Trends in combined radio-chemotherapy for locally advanced rectal cancer: a survey among radiation oncology centers of Sicily region on behalf of AIRO.
Corrado SpatolaGiuseppe PriviteraRoberto MilazzottoAlessandra ToccoGrazia AcquavivaFrancesco MarlettaLorenza MarinoAlfio Di GraziaRosalba SalvoGiovanni CartiaAngelo PlataniaLaura MolinoAnna SantacaterinaMarilena Mattace RasoPasquale FrosinaRoberto IanniMichele BonoLuca LiardoSalvatore BonannoLeonarda La PagliaManuela FedericoIvan FazioGianluca MortellaroGiuseppe FerreraAntonella TripoliGiovanna EvangelistaAntonino DaidoneGiampaolo BitiMarco BadalamentiLucia OgnibeneAlberto CacciolaSilvana ParisiStefano PergolizziPublished in: La Radiologia medica (2019)
The present survey shows that in the Sicily region integrated therapies for rectal cancer have allowed a neoadjuvant approach in the majority of patients, thus resulting in a greater use of sphincter conservative surgery. The toxicity has also been reported to be significantly less in this treatment setting.
Keyphrases
- rectal cancer
- locally advanced
- end stage renal disease
- ejection fraction
- newly diagnosed
- minimally invasive
- chronic kidney disease
- prognostic factors
- radiation therapy
- cross sectional
- coronary artery bypass
- lymph node
- oxidative stress
- coronary artery disease
- percutaneous coronary intervention
- patient reported outcomes
- surgical site infection