01.09.2020 | editorial
Rectal cancer: latest developments and innovative new treatment concepts
Erschienen in: memo - Magazine of European Medical Oncology | Ausgabe 3/2020
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In this special issue of the Magazine of European Medical Oncology (MEMO), a multidisciplinary team of experts summarizes and discusses recent developments and interesting results in rectum carcinoma, from a rising incidence in a young patient cohort to neoadjuvant, palliative and adjuvant treatment protocols. Especially up-front therapy before surgery has been the field within the multimodal treatment of this cancer entity with the most promising and interesting developments over the last year, raising the question of whether surgery is always needed or whether an organ-preserving concept will be the way to go in future. …Anzeige