Rectal cancer : etiology, pathogenesis and treatment / Paula Wells and Regina Halstead, editors.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Wells, Paula.

Halstead, Regina.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Rectum--Cancer--Etiology.

Rectum.

Rectum--Cancer--Treatment.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (274 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

New York : Nova Biomedical Books, c2009.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Current controversies about rectal cancer treatment are examined and discussed in this book. In particular, oncologic outcomes, which claim an aggressive approach over the primary tumor, lymph nodes and distant metastasis. Also, the functional outcome, whose important objective is to preserve the anal sphincter and the preservation of the pelvic nervous plexus.Radical resection with total mesorectal excision is the mainstay of rectal cancer treatment. However, it is associated with significant surgical morbidity/mortality, possible stoma surgery/complications and long-term gastrointestinal dysfunction with deterioration in quality of life.This book also explores the risk factors of local recurrence after curative resection in patients with middle and lower rectal carcinoma. The relationships between mesorectal metastasis and local recurrence and the possible correlations between circumferential resection margin status and local recurrence were identified. The relationships between local recurrence and clinicopathologic characteristics of middle and lower rectal carcinoma were also evaluated.

Contents:

Surgical treatment of rectal cancer-current controversies / I.D. Vilcea and I. Vasile

The effect of adjuvant therapy on surgical treatment of rectal cancer / Luca Stocchi and Victor W. Fazio

Three-dimensional endorectal ultrasonography in rectal cancer staging / G.A. Santoro, S. Magrini and L. Cancian

Transanal endoscopic microsurgery (TEM) in early rectal cancer / A. Suppiah and J.R.T. Monson

Staging and treatment of early rectal cancer / G. Baatrup and P. Pfeiffer

Transanal endoscopic microsurgery of rectal tumor : a review / Damian Casadesus

Correlation between metabolic enzymes of nucleic acid in colorectal cancer patients and FRNA/TSIR, prognostic factors / Kenji Katsumata ... [et al.]

Germline and somatic mutations in colorectal cancers from patients with hereditary nonpolyposis colorectal cancer / Michiko Miyaki, Tatsuro Yamaguchi and Takeo Mori

Women and colorectal cancer / Samantha Hendren

Dietary fatty acids and Acyl-CoA synthetases in the modifier concept of colorectal carcinogenesis / Nikolaus Gassler ... [et al.]

Risk factors of local recurrence after curative resection in patients with middle and lower rectal carcinoma / Wu Ze-yu ... [et al.]

CT-guided interstitial brachytherapy as an innovative adjunct to current therapeutic strategies in the treatment of colorectal liver metastases / Christian Grieser, Dirk Schnapauff and Timm Denecke.

Notes:

Errata slip inserted.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-61209-401-5

OCLC:

923660237