UPC: 9781607615668 | Current Clinical Oncology: Rectal Cancer: International Perspectives on Multimodality Management (Hardcover)

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Rectal Cancer: International Perspectives on Multimodality Management is a timely analysis of the diagnosis staging pathology and therapy of cancer of the rectum. This book is intended as a useful resource for physicians scientists medical students and allied health personnel in the disciplines of radiology gastroenterology surgical oncology medical onc- ogy radiation oncology and pathology. Renowned contributors from different medical d- ciplines have written their chapters in a thoughtful provocative and visual fashion. Importantly these chapters highlight the controversies in the diagnostic staging and the- peutic management of patients with rectal cancer while providing practical management recommendations. This book is divided into 18 chapters. Early chapters address the diagnosis and staging of rectal cancer highlighting the critical role of contemporary imaging in guiding treatment. The remaining chapters focus on the multimodality management of rectal cancer from the vantage points of surgery pathology chemotherapy and radiation therapy. The major dev- opments in surgery are reviewed first including contemporary roles of local excision total mesorectal excision lateral pelvic lymph node dissection organ preservation approaches as well as the management of advanced recurrent and metastatic disease. Following is a ch- ter describing the pathologic evaluation of rectal cancer specimens with emphasis on proper methodology and its clinical relevance to overall disease management. The final chapters review the contemporary roles of chemotherapy (including with radiation therapy adjuvant and neoadjuvant settings without radiation therapy as well as in metastatic disease) as well as radiation therapy (including adjuvant and neoadjuvant approaches short vs.