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Over the last 25 years, enormous progress has been achieved to improve the treatment of rectal cancer due to standardisation of surgery (total mesorectal excision, “the holy plane,” nerve preservation) [1, 2] and the introduction of radiotherapy to reduce local recurrence [3, 4]. However, surgical treatment of colon cancer did not attract similar interest. Surgery for colon cancer was assumed to be easier to perform, ignoring the increasing gap of survival between rectal and colon cancer, which had reversed since the early 1990s [5]. Some surgeons, however, had already reported much higher survival figures compared with the literature at that time [6, 7].
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Hohenberger, W., Weber, K. (2021). Colon Cancer. In: Hohenberger, W., Parker, M. (eds) Lower Gastrointestinal Tract Surgery. Springer Surgery Atlas Series. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-60827-9_7
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