BookFlorian Otto, Manfred P. Lutz, editors.
Summary: "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 Second St. Gallen EORTC Gastrointestinal Cancer Conference, held on 6-8 March 2014 in St. Gallen, Switzerland. Written by some of the world's leading experts in the imaging, endoscopy, pathology, molecular biology, surgery, radiotherapy, and medical oncology of rectal cancer and liver metastases, the chapters offer a comprehensive view on the latest recommendations in diagnosis and multidisciplinary treatment. Every clinician involved in the care of patients with rectal cancer will find this book interesting and helpful."--Publisher's description.
Contents:
Staging of rectal cancer
Imaging assessment of early rectal cancer / Jo Waage, Fiona Taylor, James Read and Gina Brown
Predicting lymph node metastases in pT1 rectal cancer / S. L. Bosch and I. D. Nagtegaal
Treatment of early rectal cancer
Endoscopic resection: when is EMR/ESD sufficient? / H. Messmann
Transanal endoscopic microsurgery /Chris Cunningham
Surgical treatment of rectal cancer
What is "good quality" in rectal cancer surgery? The pathologist's perspective / S. L. Bosch and I. D. Nagtegaal
Total mesorectal excision: open, laparoscopic or robotic / Monica Young and Alessio Pigazzi
Ultra low resection versus abdomino-perineal excision in low rectal cancer / Torbjörn Holm
T4 rectal cancer: do we always need an exenteration? / Thomas A. Vermeer, Miranda Kusters and Harm J. T. Rutten
Do T3 rectal cancers always need radiochemotherapy? / Rob Glynne-Jones
Quality of life after surgery for rectal cancer / Teresa Gavaruzzi, Francesca Giandomenico, Paola Del Bianco, Lorella Lotto, Alessandro Perin and Salvatore Pucciarelli
Combined modality therapy in rectal cancer
Aims of combined modality therapy in rectal cancer (M0) / J. P. Gerard, K. Benezery, J. Doyen and E. Francois
Neoadjuvant radiotherapy (5 3 5 Gy): immediate versus delayed surgery / Krzysztof Bujko, Maciej Partycki and Lucyna Pietrzak
Early and late toxicity of radiotherapy for rectal cancer /Ines Joye and Karin Haustermans
Immediate surgery or clinical follow-up after a complete clinical response? / Angelita Habr-Gama and Rodrigo Oliva Perez
Rectal cancer with synchronous liver metastases
Limits of colorectal liver metastases resectability: how and why to overcome them? / Serge Evrard
Rectal cancer with synchronous liver metastases: leave it all in? When (not) to resect the primary? / Florian Lordick
Recurrence patterns after resection of liver metastases from colorectal cancer / Halfdan Sorbye.