Review article

Treatment of rectal cancer

Hrvoje Šobat ; Department of Radiotherapy, University Hospital for Tumors, Sestre milosrdnice University Hospital Center, Zagreb, Croatia

Abstract

Carcinoma of the rectum represents a major public health issue, affects many patients and causes controversies about the optimal treatment modalities and their timing. Based on the results of numerous studies neoadjuvant chemoradiotherapy is newly often favorised in all localized tumors, except the earliest ones. With this multimodal approach a significant tumor regression with acceptable side-effects can be achieved and later surgical procedures alleviated or even omitted in highly selected cases.
In this review paper the latest data on rectal cancer treatment and expected future research ideas are explained and
discussed in detail.

Keywords

rectal cancer; radiotherapy; chemotherapy; multimodal treatment

Hrčak ID:

200576

URI

https://hrcak.srce.hr/200576

Publication date:

27.12.2013.

Article data in other languages: croatian

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