancer but does not translate to better overall survival. A total of 1506 patients ...

Of 58 patients enrolled, all commenced chemotherapy and 56 proceeded to surgery. A total of 33/58 patients had tumor downstaging to ypT0/1N0/X on the surgery specimen, resulting in an ...

Some rectal cancer patients might be spared surgery and the lifelong need for a colostomy bag if they undergo MRI screening, a new study finds. The scans might accurately predict which patients have a ...

WASHINGTON, Nov. 4, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- World-renowned colorectal surgeon Steven Wexner, MD, has joined MedStar Health as physician executive director and system chief of Colorectal Surgery. Dr.

More young adults are also being diagnosed, according to Yale Medicine and the Cancer Research Institute. According to the ...