Rectal cancer. Academic Article uri icon

Overview

abstract

  • These NCCN Clinical Practice Guidelines in Oncology provide recommendations for the management of rectal cancer, beginning with the clinical presentation of the patient to the primary care physician or gastroenterologist through diagnosis, pathologic staging, neoadjuvant treatment, surgical management, adjuvant treatment, surveillance, management of recurrent and metastatic disease, and survivorship. This discussion focuses on localized disease. The NCCN Rectal Cancer Panel believes that a multidisciplinary approach, including representation from gastroenterology, medical oncology, surgical oncology, radiation oncology, and radiology, is necessary for treating patients with rectal cancer.

authors

publication date

  • December 1, 2012

Research

keywords

  • Rectal Neoplasms

Identity

Scopus Document Identifier

  • 84871452574

Digital Object Identifier (DOI)

  • 10.6004/jnccn.2012.0158

PubMed ID

  • 23221790

Additional Document Info

volume

  • 10

issue

  • 12