Background The risk of lymph node metastasis associated with deep submucosal invasion
should be balanced against the mortality and morbidity of total mesorectal excision (TME) …

The implementation of bowel cancer screening programs has led to a rise in the incidence of
early rectal cancer. The combination of increased incidence and the growing interest in …

This is a prospective, single center study aimed to evaluate the predictive power of peritumor
and intratumor radiomics features assessed using T2 weight image (T2WI) of baseline …

Purpose No consensus is available on the appropriate criteria for neoadjuvant
chemoradiotherapy selection of patients with rectal cancer. The purpose was to evaluate the …

Purpose: To investigate the diagnostic performance of endorectal ultrasound (ERUS), shear-
wave elastography (SWE), and magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) in patients with a …

MRI plays a pivotal role in the staging of early rectal cancer, resulting in allocation of patients
to surgery or organ-sparing treatment. In this large population-based retrospective cohort …

Background In 2014, a national workshop program was initiated and a reporting template
and manual for rectal cancer primary staging using magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) was …

Local excision is a well-tolerated, low risk, curative oncologic operative approach for highly
selected early-stage rectal cancers. As with any cancer treatment, cure is balanced with …

Background Rectal cancer is mainly cured by radical resection with neoadjuvant
chemoradiation or adjuvant chemotherapy. Pathological T1 lesions can be managed by …

Materials and methods We merged two prospective databases and searched for all patients
who underwent TEM following any endoscopic excision of a rectal polyp. The two databases …