Onco-Surgical Treatment of Rectal Cancer: Controversies and Perspectives
A special issue of Life (ISSN 2075-1729). This special issue belongs to the section "Medical Research".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (30 September 2023) | Viewed by 504
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Interests: digestive surgery; laparoscopic approach; colorectal cancer surgery
Interests: urolithiasis; bladder cancer; prostate cancer; testicular cancer; urothelial cancer
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Interests: colorectal surgery; laparoscopy
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
As colorectal cancer is the third most commonly diagnosed cancer in men and the second most common in women, the need for an optimal onco-surgical treatment is mandatory. Despite the advances made by medicine in recent years and the introduction of new diagnostic techniques, rectal cancer is often diagnosed late. The multidisciplinary approach in treating these kinds of patients is crucial for their outcome and involves the following: a radiologist establishing the diagnosis along with the gastroenterologist; neoadjuvant treatment conducted by the oncologist–radiotherapist team; an anesthesiologist evaluating the patients’ co-morbidities and confirming that they are suitable for surgery; open, laparoscopic or robotic surgical treatment with all its potential complications; an anatomopathologist analyzing the specimen’s characteristics; an oncologist completing the treatment.
Surgical treatment has existed since the beginning of the twentieth century when Miles first described rectosigmoid amputation, the key point of treatment in patients with rectal cancer. Surgical techniques evolved and now allow oncological resections and better reconstructions, thus preserving the patients' quality of life.
With this Special Issue we intend to highlight the importance of the “rectal cancer treatment team” in obtaining the best results in treating this delicate and complex pathology. Recent data involving the aspects of diagnosis, related diseases, neoadjuvant treatment, surgical techniques, postoperative complications, outcome and oncologic therapy are very welcome. The main topics are:
- State-of-the-art rectal cancer surgery;
- Novel oncologic therapies;
- Sentinel lymph node biopsy;
- Protective methods for anastomosis;
- Surgical controversies;
- Low rectal cancer;
- Advances in neoadjuvant treatment;
- Novel findings regarding TME;
- Robotic surgery—tips and tricks;
- Associated diseases;
- ICG usage in rectal cancer surgery.
Dr. Florin Teodor Bobirca
Dr. Dragos Eugen Georgescu
Dr. Yosuke Fukunaga
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- rectal cancer surgery
- stoma
- protective methods
- robotic surgery
- total mesorectal excision
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