Local excision for ypT2 rectal cancer following preoperative chemoradiation therapy: it should not be justified.
Kwan Mo YangSeok Byung LimJong Lyul LeeChan Wook KimYong Sik YoonIn Ja ParkChang Sik YuJin Cheon KimPublished in: International journal of colorectal disease (2018)
The high local failure rate and poor oncological outcomes for ypT2-stage rectal cancer patients who undergo CRT followed by LE cannot be justified as an indication for LE. Salvage surgery should be recommended in these patients.
Keyphrases
- rectal cancer
- locally advanced
- end stage renal disease
- ejection fraction
- minimally invasive
- newly diagnosed
- squamous cell carcinoma
- prognostic factors
- type diabetes
- patients undergoing
- stem cells
- heart failure
- skeletal muscle
- coronary artery bypass
- acute coronary syndrome
- adipose tissue
- mesenchymal stem cells
- surgical site infection
- bone marrow