Liver metastasis is the most common site of colorectal cancer (CRC) metastasis.
Approximately half of all colorectal cancer patients will develop liver metastases. Although …

Background Radiotherapy reduces the risk of local recurrence in rectal cancer. However, the
optimal radiotherapy fractionation and interval between radiotherapy and surgery is still …

Objective To assess the extent to which evaluations of shared decision making (SDM)
assess the extent and quality of humanistic communication (ie, respect, compassion …

Background Preoperative chemoradiotherapy (CRT) followed by total mesorectal excision is
widely accepted as the standard of care for high-risk rectal cancer. Adjuvant chemotherapy …

Background Current standard for most of the locally advanced rectal cancers is preoperative
chemoradiotherapy, and, variably per institution, postoperative adjuvant chemotherapy …

Abstract Background The Stockholm III Trial randomized patients with primary operable
rectal cancers to either short-course radiotherapy (RT) with immediate surgery (SRT), short …

Standard therapy for locally advanced rectal cancer (LARC) is preoperative
chemoradiotherapy and postoperative chemotherapy. At Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer …

Background To address issues regarding the fractionation of radiotherapy (RT) and timing of
surgery for rectal cancer, a multicentre trial has randomized patients to preoperative short …

Background Short-course radiotherapy (SRT) with immediate surgery and long-course
chemoradiotherapy (CRT) are currently the standard preoperative treatment options for …

Background: Retrospective single-center studies have shown that diffusion-weighted
magnetic resonance imaging (DWI) is promising for identification of patients with rectal …