Early Gastrointestinal Cancers II: Rectal Cancer

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Otto, Florian (Editor), Lutz, Manfred P. (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2014.
• Series: Recent Results in Cancer Research, 203
• Subjects: Medicine.; Gastroenterology.; Oncology.; Surgical oncology.; Medicine & Public Health.; Surgical Oncology.

This Recent Results in Cancer Research volume provides an up-to-date overview of the multidisciplinary management of locally confined rectal cancer as well as colorectal cancer with synchronous resectable liver metastases. The contents comprise the majority of the invited contributions from the Seco...

Table of Contents:

• Introduction
• Epidemiology of colorectal cancer: risk factors, genetic predisposition
• Staging of Rectal Cancer – Early Cancer Emerging issues in biology of colorectal cancer: Surgical Treatment of Rectal Cancer I
• Combined Modality Therapy in Rectal Cancer
• Surgical Treatment of Rectal Cancer II
• Issues in Combined Modality Treatment for Rectal Cancer. Emerging imaging techniques and radiological interventions for liver metastases: Rectal Cancer with Synchronous Liver Metastases I
• Rectal Cancer with Synchronous Liver Metastases II.