Personalized Treatment Modalities for Rectal Cancer
A special issue of Journal of Clinical Medicine (ISSN 2077-0383). This special issue belongs to the section "Gastroenterology & Hepatopancreatobiliary Medicine".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 25 February 2025 | Viewed by 50
Special Issue Editors
Interests: colon and rectal cancer; inflammatory bowel disease; minimally invasive surgery
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
The progress of rectal cancer treatment is remarkable. Patients with rectal cancer now have several treatment options to consider, including advanced sphincter-sparing procedures and non-operative management. Watch-and-wait programs create demanding endoscopic surveillance regimens and require diligence to ensure compliance to catch persistent and recurrent disease early for successful salvage. Surgical advances in sphincter-sparing techniques are now available, but are they always the correct decision for all patients? As we face ongoing challenges in caring for a growing number of older, frail adults, we are also seeing a surge in young-onset rectal cancer cases. The need for multidisciplinary support to discuss issues of fertility, longer-term consequences of bowel function, and quality of life during survivorship are apparent. In this Special Issue, we welcome authors to submit papers on the personalized treatment of rectal cancer.
Dr. Christy E. Cauley
Dr. Srinivas Joga Ivatury
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- rectal cancer
- decision support
- sphincter-sparing surgery
- early onset colorectal cancer
- pelvic radiation
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