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Local excision of cancer of the rectum

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Diseases of the Colon & Rectum

Abstract

Local excision of rectal cancer can be a part of treatment of this tumor. The authors do not feel that this procedure is only palliative. Clinical staging I and II, tumor diameter less than 3 cm, malignancy grade 1 or 2, invasion no deeper than the submucosa, and no signet-cell carcinoma are all requisites for limited, local excision of rectal carcinoma. Patients operated upon under these criteria have a five-year survival rate of 89.6±21.7 per cent for those with invasion into the submucosa and 78±49.9 per cent for those with invasion into the muscularis propria. But to get such good results, strict self control must be exercised in selecting patients.

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  1. Surgical Hospital, Universität Erlangen, West Germany

    Th. Hager M.D., F. P. Gall M.D. & P. Hermanek M.D.

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Read at the meeting of the American Society of Colon and Rectal Surgeons, San Francisco, California, May 2 to 6, 1982.

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Hager, T., Gall, F.P. & Hermanek, P. Local excision of cancer of the rectum. Dis Colon Rectum 26, 149–151 (1983). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02560156

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