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Cancer of the rectum

An analysis of 171 patients in a community hospital

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Diseases of the Colon & Rectum

Summary and Conclusions

A review of the cases of 171 patients with cancer of the rectum, treated during a tenyear period at a community hospital, is presented. Bright red blood in the stool is the only early symptom of this disease. Proctosigmoidoscopic examination is the most reliable and accurate diagnostic procedure. Wider, more frequent use of this examination is necessary.

More direct attacks on local cancers by cryosurgery and fulguration will result in better palliation, less morbidity, and greater longevity for patients with incurable cancers than palliative colostomy or abdominoperineal resection.

Additional studies of the quality of survival, temporary or long-term, of patients with cancer of the rectum are advocated.

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  1. From the Department of Surgery, St. Francis Hospital, Hartford, Connecticut

    Harry J. Tamoney Jr. M.D. & Bernard J. Kaplan M.D.

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  1. Harry J. Tamoney Jr. M.D.
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Read at the meeting of the American Proctologic Society, Boston, Massachusetts, June 16 to 18, 1969.

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Tamoney, H.J., Kaplan, B.J. Cancer of the rectum. Dis Colon Rectum 13, 308–315 (1970). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02617253

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